Looks like Joe Wilson isn’t the only one shouting “you lie!” In a response to Courtney Love’s allegations of suing the “S” out of Activision because of Kurt Cobain’s likeliness being used in Guitar Hero 5, Activision pushed out a statement, stating that Courtney Love is lying.

“Guitar Hero secured the necessary licensing rights from the Cobain estate in a written agreement signed by Courtney Love to use Kurt Cobain’s likeness as a fully playable character in Guitar Hero(r) 5,” states Activision to Joystiq. However, in the original report, it said that Activision played a “Bully['s] part”, and that she never gave her approval for Kurt Cobain to be used in Guitar Hero 5. Anyway, it looks like someone has some explaining to do.

We were a bit disappointed when Sony confirmed that the PSP Go wouldn’t come bundled with Rock Band Unplugged like we previously heard. Now, we know as to why Sony didn’t bundle the game with the PSP Go. Anyway, instead of the full game, you’ll receive a “voucher” for an exclusive demo of the title. But, wait there’s more.

Sony has stated, on the PlayStation.Blog, that Rock Band Unplugged Lite – yes, that’s what the demo’s called – is basically a demo of the game that allows you to play five tracks from the complete game. However, it will accept downloads from the Rock Band Unplugged store, effectively allowing players to build a track list of their own, which is great news.

Let’s face it, the guitar used in Guitar Hero doesn’t really support the “mainstream and expanded audience” because not everyone lesions to the music presented with it – Rock, Heavy Metal, or whatever. But, with DJ Hero, Activision hopes that it will be the key to unlocking the “mainstream and expanded audience” with mixes of music genres.

“If you look at what our Guitar Hero franchise has achieved, we now have 15 million households that are active Guitar Hero users and we continue to satisfy them with more experiences and the chance to indulge in more music and gameplay,” said Activision’s CEO and president Mike Griffith via GI.biz.

“But outside of those 15 million household’s, there’s another 300 million that haven’t for one reason or another bought Guitar Hero yet. One of those reasons is we’re not reaching new genres and new music audiences in a way that DJ Hero allows us to accomplish. DJ Hero is going to be expansive to the franchise and be particularly exciting for Europe where that genre of music is arguably more important than it is elsewhere.”

It’s that time again! You know, when we team up with someone, other then ourselves, to host an awesome contest. Anyway, we hear at GamerCenterOnline have teamed up with Pepsi, Harmonix and MTV for a summer promotion unlike any other.

With the launch of PepsiRockBand.com on June 2nd, Pepsi, Harmonix and MTV started a promotion in where the winner will receive an MTV Video Music Award Moonman for “Best Performance in a Pepsi Rock Band Music Video”.

To participate and to enter for a chance to win, gamers have to submit a video of themselves playing Rock Band on PepsiRockBand.com (using their Yahoo ID).

A big part of the promotion are the codes that can be found under the caps of 20oz and 1L Pepsi bottles – they can be played at PepsiRockBand.com and entered for a chance to win either:

• a Rock Band 2 Special Edition bundle (game software, wireless guitar, wireless drum set & mike) every hour, or
• 1 of 5,000 downloadable tracks every day (ends September 13th).

“MTV’s Rock Band has quickly established a new gaming platform that is extremely popular with music fans and gamers alike,” said Ralph Santana, VP of cola marketing, Pepsi-Cola North America Beverages. “We’re partnering with MTV to bring a new exciting twist to the game that will give one lucky band a once-in-a-lifetime experience and a taste of stardom.”

Whatever you do, don’t get your hopes up. Yes, this the next Def Jam, but, sadly, it’s not fighting game. It’s a casual Hip Hop Karaoke game, go figure. Anyway, the game is being developed by new company called 4mm Games –  made up of former Rockstar execs/talent - via a partnership with Def Jam Interactive and it’s entitled Def Jam Rapstar.

4mm Games and Def Jam Interactive have a great story to share in terms of their unique partnership and more importantly their vision for Def Jam Rapstar to foster an interactive environment that speaks to the popular urban and hip hop communities which span a wide range of demographics. Wait, that’s casual talk!

The partnership and upcoming portfolio of titles, starting with Def Jam Rapstar, stems from both companies desire to create authentic, and culturally relevant urban-rooted entertainment across multiple genres/platforms. More info will be revealed at this years E3.

In order to counter the Guitar Hero DS titles, MTV Games and Harmonix have once again teamed up to conquer the video game music scene. But, this time it isn’t on PS3, or even the 360, it seems that they have planned there next Rock Band title for the ‘forgotten handheld’.

Today, MTV Games and Harmonix announced Rock Band Unplugged on the PSP, the first handheld version of the hit band game.

Rock Band Unplugged will allow gamers to take their band on the road and will utilise the PSP’s Wi-Fi capabilities becoming the first PSP game to include a in-game store for downloadable content in North America and Europe.

According to Primotech, who reported the games first details, Unplugged will use the left, up, triangle, and circle buttons to control instruments, switching from instrument to instrument with the shoulder buttons, and playing “phrases” of each instrument to maintain a score multiplier.

Update: If you downloaded the “Death Magnetic” album for Xbox and PS3, those ten songs will play in their entirety in the full game mode. PS2 and Wii versions (coming in the Spring, most likely in early May) will include “Broken Beat & Scarred,” “Cyanide” and “My Apocalypse” since they are not compatible with the Death Magnetic downloadable content.

Original: What can one say, when there’s something you need just call upon a god and they’ll have  what you have been waiting for, and, lucky, that’s exactly what we did, but we went to a band of gods, rock gods.

Today, on the official Metallica, it revealed the full tracklist for their upcoming video game, Guitar Hero: Metallica. The list was, reportedly, suppose to be revealed next week, but sometimes, I quest, even gods get impatient.

Metallica Songs

All Nightmare Long
Battery
Creeping Death
Disposable Heroes
Dyers Eve
Enter Sandman
Fade To Black
Fight Fire With Fire
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Frantic
Fuel
Hit The Lights
King Nothing
Master of Puppets
Mercyful Fate (Medley)
No Leaf Clover
Nothing Else Matters
One
Orion
Sad But True
Seek And Destroy
The Memory Remains
The Shortest Straw
The Thing That Should Not Be
The Unforgiven
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Wherever I May Roam
Whiplash

Other Artists

Alice In Chains – No Excuses
Bob Seger – Turn The Page
Corrosion of Conformity – Albatross
Diamond Head – Am I Evil?
Foo Fighters – Stacked Actors
Judas Priest – Hell Bent For Leather
Kyuss – Demon Cleaner
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesdays Gone
Machine Head – Beautiful Mourning
Mastodon – Blood And Thunder
Mercyful Fate – Evil
Michael Schenker Group – Armed and Ready
Motorhead – Ace of Spades
Queen – Stone Cold Crazy
Samhain – Mother of Mercy
Slayer – War Ensemble
Social Distortion – Mommy’s Little Monster
Suicidal Tendencies – War Inside My Head
System of a Down – Toxicity
The Sword – Black River
Thin Lizzy – The Boys Are Back in Town

Digi-Guys says their goal is to “push beyond the confines of conventional ‘next-generation’ thinking in order to produce unique, innovative, and platform leading Videogames & Digital content across all media.” But, we don’t know what this has to with that, but as part of a New Years treat, the team over at Digi-Guys have released new content from a special side project for the upcoming game WarDevil entitled, Wardevil Chronicles.

According to the Digi-Guys, WarDevil Chronicles is an accompanying 2D Cartoon/Anime that will be used to debut various characters and scenarios throughout the life of the main WarDevil Project. There is also a Mini seek preview on the official site for the 2D Cartoon/Anime.

“We may do more – and expand the Project in many ways, as we’ve had great fun creating the 2D style – it’s designed to be very different to the high-end/CG look of the main Project,” said a DigiGuys representative to PSU.

It came as no shock when this game was revealed, after Activision’s earlier trys with the sweet love band Aerosmith, it was just left when they were planning to release it. Now, however today we finally get a good look at Guitar Hero: Metallica in the form of a trailer,  not a teaser trailer.

“Us being a pretty guitar-oriented band, I think we were pretty much destined to do something with Guitar Hero,” says guitarist Kirk Hammett of Metallica. “It’s a natural sort of relationship. We jumped at the chance.”

As gamers, we are always looking for new batteries for our controllers so we here at GamerCenterOnline have decided to team up with Energizer and Pandora Radio to help fulfill that need in the form of a contest.

In this contest you’ll have the chance to win a pack of Advanced Lithium batteries from Energizer with free Rock Band DLC – that comes with every pack if you redeem the code in the package.

Now, as a company Energizer is trying to address all the needs of our high-tech personal gadgets by creating Advanced Lithium batteries that last longer and weighs less, both on the environment and in sizes.

And to celebrate the launch of Advanced Lithium batteries, Energizer has joined forces with the popular internet radio site, Pandora, which is expanding its offerings by creating a brand new message board – powered by Energizer.

Anyway, to enter this contest all you’re going to need to do is contact us here at contact [at] gamercenteronline.net telling us how Energizer has fulfilled one of your many household gaming or entertainment needs. Along with your Name and Address with the message being named Energizer/Pandora Radio Contest. Or you can leave a comment, in the comment box, telling us your story on the site, but keep in mind if you e-mail us with your story, your changes may go up.

End Date: 1/05/2009

Prize:  Advanced Lithium batteries with free RockBand  DLC.

Altogether the music video game genre was down six percent in dollar sale for November, but the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises still remain on the genres top. But, unfortunately for EA, which has been suffering of lately, Activision’s property has simply proven itself to be the most popular.

“We should note that while the Rock Band franchise managed to grow in November, Guitar Hero overall still outsold Rock Band by more than 2-to-1 in terms of dollars in November and almost 3-to-1 in terms of units,” which was pointed out by UBS analyst Ben Schachter.

Anyway, the company behind Guitar Hero, Activision, can’t exactly be “jumping for joy.” Activision should be concerned since the franchise did see some significant declines last month.

“The biggest concern around Guitar Hero has to be the fact that Guitar Hero World Tour (12 SKUs) declined 48% in units and 31% in dollars from Guitar Hero III (6 SKUs) on a year-over-year basis. This will fuel concerns that the genre is past its peak,” Schachter added.

“With Activision and others sure to bring new innovation to the genre next year we can’t count it out, but it almost certainly won’t be the growth driver it has been over the past two years.”

[Guitar Hero easily beat Rock Band in November... via Game Daily]

Guess what? It’s what you’ve been waiting for. Jimi Hendrix will now have downloadable content for Guitar Hero: World Tour. After announcing the news before the games release, the rock legend will now have a set of three songs coming out on November 13th. To be more specific the DLC will contain the songs If 6 was 9, Little Wing, and a live version of fire. The content will be available for 440 Microsoft points on Xbox Live Marketplace and $5.49 on the PlayStation Store. If music fans can not afford the DLC, the following week on November 20th. There will be another trio of songs by the band called “The Raconteurs”. The songs Salute your Solution, Hold Up, and Console of the lonely. These three songs can be purchased separately on XBL for 160 MP each, $1.99 each on the PSN also on the Wii Store for 200 Wii points each, the game is now out on all three next gen consoles.

Today, 2K Sports revealed the contents of the in-game soundtrack for their soon to be released game, NBA 2K9. The music is heavy on rap, featuring music from the likes of The Cool Kids, Beastie Boys, The Pharcyde, N.E.R.D, Brand New Heavies, Santogold, Gnarls Barkley, and DJ UNK, amongst others. While the bulk of the soundtrack contains previously released tunes, there will an exclusive track by DJ UNK, along with an original recording by The Cool Kids titled “2K Pennies.”

“Video games are an important part of culture and our lifestyle. For years we’ve been playing games, but have never been inspired by the songs in them,” said Chuck Inglish and Mikey Rocks of The Cool Kids. “When 2K Sports presented us with an opportunity to create an original song for NBA 2K9, we knew we had to create a song that embodied the sport of basketball. We had to make kids everywhere appreciate the song as much as the game.”

Beastie Boys – Root Down
Blackwizard – Dem Nah Ready fe We
Blockhead – Duke Of Hazzard
Bloody Beetroots – Mac Mac
Dangerdoom – Sofa King
Dawn Penn – You Don’t Love Me (Extended Mix)
DJ Rasta Root – RootZilla Beez
DJ UNK – In Yo Face
Gnarls Barkley – Going On
Jamalski – That Undaground (Remix)
Mochipet – Sharpdrest
Mommy and Daddy – Pretty Loser
Money Mark – Silly Putty
N.E.R.D. – Spaz
Nickodemus – Funky In The Middle
Santogold feat. Switch & Freq Nasty – Creator
Skeewiff – Light the Fuse
Spank Rock & Benny Blanco – Loose (inst.)
The Brand New Heavies – Jump ‘N’ Move
The Cool Kids – 2K Pennies
The Heavy – Coleen
The Limp Twins – Moving Closer to The Sofa
The Meters – Cissy Strut
The Pharcyde – Passing Me By
Ursula 1000 – Step Back (Deekline & Ed Solo Remix)

Aerosmith, possibly one of the biggest bands in the 1970’s, have teamed up with Activision to create the next installment of the Guitar Hero franchise. Unfortunately Guitar Hero is starting to suffer from the Tony Hawk syndrome and by that I mean that Activision might start running the franchise into the ground. They will just produce the games to get the money because people will buy them and not care what is in it, just look at the title and buy it. This title is the second in that series with Guitar Hero 80’s being the first. It’s just something to put out to get some units sold quick until the next installment comes out this fall.

The career spans 31 songs, with each set of five comprised of three songs by the Aerosmith and two by other bands. As well as unlockable songs spanning the list to about 40 tracks in total. I am a fan of Aerosmith and the set list is not quite what I would have expected for this title. It seems that hardcore fans and possibly your parents may be the only one’s that find this setlist appealing. The set list consists of a lot of classic titles from the 70’s such as "Train Kept A Rollin", "Mamma Kin" and "Toys In The Attic" with other hits that have made the radio up until the album Nine Lives. But some of the songs were remade for this game, changing some of the impact that the songs may have had. "Dream On" is a prime example of this. I would have much rather of had the original recording of the song than a remade version. While this does have smash hits from the guys, Some songs are missing that I think should have made the cut. Where is "Dude Looks Like A Lady","Cryin"."Same Old Song And Dance","Big Ten Inch Record","Falling In Love (is so hard on the knees)" ,"Janie’s Got A Gun", and finally "I Dont Want To Miss A Thing". All great songs I thought should of been included into this set list but for some reason couldnt make the cut.The character models of the band members are a nice addition to the game, but that is about it as far as new content. The game doesn’t offer up much else from the last release, the game plays the same and uses all the same features from before, the visuals are nice and the character models seem to have had a small update but thats about it.

If you’re looking for something new to play with your Fischer price guitars, then of course you can pick this title up. But if you are not a fan of Aerosmith than you can put those hard earned pennies in your piggy bank for the 4th installment of the series this fall. Especially since you wont be able to download any content at all for this title no further hope for extra songs should be had. This title should have just been a download pack instead of a $60 waste pack. Just picked all the big hits from this game and just made them available for download for like $10-$15 dollars. At least then I could have gone back to playing the songs I loved on Guitar Hero III.

Overall Score – C

All Thanks Too Upcoming Writer NOX

We got some new details on games that you may not have heard from in a while, the details include new Guitar Hero: World Tour details an details on the unannounced Rock Band game. Take a look at all the  great new details thanks to a member of NeoGAF.

• Guitar Hero: World Tour will cost $179.99 with all instruments and the game.

• Guitar Hero: World Tour’s guitar features a touch sensitive guitar neck slidethat opens up the entire guitar neck for unbound solos.

•Gutar Hero: World Tour artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Korn, System of a Down, Ozzy Osbourne, Interpol, Muse "and dozens more".

• Tony Hawk’s Adrenaline is a game coming to the PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360 that uses a sensing board controller.

• A game called Ultimate Band is coming to the PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360, and Wii.

• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 features over 20 Marvel Legends such as the Hulk, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Venom, and the Human Torch.

• Spider-Man vs. Marvel Zombies is coming to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii and well feature Spider-Man saving the worlds from a zombie menace threatening to destroy the world. The game takes place in 2149.

• Transformers 2: The Ultimate Battle is another game coming to every system imaginable. It brings you beyond the movie into pressure-packed missions where seconds can make a difference between survival and destruction. You can switch between robot, weapon, and vehicle modes at any time.

[NeoGAF]

Sources tell us that today, Activision has confirmed at a conference that after the release of another Guitar Hero game is set to be made, Guitar Hero: Metallica. Metallica is a legendary hard rock group led by James Hetfield and Kirk Hammet. The game was announced for the arrival by the end of the current fiscal year, before March 31, 2009.

[Guitar Hero : Metallica pour 2009 via Jeux-actu]

In Wyclef’s new music video it features Burnout Paradise, Wyclef Jean’s member of the hip hop trio The Fugees. The Fugees were a hip hop group in the mid-1990s. They made songs like “No Woman, No Cry”, “Ready or Not” and “Killing Me Softly”. The group’s members were Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, and Pras Michel. So check out this video!