This game will launch in North America this upcoming Monday.

**ROCK BAND MEDIA ALERT**FREEZEPOP AND PAX THREE PACKS, TRACKS FROM 3 DOORS DOWN, AFI, AUDIOSLAVE AND JACKSON 5 AVAILABLE FOR ROCK BAND
Plus tracks from Avenged Sevenfold, Oasis and Rage Against the Machine for Wii and Godsmack and Stone Roses for Rock Band Unplugged!
Guildford, UK. – Sept. 4, 2009 – Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that two three-packs of songs from bands appearing at the Penny Arcade Expo this weekend will be available for download in the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content next week for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™. The packs feature Jonathan Coulton, MC Frontalot, Paul & Storm and Freezepop.

Additional tracks from Avenged Sevenfold, The Jam, Oasis and Rage Against the Machine will be available in the Wii™ Rock Band Music Store, and tracks from Stone Roses and Godsmack will be available for download for Rock Band Unplugged on PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system.

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– Name is Face Training Mini (Kaotore Mini)
– Intelligent Systems is the developer
– Nintendo shrinking down the Adult’s DS Face Training for DSiWare
– Five different Face Training Mini apps will be available
– The apps aim to help people smile better, look younger, keep mouth/eyes health, refresh face
– 500 points each, releasing September 9

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Thanks to VySe for the news tip!

Samurai Warriors 3 has quite a bit of buzz surrounding its release. The game is getting its own Classic Controller and now there’s a rumor that the game may feature online functionality.

A leaked retailer listing from GMstar points to online co-op play in Samurai Warriors 3. The game is “Set to include network functionality like cooperative play and download content” according to the listing, which also makes note of edit and Nazo no Mura Samejou modes and 35 playable characters. The edit/Nazo no Mura Samejou modes is 100% confirmed, but we’ll have to wait and see if Koei confirms the online speculation.

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IGN.com staff pick the best from the world’s biggest games show
London, UK – 4th September 2009 – IGN.com, the UK’s leading videogame and film editorial website, today revealed its hotlist of games to watch from the recent GamesCom exhibition in Cologne, the world’s largest games show. As well as awards for the best games on each format and an overall game of the show, the categories also included nods to best publisher and best developer based on their showing at the August show, as well as a fiercely contested reader award voted for by members of the playing public at the show.

BioWare and EA’s Mass Effect 2, described by the team as, “a beautiful universe that we absolutely cannot wait to explore,” walked away with both the Best of Xbox 360 award and Overall Best Game of the Show. The Best of PlayStation 3 gong was handed to Sony Computer Entertainment’s own Heavy Rain. Developer Quantic Dreams’ thriller was praised as, “a game that touches on a truly personal level thanks to its relentless attention to detail.”

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