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This weeks Rock Band DLC is going a bit old school Punk, with additions from American Punk Rock Band Bad Religion and Iggy Pop’s The Stooges.

Available on Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 3 system (July 20):

• Bad Religion – “New Dark Ages”
• Bad Religion – “No Control” +
• The Stooges – “1969” +
• The Stooges – “I Wanna Be Your Dog” +
• The Stooges – “No Fun” +

(All tracks are original master recordings)

(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation 3 system July 21)

These tracks will be available for purchase as “The Stooges Pack 01,” as well as individual tracks, on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system, and as individual tracks only on Wii. Songs marked with “+” will also be available in the family-friendly LEGO^®Rock Band Music Store.
Price: $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points) per track
$5.49, £2.49 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points) for The Stooges Pack 01
$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points^TM) per track

** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **

A video uploaded today by ‘PwnShop’ of the 360Junkies Forum shows evidence that Activision ‘might’ be charging a subscription for Call of Duty multiplayer access at some point in the future. The video in question shows a Microsoft Points based charge.

“I was trying to join a friend’s session on MW2 the other day and had this screen pop up. It clearly says at the top of this menu: “Modern Warfare 2 Membersh”, in which we can confidently assume that the last word is “Memberships”. If you’ll notice at the bottom is an option to “Add Microsoft Points”, clearly indicating that this was intended to be a menu for purchasing different levels of Membership, presumably memberships would have been offered in a variety of durations.”

With Xbox Live famously being a closed platform, what we are left wondering is what led Microsoft to allow Activision to implement this feature. (A certain CEO clearly got the Cheque Book out.)

At the end of the day what would you rather have. Call of Duty Subscriptions or Portal 2 with Steamworks support.

When asked about the poor sales of the recent racing game, Blur, Bizarre Creations’ Nick Davies has said that poor sales of Blur are down to it being released at a time that was “very busy” for racing games. Whilst personally I don’t remember many racers coming out lately and don’t know why a game that good has flopped I am glad in what he follows it up with. He then said that Blur is the start of a big franchise for Bizarre and the plan is for Blur to return in the future.