Guitar Hero 5, Guitar Hero: Van Halen, DJ Hero and Band Hero have all officially been confirmed by Activision. The announcement comes a month before E3 2009 which kicks off June 2nd through the 4th, where we will undoubtedly learn much more information about the above titles. As for the current announcement, Guitar Hero 5…

Prototype, the upcoming sandbox action game has received a number of pre-order bonus deals from various retailers. The game will be released on June 9th for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The game is being developed by Radical Entertainment (makers of Hulk: Ultimate Destruction and Scarface: The World Is Yours) and published by Sierra…

The Wii-exclusive FPS The Conduit will be getting the “limited edition” treatment announced publisher Sega and retailer GameStop (who will exclusively be giving out the pre-order goodies). The game will be released on June 23rd, 2009. Reserve The Conduit and you will automatically receive the goodies below. * A 24-Page art book featuring exclusive concept…

The StarCraft II beta-test has officially gone live announced developer Blizzard. “The StarCraft II beta-test period is coming in the months ahead! If you’d like a chance to participate, now’s the time to let us know,” reads the post on the official World of Warcraft site. The beta will be multiplayer-only (so no testing out…

Online PC game subscription site GameTap has announced that they have come to an agreement with Microsoft Games to bring a number of their classic games to their online service, allowing you the ability to simply download them to your PC and start playing. Although the collection is not large, it’s not exactly anything to…

EVE Online is celebrating its sixth year anniversary as well as the fact that the space MMO also surpassed the 300,000 active subscribers threshold. Which is a major milestone for the game. Here’s what the developers had to say: EVE Online is celebrating its 6th year of existence. That’s six strong years of continuous growth…

Mountain Dew: World of Warcraft Game Fuel soda will release to grocery and convenient stores everywhere in America on June 15th. Along with the launch will be a promotional giveaway where you can win Alienware, J!NX or Razer products every 15 minutes! The official slogan for the soda is “Choose your side. Enter for a…

Activision has revealed the complete 50-track song list for Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. The set list is entirely made up of master recordings instead of cover versions as always. The game contains a compilation of songs from previous Guitar Hero games, particularly Guitar Hero 1, Guitar Hero 2, Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock and…

Rockstar San Diego has released a new trailer for Red Dead Redemption, their upcoming epic Western action adventure sequel for PS3 and Xbox 360. Red Dead Redemption is a Western epic set at the turn of the 20th century when the lawless and chaotic badlands began to give way to the expanding reach of government…

Sony has snagged the exclusive PAL publishing rights for Ghostbusters: The Video Game in a surprise move. This means that people in Europe and Australasia will only be getting the Sony version of Ghostbusters which will be released on June 19th. That includes the PS3 and PS2 versions of the game, with the previously canceled…

Epic Games and Microsoft have announced that Gears of War 2 has sold over 5 million copies! Along with this announcement comes the news that the Gears of War series as a whole has surpassed the 11 million units sold worldwide mark! In celebration of surpassing these milestones, Microsoft Game Studios and Epic have announced…

Electronic Arts has let it be known that they think this console generation’s life-cycle will be “very extended”. In other words, don’t expect NEXT-GEN consoles until quite some time. Speaking at their most recent investor call, EA head honcho John Riccitiello reiterated what EA Sports boss Peter Moore also said recently, that gamers are no…

Activision has announced that the Call of Duty: World At War Map Pack 1 has surpassed the two-million sold mark. That’s a lot of downloaded maps! The pack was released this past March and contained three new multiplayer maps (Nightfire, Knee Deep and Station) along with a fourth Nazi Zombie map called “Verrückt” (Zombie Asylum)….