Three artists from Interscope Records including Marilyn Manson will be available in a new track pack for Guitar Hero III tomorrow.

Flyleaf’s ‘Tina,’ ‘Carcinogen Crush’ from AFI and a remix of Marilyn Manson’s ‘Putting Holes in Happiness’ by Nick Zinner will be available on Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Store for 500 Microsoft Points or £3.99.

Speaking of Guitar Hero, more evidence has been added to the smoldering pile of rumours that Metallica will soon follow in Aerosmith’s footsteps.

Metallica leader Lars Ulrich recently told MTV Multiplayer that “There’s an Aerosmith game out there that’s super successful, and if somebody’s gonna follow that up… We’re talking, and it’s exciting, and the people at Guitar Hero and Activision are rapidly becoming our best new friends in the world. You can put the rest of it together yourself.”

Rock Band fans will be happy to know that Harmonix and MTV Games have announced new downloadable content for Rock Band.

New singles from Staind, Scars on Broadway, The New No2 and Testament will arrive on Xbox Live Marketplace on the 29th of July and on the PlayStation Network on the 31st of July.

‘They Say’ will be Scars on Broadway’s (consisting of two System of a Down members) debut single on Rock Band and will cost $1.99 or 160 Microsoft Points, as will Staind’s ‘This Is It,’ the first single from their upcoming album titled The Illusion of Progress.

‘Yomp’ is the latest single from The New No2, consisting of Dhani Harrison, son of Beatle George Harrison, and Oli Hecks. It will cost $.99 or 80 Microsoft Points. Testament also debut on Rock Band with ‘Electric Crown,’ a track from their 1992 album that will cost $1.99.

Guitar Hero III is to get some more downloadable content, with ‘influential guitarist’ Joe Satriani’s 1987 hit, ‘Surfing with the Alien.’ Steve Vai’s ‘For the Love of God’ also features, while ‘Soothsayer,’ from Buckethead, rounds out the three-pack.

Guitar Hero III’s Virtuoso Track Pack will be available late this week (July 24th) on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.

Harmonix and MTV Games have announced more exclusive tracks for Rock Band, coming to the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live this week, from Nine Inch Nails and Shinedown.

Nine Inch Nails tracks to be added are “Burn” from the Natural Born Killers soundtrack, “Capital G” from Year Zero, and “Last” from EP Broken. Tracks from Shinedown will be available in the form of “Devour” from The Sound of Madness as well as the never released “Junkies For Fame.”

Each track will be available for $1.99 or 160 Microsoft Points while the Nine Inch Nails three-pack will be available for $5.49 or 440 Microsoft Points.

Harmonix and MTV Games have added new downloadable content to sweeten the Rock Band pot.

Rock Band fans can download new exclusive Rock Band versions of two Rush tracks. ‘Closer to the Heart’ and ‘Working Man’ (a Vault Edition that features a never released alternative guitar solo) will be available for $1.99 per track or 160 Microsoft Points. This brings to five the number of Rush songs available on Rock Band including cover versions of ‘Tom Sawyer,’ ‘Limelight’ and ‘Working Man.’

You will also be able to download two tracks from Red Hot Chili Peppers, namely ‘Snow (Hey Oh)’ and ‘Tell Me Baby’ from the album Stadium Arcadium.

The new tracks will be available today on Xbox Live Marketplace and will arrive on the PlayStation Store this Thursday.

Activision is offering the ‘Top Gun Anthem’ as a free downloadable track for Guitar Hero III in celebration of the fourth of July.

The iconic song will be available to download for free from the 3rd of July from Xbox Live Marketplace and in the PlayStation Store.

Go ahead, enter the Danger Zone!

Soulcalibur is the week’s Xbox Live Arcade offering. You will also be able to get your hands on 280 new questions if you download the new content for Wits & Wagers.

Soulcalibur will be available on XBLA tomorrow for 800 Microsoft Points while the DLC for Wits & Wagers will set you back 320 Microsoft Points.

Dubbed to be the highest-rated console fighting game, Soulcalibur features new HD graphics, sixty leaderboards for each character and mode as well as local-play Versus mode.

The game features nineteen playable characters, including Kilik, Ivy, Siegfried, Edge Master and Nightmare, as well as eight different modes such as Story, Versus and Museum Mode (which enables players to view artwork, character models and animations).

Harmonix and MTV Games will be releasing a special CrüeFest downloadable pack for Rock Band to celebrate CrüeFest.

The pack includes songs from Mötley Crüe (“Down At The Whisky”), Papa Roach (“Time Is Running Out”) and Trapt (“Who’s Going Home With You Tonight”).

The CrüeFest songs will be available from the 1st of July for a limited time at a special price of $0.99 per track or 80 Microsoft Points from Xbox Live Marketplace. The entire collection of tracks will set you back $2.99. The tracks will be hit the PlayStation Store on the 3rd of July.

Rock Band fans will also be able to download “Promised Land” from Vesuvius for free. Vesuvius is a fictictious band that is featured in the upcoming comedy The Rocker in case you were wondering.

Coldplay will be making their debut on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock this week.

The three track downloadable song pack includes ‘Yellow,’ ‘God Put a Smile Upon Your Face’ as well as the new single ‘Violet Hill’ from the new album Viva la Vida which hits shelves on the 17th of June.

Guitar Hero fans will be able to download the Coldplay track pack on the 19th of June from Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Store.

The Veteran Map Pack for EA’s third person co-op shooter Army of Two will be available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 tomorrow.

The free downloadable content will include two new co-op campaign maps as well as an enhanced multiplayer map. It features “dynamic and interactive environments including destructible objects that were not available in the retail version.”

The first map will see players finding and destroying the central hub of a militia in a subway station in Kiev. Players will get the chance to take out Dalton, Rios and Salem’s ex-boss in the second map which is set in SSC headquarters in Miami. Finally two-on-two teams can battle it out in the China Canal Lock map.

The Veteran Map Pack will be available on the 29th of May in North America and Europe on Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Store.

Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that The Cars’ 1978 self-titled debut will be the second wave of complete album downloadable content for Rock Band.

The Cars album will be available on Xbox Live Marketplace on the 27th of May and on the PlayStation Network on the 29th of May. Each track will cost $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) while the album will cost $14.99 (1 200 Microsoft Points).

Rock Band will be released on the Xbox 360 across Europe this Friday with other platforms following later in the year. Earlier today Major Nelson confirmed that the entire downloadable catalogue will be available for European gamers to download from Xbox Live Marketplace.

Judas Priest’s Screaming for Vengeance was the first downloadable album available on Rock Band. The Pixies album Doolittle will follow in June.

Here is a full track listing of The Cars ‘The Cars’ album:

• “Good Times Roll”
• “My Best Friend’s Girl”
• “Just What I Needed”
• “I’m in Touch with Your World”
• “Don’t Cha Stop”
• “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight”
• “Bye Bye Love”
• “Moving in Stereo”
• “All Mixed Up”

Rock Band will be available in Europe this week. The game will launch exclusively on the Xbox 360 on the 23rd of May followed by additional platforms later in the year.

The game will feature nine new tracks in addition to the 58 tracks from the North American release. Earlier in the year it was confirmed that all songs which are currently available for purchase and download in the US will be made available in Europe.

Xbox Live’s Major Nelson has popped a reminder on his website that the content previously released in North America is now available for European Rock Band players. Head over to the Major’s website for a full list of the content available.

This is great news for gamers who have been eagerly waiting to grab themselves a copy of Rock Band. But even better news for us European gamers who already own Rock Band but have not been able to download additional tracks. Sadly only those gamers with the Xbox 360 version will be able to enjoy jamming to new tracks, looks like the PS3 gamers will have to wait even longer.

Harmonix, MTV Games and EA have announced plans to release Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1 for the Wii and PS2. The Track Pack will feature 20 tracks from 20 different artists and will be available on the 15th of July for $29.99.

Up until now only owners of the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Rock Band have been able to download content for the game. Now the PS2 version and the Wii version (which will be available from the 22nd of June) will also feature downloadable content, just that it will be available on a disc rather than as traditional DLC.

Track Pack Volume 1 includes songs by All American Rejects, 30 Seconds to Mars and Weezer and more. The full track listing is below:

• 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
• All American Rejects - Move Along
• Blink – 182 All the Small Things
• Boston - More Than a Feeling
• David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
• Faith No More - We Care A Lot
• Grateful Dead - Truckin’
• The Hives - Die, All Right!
• KISS - Calling Dr. Love
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme’ Three Steps
• Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs
• Oasis - Live Forever
• Paramore - Crushcrushcrush
• The Police - Synchronicity II
• Queens of the Stone Age - Little Sister
• Ramones - Teenage Lobotomy
• Smashing Pumpkins - Siva
• Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
• Weezer - Buddy Holly
• Wolfmother - Joker & the Thief

Activision has announced that British rock band Muse will be adding a trio of songs to Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock this week.

The three track downloadable song pack will be available on Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Store on the 8th of May. It will include “Exo-Politics” and “Supermassive Black Hole” from the album Black Holes and Revelations as well as “Stockholm Syndrome” from the album Absolution.

The track pack has not yet been priced but other packs have cost 500 Microsoft Points (£4.25) on Xbox Live and £3.99 on PSN.

Harmonix and MTV Games have revealed that Judas Priest’s Screaming for Vengeance will be the first downloadable album available on Rock Band.

First released in 1982, Screaming for Vengeance includes ‘You’ve Got Another Thing Comin,’ ‘Bloodstone,’ ‘Screaming for Vengeance’ and ‘Electric Eye.’ Before you get too excited remember that according to the press release “black leather and chains [are] sold separately.”

The album will be available on the 22nd of April on Xbox Live Marketplace and on the 24th of April on the PlayStation Store. Each track will cost $1.99 or 160 Microsoft Points per track while the album will cost $14.99 or 1 200 Microsoft Points.

The ten tracks utilize the original master recordings but ‘The Hellion’ and ‘Electric Eye’ will be offered together as one downloadable track.

According to Harmonix, Rock Band fans have downloaded over 8 million songs for the game since its launch, with roughly 140 tracks now available between the original disc and downloadable content.

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