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Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project for Xbox Live Arcade.

After all the delays and controversy, Xbox 360 will finally see its first Duke Nukem action.

However, it’s not the canned Duke Nukem Forever that’s been heading Xbox 360’s way.

Doom II expanded upon the white-knuckle excitement of the original Doom with an amazing assortment of additional weapons, monsters, and carnage-filled environments; it is now available on Xbox LIVE Arcade for 800 MS Points.

Summer is here and it’s time for budding musicians to drop their school bags, pick up their axes, drum sticks and microphones and rock out to 18 hot new tracks for Activision Publishing, Inc.’s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Guitar Hero ® 5 and Band Hero . Featuring new music from Grammy® Award winners the Stone Temple Pilots, a host of exclusive soccer themed shredders from Steve Ouimette, a trio of anthems from the rock legend Alice Cooper and the downloadable content debut from pop punk act All Time Low, the Guitar Hero ® music library continues to provide music lovers and rhythm gamers with hours of nonstop entertainment.
Fresh off the release of their new self titled album, the Stone Temple Pilots are bringing their blend of modern alternative rock and hard rock to the Guitar Hero music library on June 1. The track pack, which will feature “Between The Lines,” their first single off Stone Temple Pilots, “Plush” and “Sex Type Thing,” two of the bands biggest hits off their platinum debut album, Core, is sure to satisfy Stone Temple Pilot and Guitar Hero fans alike.

To celebrate the kick off of the big soccer match, the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, Steve Ouimette returns to the Guitar Hero stage with a collection of rock-inspired national anthems recorded exclusively for the Guitar Hero music library. Beginning June 8, gamers can download the exclusive National Anthem Track Pack for free on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. The track pack includes “God Save the Queen (GH Version),” “Il Canto degli Italiani (GH Version),” “La Marseillaise (GH version),” “Lied der Deutschen (GH version),” “Marcha Real (GH version)” and “The Star-Spangled Banner (GH version).”

School’s out and it’s time to celebrate the arrival of summer with one of the greatest rock artists ever, Alice Cooper. Known for both his grand theatrical performances and eclectic music that spans multiple genres of rock and metal, the Guitar Hero music library is proud to deliver an incredible three song track pack featuring some of his biggest hits. On June 15, fans can enjoy the Alice Cooper Track Pack which features “I’m Eighteen,” off his first major label release album, Love It to Death, “School’s Out,” the 1972 hit single off his fifth album and “Welcome To My Nightmare,” the title track off his eighth studio album.

Making their Guitar Hero debut this June with a three song track pack featuring their catchy tunes and lyrics is pop punk band All Time Low. The All Time Low Track Pack, which is comprised of “Dear Maria, Count Me In,” off their second studio album, So Wrong, It’s Right, “Weightless,” from their third and highest charting album, Nothing Personal, and “Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t) (Live)” will be available on June 22.

The Stone Temple Pilots, Alice Cooper, and All Time Low track packs will be available on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for 440 Microsoft Points, on the PlayStation®Store for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system for $5.49 and for Wii™ for 550 Wii Points™. All songs in each track pack will also be released as downloadable singles for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for 160 Microsoft Points, PlayStation 3 system for $1.99 and Wii for 200 Wii Points each. The National Anthems track pack will be available on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system for free. In addition to the in-game music store and Xbox LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360, Xbox 360 owners can expand their Guitar Hero music library using the Guitar Hero VIP Pass Music Store, available exclusively on Xbox LIVE® online entertainment network.

For more information about Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero and their entire line-up of downloadable songs and disc imports, please visit www.guitarhero.com.

All information contained in this news post comes directly from a press release sent out by Activision Publishing.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed may be the fastest selling title LucasArts has ever done, but I found the game to be largely disappointing. The game had entertaining moments, and I totally dug the way it connected the first and last three movies of the film franchise, but the gameplay felt unrefined, and became a grinding, repetitive affair.

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IGN is counting down the top titles in a franchise nearly as old as gaming itself.

Since 1983, Star Wars fans have been living out their far-far-away galactic fantasies in games. At times, those experiences have been nearly as transcendent as watching the films. Other times, well, not really (but more on that later). As much as Empire altered Star Wars forever, some games have forever left their mark on fans of the epic series. And we’re here to decide, once and for all, which deserve to sit at the very top of the Star Wars gaming pantheon.

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The Godfather of Heavy Metal and the Prince of Darkness himself, Ozzy Osbourne along with son Jack Osbourne, will visit Xbox LIVE® to play Gold Members in Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2. If you’re a Gold Member (if you’re not a Member, upgrade now!) join us Tuesday, June 8, starting at 4:00 P.M. ET and meet the legendary Ozzy Osbourne.

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Bioware and Electronic Arts are bringing out the biggest content pack to Mass Effect 2 yet.

It’s called “Overlord” and will hit Xbox Live at a price point of 560 Microsoft Points sometime in June. From the EA Showcase in London, Executive Producer Casey Hudson said “it’s well over two hours of content, five new gameplay areas.

“DLC isn’t the end of the downloadable sequence of content that we have. We’re going to continue telling a story between Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 using downloadable content.”

The Prince of Persia series has been going strong for over two decades now, and in that time it has – obviously – evolved a great deal. How has it changed? How has the central protagonist – always known as the Prince, but not always the same character – evolved? We’re glad you asked…

The very first Prince of Persia game first came out on the Apple II back in 1989 and quickly came to be regarded as a classic. While the Prince didn’t have the range of moves modern players would be familiar with, he was impressive for the time, and able to jump gaps, climb up and lower himself down from ledges, and duel enemies with his sword. He was beautifully animated too, running, jumping, climbing and tip toeing with grace during his one hour quest to rescue his princess.

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Vocalist and frontman Scott Weiland of the band Stone Temple Pilots will play Halo 3 with Xbox LIVE Gold Members in our Game with Fame on June 1, 2010.
If you’re a Gold Member (if you’re not a Member, upgrade now!) join us Tuesday, June 1, starting at 7:00 P.M. ET and meet this legendary member of STP and Velvet Revolver.

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Things on Wheels, the crazy racing game, is now available on Xbox LIVE Arcade! Right now, enjoy fierce races on Things on Wheels for only 800 MS Points. To celebrate this release fittingly, we are pleased to reveal a little more of this incredible racing game via this video that perfectly captures the spirit of Things on Wheels: crazy, fast and fun races!

Play single or multiplayer on Xbox LIVE, in intense races to reach the first place of the official rankings. Things on Wheels is THE racing game you don’t want to miss on Xbox LIVE Arcade. Things on Wheels will be available May 12th 2010 on Xbox LIVE Arcade.

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