DS gamers are all set to get a second taste of Guitar Hero action this year as Activision unleashes Guitar Hero Modern Hits.

Comprising of more than 25 master tracks, the game will now feature Fan Requests, and completing these Fan Requests will unlock special challenges such as whammying every single hold note in a song, and completing tracks in Hyperspeed.

The game will include tracks by such artists as Fall Out Boy, Tenacious D, and Coldplay, and Modern Hits will allow you to rock out to some of the greatest modern rock tracks of the last five years.

A release date is yet to be confirmed, but one thing is most definitely for sure; if you own a DS, Guitar Hero Modern Hits is a title that you’ll really not want to miss out on.

Here are some Guitar Hero Modern Hits screenshots:

Guitar Hero Greatest Hits is coming, and it’s going to feature tracks from Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, and Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s also.

Featuring the greatest tracks from each of these four games; Guitar Hero Greatest Hits will pick up where World Tour left off, and allow you to not only master the guitar with the tracks, but rock out the drum beats, bass lines, and vocals also.

Guitar Hero Greatest Hits is going to be bigger and better than ever, and it’s due out this summer for Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo Wii and PS2 also.

The game will feature 48 master recordings, and for those that love their Guitar Hero then this is most definitely going to be a game that is well worth owning.

Here are some Guitar Hero Greatest Hits screenshots:

The playable demo for The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is now available for download on Xbox Live. The demo is available worldwide, and is all set to hit the Playstation network soon.

The demo features the Athena Main Decks level, showcases the game’s phenomenal gameplay, and even allows you to control a Drone.

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena is officially due for release on April 7th in North America, and will later be released in Europe on April 24th.

Full information about the game can be found at the official Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena website.

Wii gamers are to be provided with fourteen new downloadable tracks tomorrow (March 3rd 2009) in the Rock Band Music Store. Of the fourteen tracks; ten will be from Stevie Ray Vaughan (his entire ‘Texas Flood’ album to be precise), and there’ll also be three tracks from Jimmy Eat World, and one from No Doubt.

‘New’ is the No Doubt track that will become available, the three tracks from Jimmy Eat World meanwhile will be ‘Futures’, ‘Sweetness’, and ‘Lucky Denver Mint’. ‘Futures’ is from the 2004 Jimmy Eat World album of the same name, ‘Sweetness’ is from 2001s ‘Bleed American’, and ‘Lucky Denver Mint’ is from 1999s ‘Clarity’ album.

All fourteen will be available from the Wii Rock Band Music Store at a cost of 200 Wii Points per track.

For the release of Resident Evil 5, Microsoft is to unleash a limited edition red XBOX 360 ELITE. The console is to be released as part of a package deal including the Resident Evil 5 video game, and will have a price tag of €299/$399.

The console comes with a 120GB hard drive, and as it’s a limited edition product you’ll therefore have to get in quick if you really want to own one.

The red 360 is certainly very eye catching, and if you don’t already own an XBOX 360 then now’s the perfect time to buy one.

Here’s the red XBOX 360 elite in its full shining glory: