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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. **

Years back when Westwood Studios originally made Command and Conquer and the Original Red Alert it sent RTS fans into a ‘Nerdgasm’ , they craved a real RTS game and that’s what Command and Conquer was it was the original household RTS franchise, now any fan will know that Westwood Studios was bought by Electronic Arts in 1998 and the first sole game developed by EA was Command and Conquer Generals as you can probably tell our friend above wasn’t impressed, neither where we. Now things did get better with Command and Conquer 3 and the long overdue re-appearance of Kane, fans where happy with what EA accomplished here, fine it had ‘issues’ with balancing but don’t most games?

Red Alert 3 was always destined to by a jaw dropping title, Hell March 3, Flying Bears and Rick Flair where only some of the lengths EA went to make the game popular but also keep long time fans too. Lets be honest here Red Alert 3 was truly awesome, it had the new features like Co-Op stories and good multiplayer, but it also stuck to the roots of the Red Alert universe and carried off the story with what was basically perfect execution.

Now CNC 4… We’ve seen the Beta and… Personally we think CNC 4 should also get the Generals ‘What the hell is this sh**’ face. I mean super serial seriously what the hell have they done?!?

If the footage and the Rock music in this TV spot is anything to go by then Bad Company 2 is certainly is going to kick ass!

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will be available from March 3rd in the US and March 5th in Europe.

Well folks really is this something we didn’t expect?, with big franchise titles like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 dropping support for LAN and Dedicated servers everyone else had to follow.

And they did, according to the latest musings coming out of EA they will not support LAN in Command and Conquer 4 it’s latest title in the franchise. Once of the original LAN greats, up there with the likes of Quake and UT will turn it’s back like many other franchises.

However don’t be down heartened EA say there’s reason behind there madness, according to a EA designer who spoke to Destructoid

“Command & Conquer 4 will not only require a constant online connection, it’ll end support for LAN as well as dedicated servers, The reason is because the game’s global player progression system will all live remotely on an EA server. While it allows players to log in to their account from any machine, it’s incompatible with dedicated server support.“

EA promise that the overhaul of the games networking will deliver a better experience than ever before they even say entry into games will be quicker, let’s just hope it is or EA might find a lot of angry C&C fans knocking on their door down in LA.

[Via Destructoid]

Welcome to another week of Rock Band DLC, as usual Harmonix don’t disappoint, this week’s titles include singles by KSM, Marilyn Manson, One Night only and The Police. As well as 3 tracks by Finish rockers HIM.

Available this week (Feb. 23 onwards) for download from the Rock Band Store:

• HIM – “Heartkiller” +
• HIM – “Ode to Solitude”
• HIM – “Wings of a Butterfly”
• KSM – “Distracted” +
• Marilyn Manson – “The Dope Show”
• One Night Only – “Just For Tonight” +
• The Police – “Walking On the Moon” +

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as “HIM 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
£2.49 UK (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “HIM Pack 01”
$2.00 USD (200 Wii Pointsâ„¢) per track

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

Anyone that has ever heard of the phrase ‘Real Time Strategy’ will know about Command and Conquer and the influence it and Westwood Studios has had on the games industry there is simply not another franchise like it.

The franchise is getting quite old now the first game was released in 1995 however it is still going strong and is set to become even stronger with the release of Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight in March.

To celebrate this EA are adding Tiberian Sun and it’s expansion Firestorm to the C&C Freeware list, a list which currently contains Red Alert and Tiberian Dawn, Tiberian Sun is the prequel to C&C 3 it introduced a new game engine to the franchise and plenty of futuristic-style units. You can download Tiberian Sun and the other titles from the C&C Classic Page.

Don’t forget to pick up Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight when it ships on March 19th it’s the finale to a story that can only be described as the greatest Video Game story arc ever. Feel free to argue in the comments.

While EA would like us to focus on its third quarter fiscal year 2010 results and that FIFA 2010 has sold over 9.7 million copies since launch, our attention can’t help but gravitate to it’s planned 2011 release schedule.

A new Sims, Spore, Epic Games shooter, Dragon Age and Dead Space 2 are scheduled for a release by the end of March 2011. We haven’t even been through two whole months of 2010 and we’ve already been given a handful of things to look forward to next year.

Moments ago EA confirmed in an earnings call that the revamped Medal of Honor title will be hitting store shelves by the end of September 2010. While we still have little information on the new Medal of Honor, you can be sure EA is putting as much muscle as it can behind it in order to compete with the Call of Duty franchise.

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“EA Creating Games for the iPad”

On Jan. 27, 2010 Apple revealed their new product, the iPad. All menopausal jokes aside, the device uses a 9.7 in. back-lit LED display, an upgraded accelerometer, and a 1GHz Apple produced processor. So what does all this have to do with gaming? EA is developing a new Need for Speed for the shiny paperweight. It’s up to debate whether it will be a welcomed edition to the Need for Speed franchise but, then again, they haven’t been producing major sellers since Need for Speed: Most Wanted back in 2005.

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Welcome to another week of Rock Band DLC, this week Harmonix is delivering more tracks from “Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers” as well as tracks by French alternative rockers Phoenix and Philadelphia-Based rockers Silvertide.

Available on Xbox 360 and Wii (Jan. 19) and PlayStation 3 system (Jan. 21):

• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “A Woman in Love (Live)”
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Breakdown (Live)”
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Century City (Live)”
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Jammin’ Me (Live)”
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “Nightwatchman (Live)”
• Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – “The Waiting (Live)”
• Phoenix – “1901”
• Phoenix – “Lisztomania”
• Silvertide – “Blue Jeans”

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as “Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live Anthology Pack 02” and as individual tracks on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system, and as individual tracks only on Wii.

Price: £.99 UK (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track
£4.99 UK (800 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live Anthology Pack 02”
(200 Wii Pointsâ„¢) per track

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