Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, MTV Games, a division of MTV Networks which is a division of Viacom, and rock icons Metallica announced today a deal that will showcase the incredible depth of the band’s music in the highly anticipated videogame Rock Band™. The Grammy-award winning thrashers are making key tracks from their celebrated catalog available as digitally-distributed game levels. The incomparable metal song “Enter Sandman,” will ship on the game’s disc this holiday season.

Days before the E3 Expo, Sony announced plans to slash the price of the PS3 by $100 USD, as well as introducing an updated system with and 80 Gb hard disk, which will sell for $599 USD.

Since it was introduced as the most expensive console on the market, it has not sold nearly the number of systems as the XBox 360 (which now offers the Elite console with a 120 Gb hard disk) or the Wii.

NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. and KOEI Corporation announced today that a free single player demo of Dynasty Warriors®:GUNDAM® is now available on the PLAYSTATION®Network for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system. Delivering intense combat on land and in outer space, Dynasty Warriors:GUNDAM thrusts players into massive battles with hundreds of Mobile Suits battling for the fate of the galaxy.

2K Sports, the sports publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., announced today that The BIGS, 2K Sports' innovative, action-packed MLBPA and MLB® licensed video game, is now available in stores across North America for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, the PLAYSTATION®3 and the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment systems, the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system and Nintendo's Wii™.

The fate of the world is in gamers’ hands with the announcement that TRANSFORMERS: The Game from Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), under license from HPG, the licensing division of Hasbro, Inc. has shipped to retail stores nationwide. Timed to the highly anticipated theatrical release of the “TRANSFORMERS” live-action feature film from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, the game allows players to experience the unstoppable power and massive scale of the AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS in an epic battle for Earth.