We hope you finished Guitar Hero: Metallica, because Activision plans to release yet another entry in its mega popular music series, this one based on the legendary band, Van Halen. On August 4th, the appropriately titled Guitar Hero: Van Halen will rock its way to retail on Wii, Xbox 360, PS3 and PS2, complete with new songs to master and plenty of history. We just hope your hair's big enough to handle it. This Van Halen edition features 25 master tracks from the band, including "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love," "Jump," "Panama" and "You Really Got Me."

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The price of the PS3 has been a point of contention among gamers and businessmen alike ever since it was released. Continuing the conflict, building pressure from third party developers has reached the point in which the President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA), Jack Tretton, needed to make a statement regarding the price of the PS3... again.

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Sony and Microsoft's motion control technologies were the talk of E3 - with Microsoft's Natal seeming more technologically impressive. But is the PlayStation 3 solution more practical for most games? SCEA's Jack Tretton believes so. "Personally, it’s very difficult for me to perceive God of War 3 being played with the Wii controller," he said. "It’s a different experience that doesn’t lend itself to certain types of games. [But] I think our [motion] controller can be used with every game that’s on the system now and every game we’re working on."

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The PSone Square onslaught continues, as the ESRB rate Final Fantasy Tactics presumably for distribution via the Playstation Network in North America. Seeing as the original PSone release never made it across the shores to Europe, we’d be surprised if it popped up on the European store. Alas, there’s always that vastly superior PSP title to get hold of.

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Many of us were led to believe that the development of the Ghostbusters video game was done using the PlayStation 3 as the lead console. Brendon Goss, Executive Producer at Terminal Reality (Ghostbusters developers), claimed they had built an engine, the Infernal Engine, which was designed to make the most the PS3s processing power. Despite this obvious hype, now that reviews of the game have been distributed, Lens of Truth have run a comparison test between the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game and the results are disturbing.

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Activision's recently released game Prototype for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms suffers from installation issues on PS3. Few PS3 owning folks, who recently purchased Activision's Prototype game, faced installation issues. Team Prototype acknowledged the glitch and came up with quick fix at the Activision forums. Also, a patch will soon be released on PlayStation Network.

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Sony teased Final Fantasy XIV and The Last Guardian. Microsoft trotted out new Halo games. Nintendo laid down Mario and Metroid. Everyone sang to the rafters at last week's E3 about motion controls. And in the end, despite recessive economics, no one budged an inch on pricing.

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For those who enjoy the Rally racing experience, Dirt quickly became a huge hit and a highly sough-after title. Not surprisingly, Codemasters is hard at work on a sequel. According to PSU, the developers have confirmed that we can expect a playable demo to hit the PlayStation Network this September, and as another little treat, PlayStation 3 owners will get the bonus of an awesome new screen capture feature!

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Nintendo of America's president, Reggie Fils-Aime, has responded to the shot across the Wii's bow sent out by Microsoft's Natal and Sony's PS3 wand. Guess what? He's not that worried. It sounds too much "like technology", apparently. "The only thing I'll say is a rhetorical question. Is it fun? If it's fun, then I tip my hat and say, 'Well done'", Fils-Aime told CNET. "But what's happening sounds to me a lot like, 'Who's got the prettiest picture.

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Now here's a game concept you don't hear everyday: controlling a destructive tornado to chew up the landscape and help advance the mission of a group of sinister forces. Yep, Konami's digging deep into the "out there" box with this one, but we've got to admit, Zephyr: Rise of the Elementals could be fun. Zephyr: Rise of the Elementals is slated to ship this fall for PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. In the game, sinister forces have deceived the main character into believing that the destructive behavior will save an epic hero. In reality, it will advance their evil cause.

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My Life as a Darklord puts players in the highly fashionable shoes of the Darklord’s daughter, a malevolent little Miss, charged with dispatching intruding do-gooders by strategically placing traps and monsters around the tower she calls home. Players will need to get their hands on ever more diabolical traps and abominable monsters to stop those pesky adventurers from making it to the Dark Crystal at the top of the tower.

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It might’ve been overshadowed by the flurry of new information, demos, and trailers released earlier this week thanks to Sony’s constant string of PSN updates from E3, but Trash Panic was released on PSN last night. Here’s what I think. For those uninformed, Trash Panic is a physics-based puzzle game for the Playstation Network developed by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan. Originally titled Gomibako when it was released in Japan this past March, it features a rather unusual take on the Tetris format.

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Welcome to DAY FIVE of our mega fantastic, super duper, relaunch party. You can look forward to two weeks of daily giveaways! We’re celebrating and that means:
# In this first week you have the chance to win a ton of Ubisoft’s most popular games and goodies! Read on to find out what two games you can win today. Followed in week two with other cool goodies like a Terminator and Xbox 360 console! Oh did I say Terminator? I meant a bust, games and more.

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Warner Bros. has announced that the special 2-disc Director's Cut edition Watchmen Blu-ray disc will include a full PlayStation 3 video game, Watchmen: The End is Nigh. The movie is expected to hit stores on July 21st, but there was no word on MSRP for the special edition. Although it is unclear what extra features will be on movie/game version, the standard edition includes "11 making-of Watchmen shorts, Chemical Romance’s music video for “Desolation Row”.

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No, it’s not a DS follow up Dragon Ball Origins 2. Namco Bandai this week announced Dragon Ball: World’s Greatest Adventure AKA Dragon Ball World: Big Adventure exclusively for Wii. They showed off the game by launching an official Dragon Ball Tenkaichi Daiboken website, as the game is known by that title in Japan. The website shows off the first screenshots and character art.

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