As the most awaited Guitar Hero installment hits in few weeks time Actvision has revealed a complete list of songs for Guitar Hero World Tour. The complete Guitar Hero World Tour on-disc will be available on October 26, 2008 and it will include following songs:

•    311 - “Beautiful Disaster”
•    30 Seconds To Mars - “The Kill”
•    Airbourne - “Too Much Too Young”
•    The Allman Brothers Band - “Ramblin’ Man”
•    Anouk - “Good God”
•    The Answer - “Never Too Late”
•    At The Drive-In - “One Armed Scissor”
•    Beastie Boys - “No Sleep Till Brooklyn”
•    Beatsteaks - “Hail to the Freaks”
•    Billy Idol - “Rebel Yell”
•    Black Label Society - “Stillborn”
•    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - “Weapon of Choice”
•    blink-182 - “Dammit”
•    Blondie - “One Way or Another”
•    Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - “Hollywood Nights”
•    Bon Jovi - “Livin’ On A Prayer”
•    Bullet For My Valentine - “Scream Aim Fire”
•    Coldplay - “Shiver”
•    Creedence Clearwater Revival - “Up Around The Bend”
•    The Cult - “Love Removal Machine”
•    Dinosaur Jr. - “Feel The Pain”
•    The Doors - “Love Me Two Times”
•    Dream Theater - “Pull Me Under”
•    The Eagles - “Hotel California”
•    The Enemy - “Aggro”
•    Filter - “Hey Man, Nice Shot”
•    Fleetwood Mac - “Go Your Own Way”
•    Foo Fighters - “Everlong”
•    The Guess Who - “American Woman”
•    Hush Puppies - “You’re Gonna Say Yeah!”
•    Interpol - “Obstacle 1″
•    Jane’s Addiction - “Mountain Song”
•    Jimi Hendrix - “Purple Haze (Live)”
•    Jimi Hendrix - “The Wind Cries Mary”
•    Jimmy Eat World - “The Middle”
•    Joe Satriani - “Satch Boogie”
•    Kent - “Vinternoll2″
•    Korn - “Freak On A Leash”
•    Lacuna Coil - “Our Truth”
•    Lenny Kravitz - “Are You Gonna Go My Way”
•    Linkin Park - “What I’ve Done”
•    The Living End - “Prisoner of Society”
•    Los Lobos - “La Bamba”
•    Lost Prophets - “Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)”
•    Lynyrd Skynyrd - “Sweet Home Alabama (Live)”
•    Mars Volta - “L’Via L’Viaquez”
•    MC5’s Wayne Kramer - “Kick Out The Jams”
•    Metallica - “Trapped Under Ice”
•    Michael Jackson - “Beat It”
•    Modest Mouse - “Float On”
•    Motorhead - “Overkill”
•    Muse - “Assassin”
•    Negramaro - “Nuvole e Lenzuola”
•    Nirvana - “About a Girl (Unplugged)”
•    No Doubt - “Spiderwebs”
•    NOFX - “Soul Doubt”
•    Oasis - “Some Might Say”
•    Ozzy Osbourne - “Crazy Train”
•    Ozzy Osbourne - “Mr. Crowley”
•    Paramore - “Misery Business”
•    Pat Benatar - “Heartbreaker”
•    R.E.M. - “The One I Love”
•    Radio Futura - “Escuela De Calor”
•    Rise Against - “Re-Education Through Labor”
•    Sex Pistols - “Pretty Vacant”
•    Silversun Pickups - “Lazy Eye”
•    Smashing Pumpkins - “Today”
•    Steely Dan - “Do It Again”
•    Steve Miller Band - “The Joker”
•    Sting - “Demolition Man (Live)”
•    The Stone Roses - “Love Spreads”
•    Stuck In The Sound - “Toy Boy”
•    Sublime - “Santeria”
•    Survivor - “Eye of the Tiger”
•    System of a Down - “B.Y.O.B.”
•    Ted Nugent - “Stranglehold”
•    Ted Nugent’s Original Guitar Duel Recording
•    Tokio Hotel - “Monsoon”
•    Tool - “Parabola”
•    Tool - “Schism”
•    Tool - “Vicarious”
•    Trust - “Antisocial”
•    Van Halen - “Hot For Teacher”
•    Willie Nelson - “On The Road Again”
•    Wings - “Band on the Run”
•    Zakk Wylde’s Original Guitar Duel Recording

I would love to know your feedback regarding the above list. Just to let you know there are rumors about a movie based on Guitar Hero.

 Guys we are back again with some more Merc’s 2 video update, this time we give you some co-op footage. Merc’s 2 is looking better with every video. The game has been designed for hardcore action gamers, with tons of explosive options to choose from. This particular video shows off more in-game footage, do notice the stable frame-rate in co-op even with those many explosions. So which version are you planning to buy, PS3, Xbox 360 or PC?

After Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and Metallica we now have more interesting news. Movie Maker Brett Ratner known for “God of War” recently said that he would love to make a movie on Guitar Hero. But the “X-Men” and “Rush Hour” director doesn’t think Activision would want him to.

Brett Ratner said

“I love ‘Guitar Hero’ and I think it’s a part of pop culture. I would love to do a ‘Guitar Hero’ movie, if Activision would ever let me. I’m trying to convince them, but why would you have a movie screw up such a huge franchise? Not that I would make a bad movie. So that would be cool, to do a ‘Guitar Hero’ movie.”

This is his idea for the plot:

“It could be about a kid from a small town who dreams of being a rock star and he wins the ‘Guitar Hero’ competition. One of these dreams-[come-true] kind of concepts.”

What do you guys think about the plot?

Sony had a fantastic GC 2008, showing off some of the most awaited games of the year. Check out all the big updates via video below…

 Little Big Planet has a new member and his name is Sackzilla. THe offical quote had this to say “A new force has arrived on the scene to create havoc and destruction on PLAYSTATION 3. LittleBigPlanet is about to feel the fearsome presence of… Sackzilla?

Games Convention 2008 is home to many games and goodies, but the Leipzig hosted event certainly has a monster on its hands in the shape of the mighty Sackzilla; destroyer of cities! Ravager of towns! Crusher of people! There’s a lot to be said for the ability to build a diverse array of content in platform based creation title, LittleBigPlanet - and this video is a great expression of that. Sackboy shows exactly how you can form a lovely and fully working monstrosity that bears more than a passing resemblance to a well known giant fire breathing lizard.” Check out video below…

It’s the intricacies that make the whole thing as good as it is. Notice how you can select the material of your creation (each having its own properties - glass is smooth and forces characters to slide off it, metal will be heavy, and so on), cut out the exact shape of what you want and then piece it together. In this case, arms, legs, a torso and an appropriately massive head are formed with ease by the similarly costumed Sackboy.

The genius of the game’s creation tools means each of these parts can be attached by connectors in the Gadgets menu, giving Sackzilla mobile joints that dolly up and down for a humorous, if slightly disturbing puppet style movement. This is all adjustable, too, so if you feel your design isn’t roaming with the pace or style you wish, it can be fine tuned.

Another big and cute announcement was the Virtaul Pet, a new product that can best be explained via video….

I am all out of words, Sony has gone all guns blazing with some awesome announcements at the Games Convention 2008, Germany. Sony has always had big plans for its PS3 and its showing them off now, here is a brief from the Playstation blog, visit the blog for full coverage….

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune PS3 Bundle with 160GB PS3 System

The 160GB PS3 system announced at the GC will be available here as part of a new limited-edition bundle that includes the hardware, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune game, a PLAYSTATION Network voucher for PAIN, and a DUALSHOCK 3 wireless controller. We’re hearing from a lot of you that more PS3 storage space is important, particularly since the launch of our video delivery service, and this new model delivers more memory and a whole lot of content packed-in….

New PSP Entertainment Packs with updated PSP (PSP-3000)

We also unveiled at Leipzig an updated PSP system (PSP-3000), which we’ll be offering here initially through the previously announced Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters PSP Entertainment Pack and a new PSP 4GB Memory Entertainment Pack. I’m personally excited about the 4GB Memory bundle because we’re including a - you guessed it - 4GB Memory Stick PRO Duo, which is the biggest Memory Stick we’ve ever bundled with a PSP.

PS3 Wireless Keypad

Lastly, we’ve announced a new Wireless Keypad for PS3 that will make text communications and Web browsing much easier. The Wireless Keypad snaps onto the top of a SIXAXIS or DUALSHOCK 3 wireless controller and comes with some cool features, including a mode that turns the main key area into a touch pad (similar to a touch pad on a Laptop computer). Once in this mode, you can slide your finger on this area to move the cursor on the screen and tap to enter.

Also check out the newly released Heavy Rain Trailer here

The new Tomb Raider trailer has surely mesmerized me and I would have certainly married Lara Croft if she was for real. Hey wait a minute, she is real.

The Original Mercenaries was quite successful and popular, the sequel has all the ingredients of being a bigger success. This one will feature Online Co-Op and will be available on most platforms including PS2. Read more below…

The game features three confirmed playable characters, all from the original game: Jennifer Mui, Mattias Nilsson, and Chris Jacobs.

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames is set in August 2010. The story follows the player’s hunt for Ramon Solano, a druglord who contracted the player’s mercenary for a job then subsequently refused to pay and tried to kill him/her. Following a militaristic coup, Solano becomes the dictator of Venezuela. He uses his position to seize control of the country’s oil supply, resulting in an international incident and distress among OPEC. Alongside Solano’s Rebel Forces, a large portion of the Venezuelan army fiercely support the dictator’s cause. The other rebel forces, in opposition to Solano, have risen under the name of the PLAV–the People’s Liberation Army of Venezuela. Soon, numerous other factions join the fight for control of Venezuela’s oil.

Among them: The massive Universal Petroleum Corporation and its private military; the Rastafarian Pirates (the equivalent of the Russian Mafia from the original Mercenaries game); China’s PLA; and the AN (Allied Nations–a less controversial pun on the UN). These six forces will inevitably form the backbone of a war to determine the fate of the country’s oil supply.

Betrayed, the player’s mercenary will ally him/herself with any of the other factions to get even with Solano, and make some money along the way. Source.

Football season started with some excellent matches and to add to the great run, a ton of new info about PES 2009 was just leaked. The interview below will give some very interesting facts about the game, and did someone mention Manchester United ….

After waiting a while for any sort of news, we have an avalanche of info all at once! Thanks to Lami, Hunter from PESGaming and most importantly Sparky from the Pro Evo League Live UK website. They posted an in-depth interview with a member of the industry who had the chance to playtest PES 2009.

Here the full interview posted by PELLUK:

With regards to the gameplay, would you say it resembled PES6 or PES2008, and what aspects differ. The gameplay is PES2008, the way it should have been. You can no longer run straight through everyone with Etoo or Ronaldinho without any effort but you can beat players by running if you time your moves correctly. It is very realistic and the AI in defense and attack is massively improved. The refereeing in PES2008 was abysmal, has it got any better? (please elaborate with examples i.e bringing play back etc)

The refereeing is probably the same although the collisions are much better so the decisions are often correct. The diving works better too. Managed to win a pen with an expertly timed dive over a defenders outstretched leg - looked class.

For the full interview click here…

A new Lara Croft is in town and her name is Alison Carroll. She is now a part of a urban legacy of Lara Croft Models. “[Lara Croft] has everything a man would want from a woman and everything a woman would aspire to be like.”Bizarrely, Carroll has to undergo archaeology and weapons training before meeting and greeting the hordes of Lara Croft fans.

 That hasn’t stopped her posing for a few pictures, which you can find in our new Lara Croft model gallery. We’re not ashamed. Carroll will no doubt help create buzz around upcoming game Tomb Raider: Underworld, in exactly the same way previous model Karima Adebe did before Tomb Raider: Legend two years ago.

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I firmly believe that Little Big Plan is worth buying a PS3, even if you are a die-hard Xbox 360 fanboy. LBP is by far the most innovative produvt that I have come across in a long time. The game is due for release in a few months and Sony belives that people will buy a PS3 just to experince LBP. Read on…

“Our target audience is everyone,” explained associate producer Eric Fong, speaking to GamesIndustry.biz last month at Comic-Con 2008 in San Diego, where the game was being demonstrated to the public.

“It’s got enough complexity that people can play it and enjoy it for many hours; at the same time, if you’re just a casual user you can run through and play the game and have fun with it. Everything you see in the developer levels, you can create as the player.” Talking up the game’s sales potential, he added: “It’s going to be a hardware seller. Not only do you have the platforming experience that a lot of other games will have, you have this creativity that really is exclusive to LittleBigPlanet.” But some believe Sony’s real challenge is in communicating the game’s unique features to consumers, a point which Fong conceded.

 ”How do you explain the game…without getting your hands on it? It’s a difficult thing to do.” Therefore events like Comic-Con and Germany’s Games Convention, which takes place later this month, have become a crucial part of Sony’s aggressive consumer awareness campaign.

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