A rumoured Guitar Hero: World Tour set list on GoNintendo looks very promising, there’s a good variation of songs included, hopefully confirmation of whether this is the real deal or not will come soon.

There were some odd spelling mistakes in the original which is kind of suspicious

Eagle Rock High School Tour:

Dope Nose by Weezer
The Middle by Jimmy Eat World
Encore: Today by Smashing Pumpkins

Big City Kids Tour:

Roland by Interpol
Santeria By Sublime
Encore: Mr. Brightside by The Killers

Feelin’ Nostalgic Tour:

Take It on the Run by REO Speedwagon
Hold the Line by Toto
Encore: Rebel Yell by Billy Idol

Vixens Tour:

Heartbreaker by Pat Benatar
All Around Me by Flyleaf
Encore: Misery Business by Paramore

Undertow Tour:

Stinkfist by Tool
Lateralus by Tool
Schism by Tool

Synchronicity Tour:

Guitar Battle Vs. Sting (Guitar Career Only)
Encore: Every Breath You Take by The Police

Fight the System Tour:

The Kids Aren’t Alright by The Offspring
The Good Left Undone by Rise Agaisnt
Encore: Bleed it Out by Linkin Park

QQ Tour:

Face Down by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
The Kill by 30 Seconds to Mars
Encore: Thank You for the Venom by My Chemical Romance

Rockin the Carnival Tour:

Dammit by Blink 182
When Your Heat Stops Beating by +44

Neva’ Forget Tour:

Jumpin Jack Flash by The Rolling Stones
Don’t Fear the Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult
Encore: Light My Fire by The Doors

We Want the Funk Tour:

Take it Away by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Renegades of Funk by Rage Against the Machine
Encore: No Sleep till Brooklyn by The Beastie Boys Feat. Kerry King

Rockin’ the Joint Tour:

Are You Gonna Go My Way by Lenny Kravitz
I Don’t wanna Miss a Thing by Aerosmith

On Top of the World Tour:

Man in the Box by Alice in Chains
Kickstart My Heart by Mötley Crüe
Encore: Spin the Black Circle by Pearl Jam

G. Stinger Tour:

Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana
Car Chase City by Tenacious D
Encore: Everlong by Foo Fighters

Lands End Tour:

Animal by Def Leppard
Runaway by Bon Jovi
Encore: Paradise City by Guns N’ Roses

Doin’ it Different Tour:

Song for the Dead by Queens of the Stone Age
Vasoline by Stone Temple Pilots
Encore: Assassin by Muse

Hootin’ and Hollerin’ Tour:

The Boys Are Back in Town By Thin Lizzy
Life in the Fastlane by The Eagles
Encore: Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd

All Pissed Off Tour:

Here to Stay by Korn
Dragula by Rob Zombie
Encore: Bat Country by Avenged Sevenfold

Here Me Roar Tour:

10,000 Fists by Disturbed
Duality by Slipknot
Encore: Toxicity by System of a Down

S.D.M.F. Tour:

Guitar Battle Vs. Zakk Wylde (Guitar Career Only)
Encore: Demise of Sanity by Black Label Society

Fathers of Metal Tour:

Don’t Talk to Strangers by Dio
Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath
Encore: Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne

Making Progress Tour:

The Spirit of Radio by Rush
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd
Encore: Pull Me Under by Dream Theatre

Eruption Tour:

Beat it by Micheal Jackson Feat. Eddie Van Halen
Hot for Teacher by Van Halen

Tooth Fang & Claw Tour:

Guitar Battle Vs. Ted Nugent (Guitar Career Only)
Encore: Stranglehold by Ted Nugent

Decades of Metal Tour

Warriors of Time by Black Tide
Leather Rebel by Judas Priest
Encore: Hallowed be Thy Name by Iron Maiden

Livin’ in a Nightmare Tour:

Angel of Death by Slayer
Tornado of Souls by Megadeth
Encore: Master of Puppets by Metallica

Legends of Rock Tour:

Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry
The Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix
Encore: Purple Haze (Live) by Jimi Hendrix

Bonus Tour:

45 by Shinedown
96 Quite Bitter Beings by CKY
Bombshell by Powerman 5000
Clavado en un Bar by Maná
Enjoy the Silence by Lacuna Coil
Feuer Frei by Rammstein
Fury of the Storm by Dragonforce
Never Too Late by The Answer
Nottingham Lace by Buckethead
One Armed Scissor by At The Drive-In
Satch Boogie by Joe Satriani
Schrei by Tokio Hotel
Soul Doubt by NOFX

We’re An American Band by Grand Funk Railroad
Guitar Battle Vs. Sting by Sting
Guitar Battle Vs. Ted Nugent By Ted Nugent
Guitar Battle Vs. Zakk Wylde by Zakk Wylde

Sample Songs:

Untitled Drum Sample created by Chad Smith
Untitled Drum Sample created by Dave Grohl
Untitled Drum Sample created by Travis Barker
Cliffs of Dover created by Neversoft
Misirlou created by Neversoft
Walk This Way created by Neversoft
YYZ created by Neversoft

Microsoft recently dissmissed the rumours of an Xbox 360 Motion Controller, however the latest issue of Xbox360World magazine has a insider that claims that the project is actually real and that the technology being used to create the controller is from a company called Motus that’s already currently producing other motion controllers.

The controller called nick-named “Newton” has been rumoured for a while now, whether the Motus controller is related to any kind of real project i doubt we’ll know for some time. One thing for sure is that the current Motus controller does kind of look like an Xbox 360 Peripheral. Hopefully somethign will be annouced at E3

I’m probably leaving it a bit late to start talking about GTA 4, it’s already been written about hundreds and thousands of times, but anyway…

I was looking forward to this game more than any other release this year, I’d had it on pre-order from before the orginal 2007 launch date that was delayed. The day it turned up I even took the afternoon off of work as I knew having it sitting on my desk staring at me would be too much to take.

GTA 4 definitly didn’t disapoint, I love free roaming sand box games, especially ones with detailed environments and GTA 4 has the most detailed environment I’ve seen yet, which is all the more amazing when you see exactly how big the entire city is.

The entire environment isn’t on the same scale as the state sized GTA: San Andreas, however the detail is far greater, as are the number of building interiors etc. Just taking a cab ride and looking out the windows is great, watching the NPCs going about their daily routines.

Physics

One of the first things  to strike me was the change in the phsyics engine, overall everythign feels like it has an actual weight to it, and therefore has a knock on effect on the other objects it touches in the game world. The game utilises the Euphoria Phyics Engine this is a massive improvement ove the normal “rag doll” type effect seen in a lot of games at the moment.

Overall the engine is extermely realistic as shown in the example below:

An example of the engine within GTA 4

Vehicles

Although GTA 4 has a slightly smaller set of vehicle type (e.g. no push bikes, jet packs or planes) the array of cars available is pretty good. Each car is incredibly detailed and you’ll notice various versions of each of the cars around, e.g. different colours, slight modifications etc. sometimes you’ll even see really rusty beat-up cars driving around with black smoke coming from the exhausts!

Vehicle damage is massively improved over the previous GTA installments, not longer is damage just limited to panel interating through various fixed damage patterns, the cars overall body work can be twisted and crushed in any way and corresponds nicely to the accidents you have. Also gone is the annoying “car must catch fire when on roof” feature. That always got on my nerves in previous versions.

Story Mode

The story mode itself is fun, it;s not by any means perfect, the script is brilliantly written and could easily be from a big budget movie. The actual story mode gameplay does get slightly repetitive, it;s mainly go somewhere, watch a cut scene, go somewhere and shoot a bunch of guys, however it’s still fun and the great story line keeps you hooked to playing. The additon of the txt message service that allows you to retry missions is also great as it allows you to skip some of the longer boring driving parts. The taxi service is also brilliant as it allows you to travel around the city quickly.

Side Missions

There are various types of side missions, however probably not as many as in previous versions of the game, for example you can’t do ambulance or taxi missions, but you can do two types of police mission and some “random character” missions where you just bump into random characters who give you missions to do.

Read more GTA 4 Reviews here

You can get pretty much Halo anything these days, Halo figures, Halo T-shirts, Halo Teapots, etc OK I made the last one up

Now however, there’s a board game on the way based around the Microsoft/Bungie franchise. The press release gives some details on the the format of the board game, including information about a modular board that can be reconfigured to offer a “virtually limitless gameplay experience”. The game will also feature DVD content and music from the orginal trilogy (A board  game with music WTF).

The game wil involve commanding armies of three-dimensional collectible character pieces and will feature two different levels of game play:

• Heroic for faster, more casual game play
• Legendary for more strategic advanced gamers

Press release is here