Finally, a version of Scrabble that will work for more than one player.

EA recently released Hasbro Family Game Night for the Wii as a bundle package which included Scrabble, Boggle, Yahtzee, Battleships, Sorry! and Sorry! Sliders. However, for the newly announced Xbox Live Arcade version, you’ll be able to pick them up seperately.

Each game will be released as a standalone package over the service, with the games interacting with each other through the player’s “Game Room”, which can be decorated with items that are won through the games. The releases are expected to start in the Spring, and Connect Four will also be added to the roster. Now that has to be better than a bunch of crosswords, doesn’t it?

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We just can’t get enough JRPG action…

…but isn’t the 360 still doing terribly in Japan? Not to worry. It seems that Softmax aren’t bothered about it, as they’ve announced that they’ll be releasing a sequel to the critically acclaimed (and absolutely shockingly promoted in the UK by 505) PS2 RPG Magna Carta: Tears of Blood.

The game, entitled Magna Carta: Crimson Stigma, is in development as we speak, but there are little to no more details available, and we think it would be optimistic to expect it to hit anywhere other than Japan before the end of 2009. More as we have it, as always.

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Screenshots and boats and planes…oh my!

Eidos has opened its new home for the Battlestations franchise, at Battlestations.net. Timely indeed, given that they’ll be releasing a sequel to their 2007 title Battlestations: Midway in the near future, under the name of Battlestations: Pacific. The game is coming to the Xbox 360 in the spring, and we’ve nabbed ourselves a fresh batch of screenshots for your viewing pleasure…enjoy!

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South London studio on the market.

Its not been the best of times for UK developers of late, and the trouble looks set to continue. Oxygen Studios has been put up for sale and has ceased all internal development projects, it has been revealed.

The company, who were responsible for some of the absolute worst travesties to ever hit the Wii and DS, employed just 14 staff, and is “moving back to a more traditional publisher model using external development teams only.”

Oxygen released My Make-Up,  My Dress-Up, My Secret Diary, Cheggers’ Party Quiz, Alan Hansen’s Sports Challenge, Hurry Up Hedgehog and the dire PDC World Championship Darts over the last 12 months or so. is the credit crunch really to blame?

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After you…no, no…after you…

They can’t make up their minds, and the first Official UK All Formats chart of 2009 sees FIFA swapping places with Call of Duty: World at War AGAIN to take the number one spot.

Elsewhere, Guitar Hero: World Tour continues its rise as it climbs from number 7 to number 4 on the back of some heavy discounting in the January sales. Far Cry 2 heads back into the top ten at number 7 for the same reason, whilst restocks of Wii Fit see it bolster its position and head up to number 20 from 33.

The only new entry on the chart is Nintendo’s ambitious 100 Classic Book Collection for the DS, which enters at a lowly number 27. Big Beach Sports, Tiger Woods 09, Midnight Club: LA, Call of Duty 4 and Mario Kart DS all re-enter the chart without causing much damage.

You can check out the current All Formats chart over at our UK gaming charts section, as well as being able to view the full individual charts each and every week.

Related entries:

1. Call of Duty usurped as FIFA takes Xmas number one spot
2. World at War returns to number one spot
3. Pro Evo topples FIFA at top of ELSPA UK Chart
4. Call of Duty outsells Warcraft
5. World at War holds fast as UK’s number one

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No need to pre-order, if you’re in Europe.

Eurogamer is reporting that Sony have confirmed to them that a pre-release demo of Killzone 2 will be made available to European players, via the PSN - if it clears the quality assurance process in time. No firm date has been given for the game’s release in Europe, but Sony has confirmed that it will hit in February, meaning that the demo shouldn’t be too far away.

In the US, gamers have to pre-order the game from GameStop to get their hands on the demo, but will be able to get hold of it with no strings attached once the game has released.

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And it’ll be here before the month is out.

Epic supremo Mark Rein has posted details of another patch to Gears of War 2, and the good news is that it should be available to download before the end of the month.

The update will fix bug and exploits for online multiplayer, including invisible shields, infinite Lancer ammunition and melee striking through walls. In addition, penalties for quitting matches early will be increased, and grenade and chainsaw attacks will be less likely to kill you off as you respawn. As if that wasn’t enough, some new achievements for December’s map pack are being added.

Head on over to the Epic Games forums for the full skinny.

Related entries:

1. Gears of War 2 gets patched up…at last

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But will Treasure buckle under the pressure?

After last year’s release of Treasure’s classic Dreamcast shoot-em-up - Ikaruga - to the Xbox Live Arcade, it seems that Microsoft wants more. Treasure CEO Masata Maegawa told Gamasutra that Microsoft have requested that the company gets down and dirty with a Sega Saturn classic - Radiant Silvergun.

But the developers aren’t so sure. Maegawa said: “We’re thinking about it, certainly, but it’s not as simple as just saying, ‘OK, let’s put it up.’ I mean, sure, with Ikaruga, we released it as-is without having to do or add a great deal to the game, and it was popular and well accepted for what it was. But if you play Radiant Silvergun nowadays, it’s certainly aged in assorted ways, and I’m not sure they’re all good.”

So, they haven’t ruled it out, but we’d be surprised to see this one hitting Microsoft’s online service any time soon. Shame.

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Something to look forward to for British gamers BEFORE the summer!

You’ve all been waiting with baited breath, but Capcom has taken the covers off its triple-A first quarter lineup.

British gamers will be able to get their hands on Street Fighter IV on 360 and PS3 on February 20th, whilst the lacklustre-looking Wii version of Dead Rising (subtitled Chop Till You Drop) hits on the 27th. March 13th brings you one of the most anticipated titles of recent memory - Resident Evil 5.

The full lineup is as follows:-

Flock (Xbox Live Arcade / PlayStation Network) - February (To be confirmed)
Street Fighter IV (Xbox 360 / PlayStation 3) - February 20th
Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop (Wii) - February 27th
Neopets Puzzle Adventure (Wii / DS / PC) - February 27th
Resident Evil 5 (Xbox 360 / PlayStation 3) - March 13th
MotoGP (Wii) - March (To be confirmed)
Bionic Commando (Xbox Live Arcade / PlayStation Network) - March (To be confirmed)

That’ll do to be going on with, I think!

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Last week saw Sony announce PAIN as the PSN’s most popular downloadable title, and this week, the Xbox camp has put out its own set of charts.First up, the top 20 Xbox 360 titles PLAYED on Live are up, and there are some interesting nuggets of information to be found. The demo of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed comes in at number nine for example, but the full game isn’t listed. The same can be said of Mirror’s Edge and Too Human. I guess that just goes to show that demo versions are more useful to the gamer than to the publisher…

2008 Xbox 360 Top Live Titles

1 - Halo 3
2 - Call of Duty 4
3 - GTA IV
4 - Gears of War 2
5 - Gears of War
6 - CoD: World at War
7 - Guitar Hero III
8 - Battlefield: Bad Company (Demo)
9 - Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Demo)
10 - Rock Band
11 - Fable II
12 - Mirror’s Edge (Demo)
13 - Madden NFL 09
14 - Battlefield: Bad Company
15 - Rainbow Six Vegas 2
16 - UNO
17 - Castle Crashers
18 - CoD: World at War (Multiplayer BETA)
19 - Forza Motorsport 2
20 - Too Human (Demo)

The XBLA chart chucks some decent action our way too, with the awesome Castle Crashers taking the top spot, followed by Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 and the fantastic Braid. Good games, good sales - there isn’t much logic required to work that one out, is there?

2008 Top 20 Xbox Live Arcade Titles

(based on purchases of the full version of each title)

1 - Castle Crashers
2 - Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
3 - Braid
4 - A Kingdom for Keflings
5 - UNO
6 - Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
7 - Fable II Pub Games
8 - Duke Nukem 3D
9 - Bionic Commando: Rearmed
10 - Worms
11 - SOULCALIBUR
12 - Portal: Still Alive
13 - DOOM
14 - 1942: Joint Strike
15 - Bomberman Live
16 - Mega Man 9
17 - N+
18 - World of the Battlefield: Commando 3
19 - Marble Blast Ultra
20 - Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

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You’ve completed Everlong on Expert with a maximum score…but we’ll lay money that you can’t do this.

So, you’ve graduated up through the levels on Rock Band 2 or Guitar Hero: World Tour, and you’re at the point where you think that you could probably take on the real thing and do pretty well. Kudos to you. If you’re a pessimist, then I suggest you don’t watch this latest YouTube post from Andrea Varducci (aka “Vadrum”), since you’ll break down and realise that there’s only one way to ever become as good as this - and that’s to sell your soul to the devil.

The man has some serious skills, and attacks the classic Super Mario Brothers 3 theme tune on an awesome kit. Andrea could, quite probably, make the world turn in the opposite direction just by hitting a continuous rhythm on his hi-hat. Watch. Be amazed. We’ll see you Monday.

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Hang on just a minute…

The Telegraph is reporting that toddlers could be checked for speech problems after ‘evidence that many are so addicted to television and video games that they are failing to learn basic communication skills.’

Despite the ironically incorrect English in that sentence, the report goes on to state that the “decline of the traditional family meal time” and the “long-hours culture in the parents’ workplaces” are also to blame for the problem, which apparently will result in two-year-olds being screened for speech deficiencies by the government as part of standard medical checks by health visitors.

The Daily Mail chimed in, stating that ‘fewer than one in ten children in disadvantaged areas know even one nursery rhyme.’ I’m having difficulty imagining a Daily Mail researcher or writer even considering visiting a disadvantaged area to check, but we get their drift and they have stated that “experts” said it, so it really is OK.

Tory MP John Bercow is the man behind the report, and he has called on parents to strike a balance between screen-based activities such as television and computer games and family activities. Of course this makes absolute sense, but the Telegraph saying that “many are so addicted to television and video games” simply doesn’t, considering the statement: “many are left alone with nothing to do other than play video games or watch television” could also be applied. Put a child in a room with an Xbox 360 and a TV, and there’s a high percentage chance that he or she will be watching TV or playing a game when you come back in five hours. That doesn’t mean that they’re addicted. It means that they’re not being given enough attention. Mr. Bercow is to be applauded for the balanced nature of the study and the way in which its recommendations are presented, where The Telegraph are to be booed off stage for the idiotic way in which they’ve leapt to make the problem the fault of the games industry. Again.

I should imagine that video games could only help the vocabulary, when compared to utter, utter rubbish such as Britain’s (still) favourite children’s programme - Teletubbies, where approximately 95% of the show consists of grunts, squeaks and the type of guttural bastardisation of the English language that usually occurs after several pints of strong alcohol. When you consider the sort of absolute and utter nonsensical diabolicalities that are stored in the majority of the country’s “sent messages” folder on their mobile phone, you could again argue that video games will probably help when it comes to improving literacy and speech skills.

It can all be summed up in one perfectly normal English sentence. “Telegraf am cry.”

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There’s so little behind this, that it may as well be on The Sun’s front page.

But, we’ll go with it for now as stranger things have happened. Xbox360Fanboy.com have been ferreting away to dish the trademarking dirt, and have found that Sega have re-registered the ChuChu Rocket name - amongst others. To some, this means that Sega are obviously getting ready to re-release the game on Xbox Live Arcade, and not just trying to protect an IP which reached almost every single UK-based Dreamcast owner thanks to the company giving it away free to anyone who went to their website via the Dreamcast’s browser.

We’ll keep an eye on it. It sure would be good to get some ChuChu going on, even if 90% of the known population didn’t understand what the hell you had to do in the game to win.

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We’ll bet that you weren’t (and Happy New Year, by the way!)

Everyone loves a laugh, and this kid just made me actually cry. Probably the most obvious fake reaction ever has been captured on camera for the World to laugh at and well…I’m just helping that along.

If your child didn’t go THIS nuts, then you should take their Wii back to the store and replace it with about 90 litres of Sunny D. Note: Turn your speakers down if you value your ears.

I’m waiting for the follow-up video, where the kid opens his next package to find a copy of My Horse and Me 2 or SPRay or…well…any Wii game not published by Nintendo, it seems.

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Wii, DS dominate the chart, but fail to take the top spot.

Dengeki Online have put together their annual Japanese bestsellers list and to be frank, the results aren’t particularly surprising. One PS3 title in the top 30, three PS2 titles and the rest of the chart completely owned by the DS, Wii and PSP. Nine of the top ten are Nintendo-based titles but - funnily enough - not that coveted number one spot, which falls to Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G for the PSP.

So, looks like the PSP is selling SOMEWHERE.

The full rundown goes a little something like this…

01. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP)
02. Pokemon Platinum (DS)
03. Wii Fit (Wii)
04. Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
05. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
06. Rhythm Tengoku Gold (DS)
07. Dragon Quest V (DS)
08. Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe (DS)
09. Animal Crossing City Folk (Wii)
10. Wii Sports (Wii)
11. Phantasy Star Portable (PSP)
12. Pokémon Ranger: Batonnage (DS)
13. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)
14. Professor Layton and the Final Time Journey (DS)
15. Wii Play (Wii)
16. Dissidia Final Fantasy (PSP)
17. Super Robot Taisen Z (PS2)
18. Mario Party DS (DS)
19. DS Bimoji Training (DS)
20. Daigasso! Band Bros. DX (DS)
21. Mario Kart DS (DS)
22. Musou Orochi Sairin (PS2)
23. Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode (DS)
24. Chrono Trigger (DS)
25. Meccha! Taiko Drum Master DS: 7-tsu no Shima no Daibouken (DS)
26. Mobile Suit Gundam vs. Gundam (PSP)
27. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS)
28. Powa Pro Kun Portable 3 (PSP)
29. Persona 4 (PS2)
30. New Super Mario Bros. (DS)

[via: Kotaku]

Related entries:

1. PSP remains on top in Japan
2. January Sales Price Battle: Nintendo Wii Edition
3. January Sales Price Battle: Xbox 360 Edition
4. January Sales Price Battle: Nintendo DS Edition
5. January Sales Price Battle: Sony PSP Edition

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The boffins have been sweating it out in the lab, and have come up with a doozie.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t me that thought of it. However, mad-dope props go to Popsci.com, who have today taken the wrappers off their guide to getting your Xbox 360 online wirelessly, without splurging a wad of cash on the official Xbox 360 wireless adapter.

All you need is an old wireless router, a free bit of downloadable software, some sticky-backed plastic and an empty Fairy Liquid bottle. OK, maybe not the last two.

I shall be trying this later and that’s for darned sure. Check out the full guide here.

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If that sort of thing takes your fancy, that is.

The Tomb Raider: Underworld soundtrack is pretty grand if you like sweeping action scores, and the guys over at Tomb Raider Chronicles have secured the thing for your downloading pleasure. Its all legal, and its all in 320kbps MP3 format.

If that doesn’t make your new year, then I’m not surprised - but it really is a nice piece of work by the chaps at TRC to make it available to all. Well done, folks.

You can download the whole nine yards in several pack styles (including the super-sweet 198mb “Deluxe Pack”) from here for absolutely nix.

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FIFA drops back.

After FIFA’s Christmas chart success last week, Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War has returned to the number one spot in the last weekly UK games chart of 2008.

FIFA holds on to the number 2 spot, whilst the fatally flawed Need For Speed: Undercover jumps up to three, taking over from Mario Kart Wii, which falls to four. Wii Play rounds off the top five after moving up one place.

Elsewhere, Guitar Hero: World Tour seems to have gotten its Christmas on, as it leaps into the top ten at 7, whilst Sonic Unleashed slides into the number 10 spot from last week’s number 20. The sales are kicking in too, it seems, as Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (which has been aggressively discounted by more than one retailer) re-enters the chart at 17, whilst New Super Mario Bros. and The Simpsons Game return to the chart at 36 and 40, respectively.

You can check out the full All Formats chart, as well as the individual format charts over at our interestingly-named Charts section.

Related entries:

1. Call of Duty usurped as FIFA takes Xmas number one spot
2. FIFA beats out Call of Duty to number one spot
3. Pro Evo topples FIFA at top of ELSPA UK Chart
4. Call of Duty outsells Warcraft
5. World at War holds fast as UK’s number one

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Yet another search-and-response from us here at RewiredMind, and we’ve noticed that we’ve had a larger-than-average amount of searches for complete Guitar Hero tracklistings. So, we’ve beavered away and put together the following list for you. Note that the lists only contain songs that are on the game disc or cartridge, and do not include downloadable content.

Italicised songs can be purchased with in-game money earned in the career mode.

Guitar Hero (PS2)

The Acro-Brats - “Callout”
Anarchy Club - “Behind the Mask”
Artillery - “The Breaking Wheel”
Audioslave - “Cochise”
Bad Religion - “Infected”
The Bags - “Caveman Rejoice”
Black Label Society - “Fire It Up”
Black Sabbath - “Iron Man”
Blue Oyster Cult - “Godzilla”
Boston - “More Than a Feeling”
Burning Bridges - “Heart Full of Black”
Count Zero - “Sail Your Ship By”
Cream - “Crossroads”
David Bowie - “Ziggy Stardust”
Deep Purple - “Smoke on the Water”
Din - “Fly on the Wall”
Drist - “Decontrol”
The Donnas - “Take It Off”
The Edgar Winter Group - “Frankenstein”
The Exies - “Hey You”
Franz Ferdinand - “Take Me Out”
Freezepop - “Get Ready to Rokk”
Graveyard BBQ - “Cheat on the Church”
Helmet - “Unsung”
Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives - “Hey”
Incubus - “Stellar”
Jimi Hendrix - “Spanish Castle Magic”
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts - “I Love Rock and Roll”
Judas Priest - “You Got Another Thing Comin’”
Made in Mexico - “Farewell Myth”
Megadeth - “Symphony of Destruction”
The Model Sons - “Story of My Love”
Monkey Steals the Peach - “Guitar Hero”
Motorhead - “Ace of Spades”
Ozzy Osbourne - “Bark at the Moon”
Pantera - “Cowboys from Hell”
Queen - “Killer Queen”
Queens of the Stone Age - “No One Knows”
The Ramones - “I Wanna Be Sedated”
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - “Higher Ground”
Shaimus - “All of This”
The Slip - “Even Rats”
Stevie Ray Vaughan - “Texas Flood”
Sum 41 - “Fat Lip”
The Upper Crust - “Eureka, I’ve Found Love”
White Zombie - “Thunder Kiss ‘65″
ZZ Top - “Sharp Dressed Man”

Guitar Hero II (PS2, Xbox 360)

The Acro-Brats - “Laughtrack”
Aerosmith - “Last Child”
Alice in Chains - “Them Bones”
The Allman Brothers Band - “Jessica”
All That Remains - “Six”
The Amazing Crowns - “Mr. Fix It”
Anarchy Club - “Collide”
Anthrax - “Madhouse”
Avenged Sevenfold - “Beast and the Harlot”
Bang Camaro - “Push Push (Lady Lightning)”
Black Sabbath - “War Pigs”
The Breaking Wheel - “One for the Road”
Brian Kahanek - “Gemini”
Buckethead - “Jordan”
The Butthole Surfers - “Who Was In My Room Last Night?”
Cheap Trick - “Surrender”
Count Zero - “Radium Eyes”
Dethlok - “Thunderhorse”
Dick Dale - “Misirlou”
Drist - “Arterial Black”
Every Time I Die - “The New Black”
Foo Fighters - “Monkey Wrench”
Freezepop - “Less Talk More Rokk”
Guns N’ Roses - “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
Heart - “Crazy on You”
Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives - “Soy Bomb”
Iggy Pop and The Stooges - “Search and Destroy”
Jane’s Addiction - “Stop”
Kansas - “Carry On Wayward Son”
Kiss - “Strutter”
Lamb of God - “Laid to Rest”
The Last Vegas - “Raw Dog”
The Living End - “Carry Me Home”
Lynyrd Skynyrd - “Free Bird”
Made in Mexico - “Yes We Can”
Matthew Sweet - “Girlfriend”
Megadeth - “Hangar 18″
Megasus - “Red Lottery”
Motley Crue - “Shout at the Devil”
The Neighbours - “Parasite”
Nirvana - “Heart Shaped Box”
Noble Rot - “Kicked to the Curb” (Xbox 360 Exclusive)
Ounce of Self - “Drink Up” (Xbox 360 Exclusive)
The Police - “Message in a Bottle”
The Pretenders - “Tattooed Love Boys”
Primus - “John the Fisherman”
Rage Against the Machine - “Killing in the Name”
Reverend Horton Heat - “Psychobilly Freakout”
The Rolling Stones - “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’”
Rush - “YYZ”
Shadows Fall - “The Light That Blinds”
Spinal Tap - “Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight”
Stone Temple Pilots - “Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart”
Stray Cats - “Rock This Town”
Strong Bad - “Trogdor”
Suicidal Tendencies - “Institutionalized”
That Handsome Devil - “Elephant Bones”
The Sword - “Freya”
Thin Lizzy - “Bad Reputation”
Vagiant - “FTK”
Valient Thorr - “Fall of Pangea”
Van Halen - “You Really Got Me”
Voivoid - “X-Stream”
Warrant - “Cherry Pie”
Wolfmother - “Woman”

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii)

Aerosmith - “Same Old Song and Dance”
AFI - “Miss Murder”
Alice Cooper - “School’s Out”
Backyard Babies - “Minus Celsius”
Beastie Boys - “Sabotage”
Black Sabbath - “Paranoid”
Bloc Party - “Helicopter”
Blue Oyster Cult - “Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll”
Bret Michaels Band - “Go That Far”
Cream - “Sunshine of Your Love”
Dead Kennedys - “Holiday in Cambodia”
Die Toten Hosen - “Hier Kommt Alex”
Disturbed - “Stricken”
Dope - “Nothing for Me Here”
DragonForce - “Through the Fire and Flames” (unlocked after completing career mode)
An Endless Sporadic - “Impulse”
Eric Johnson - “Cliffs of Dover”
The Fall of Troy - “F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X.”
Foghat - “Slow Ride”
Guns N’ Roses - “Welcome to the Jungle”
Heart - “Barracuda”
Hellacopters - “I’m in the Band”
Heroes del Silencio - “Avalancha”
In Flames - “Take This Life”
Iron Maiden - “The Number of the Beast”
Kaiser Chiefs - “Ruby”
The Killers - “When You Were Young”
Killswitch Engage - “My Curse”
Kiss - “Rock and Roll All Nite”
LA Slum Lords - “Down ‘N Dirty”
Lacuna Coil - “Closer”
Lions - “Metal Heavy Lady”
Living Colour - “Cult of Personality”
Matchbook Romance - “Monsters”
Metallica - “One”
Mountain - “Mississippi Queen”
Muse - “Knights of Cydonia”
Naast - “Mauvais Garcon”
Pat Benatar - “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”
Pearl Jam - “Even Flow”
Poison - “Talk Dirty to Me”
Priestess - “Lay Down”
Prototype - “The Way It Ends”
Queens of the Stone Age - “3s and 7s”
Rage Against the Machine - “Bulls on Parade”
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - “Suck My Kiss”
Revolverhead - “Generation Rock”
Rise Against - “Prayer of the Refugee”
The Rolling Stones - “Paint It Black”
Santana - “Black Magic Woman”
Scorpions - “Rock You Like a Hurricane”
Scouts of St. Sebastian - “In Love”
Senses Fail - “Can’t Be Saved”
Slash - “Guitar Battle vs. Slash”
Slayer - “Raining Blood”
The Sleeping - “Don’t Hold Back”
Slipknot - “Before I Forget”
The Smashing Pumpkins - “Cherub Rock”
Social Distortion - “Story of My Life”
Sonic Youth - “Kool Thing”
Steve Ouimette - “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”
Steve Ray Vaughan - “Pride and Joy”
The Stone Roses - “She Bangs the Drums”
The Strokes - “Reptilia”
Superbus - “Radio Song”
Tenacious D - “The Metal”
The Sex Pistols - “Anarchy in the U.K.”
Tom Morello - “Guitar Battle vs. Tom Morello”
Weezer - “My Name Is Jonas”
White Zombie - “Black Sunshine”
The Who - “The Seeker”
ZZ Top - “La Grange”

Guitar Hero: World Tour (IV) (PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360)

30 Seconds to Mars - “The Kill”
311 - “Beautiful Disaster”
Airbourne - “Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast”
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 - “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”
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”
HushPuppies - “You’re Gonna Say Yeah!”
Interpol - “Obstacle 1″
Jane’s Addiction - “Mountain Song”
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - “Purple Haze (Live)”
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - “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”
Lostprophets - “Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)”
Lynyrd Skynyrd - “Sweet Home Alabama (Live)”
The 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”
The 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”
Tokio Hotel - “Monsoon”
Tool - “Parabola”
Tool - “Schism”
Tool - “Vicarious”
Trust - “Antisocial”
Van Halen - “Hot for Teacher”
Willie Nelson - “On the Road Again (Live)”
Wings - “Band on the Run”

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (PS3, PS2, Xbox 360, Wii)

Aerosmith - “Back in the Saddle”
Aerosmith - “Beyond Beautiful”
Aerosmith - “Bright Light Fright”
Aerosmith - “Combination”
Aerosmith - “Draw the Line”
Aerosmith - “Dream On”
Aerosmith - “Kings and Queens”
Aerosmith - “Let the Music Do the Talking”
Aerosmith - “Livin’ on the Edge”
Aerosmith - “Love in an Elevator”
Aerosmith - “Make It”
Aerosmith - “Mama Kin”
Aerosmith - “Movin’ Out”
Aerosmith - “Nobody’s Fault”
Aerosmith - “No Surprise”
Aerosmith - “Pandora’s Box”
Aerosmith - “Pink”
Aerosmith - “Rag Doll”
Aerosmith - “Rats in the Cellar”
Aerosmith - “Shakin’ My Cage”
Aerosmith - “Sweet Emotion”
Aerosmith - “Talk Talkin’”
Aerosmith - “Train Kept-A Rollin’”
Aerosmith - “Toys in the Attic”
Aerosmith - “Uncle Salty”
Aerosmith - “Walk This Way”
The Black Crowes - “Hard to Handle”
Cheap Trick - “Dream Police”
The Clash - “Complete Control”
The Cult - “She Sells Sactuary”
Joan Jett - “I Hate Myself for Loving You”
Joe Perry - “Guitar Battle vs. Joe Perry”
Joe Perry - “Mercy”
The Kinks - “All Day and All of the Night”
Lenny Kravitz (Featuring Slash) - “Always on the Run”
Mott the Hoople - “All the Young Dudes”
New York Dolls - “Personality Crisis”
Run-D.M.C. - “King of Rock”
Run-D.M.C. (Featuring Aerosmith) - “Walk This Way”
Stone Temple Pilots - “Sex Type Thing”
Ted Nugent - “Cat Scratch Fever”

Guitar Hero: On Tour (Nintendo DS)

Beatsteaks - “Monster”
Blink-182 - “All the Small Things”
Bloc Party - “Helicopter”
Daughtry (featuring Slash) - “What I want”
The Doobie Brothers - “China Grove”
Europe - “Rock the Night”
Freezepop - “I Am Not Your Gameboy”
Heroes del Silencio - “Avalancha”
Incubus - “Anna Molly”
Jet - “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
Kiss - Rock and Roll All Nite”
Los Lonely Boys - “Heaven”
Lynyrd Skynyrd - “I Know a Little”
Mademoiselle K - “Ca Me Vexe”
Maroon 5 - “This Love”
Nirvana - “Breed”
No Doubt - “Spiderwebs”
OK Go - “Do What You Want”
Ozzy Osbourne - “I Don’t Wanna Stop”
Pat Benatar - “Hit Me with Your Best Shot”
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - “Knock Me Down”
Rick Springfield - “Jessie’s Girl”
Santana - “Black Magic Woman”
Skid Row - “Youth Gone Wild”
Smash Mouth - All Star”
Steve Miller Band - “Jet Airliner”
Steve Ray Vaughan - “Pride and Joy”
Stray Cats - “Stray Cat Strut”
Tokio Hotel - “Monsoon”
Twisted Sister - “We’re Not Gonna Take It”
ZZ Top - “La Grange”

Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades (Nintendo DS)

Alien Ant Farm - “Smooth Criminal”
Blind Melon - “No Rain”
Blondie - “One Way or Another”
Bon Jovi - “You Give Love a Bad Name”
Boston - “Rock and Roll Band”
Edgar Winter Group - “Free Rider”
Fall Out Boy - “Take Over, The Break’s Over”
Finley - “Diventerai Una Star”
Foo Fighters - “The Pretender”
Free - “All Right Now”
Guano Apes - “You Can’t Stop Me”
Jimmy Eat World - “The Middle”
Joe Satriani - “Satch Boogie”
Journey - “Any Way You Want It”
Lenny Kravitz - “Are You Gonna Go My Way”
Linkin Park - “One Step Closer”
Los Lobos - “La Bamba”
Lynyrd Skynyrd - “Sweet Home Alabama (Live)”
Oasis - “Some Might Say”
Paramore - “Crushcrushcrush”
Pereza - “Estrella Polar”
Phoenix - “Everything is Everything”
Queen - “We Are The Champions”
R.E.M. - “The One I Love”
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - “Can’t Stop”
Sammy Hagar - “I Can’t Drive 55″
Seether - “Remedy”
Stome Temple Pilots - “Down”
Survivor - “Eye of the Tiger”
The All-American Rejects - “Dirty Little Secret”
The Darkness - “I Believe in a Thing Called Love”
The Smashing Pumpkins - “Tarantula”
Tokio Hotel - “Ready, Set, Go!”
Veryca Salt - “Volcano Girls”
Weezer - “Buddy Holly”

Posted by Dan Davies. | Tags: gh, guitar hero, tracklist
This article is from RewiredMind.com - Games. Because Real Life Sucks .

No, you haven’t heard the last of the former-attorney.Our man Thompson has written a cracking letter to Take Two’s CEO, Strauss Zelnick. And it wasn’t to congratulate him on having such an awesome name.

The letter states that “God is not amused” with Take Two (because it continues “marketing and selling its Mature-rated games to minors”) and that this is why the company’s stock has dropped from $26 to $7 per share. It wouldn’t be anything to do with the company fending off a takeover bid from EA now, would it? No, no.

The rest of the letter is just as ridiculous, so without further ado we give you…Jack Thompson. Who is now just a man in the street, given that he’s been debarred.

“As you will recall, when we met in New York for a couple of hours on May 15, 2007, I mentioned to you that unless Take-Two cleaned up its corporate act (stopped marketing and selling its Mature-rated games to minors), there would be a wicked price to pay.

Since then Take-Two’s stock has gone from $26 to $7+ per share. I think God has put the world together in such a way that your company’s wrongdoing has made this fiscal reckoning unavoidable. Scripture says so.

I have been your company’s and its shareholders’ best friend in all this since I appeared on 60 Minutes in the spring of 2005, but you chose to characterize me as your company’s enemy, pledging to destroy me, and now the piper is being paid. God is not amused.

The harm you and your agents have done to me is predictable, as Jesus told his disciples: “The world hates you because it first hated me.” I’ll be fine, as God promises that “All things work to the good for those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose.” I am called, are you? Jesus says, “I knock on the door, and anyone who answers, I will come in.” Jesus, the Jewish Messiah, calls you even now.

Please repent of your company’s sins. God will reward both it and you.

Shalom, Jack Thompson.”

It’s like watching a car crash in slow-motion. Somebody, please…get the man some help. “All things work to the good for those who love the Lord”, apparently. Does that include denying gamers - who are legally allowed to play M-rated titles - the enjoyment of actually playing them? Is that a good thing? If you want to run with quotes, then I’ll stick with Pericles of Athens when he said “All good things should flow into the boulevard.”

Grand Theft Auto is a good thing, if you’re the right age. By demanding a total ban and blaming the publisher rather than the parents who don’t give two hoots about what their children are playing because they either put it down as “just a game” or hell, don’t actually give two hoots about what their children are doing, you’re overlooking the problem entirely, Jack.

Related entries:

1. Here comes the big bucks: Rockstar sticks with Take Two

Posted by Ken Barnes. | Tags: jack thompson, ludicrous, rockstar, take two
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