Next Week’s Rock Band DLC

Next week’s Rock Band will have a debut from Helsinki-based alternative rock band HIM as well as tracks from KSM, Marilyn Manson, One Night Only, and The Police. This will be sold as the “HIM Pack 01″ on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 and individual tracks will be available on these systems as well as the Wii. These tracks will be available on Xbox 360 and Wii on February 23th and for the Playstation 3, February 25th.

-HIM – “Heartkiller”

-HIM – “Ode to Solitude”

-HIM – “Wings of a Butterfly”

-KSM – “Distracted”

-Marilyn Manson – “The Dope Show”

-One Night Only – “Just For Tonight”

-The Police – “Walking On the Moon”

Price: $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track
$5.49, £2.49 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “HIM Pack 01”
$2.00 per track

More information on Rock Band can be found at http://www.rockband.com.

Conspiracy theorists: “Wii Fit makes you fatter”

America’s conspiracy theorists and total skeptics announced today that they found that Nintendo’s Wii Fit actually makes you fatter, not thinner.

Leading American skeptic, Daryl Mills said: “A guy I know bought Wii Fit. 2 months later, he was 17 pounds heavier than he was. See? See? It makes you fatter. Big time.”

Member of the Indianapolis Contrarians, Tom Scrivens, said: “Nintendo just wants to make you even chunkier so that you’ll feel guilty about being fatter and then you’ll be more likely to buy Wii Fit 2. It’s a vicious cycle, and I’m not buying into it.”

Freshman philosophy major, Sarah Jenkins, said “How do you even know Wii Fit exists? You don’t. You could be dreaming it. Therefore it makes you fatter.”

They added their latest finding to the rest of their discoveries:

  • all vaccines will kill you. (“Smallpox is a hoax,” Scrivens said.)
  • fluoride actually rots your teeth.
  • Americans did not go to the moon.  (Mills says: “They used photoshop. Game over.”)
  • Game Genie was an alien device found at the Roswell crash site. (“The technology was far too advanced for humans at the time,”  Scrivens said. “Galoob couldn’t have invented it. Think about it.”
  • iPods measure the user’s sexual urges and send the data on a daily basis to the Hugo Chavez, himself a chronic masturbator, who “rubs one out” to the data reports. (Jenkins: “I hear it’s like, 17 times a day.”)
  • Taco Bell’s “beef” is actually genetically-enhanced koala bear meat.
  • Mario Kart was created by the Saudis to condition you to want to drive more so that you will buy more gas.
  • Wilt Chamberlain is actually gay.
  • Bunny Lebowski did not kidnap herself.

When we at PWNorDIE.com asked Mills and Scrivens for the evidence concerning their hypotheses, Mills retorted: “You brainwashed idiots. You fucking mindless dolts. Interview over.”

Resident Evil 5: Lost in Nightmares Now on Xbox Live

Resident Evil 5 finally has downloadable content today, and will also have a second pack in March. Xbox Live users can download Lost in Nightmares for Resident Evil 5 today and Playstation Network users can tomorrow, February 18th. Strangely, Capcom did not release the pricing for this DLC but after a quick look on Xbox.com, I found out the price will be 400 MS Points (and will probably be $4.99 on PSN).

Lost in Nightmares will have B.S.A.A. agents, Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine have tracked down the location of Umbrella founder Ozwell E. Spencer’s mansion. Previously only told through cut scenes in Resident Evil 5, players now can experience the events that lead up to Jill’s “death”.

Not only is there a new episode but new playable characters are available for THE MERCENARIES REUNION. Consumers who download “LOST IN NIGHTMARES” will receive Excella Gionne and Barry Burton included as part of their download. Each character has their own unique weapon load outs, providing players with additional challenges as they shoot down as many enemies as they can within the time limit.

The second DLC, to be called Desperate Escape, will be available on March 3rd Xbox Live and on March 4th on PSN. If you don’t have the full copy of Resident Evil 5 already, Capcom will be shipping Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition soon for release on March 9th. This version of the game includes the standard Resident Evil 5 game with both DLC packs. The PS3 version will have the added content already on the Blu-Ray disc while the Xbox 360 version will have the DLC in the form of included tokens for download.

More info on Resident Evil 5 or any Capcom game can be found at http://www.capcom.com.

Buy Darksiders, Get Red Faction Free

The economy is down. Nearly everyone is feeling the squeeze on their pocket. The publisher THQ is well aware of this and wants you to buy Darksiders this month. They want you to buy it so bad that they’ll even throw in a copy of Red Faction: Guerilla, which is a pretty solid game in its own right. This promotion lasts until March 7 and is for US residents only. How do you take advantage of this deal? Well, its not that difficult but you will have to click your mouse a few times. You will have to go to one of two sites, depending on which copy you have: Xbox 360 or PS3.

THQ and Vigil Games is also releasing a 90-minute demo of Darksiders on Xbox Live and Playstation Network on February 25th. More info on Darksiders itself can be found at http://www.darksiders.com.

Perfect Dark XBLA Dated

Microsoft covered a lot of topics at X10, but never mentioned a date for the XBLA remake of Perfect Dark. But they’re not leaving us hanging for a while and today announced that the game would be available on March 17th.

The pricing will be 800 MS Points which is about 10 US dollars. The remake will essentially be the same N64 Perfect Dark you love, but with updated, HD graphics. Possibly the best part though is that Rare is adding online multiplayer on Xbox Live. Now you can rush to get the Farsight gun and take out your friends without them seeing you.