On October 26th, there’s a rock concert coming to your neighborhood. Mark the date on your calendar, and plan to attend. Wear whatever you want, PJs allowed, or even underwear. (we won’t ask). Harmonix and MTV have announced Rock Band 3 is coming live to your living room. Be ready.

The game has a myriad of pre-order options available to gamers looking for a good deal.

Reserve at GameStop get three free song downloads, (“Burning Down The House” by Talking Heads; “My ..read the full article

Monkey! Pirate! Robot! Ninja! Zombie!! Okay, now that I’ve got your attention (and I’m sure I do after that), I’m not recapping what I wore the last five Halloweens (though that is pretty accurate). I’m talking about a game, and it’s played like rock, paper scissors, but oh so much more awesome.

Monkey-Pirate-Robot-Ninja-Zombie is played by making one of the following hand gestures and the accompanying noises.

Monkey Monkey fools Ninja Monkey unplugs Robot

Suggested noise: ee-ee-eek!

Pirate Pirate ..read the full article

The above video shows the guys from the brilliant Flight of the Conchords promising that three of their songs will be coming to Rock Band in the future. Even though I’ve just told you all the game-related news about the video, still watch it. They’re funny guys.

I hope that they don’t ignore their old album. Tenacious D didn’t release Tribute, their finest song, until last week, despite having one of their new songs in Rock Band 2 as default. Business ..read the full article

Yes, this is as brilliant as is sounds. This mod, made by user “-Trase-”, does exactly as it says on the tin- replaces all the sounds (well, nearly all) with sound clips he’s recorded himself. I particularly like the machine-gun fire noises he’s made.

This is why I love modding communities so much. It’s not often you play a game where the guns literally go “pow” and the bombs literally go “ka-pow”. The mod also works in Garry’s Mod, so ..read the full article

In case you didn’t know, Rocktober is coming up soon. If nothing else, that means that you should be playing Brutal Legend in the very near future. Actually, you could play it tomorrow if you happen to win one of our 4 demo codes (and you have an Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, that is). All you have to do is register with a valid email address and leave a comment below (bonus points for making us ..read the full article