According to the New York Times, MTV is about to announce a new bonus pack for Rock Band featuring live tracks from AC/DC called AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack.
Looks like it will only be available at Wal-Mart and will go for $40.
Tracks are expected to include:
Thunderstruck
Shoot to Thrill
Back in Black
Hell Ain’t a Bad Place [...]
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Electronic Arts has announced that they have pulled their bid to acquire rival video game publisher Take Two Interactive, publisher of the Grand Theft Auto series.
The bid was pulled after Take Two executives outlined their three-year product plan and provided due diligence of their books.
Owen Mahoney, Senior Vice President for Corporate Development at Electronic Arts, [...]
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While some retailers are already starting to show a new, lower price for the 120GB add-on hard drive for the Xbox 360 console, Microsoft has finally made it official.
The new price for the drive is $149, down from $179.
[Via Joystiq]
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PS3 owners eager to get their hands on the upcoming game Resistance 2 are going to want to jump on this: Applications are now being taken to participate in testing a beta version of the game.
This is separate from the invite that was given to PlayStation Underground members. For this round all you [...]
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A rumor began making the rounds yesterday that video game developer Ensemble Studios was closing and it didn’t take long for Microsoft to chime in–yes, Ensemble is closing once the upcoming game Halo Wars ships in early 2009.
The Microsoft-owned studio has created such hits as Age of Empires series which has sold more than 20 [...]
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After quite a bit of speculation, Microsoft today has officially announced price cuts across the board on their Xbox 360 console in the US.
The Arcade will drop from $279 to $199, the Standard will drop from $349 to $299, and the Elite will drop from $449 to $399.
As Microsoft points out in their press release [...]
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After Sony talked with Gamespot about the upcoming PSP-3000 and its brighter screen, word quickly spread across the Internet that the battery life would be noticeably worse than that of the current PSP-2000 model and that users would have to use an new extended life battery to get the same life as the PSP-2000 with [...]
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According to a new Halo rumor, game development studio Gearbox Software is said to be preparing to work on a new title believed to be Halo 4, also believed to be planned as a launch title for the next Xbox console.
While nothing official is being said right now, Gearbox head Randy Pitchford has posted a [...]
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According to CVG they’ve gotten word that the next firmware update for the PlayStation 3 console, version 2.50, will include a new feature–the ability to take screenshots.
Probably not such a big deal for most users but anyone who uses their camera to share screenshots with friends will sure appreciate it.
No official word from Sony yet [...]
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PlayStation 3 owners looking for an way way to enter text without using a full computer keyboard will be interested in Sony’s new wireless keypad, scheduled to hit stores on November 30th for $49.99.
The keypad will feature a full QWERTY keyboard and attach to your PS3 controller in a similar style as Microsoft’s keypad attaches [...]
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