I personally am thinking about getting the Renegade Edition Featuring Jay-Z and Eminem since it looks like a lot of fun and probably features music that could work well with a turntable.

The set list is constructed of 100 songs, crafted into more than 80 two-song DJ mixes created by the game development team and internationally known DJs such including DJ Shadow, DJ Z-Trip, Daft Punk and the late DJ AM.

“All songs used are new to the Guitar Hero family of games and are pulled from a wide array of genres, including pop, grunge, soul, R&B, techno, hip hop, and house” so it will be great to try out some new tunes with this popular game franchise.

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Taken from the E3 2009 show floor on Tuesday, June 2nd. Much more to come throughout the week!

The Stay-Puft Marshmellow man from Ghostbusters, right outside the convention center to promote the new video game.

Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters.

LEGO Universe promo poster. Sadly, the game is not playable on the show floor.

Eidos booth.

Xbox booth.

Beware the Rabbids!

A mech thingamajig from James Cameron’s Avatar.

EA Games booth.

A Prius 3 promoting The Sims 3, in South Hall. (Note the floating green crystal.) Appropriate, no?

Warner Bros. Interactive promo area for Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest.

Inside the Batman: Arkham Asylum demo area. Kind of sums up all of E3!

Holy E3 Expo, Batman!

Nintendo’s booth.

The first-ever concert held live and in a persistent MMO game. In this case, the band is The Dares, and the game is Free Realms.

DJ Hero being demoed at Activision’s booth.

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E3 ‘09: Sights from the Show Floor

There’s been speculation about this game for months so I’m very happy that they’ve finally put the rumors to rest.  It’s supposed to be released sometime during the second half of the year and, while there were no specific tracks mentioned as being confirmed for the game, Activision did say that songs from Queen, Weezer, blink-182, The Offspring, Queens of the Stone Age (and others) will be included.

The other games that were announced were DJ Hero, Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero.  I don’t know much about any of these titles except that DJ Hero will work with a single turntable device with three colored buttons.  That sounds like a lot of fun.  I definitely would be willing to try it!  Band Hero sounds an awful lot like Rock Band but I did hear that on GH5, players will be able to drop in and out of games and change the difficulty levels easily.  That sounds good.  I wish they would go back to making the games compatible with the controllers for people who don’t want to play with the guitars.

image: VanHalenStore.com

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