The Black Eyed Peas continue on their 8-bit rampage in the arcade-style video preview for “Light Up the Night,” an old school-inspired cut off their album The Beginning (Nov. 30). Featuring character cameos from Space Invaders and Pac-Man, the clip shows lyrics scrolling across the screen to the beat of the Slick Rick-sampled track, with an animated will.i.am, Fergie, Taboo, and apl.de.ap popping up in the background. Light it up by watching below.

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The Black Eyed Peas get digitized on the dance floor in the Rich Lee-directed video for “The Time (Dirty Bit),” the first single from their new album The Beginning, due next week. Will.i.am, Fergie, apl.de.ap, and Taboo rock to the beat, while their 8-bit characters come to life. Join the pixelated party below.

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The Black Eyed Peas kick it old school by sampling Slick Rick’s “Children’s Story” for “Light Up the Night,” a club-ready cut off their upcoming album The Beginning, in stores next week. The beat infuses hip-hop with electro-dance. “I got it all in my pocket/ And we gonna rock it/ Let’s light up the night/ Let’s light up the night,” sings will.i.am on the catchy chorus. Turn the lights on below.

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The Black Eyed Peas fast-forwarded to 3010 with their futuristic performance at Sunday’s AMAs, during which they gave a live rendition of their hit “The Time (Dirty Bit).” Riding up and down glowing elevators, the quartet sang the lead single off their new album The Beginning (Nov. 30), lining up at the front of the stage as cube-headed dancers weaved between them. Zip into the next millennium by watching below.

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The Black Eyed Peas jetted in from their South American tour to Harpo Studios in Chicago to perform their brand new single “The Time (The Dirty Bit)” on Oprah’s “Favorite Things” episode. Emerging from a giant snow globe, the white-hot group got the audience on its feet with the upbeat jam from their new album The Beginning, later bringing out a choir to join them for a remix to the Christmas classic “Little Drummer Boy.”

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The Black Eyed Peas kick it old school in the preview for their online-only “Do It Like This!” video, where the quartet turns into 8-bit characters in the Nintendo-inspired clip. Playing like a classic arcade game, the animated vid shows each of the Peas bopping up and down at the bottom of the screen while their lyrics scroll above them. Will.i.am, Fergie, Taboo, and apl.de.ap will perform at Sunday’s AMAs before dropping their album The Beginning on November 30.

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The Black Eyed Peas mix techno, pop, hip-hop, and house music on “Do It Like This!,” a five-and-a-half minute dance party from their new album The Beginning. Will.i.am calls out groupies and praises his beatmaking skills while Fergie busts a few bars. The hip-hop beat switches up midway for the more club-minded set.

The Peas frontman describes the beat as “harder than any attitude… It goes to a place no hip-hopper would go to right now.”

Fergie, will, Taboo, and apl.de.ap will release a song each week on iTunes leading up to their album release on November 30.

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The Black Eyed Peas take it back to The Beginning with the standard and deluxe covers of their sixth album, arriving November 30. The Fantastic Four get computerized makeovers on the official artwork portraying pixelated versions of will.i.am, Fergie, Taboo, and apl.de.ap.

The first single “The Time (The Dirty Bit),” which samples the 1987 theme from Dirty Dancing, kicks off the party. “The song is a celebration of this amazing time in our lives,” says Fergie.

The Beginning will be released as a standard CD, a deluxe CD with three bonus songs, a full album vinyl, and a combo two-disc set of 20 songs that includes The Beginning and The Best of The E.N.D.

Peep the deluxe artwork below.

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