For those of you not particularly excited by an all heavy metal music game, we have The Killers, who will be debuting songs off of their new album Day & Age in Guitar Hero World Tour day and date with the album’s release on November 25th. What genre would you consider The Killers anyway? I’d say alternative, but I am pretty sure there was no alternative throughout all of last year to hearing “Mr. Brightsides” and “When You Were Young” every time you turned around. Well at least we’re getting something new from them. The three song track pack includes two titles off the new album, “Human” and “Losing Touch”, along with “Mr. Brightsides”, dammit.
The pack will run you 440 points via Xbox Live or $US5.49 on the PlayStation 3. All three songs will also be available as solo downloads for 160 MS Points, $US1.99 PS3, and on the Nintendo Wii for 200 points a pop. Don’t complain to me about the cost. It’s just the price I pay. Destiny is calling me, so open up your eager eyes to check out the press release after the jump.
Looks like that leaked Guitar Hero III track list from a couple weeks back might be closer to reality than we thought. While the new press release from Activision doesn’t reveal specific song tiers, it does add seventeen new songs, all of which were included on the rumoured list. Still the leaked list has seventy songs, while I am only counting fifty-nine in the press release, so I’ll leave it to you junior detectives to work out the discrepancies. Seven of the new songs are master tracks from the original artists, including Sonic Youth’s ‘Cool Thing’, Aerosmith’s ‘Same Old Song and Dance”, and The Killers’ ‘When You Were Young’, which will be stuck in my head the rest of the day. Covers include White Zombie’s ‘Black Sunshine’ and ‘Devil Went Down To Georgia’ made famous by the Charlie Daniels Band. Living in the south, I can tell you right now that if the Devil cover sucks the folks at Activision better start keeping an eye out for suspicious looking pickup trucks in their vicinity. You don’t screw around with a song so important that it’s projected onto a mountain with lasers every weekend. Hit the jump for the full list, new and old.