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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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Afghanistan-set reboot of EA’s once-dominant shooter series arrives in North America on Oct. 12, Europe on Oct. 15.

Activision’s Call of Duty series has dominated the military first-person shooter space for the past several years, with Modern Warfare 2 racking up over $1 billion in sales before its developer was roiled by turmoil. Today the publisher announced that the game would ship on October 12 on the PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 will be kicking off this autumn, Konami confirmed today. The long-running football series is traditionally released in Europe at the end of October, though the Japanese publisher is yet to narrow the window for the 2010 release.

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It’s been a long wait for Remedy Entertainment’s Alan Wake, an action-thriller about a writer in search of his missing wife. The studio that built Max Payne and Max Payne 2 first talked about it back in 2005. In the years that followed the title seemed to fade into darkness. There was speculation about whether it would ever be finished and shipped at all, which all screeched to a halt at E3 2009 when the game was demoed at Microsoft’s press briefing.

Read interview with Mikko Rautalahti on IGN

Three new songs are now available for Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time – Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath Track Pack features “After Forever,” “Into The Void” and “Sweet Leaf,”

Those three songs are also available as single downloads for Xbox 360 for 160 Microsoft Points, PlayStation 3 for $1.99 and Wii for 200 Wii Points each.

The official web site for Blacklight: Tango Down has gone live and features a ton of background content on the upcoming download-only, Unreal Engine 3-powered FPS from Zombie Studios.

Visit new Blacklight: Tango Down website

Master turntablists may have met their match with the Domination Mix Pack, a trio of hot new house and electronic music mashups, joining over 100 exclusive mixes currently available for the most diverse set list in music gaming New Mixes from Worldwide Superstars Danny Byrd, Darude, Josh Wink, and Wolfgang Gartner Challenge Fans and Expand DJ Hero’s Award-Winning Soundtrack

Bungie, the developer of blockbuster game franchises including Halo, Myth and Marathon, and Activision announced today that they have entered into an exclusive 10-year partnership to bring Bungie’s next big action game universe to market.

Janco Partners’ Mike Hickey says Modern Warfare 2 developer likely to be closed after next map pack; Modern Warfare 3 duties to be split between two other studios.

Infinity Ward has been the center of turmoil within Activision since last month, when the publisher fired studio cofounders Jason West and Vince Zampella. They sued the company, which sued back, alleging that the pair had been plotting to start a new studio with chief Activision rival Electronic Arts. Within weeks of their termination, West and Zampella started a new studio with chief Activision rival Electronic Arts.

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