Travis Barker Encore Performance Showcases Diverse Music Genres.
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The Eagles Track Pack for Guitar Hero World Tour is available today for Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. From The Eagles' seventh studio album and first in 28 years, Long Road Out of Eden, "Frail Grasp on the Big Picture" is joined by two classic tracks that climbed to the top of the Billboard's Hot 100, "One of These Nights" and "Life in the Fast Lane."
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Did you purchase Guitar Hero World Tour recently or thinking about picking it up? You could be eligible for 5 Free Tracks if you purchase the Complete Guitar Game before Dec 31st.

A few days ago the site went live but with Invalid Owner ID problems but it looks as though Activision corrected the problem and even made the boxes match to that of the serial number and Owner ID making it less confusing as before.

Head on over to Guitar Hero dot com to get your 5 Free Tracks that will unfortunately take 4-6 weeks to actually get.

Here's your chooses:

* "No Rain" Blind Melon
* "Rock and Roll Band" Boston
* "Hot Blooded" Foreigner
* "Human" The Killers
* "Silver" Nirvana
* "The Shock of the Lightning" Oasis
* "Supernatural Superserious" R.E.M.
* "Salute your Solutions" Raconteurs
* "Jessie's Girl" Rick Springfield
* "The Everlasting Gaze" Smashing Pumpkins
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In a new report tracking popular video games among online audiences, research firm Networked Insights ranked Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet and Activision's Guitar Hero: World Tour among its ten highest ranked titles according to "online engagement."

Networked Insights notes that four titles in its top ten software chart, including Guitar Hero: World Tour, were not included in The NPD Group's published top ten list for October 2008, which ranked video game releases by unit sales.

According to the firm, traditional video game rankings based on sales and shipping data detail only a small aspect of the gaming audience's engagement with video games. The company claims its data provides a "more holistic story" to in-game advertisers, game developers, and companies marketing virtual goods.

To track online engagement, Networked Insights analyzed not only video game-related content posted online, but audience behaviors around that content such as reading, rating, sharing, linking, and inviting. The study followed 17,000 social media and social networking sites, which included 3.5 million conversations per day and over 120 million unique users.
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Hip-hop artist MC Hammer must have heard that Soulja Boi was getting his own video game and thought, "Hey, wait a minute - I'm just as untalented as him! Where's my video game deal?" It seems he's having a meeting with Activision today to do...God knows what.
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This week brought some good news for Activision: Guitar Hero World Tour was November's top music game. Though NPD hasn't released any specific sales figures other than the Wii version's 475,000-unit tally, UBS analyst Ben Schachter provided a run-down of the Guitar Hero franchise's sales for the month. He also tabulated the combined sales of Electronic Arts, MTV Games, and Harmonix's rival series, Rock Band.
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Did you purchase Guitar Hero World Tour recently or thinking about picking it up? You could be eligible for 5 Free Tracks if you purchase the Complete Guitar Game before Dec 31st.

The Complete Guitar Game? What about those that bought or are thinking of buying the Complete Band Game, are they not eligible? That's what it looks like.
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Three songs from nineties grunge band Nirvana are now available as downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour. Apparently it's the first time their songs have appeared as DLC for Guitar Hero, a fact that only interests people concerned with the word count of their gaming news article.
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Increasing its library of local music from around the world this month, Activision Publishing, Inc.'s Guitar Hero World Tour – which features on-disc songs from top global acts such as Tokio Hotel, Hushpuppies and Radio Futura – is offering new three-song Track Packs of downloadable content from popular European bands including Germany's Sportfreunde Stiller, France's BB Brunes and Spain's Fito Y Fitipaldis.
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Edge writes: "Lagging Guitar Hero: World Tour sales are an indication that Activision's explosively popular series is finally "reaching its peak," claimed Electronic Entertainment Design and Research analyst Jesse Divnich in a Monday research note.

Ahead of U.S. NPD Group November sales data, Divich said, "Currently, we expect unit sales to decline by more than 50 percent series-over-series for November. This is coming off the October month where series-over-series units declined by more than 60 percent."

Guitar Hero: World Tour sales had been initially hampered by tight supply, but now Ebay reseller prices are beginning to register below the bundle's $189 retail tag, "a strong indication that demand and supply are currently in equilibrium," said Divnich."
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Logitech has decided to charge GBP 149.99 for a guitar peripheral that only works with the Guitar Hero series of games. It's not real, doesn't do the washing up, and probably won't attract women.

Amazon.co.uk will be the exclusive stockist, and offer the PS3 and PS2 guitar from 22nd December.
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That Gaming Site Writes: "I play real Guitar and Guitar Hero.

Being a fan of both, I've been subject to numerous arguments over and over about how playing Guitar Hero or Rock Band is a waste of time and that 'nerds' should try picking up a real instrument and do something productive for a change. It was in this week's edition of NME (a British Indie Music Publication) that brought me this comment, in an article that........"
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MCV: The Guardian sticks up for gaming following attack from music mag NME
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...Gene Simmons has a lot to say about it.

"I never do anything half way. My AXE controller is the closest thing you can have to being onstage in KISS. I created and designed the Gene Simmons AXE bass guitar and I can't wait for the fans to experience it for themselves," said Gene Simmons. "The Gene Simmons AXE guitar is such a recognizable symbol - people have been asking for a gaming replica ever since Guitar Hero was first introduced."
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"December 3, 2008 – Legendary multi-platinum recording artists The Eagles, Nirvana and The Smashing Pumpkins, all featured in the on-disc set list of Activision Publishing, Inc.'s (Nasdaq: ATVI) Guitar Hero® World Tour, are returning in December with exclusive downloadable content for the game. Additionally, fans will be in for a treat just in time for Christmas with three free Reggae Rock tracks from Pepper, Slightly Stoopid and Expendables."
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Guitar Hero World Tour has been a success for Activision, but it may be such a success that they can't keep the product on store shelves. Cowen Group analyst Doug Creutz said short supply -- not a lack of demand -- is to blame if the game doesn't meet sales expectations.
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Button Masher reports the following rumour: "Now that an update has finally allowed Guitar Hero drums to work in Rock Band 2, a ButtonMasher community member is reporting that the PS3 2.53 firmware update has broken Rock Band drum compatibility with Guitar Hero: World Tour. He says:

"I go to play some GH:WT with my Rock band drum kit tonight and are prompted to do the 2.53 update. So I do…

Once done I start up GH:WT only to find that now my drums are only recognized as a microphone!""
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Harmonix has patched Rock Band 2 on PS3 to support Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Revolution peripherals.

An Xbox 360 update is "forthcoming", according to the Rock Band forum.

"Consumers should not be forced to buy separate controllers for each game. Rock Band peripherals should be compatible with other music games - even those of our competitors," said the developer.
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Even though CoD WaW sales fell 51%, it managed to maintain the first place of the British charts, according to Chart Track. With so many games coming out this period, it's natural to see many ups and downs in games sales. The battle is harsh and only the strongest survive.

So without further delays, here are Chart Track's UK charts for week ending November 22nd.

Click through to see the Top 10…
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Shortages in the supply of Guitar Hero World Tour's full band kit for all platforms is driving resale demand to above the USD 300 mark.

Analysts at Cowen and Company downplayed concerns over the latest instalment of the Guitar Hero's sales, labelling them "overblown", and putting down the underperforming results to a limited supply - something the soon to be released PlayStation 2 SKU should go part way to solving.

However, the analyst group did say that the poor supply was being exploited by resellers selling the full kit at a cost many times higher than the retail price.
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