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After months of financial statement teases and the initial reveal in an issue of Game Informer, Activision has officially released the first details of Guitar Hero 4, now known as Guitar Hero: World Tour. The game will be available this Fall on the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360. The same development teams that created Guitar Hero III are back on board with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions being developed by Neversoft, while Vicarious Visions is creating the Wii version and Budcat is bringing it to the PS2.

Guitar Hero: World Tour looks to be the beginning of a completely era for the Guitar Hero series. As was revealed by Game Informer, World Tour will feature a drumkit and microphone along with the Music Studio track editor and an eight-player Battle of the Bands mode. Any song created in the Music Studio can be shared with other gamers through the game’s online database GHTunes.

Other gameplay options will include a four-player “full band” mode (that can be played both online and locally) and singleplayer Career mode that can be played with any instrument. ..

Activision is saying that World Tour will feature the largest number of tracks in a music game ever. As of now, four bands have been confirmed to have a place in World Tour: Van Halen, Linkin Park, The Eagles and Sublime. And all of the songs will be master tracks; there will be no covers on Guitar Hero: World Tour. The game will also offer “significantly more localized downloadable music than ever before on all of the next-generation consoles.” So while it’s vaguely worded, it sounds like downloadable tracks are coming to the Wii as well as the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Officials at one eastern Kentucky hospital say their patients soon won’t have to travel to see a specialist.

That’s because they’re bringing the specialists to them with a robot.

Officials at Saint Joseph Hospital in Martin say the robot is controlled wirelessly from a computer with a joystick.

They say their robot will allow doctors from anywhere in the Saint Joseph System to see patients at the Floyd County hospital.

Hospital officials say doctors have to first get credentials before they can see patients wirelessly from the robot.

All seven Saint Joseph facilities in the state now have a robot doctor.

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Last week, Steve Ballmer claimed that Microsoft was in talks with Sony about Blu-Ray support. But now Aaron Greenberg is stating that there are no plans for the Xbox 360 to support Blu-Ray.

Greenberg spoke with Reuters saying, “Xbox is not currently in talks with Sony or the Blu-Ray Association to integrate Blu-Ray into the Xbox experience.”

Sounds like a negative to me, but there is a lot of talk about a new Xbox 360 sku that may be coming out with a larger hard drive and integrated Blu-Ray. But that is all rumor. The only thing we know is that Microsoft will make the announcement when they are ready to. It’s hard to believe that they won’t support Blu-Ray at all, but when speaking at the Microsoft Blogger Breakfast at GDC, they made it clear that the Xbox 360 is a ‘gaming machine’.

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Robert Ludlum’s best-selling spy novels and blockbuster film adaptations have thrilled millions. Now for the first time, become Jason Bourne, Ludlum’s most famous spy, in an original videogame that takes you deeper than ever before into his world of action and espionage.

When curious fishermen pull your body from Mediterranean Sea you have little clue of how you got there or even who you are. A hidden Swiss bank account number leads you to Zurich where you soon discover that not only does somebody want you dead, but you’re armed with a mysterious mastery of martial arts and marksmanship to fight back.

Firearms, melee weapons, advanced fight techniques and even your surroundings are all at your disposal to weaponize, as you neutralize threats in a seamless blend of infiltration, shooting and hand-to-hand combat. Go deep into the Bourne canon as you hunt down the truth behind your fragmented past and turn the tables on the government agency that made you their number one target.

You are Bourne – hunted, driven and deadly.
Coming to PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system in 2008.

“Turok, Son of Stone” is a warrior who fights evildoers and dinosaurs in a land lost to time. Now he appears on DVD for the first time. An original animated movie coincides with the release of a new Turok video game.

The DVD arrives February 5, 2008. Turok first appeared in the 1950s, in a Gold Key comic book series. In the 1990s, Turok obtained a new generation of fans with several video games. Now he returns again, in an intense epic that revisits his 1950s comic book origin story.

“Turok: Son of Stone” features the voice acting of Adam Beach (”Flags of Our Fathers”), Robert Knepper (”Prison Break”), Cree Summer (”A Different World”) and Irene Bedard (”Pocahontas”). Comic book writer Tony Bedard wrote the screenplay, and the movie’s producers include Frank Squillace (”X-Men: The Animated Series”), Curt Geda (Marvel’s “Ultimate Avengers”), Dan Riba (”Batman Beyond”), and Tad Stones (”Hellboy: Blood and Iron”).

The DVD contains a history feature on Turok from comics to video games to, for the first time, animation. The DVD is priced $19.95.

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Owen MacLeod, born in Gaul over 2000 years ago, was the son of a tribal chieftain whose village was crushed by the Roman Empire. MacLeod was sent in chains to the gladiatorial arena in Pompeii where he faced what he imagined to be a short life of battle. However, it was in the Coliseum where he was killed, only to miraculously recover and begin a new life as an Immortal. Fighting through centuries against other Immortals in legendary battles ending in death by beheading, MacLeod now faces a mysterious and almost all-powerful Immortal who is hunting him down in New York City. With his mentor, Methos, guiding him, MacLeod learns that the only way to destroy this ultimate nemesis, is to search out the three fragments of a mysterious stone that when pieced together, yields unlimited power to the Immortal who possesses it.

“Eidos is excited to present the classic Highlander franchise for the next generation of video gamers,” said Robert A. Lindsey, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Eidos Inc. “Gamers will get the chance to explore the powers and abilities that only being an Immortal has to offer. Highlander boasts an incredible level of graphical quality and gameplay capabilities such as an advanced sword fighting combat system and destructible environments.”

“For the first time, Highlander comes to fans in a new medium that allows players to dive into the Immortal universe,” said Peter Davis of Davis-Panzer Productions. “The interactive experience permits players to gain a completely different perspective of the mythos, and experience the powers and advantages of immortality through the eyes of a MacLeod.”

Highlander enables gamers to exploit the powers of immortality and manipulate situations that death would normally prevent.

GoGamer is having another 48 hour madness sale. If you’re jonesing for some Halo 3 action and have been teetering on the fence about it, jump down and jump over to GoGamer to get you a deal.

Halo 3 for Xbox 360 only $47.90

Also, if you’re bored or always thought about checking out Quake 4, it’s only $7.90.

The world has Halo 3 fever. Not only does it have the most pre-sales of any game, but it has a pretty strong advertising budget too. Halo 3 has spawned a new version of the Xbox 360 and a new flavor of Mountain Dew. You can see advertisements for Halo 3 in 7-Eleven’s and now at Nascar.

That’s right, Bungie’s much loved shooter is going to be the theme on Felix Sabate’s No. 40 racing car during the Dover 400 Nextel Cup on Sunday September 23.

“I’m honored and excited to be running the ‘Halo 3′ car at Dover and can’t wait to show off this awesome paint scheme,” said Stremme. “It’s going to be a special experience when the car rolls off the truck for the first time at Dover – as a Halo fan, I’m thrilled.”

In case you’ve been on a deserted island or in rehab, Halo 3 is being released on September 25th for the Xbox 360.

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2K Games has released the original score to Bioshock as a free download on The Cult of Rapture website. I really enjoyed the score from the demo and it added to the creepiness of the game. You can download the score for free at: http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture

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