Rock Band’s track pack next week will contain songs from Nirvana and Night Ranger.

Always trying to give you the leg up in your social circle, we are bringing a sequel to last year’s 60 Video Game Costume Ideas in Time for Halloween. In this year’s reprise, the list includes characters and costumes that were not in the previous collection. This time around we went for fresh characters and less traditional costumes. Afterall, everybody else has Mario and Link covered. In addition to having new characters, the list rates each costume on the difficulty of work and costs involved to make it as well as the materials you will need.

KOEI, recognized worldwide as the premier brand of strategy and action games, today announced that Nobunaga’s Ambition: Iron Triangle has achieved gold status.

Martin LaMonica at CNET reports on the amount of energy that our consoles use up. I am a fan of electronics, believe me, but we also need to save energy to keep using them. CNET writes:

2K Sports today announced that the highly anticipated hockey title, NHL 2K9, has gone gold and is now ready for production for Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, Wii™ home video game system from Nintendo, PLAYSTATION®3 and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment systems. Dedicated fans will enjoy this on-the-ice experience like never before as NHL 2K9 brings the fun back to hockey video games on September 9 in North America.

The 2008 “Game Development Survey” has revealed that the Xbox 360 is being developed upon the most by console developing companies. However PC gaming is still in the lead for overall development in Europe and North America, with 70% of companies still investing in development for PC & Mac.

Apparently 73% of the console developers canvassed are creating for the Xbox 360, whereas 58% are
working on PS3 games, 42% on Wii and 15% are still remaining faithful to the PS2.

Atlus releases Eternal Poison on Novermber 11th. Here’s what they have to say:

Originally released in Japan as Poison Pink, this gothic strategy RPG delivers a riveting narrative with sweeping themes and memorable characters, complimented by classic tactical gameplay and a uniquely dark aesthetic. Prepare to discover the true meanings of romance, heroism, madness, despair, and betrayal…

A Rare Ore found in Personal Electronics has caused pain, suffering, and death in Africa.