With the full band package setting you back about £150; Guitar Hero/Rock Band can be quite an expensive hobby to have. You can opt to purchase the game and guitar package, by doing so you’re losing out on two very fun components of the game though, and to buy the official equipment you will still need to shell out a fair amount extra in order to experience the game in its full glory. Right now Amazon is selling the Mad Catz Rock Band Portable Drum Kit for just £7.25 though and this therefore offers a very affordable way to kick off your plastic drumming career.

Right now you can buy Rock Band complete with the Mad Catz Portable Drum Kit and Microphone for just £33.97, or Rock Band 2 with the microphone and drum kit for just £46.97. This really is a great price for buying the game complete with its (arguably) best components, and a guitar can soon be sought out if needs be.

A review of the Mad Catz Rock Band Portable Drum Kit will soon be added to the site, if you don’t already have a drum kit for your fake plastic rock game of choice though then I’d definitely recommend investing in this piece of kit from Mad Catz.

A playable Bayonetta demo is to be released on December 3rd, with Platinum Games all set to release it online through the Playstation Network and Xbox Live throughout the United States and Europe.

Bayonetta has already hit the shelves in Japan, in Europe we’re going to have to wait until January to get our hands on the full game however, so it’ll be interesting to see what the demo can offer when it’s released next week.

Edge definitely approves of the game, awarding it a perfect score of 10/10, and it’ll be interesting to see whether or not the general public agree that the game is genuinely flawless when Bayonetta hits the stores early next year.

Supreme Commander 2 has been officially confirmed for a spring 2010 release. It’s the next instalment in Square Enix’ Supreme Commander series, and is to be set 25 years further into the future.

SupCom 2 will feature numerous enhancements, and Square Enix will be hoping to impress the masses when this one lands for the PC and Xbox 360 platforms in the first quarter of 2010.

In order to learn more information about SupCom 2, take a trip to the official website.

Well, not so long ago Song released a Slim-line PS3 and announced a 250GB, so Microsoft, bravely followed suit and (after a short leak on German Amazon) announced they would also be releasing a 250GB console. Well, there has been no confirmation if there will be any asthetic changes to the console, but what we do know, is this new console will be using the newest “Jasper” chip set, designed specifically to prevent RROD, so buy this new one when it comes out (at around £220) and you are almost confirmed that this console won’t get RROD. On the other hand, who the heck is gonna need all that memory? If you do need the memory or are just buying the console because it’s something new and shiny, I reckon it’d be a safe investment.

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Well, with the release of this game this week (Friday in the UK) I thought it fitting to bring you all up to speed with it. This game comes as a add on bought through Xbox Live or on a disc along with The Lost and Damned (a pervious GTA add- on) just as an FYI for those of you who are going to go out and buy GTA:IV along with the add-on disc, there is no need (that is if you haven’t bought GTA:IV already.)

Pretty cool I think, anyway, the game. This add-on sees the return of the infamous parachute, something that was missing from GTA:IV. A welcome return for this frankly brilliant feature, the chute was a big thing in San Andreas letting you hop out of copters and plummet to the ground or jump off a huge building.

Rockstar have been keeping their cards rather close to their chests on this one so not much news or rumors have been floating about (similar to that of Modern Warfare 2) I’ll be getting a review to you guys as soon as I can.

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The release date for the much anticipated video game BioShock 2 has now been announced, and the game is to hit the shelves on February 9th 2010. The game will be available for Xbox 360, PS3, and Windows, and is to be set 10 years after the events of the original BioShock.

BioShock 2 is currently in development, and it truly is incredibly exciting news to be provided with confirmation of when the game can be expected.

If you were a fan of the original, then BioShock 2 is most definitely a game to own in 2010, and with less than 5 months to go until the game is released; it is now time to start getting excited.

The Official Just Cause 2 website has now been launched, and can be found at JustCause.com. Upon entering your date of birth you’ll then be able to click on the appropriate flag to display the website in the language of your choice.

The Just Cause 2 website features news, trailers, images etc., and even has a forum so that you can interact with fellow fans of the Just Cause video games series. It’s a well laid out website that is easy to navigate, and if you were a fan of the first Just Cause game then it’s definitely worth taking a trip to the website to find out the latest news about the second game in the series.

Just Cause 2 is all set to be released for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC in 2010.

A playable demo of Overlord II is now available for download at the Xbox Live Marketplace.

In the Overlord II playable demo you become the Overlord, and have a team of minions to help you accomplish your tasks. The demo begins as you defrost a Yeti, frozen in a block of ice, and you then give chase as the Yeti runs off in the snow.

If you liked the first Overlord game, then it’s probably well worth checking out the demo for the second. If you didn’t like the first game, why not give the demo a go anyway – what’s to lose?

Click here to find the Overlord II Xbox 360 demo.

The European release date for Red Faction Guerrilla for the Xbox360 and PS3 formats has been moved forward by a week, and the game will now be available to buy as of June 5th.

A singleplayer demo is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace and Playstation Network, so if you’re interested in playing the game now then definitely do give that a download.

Unlike previous titles in the Red Faction series; Red Faction Guerrilla is a third-person shooter (TPS) as opposed to a first-person shooter (FPS), and is to be the third released game in the Red Faction series to date.

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: