Xbox Live users who are fans of both Guitar Hero and Metallica can go on the Xbox Live marketplace and download the newly uploaded demo for the upcoming Guitar Hero Metallica.The demo features four playable songs, two of which are Metallicas, the other two are by Alice and Chains and Queen. The track list goes as:No Excuses - Alice in ChainsSad But True - MetallicaSeek and Destroy - MetallicaStone Cold Crazy - QueenThe demo also features the ability to create your own rockstar character like in Guitar Hero World Tour, but seeing as it's the demo it's kind of pointless to have.If you're thinking about buying this game and are wondering what kind of songs to expect, below is the full track list of every song in the game. There's quite a lot of personal favorites of mine on there such as Master of Puppets. Read More...

Once again, Japan’s Famitsu magazine has released a bombshell with news of a Ninja Gaiden 2 port coming to the PlayStation 3. Yosuke Hayashi, the producer and director of the first Ninja Gaiden Sigma will be reprising his role in what is said to be not just a direct port, but an upgraded version of the original. Among some of the new additions to the game are a new weapon as well as all new battles against giant bosses. Perhaps the most interesting feature to be included in the game will be the ability to play as Ayane. Read More...

WCG Ultimate Gamer Episode 1 Review For those who are not in the know, there is a new 'reality' show on Sci Fi that premiered last night. For those further not in the know, it is a show that pits some of the best professional and not so professional gamers in a weekly challenge based show to let them prove they are the Ultimate Gamer. It mixes in real world versions of games, paint ball for FPS, actual Car racing for racing games, real guitar for Rock Band. You get the gist. Read More...

Dark Void Website Up With Trailer For those of you that got excited a month or so ago when you saw the game play footage or even just Heard of Dark Void, then here is a bit more for you to get all sloppy downstairs about. Well somewhat at least. I tried to find easter eggs anywhere on the site, but there was nothing I could find. No there isn't any more news about this game or really any further details that haven't already been released out there for you, but you can surf to the game's official website and check out the new trailer for this game. When you are done with that, you can also sign up for updates to be sent to you when they have more. Read More...

            A little over a year ago, Midway and Epic Games released the highly anticipated Unreal Tournament III. The game, which was awesome to begin with, was made even better by the release of a free map pack. Now, even with the financial problems Midway is suffering from, another free downloadable pack is coming to the PC and PS3 versions of the game. The really exciting thing is just in the huge amount of content that’s available. Firstly there are 11 new maps spread out across Warfare, Deathmatch, CTF (Capture the Flag), and Vehicle CTF to compete on. Read More...

For the Gears Of War fans out there, now is your chance to not only scoop up a custom Gears Of War Xbox 360 Pro, but to also be charitable.  Clayton Davison of Tech"Know" Podcast is working with Epic Games to raise money for the Make A Wish Foundation and is auctioning off the console on Ebay. The console features a crimson Gears of War logo hand drawn by the Senior Concept Artist, James Hawk, on one side and on the otherside features the signatures of the games Lead Designers.    Here is the list of the signatures featured on the console:James Hawk, Senior Concept ArtistCliff Bleszinski, Design DirectorDave Ewing, Senior Level DesignerRod Fergusson, Senior ProducerJoe Graf, Unreal Engine 3 Technical DirectorDave Nash, Lead Level DesignerChris Perna, Art DirectorLee Perry, Lead Gameplay DesignerAlan Willard, Senior Level Designer The entire auction includes the following:An Xbox 360 Pro console with a 20Gig hard driveA copy of Gears of War 2 Wireless ControllerHD AV CablesThree months to Xbox Live Gold.The auction began today and will be up for 7 days and bidding starts at $249. Read More...

More Game Footage Showing Of Characters In Guitar Hero: Metallica So as it is no big surprise that this game is rolling out here in the U.S. at the end of the year, it should also be no big surprise that the marketing campaign will be starting soon, if not already, to start weaseling you out of your hard earned cash for this game. Damn that was long winded there. But in any instance. Read More...

As we start to enter March, Square Enix continues to tease us with more in game screen shots from the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII. Below are just a couple pictures found on the Famitsu website and under each picture was a description that I just went ahead and translated them to understand what is being said about each picture."[kokun] is ruled to be restrained by the troop of the “saintly prefecture”, the people whom it has been about to be banished to pulse. That they probably will be rescued, those where you stand up, are the young people who are called Nora. Read More...

Sack it to Me - The PSP Announcement Edition It has been a little while since something major has come out in the world of LittleBigPlanet and Sackboy. Quite some time. But when that time rolls around, the people from Media Molecule try not to hold back on what they have planned or in the current works. As they recently showed the world via the PlayStation Blog. Filling it up with one large announcement and a few extra cool little features. Read More...

Infinity Ward has announced that Double XP Weekend will be resurfacing next weekend, February 27th - March 1st. Along with Double XP, they have revealed that they will be bringing a permanent addition to game types. Hardcore Headquarters will now be available for the fans of the Hardcore gameplay. This is great news for the Call of Duty 4 fans, and shows they are determined to continue pleasing those gamers who continue to play one of the top multiplayer games out there. So get your clips loaded, n00b tubes ready, and prepare for some Modern Warfare tacked on with double XP. Read More...

This Week in Killzone 2 (and more demo codes) There have been many ways for people to gain access to the Killzone 2 demo before the game actually comes out in about 10 days, from now. Most recently one could have hunted down one of the only Helghast avatars in PlayStation Home and request one from them. Apparently something that was difficult for a bunch of people on the PlayStation Blog. But outside of that or pre-ordering the game, like one should, Sony is hooking everyone up again with a chance. Read More...

What's scarier than a little 7 year old girl just absolutely tearing people apart? Nothing, that's what. FEAR 2, the true sequel to FEAR, comes to us from Monolith and is hands down one of the scariest games ever. Dead Space, Silent Hill, and Condemned are given a run for their money with Alma, the girl previously mentioned.The game starts out about 30 minutes prior to the ending of the first game and puts you in the shoes of Sgt. Michael Becket, a Delta Force member who was mentioned in the first game as apart of a team assigned to bring Genevieve Aristide and put her into protective custody, which is the first mission of the game. Read More...

            Though Famitsu Magazine shelled out plenty of details regarding the upcoming Street Fighter IV downloable content, all the information pertained to Japan specifically. Today however, Capacom released official news regarding what content would be coming to North America and at what prices. Firstly, the free Championship Mode expansion set to be released shortly after the game’s launch will contain the aforementioned replay mode which will allow players to save and upload videos of their fights. The online tournament play will receive a few modifications as well as a new points system will be used to determine a player’s skill level which will help in creating fairer match-ups. Read More...

            With a little under two weeks until the release of Street Fighter IV, Japan’s Famitsu magazine has released details regarding several alternate costume packs that will be available for download. Capcom will release 5 packs, 1 per week, with the first landing on the day of the game’s Japan release date of February 12th. Each pack is priced at 400 yen which is roughly $4.47 USD on the PlayStation Store and 320 Microsoft Points on Marketplace. Read More...

            Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, spoke with CNBC last week while at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. During the interview in which he discussed several economic points regarding the video game industry, Kotick made mention of the fact that he company is working on a title called DJ Hero.   "We have the product called DJ Hero that's coming out later this year which is a turntable that you can actually play competitively and spin discs and mix songs."   FreeStyleGames, was purchased by Activision on September 12, 2008 to help produce downloadable content for games in the Guitar Hero series and are set to develop the game. Read More...