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A full standalone Green Day themed version of Rock Band will be shipping worldwide June 8th according to a release from Electronic Arts earlier this week, the game will feature 47 exportable tracks, rare access to the Green Day media vault with over 40 minutes of footage, artist likeness and more.

The game will feature the three-part vocal harmony technology Harmonix introduced in The Beatles: Rock Band, an incredible 47 strong list will be playable which spans the career of the band. Tracks include ‘Brain Stew’ , ‘Jaded’, ‘American Idiot’ and ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’. All 47 tracks are fully exportable into Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and Rock Band 3. Green Day DLC already available in the Rock Band store will also be playable in the new game.

Green Day: Rock Band will be released on Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii everywhere on June 8th and is Rated T for Teen.

This weeks DLC announcement for Rock Band is a little more exciting than usual not only do we have songs by Grammy Award Winning artist Lady Gaga we also have songs by 3 Doors Down, Mute Math, The Subways and South Parks own Eric Cartman.

Oh and if you have never seen the South Park cover of Pokerface here’s a shiny You tube link.

Available on Xbox 360 and Wii (March 16) and PlayStation 3 system (March 18):

• Lady Gaga – “Bad Romance”
• Lady Gaga – “Just Dance”
• Lady Gaga – “Monster”
• Lady Gaga – “Poker Face”
• 3 Doors Down – “It’s Not My Time”
• Mute Math – “Control”
• South Park – “Poker Face (Cartman version)”
• The Subways – “Oh Yeah”
• The Subways – “Rock & Roll Queen”

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as “Lady Gaga Pack 01” as well as individual tracks on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system, and as individual tracks only on Wii. Tracks marked with “+” are also available for download in the family-friendly LEGO® Rock Band Music Store.

Price: £.99 UK (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track
£3.49 UK (560 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Lady Gaga Pack 01”
(200 Wii Points™) per track

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

Well in case you missed the announcement yesterday at GDC, Sony’s Motion Control technology will be called ‘Playstation Move’.

The whole package will launch for the holidays and will be available for under a $100 and will contain a game, the move wand and a PS Eye camera.

What’s more interesting is the ‘nunchuck’ like add-on Sony also showed us, yes folks it’s a nunchuck. Sony is looking to take on the Wii’s heavy market share in Motion Control and they think they can do it. And do it well.

“Nothing has ever been this precise, this responsive,” said Shuhei Yoshida, head of Sony Worldwide Studios.

He said that the device was “more precise, immersive and responsive” than rival controllers, and that it “breathes new life into new game genres”.

Sony’s Peter Dille, head of hardware marketing at SCEA, added that there was “not a high level of precision” in the Wii which gives PS3 Move the advantage as precision “drives the core gamer”.

Sony is already marketing Move aggressively with impressive on stage demo’s at places like GDC they are really trying to push it out the door and into Nintendo’s face.

A firmware update that will give the Ps3 ‘Full’ 3D capabilities will launch on June 10th according to comments from Sony via Reuters.

“The maker of the PlayStation 3 game console plans to release 3D game software around June in time for TV launch”

The update will coincide with the launch of Sony’s 3D TV range which they hope will rival Samsung, the update  will allow PS3 consoles to be able to display compatible Blu-Ray fulsm in 3D as well as Sony’s upcoming 3D range of games, users will need a compatible TV (Which apparently arrive in the UK in June, Convenient.) but we’re guessing Sony will only be to happy to supply you with one of those as well as a pair of 3D specs which you will also require.

To date Ubisoft’s Avatar is the only game to offer a 3D mode, though the upcoming Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition will also offer a limited selection of 3D levels but if the whole 3D hullabaloo kicks up again expect many new 3D capable titles to be on the shelf this holiday.

UPDATE: Reader Guy 3DTV dug up some information and it looks like the upcoming Batman title will not be in 3D. Check the comments section for more details!

Thanks, Guy 3DTV!

With the announcement of the Playstation MOVE hot off the presses we have some new games to look forward to that will show off Moves power.

The first game in the list is a sports game called Sports Champions. This is evidently Sony’s version of Wii sports but in a lot better graphics. So far only two of the game types where shown and these where a Gladiator Type game mode where you get to smash enemy’s up in a arena with different weapons, it looks quite fun and bloody. The other game is Wii Table Tennis.. but I’m sure no-one minds playing table tennis again when it looks this much nicer.

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Sony has just confirmed in there GDC talk that the motion controller is called move.  Sony are currently calling it a new gen in motion controller and they just thanked Nintendo as inspiration and called that the Wii was a great idea. Its apparently incredibly advanced and so sensitive that its very precise. WOW.

Live Updates after the break.

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Earlier this week a dispute popped up between popular publishers Activision, and the Call of Duty 2, 4, and Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward.  The two top men at Infinity Ward, the founders Vince West and Jason Zampella, were fired by Activision for disputes in the creative future of the Call of Duty series.  Activision also has announced that this years Call of Duty will be developed by Treyarch while leaving the year afters for a new company.  Infinity Ward will seemingly not have another CoD game out until 2011.

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What is foreseen as the “JRPG of the year,” Final Fantasy XIII, will release in the US on Tuesday. While it seemed to get positive feedback in Japan, now that the game is coming stateside, some reviews have been coming out, and they have generally been worse than expected.

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Well it’s that time of the year folks, yes it’s GDC the time where we tend to hear things from developers they really shouldn’t tell us like ‘The sky’s blue’ and ‘Pig’s Fly’.

The first GDC Rumour we have for you is about Little Big Planet and it’s possible second title, now last Novemeber UK Developer Media Molecule said last November that releasing a full sequel is something it’d “never want to do,” with level designer Danny Leaver adding it’d “be the most counter-productive thing you could do, I think.”

Producer Martin Lynagh said in the same interview, “I think what you’ve seen so far from LittleBigPlanet, that’s the way it’s going to continue. We have a lot of stuff coming out, especially next year.”

Last week it was announced that Sony has purchased Media Molecule, now with a Sony press conference looming at GDC and all the confusion circling Little Big Planet we would hazard a guess of something BIG coming, is it a second title or some really awesome DLC? Tune in to the press conference on March. 10 to find out.

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Well the Blur Multiplayer beta has now started, for those of you who don’t know what the hell we are talking about let us fill you in. Blur is described as “The Ultimate Powered-up racing experience”. Drivers careen through real-world track locations packed with sneaky short cuts and hair-raising jumps. The game features over 50 licensed cars to help you pickup those power-ups and more.

The game’s story uses Bizarre Creations community based interface allowing players to build a network of rivals, allies and fans but also give the experience to players outside the game.

Blur Certainly is one of the games we are waiting for this year it packs high octane competitive racing with that social element we all so crave it will defiantly be one of the titles on our Games of The Year list this year. Don’t forget to Visit the Blue website at: http://www.blurthegame.com