Guitar Hero fans will channel their inner rock god, experience new features and content including a new multiplayer action-inspired battle mode, grueling boss battles, unlockable content and authentic rock venues. In case you missed last week's 11 bonus track Best Buy offer, you will be able to download the entire album on Sept. 12. which will also include two exclusive renditions of “Suicide & Redemption” with extended solos by James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett.

Based on a persistent manga-style universe, Street Gears is a massively multiplayer roller game where players can challenge each others in races or tricks contests. Street Gears will be opened in its closed beta for a limited amount of players, from Sept. 10th to Sept. 19th, after which the open beta will be initiated.

GameMill Entertainment and Spark Plug Games announced DQ Tycoon, a new time management casual game based on the Dairy Queen property, offering players the ability to manage a series of Dairy Queen stores in a community with daily challenges including the creation of Blizzard flavor treats for a rush of customers.

Nintendo added two classics and one WiiWare title to the Wii's Shop Channel. Wii owners with online access can redeem Wii Points to download the following titles: Groovin' Blocks (Wiiware), Final Soldier (VC) and Cho Aniki (VC).

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, you'll engage in exciting wizard duels, mix and brew magical ingredients in Potions class, take to the air to lead the Gryffindor Quidditch team to victory, and discover the identity of the Half-Blood Prince. As we revealed last month, EA confirmed that the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been pushed until July 2009 to coincide with the movie's release.

Developed by Knowledge Adventure and inspired by the original hit PC game, Math Blaster makes learning fun by combining a variety of adventure-based learning games with challenging mathematic puzzles and the unique capabilities of NDS.

D3Publisher will bring its classic PSP titles to gamers for download via the PlayStation Store in North America beginning this September. PSP system owners will no longer need a UMD to play titles such as mini-game collection WTF: work time fun, the original Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, and third person-action game Dead Head Fred.

Another day, another batch of games shipped to stores. Instead of giving them all their own posts, we grouped them, and so far there are announcements for:

• Lock's Quest (NDS)
• Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise (NDS)
• Mystery Case Files: MillionHeir (NDS)
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Farmyard Party: Featuring the Olympigs brings farmyard fun to the Wii with eight Olympig events which are divided into four categories: all-round, speed, power, and skill. Game modes include a marathon challenge, party modes themed around event styles, single event fun and some hilarious bonus games.

Set between the largely unexplored era between Ep III and Ep IV, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed casts players as Darth Vader's "Secret Apprentice" and promises to unveil new revelations about the Star Wars galaxy. At NVISION 08 Pixelux Entertainment's COO Vik Sohal, the company that developed The Force Unleashed's DMM physics tech, revealed has a PC version as well.

UPDATE: LucasArts sent us a short statement saying that there is NO PC version planned.