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With under a month to go (in America) here's the official set list for Rocks the 80s.

1) Opening Licks

(Bang Your Head) Metal Health - Quiet Riot

We Got The Beat - The Go Go's

I Ran (So Far Away) - Flock Of Seagulls (original artist)

Balls To The Wall - Accept

18 And Life - Skid Row

2) Amp Warmers

No One Like You - Scorpions

Shakin' - Eddie Money

Heat Of The Moment - Asia

Radar Love - White Lion

Because, It's Midnite - Limozeen (original artist)

3) String Snappers

Holy Diver - Dio

Turning Japanese - The Vapors

Hold On Loosely - .38 Special

The Warrior - Scandal (original artist)

I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister (original artist)

4) Return Of The Shred

What I Like About You - The Romantics

Synchronicity II - The Police

Ballroom Blitz - Krokus

Only A Lad - Oingo Boingo

Round And Round - Ratt

5) Relentless Riffs

Ain't Nothin But A Good Time - Poison

Lonely Is The Night - Billy Squier

Bathroom Wall - Faster Pussycat

Los Angeles - X

Wrathchild - Iron Maiden

6) Furious Fretwork

Electric Eye - Judas Priest (original artist)

Police Truck - Dead Kennedys

Seventeen - Winger

Caught In A Mosh - Anthrax

Play With Me - Extreme

"Saturday Night Special" by Lynyrd Skynyrd begins with a 1-2, 1-2-3.

First images of the Stratocaster controller.

http://www.gamestop.com/gs/061907/composit...mp;mc_id=0619nl

http://www.gamestop.com/gs/061907/composit...mp;mc_id=0619nl

Not to sure about the colors being on the side now, but as long as it doesn't screw me up when playing, it probably won't bother me.

Some interesting new info about Rock Band. Taken from http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=165999

which reports it from Game Informer.

A ton of new details on Harmonix's Rock Band have swaggered onto the internet, revealing the likes of four-player online play on both PS3 and Xbox 360 and that the game's drums are insane. Apparently.

Information has come from a feature on Rock Band appearing in Game Informer magazine, which a poster on NeoGaf has waded through and picked out the juicy bits.

According what's been posted, the game will have four unique campaigns for guitar, drums, bass and vocals in addition to a "full band game" that it's explained "is designed to allow for one huge co-op playthrough" which can occur online for offline - or apparently a combination of both.

Helping you locate fellow musicians to form a band will be a community system that reaches worldwide.

In terms of instruments, it's said that guitar and bass have ten frets - "five for the regular sections of the game and five for the newly designated solo sections - the guitar features a five-way switch letting you apply five different sound effects and the "Whammy bar is back as is the tilt to activate rock band's version of star power".

Singing is described as more in-depth, with a phoneme detector picking up "individual vowels and consonants you say. Build up enough highly judged phrases and you'll be able to sing free-form. If you do well enough in free-form, then you'll trigger the vocalist's version of star power."

Stopping singers nodding off during lengthy guitar solos, Rock Band's microphone doubles as a tambourine on many tracks - so warblers can still feel involved. And the drums? Well, they're apparently insane (or did we mention that already?).

"You use actual sticks and hit one of four coloured pads in front of you, in addition to a kick pedal attached to the drumming unit. Drummers will also have the ability to do fills etc. in their own little free-form section, do well and you'll trigger the drummers version of star power", the post explains.

It also mentions four songs: Weezer - Say It Ain't So - Original Master Track; Black Sabbath - Paranoid - Original Master Track; The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again - Original Master Track; and Nirvana - In Bloom - Original Master Track.

EDIT: Or if the new 80s edition will have a bundle coming out with it for that matter.

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/795/795875p1.html

Confirms songs that were already known for Rocks the 80s and adds Ballroom Blitz by Krokus and What I Like About You by The Romantics.

Rumored new songs for Rocks the 80s from the back of a pre-order display case box.

Wrathchild by Iron Maiden

Caught in a Mosh by Anthrax

No One Like You by Scorpions

Turning Japanese by The Vapors

Hold on Loosely by .38 Special

Seventeen by Winger

Here is the pics of the box:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v161/Jos...-08-07_2053.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v161/Jos...-08-07_2054.jpg

Also White Lion's cover of "Radar Love" has been confirmed from worthplaying.com's preview.

Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s

Guitar Hero 3

Rock Band

GTA IV

Assassins Creed

Smackdown vs. Raw 08 on the Wii, just to see how a wrestling game will play with the Wii's controls.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/793/793262p1.html

Paint it Black and Cult of Personality impressions, plus the announcement of two new songs, Evenflow by Pearl Jam and Lay Down by Priestess.

Here's my Wii Friends Code: 8127 5305 0763 6524

At the Electronic Entertainment Expo last year, Konami revealed that work had begun on a live-action movie based on Metal Gear Solid. The news broke via a pamphlet for Studio Kojima, the Konami-owned development house headed up by Metal Gear series creator Hideo Kojima.

"I have received many offers to adapt Metal Gear Solid. It has taken a long time, but we have finally settled on an arrangement," Kojima said in a statement. "False facts aside, a movie project is underway. I have finalized a Class-A contract with a party in Hollywood."

For eight months, the identity of the aforementioned "party" was unknown. That changed this week, when Sony Pictures Entertainment vice chairman Yair Landau revealed his studio is developing the project.

"We're working with the Metal Gear guys," Landau told GameSpot following his D.I.C.E. summit keynote address in Las Vegas. "It's a very cinematic game, it really lends itself to movie telling. But the question is, 'How do you translate Snake's experience into a full arc that conforms to what audiences expect on the large screen?'"

Landau also hinted the Metal Gear Solid movie may just be the beginning. "There are other games we are looking to develop," the executive said. "We're working with one of my favorite producers right now on an idea for an EverQuest movie." The producer was apparently of such stature that Landau declined to name him. "I'll let him disclose that," he said cryptically.

Besides the forthcoming World of Warcraft film, currently in development at Warner Bros., the Metal Gear Solid movie is the highest-profile game-film project in Hollywood. Previously, that stature was held by the Peter Jackson-produced Halo adaptation, which imploded last year.

Jesus christ, I thought the thing that was going to leave everyone speechless at the end of hour 4 was Jack shooting Curtis but then the nuke goes off. Too bad we don't get to see Kumar anymore, but we get the real Jack back next episode.

GAME seem to be completely unaware as to when GHII comes out. I preordered it and was told it'd by the girl at the till be out on the 24th of November, despite the giant upcoming releases poster behind her declaring the release to be the 3rd of November. At other GAME stores, I've been told the 10th of November, the 2nd of December, and that it's been cancelled and pushed back to Easter (WTF?!?). Despite pre-ordering from GAME, I think I'll go and get it from the infinitely more reliable Gamestation, who've stuck fast to the 24th of November as the date.

Here's a reason why the 3rd party wireless guitar wouldn't work with Guitar Hero 2.

http://www.redoctane.com/gh-sgwireless.html

Redoctane's wireless guitar.

IGN has revealed the final tracklist (excluding the bonus songs), 40 in total.

1. Opening Licks

Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil

Danzig - Mother

Cheap Trick - Surrender

Wolfmother - Woman

Spinal Tap - Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight

2. Amp-Warmers

Kiss - Strutter

Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box

Police - Message in a Bottle

Van Halen - You Really Got Me

Kansas - Carry on Wayward Son

3. String-Snappers

Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench

Alice in Chains - Them Bones

Iggy Pop and the Stooges - Search and Destroy

Pretenders - Tattooed Love Boys

Black Sabbath - War Pigs

4. Thrash and Burn

Warrant - Cherry Pie

Butthole Surfers - Who Was in My Room Last Night

Mathew Sweet - Girlfriend

Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knockin'

Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

5. Return of the Shred

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of

Primus - John the Fisherman

Sword - Freya

Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation

Aerosmtih - Last Child

6. Relentless Riffs

Heart - Crazy on You

Stone Temple Pilots - Tripping on a Hole in a Paper Heart

Stray Cats - Rock This Town

Allman Brothers - Jessica

Jane's Addiction - Stop

7. Furious Fretwork

Anthrax - Madhouse

Living End - Carry Me Home

Lamb of God - Laid to Rest

Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout

Rush - YYZ

8. Face-Melters

Avenged Sevenfold - Beast and the Harlot

Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

Dick Dale - Misirlou

Megadeth - Hangar 18

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

IGN has confirmed the new songs in GH2.

http://ps2.ign.com/articles/730/730399p1.html

Guitar Hero 2

Yakuza

WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2007

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Assassin's Creed

Splinter Cell: Double Agent

I'm in

You're in for MR. LCS. And what a role:

You are Revolver Ocelot, INDIVIDUAL aligned

- Victory when Solid, Liquid, Solidus and Raiden are dead

Power:

REVOLVER SHOT

Each night, Ocelot has the ability to shoot one person.

Power can only be used until Ocelot runs out of bullets (six bullets);

each murder attempt will be subjected to a dice roll: whatever number comes up is the number of bullets used in the killing. If you "use" more than you've got (i.e. you have three bullets, and my dice roll comes up four or greater), you'll embarrassingly run out of shots, and be revealed to the game.

Damn Solidus, of course that's the only person in the Metal Gear universe who had tentacle arms if I remember correctly.

I'm game.

Ok, I just got the game, and I need to know, how exactly do I get the kits that I downloaded to show up in the game. Because I downloaded them and put them in the right place, but when I go to look at my kits, it's still the default ones.

Methinks you have to uncheck (or is it check?) the "Skin Cache" option in 'Preferences'.

Ok, I just got the game, and I need to know, how exactly do I get the kits that I downloaded to show up in the game. Because I downloaded them and put them in the right place, but when I go to look at my kits, it's still the default ones.

Did anyone read the comments from GameSpot users below the articles? Man, if you ever wanted to drill a fucking hole through your skull, reading those will get the ball rolling.

I read something about tonight's episode, got it off IGN's 24 board so I don't really know how credible it is but here it is.

Supposedly, tonight features the most expensive cgi piece in 24 history as we witness the plane land on a freeway and we get to see it from Curtis' car.