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You won’t be able to buy the actual game in stores until next week (October 26), but you can get a head start and downloadsome ofGuitar Hero World Tour‘s downloadable tracksright now. A handful of songs have appeared on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, including the 440-MS-Point “Classic Rock Track Pack,” which includes: “Rock and Roll Band” by Boston, “Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield, and “Hot Blooded” by Foreigner. you’re able to also grab the tracks invidually for 160 MS Points a piece....

DICE is showing offBattlefield 3at GDC, and I hear it’s gearing up to be pretty [embargoed]. They’re sharing the love for us non-attendees too, thankfully — take a look at this first “Fault Line” video installment. Seem sort of familiar? Snippets of this footage were used for the recentteaser trailer. The first half is spent essentially asking “Guys, how awesome do I look?” just so that we can geek out over the eye candy, if we so desire....

If you’re still playingOblivion, then I suppose this will be good news for you. Bethesda officially announced today that the game’s first expansion,Shivering Isles, will be coming to Xbox 360 and PC owners this spring. From the press release: Shivering Isles features more than 30 hours of new gameplay and allows you to explore an entirely new plane of Oblivion – the realm of Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness. Shivering Isles adds to the existing world of Oblivion so you can continue playing with your existing save game/character, or create an all new character just to explore the new content....

Golden Axe: Beast Riderreleased today. It would be a lie if I were to suggest that I had any sort of interest in this sequel. The gameplay footage shown so far really does not appeal to me at all, which is disappointing because it is derived from such a classic game and one I played often in arcades. Although the games have seen several ports, it’s been over ten years since a truly newGolden Axegame of any kind appeared on the scene....

There are two things I am sure of aboutThe Last Remnant: one, that the trailer looks more like a movie trailer than any game promo I have seen in some time, and two, Square is incapable of making a major RPG that does not feature spiky haired people. Call it Cloud syndrome, perhaps; spiky locks make a hero.At any rate, what you are seeing above is an exclusive Tokyo Game Show trailer, and despite the fact that I wish Square would make an RPG that bravely breaks away from the same old same old, I’ll likely buy it anyway....

I can’t think of too many party-oriented games that feature anything resembling a cohesive story.Super Smash Bros. Brawlcomes to mind with the Subspace Emissary campaign, but that wasn’t really much of a party. I also seem to recallViewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumbleattempting it. Probably not best to speak further on that note. Leave it to Insomniac to craft a story trailer for such a game that actually compels me to want to know more....

The past was a funny place to be. Take 1979. Back then there were no videogames readily available and a video cassette ofThe Sound of Musiccost $74. Back then vinyl was an option for watching movies and in order to use a portable camera you had to train for two weeks in order to lift it. How do I know this? Because ABC was kind enough to dig into its vaults and show off itsnews story on CES 1979(click there to watch as embedding ain’t working)....

Blizzard is starting small on Oct. 27 Blizzard hasn’t been shy about sharing footage of its team-based multiplayer shooterOverwatch, but I’m at a point where I’d rather just play the game now. I’ve seen and heard enough. An opportunity to go hands-on will thankfully be here before long. The closed beta begins Jun 25, 2025 in North America (). The idea is to start with an “extremely limited” pool of testers to give detailed feedback on game balance, then “open the floodgates” for stress tests....

Electronic Arts is, without a shadow of a doubt, the Darth Vader, Hannibal Lecter and Bobby “The Brain” Heenan of the videogames industry — a timeless evil, a detestable arch-nemesis for every right thinking American gamer to truly despise. Indeed, this is a time where corporations, responsible for many of modern life’s benefits, are truly terrible entities of darkness. This is an age where making money is the most sinful thing that can be done and EA, that most terrible of forces, is pretty good at raking in thoseevilprofits....

Visceral Games and Electronic Arts are showing the PlayStation 3 a lot of love withDante’s Inferno. First, a demo for the game goes live on PlayStation Network first later today. Now, the developer and publisher have announced a special edition exclusive for the PS3. Called “Divine Edition,” the game will ship with extra developer commentary, a Wayne Barlowe digital art book, the soundtrack, and a digital version of the Longfellow translation of Dante Aligieri’sInferno....

Whether we’d take a Bullet Bill for Mario or just as soon kick Luigi in the nuts, if there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that the Friend Codes system that Nintendo has in place for the Wii and DS is stupid. It’s also dumb, it smells funny, and is consistently picked last in gym class. Damian Zerr, associate producer on the upcoming no-brainer,Madden NFL 2008on the Nintendo Wii, seems to agree....

Bizarre Creation’s have finally revealed more than a name, gracing us with the first images of its upcoming racer,Blur. Surprisingly, Blur’s singer Damon Albarn doesn’t appear in a single one of these screens. However, fast-looking cars, cloudy skies, and lots of lightning effects. What you’re seeing is the game’s power-ups in action, specifically what appears to be a huge burst of energy that can knock other cars off the road. The game mixes photo-realistic cars and environments with some over-the-top offensive and defensive attacks to spice things up a bit....

Now, before I say anything about this trailer forTransformers: War for Cybertron‘s multiplayer, I ought to slap a huge disclaimer detailing how it alllooksneat in theory, but could be crap in actuality. Yeah — I’m still playing the role of skeptic when it comes to this game. The main surprise here — or maybe it was already known and I haven’t been actively searching? — is that there will be classes complete with customization in terms of weapons, abilities, and kill streaks....