This week, Activision is offering up the 2nd of 3 track packs for Guitar Hero World Tour in July, this time with music from Vagrant Records. Here are the songs in the pack:

Thrice – "All The World Is Mad"

Alexisonfire – "Young Cardinals"

Senses Fail – "The Martyr"

The Vagrant Records Track Pack is available now via Xbox LIVE Marketplace for 440 Microsoft Points and from the PlayStation Store for $5.49. The songs are also available as singles for 160 Microsoft Points, $1.99 from the PlayStation Store and 200 Wii Points.
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After Vivendi’s game division merged with Activision last year a lot of titles got cut by Activision. Among those titles was the action packed shooter WET from developer A2M. During an interview with Dutch website Gaming Only at an event for the game in Amsterdam today, the game’s Creative Director Patrick Fortier, told a different story. He says that after they heard that Activision would not be publishing all of Vivendi’s titles, A2M took matters into their own hand and bought back all the rights from Vivendi. Fortier said "we (A2M) did not have enough faith that WET would be at the right place with Activision". He also added that they did not want to wait to find out if the game was still going to be published by Activision or if it would be dropped.

When talking about new publisher Bethesda Fortier said "we are really happy with Bethesda Softworks, they haven’t limited us in any way". During the time WET did not have a publisher A2M had several parties that were interested in publishing WET. They chose Bethesda, because they felt best at home with them according to Frontier.
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The game’s maker, Double Fine Productions, filed a countersuit against Activision Entertainment Inc. last week, alleging the company is trying to stop the release of "Brutal Legend" to protect Activision’s "Guitar Hero" franchise.
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NowGamer: Codemasters invites us to ‘feel the fear of modern combat’ before the Call Of Duty spinoff hits shelves

Authentic soldier simulator Operation Flashpoint will be available a whole month before Activision’s Modern Warfare 2. Codemasters has confirmed that Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising will street on October 6 and 9 in the US and UK respectively, while MW2 is set for a worldwide bow on November 10.
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You might think that decent licensed platform games died out with the dinosaurs. But Activision has experienced reasonable success recently with the likes of Kung Fu Panda, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs follows in the same vein by delivering another competent slice of platforming action. In fact, it might have been a bit of a mini-classic if only the difficulty level had been ramped up a bit. …

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Activision confirmed all July updates for Guitar Hero: World Tour. The title will receive music packs every Thursday of the month trough the on-line distribution networks, Xbox LIVE, PSN and Wii Network.
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Activision has announced 3 more DLC track packs for Guitar Hero World Tour coming up for the rest of July. Each pack will cost 440 MS Points or $5.49 USD on PSN, and tracks can be downloaded individually for 160 MS Points, $1.99 USD or 200 Wii Points each.
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The fact that "Call of Duty" branding was conspicuously absent from Modern Warfare 2’s debut trailer and all subsequent promotional materials about the game seemed to declare clearly enough that the title had left the franchise’s well-fortified nest. A fact that Activision seemed to acknowledge by telling us it "has taken on such a life of its own." So, imagine our surprise when the game’s box art materializes … with "Call of Duty" in the title.
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Activision today released the Victory Track Pack for Guitar Hero World Tour on Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii. The pack includes the three tracks "NJ Legion Iced Tea" from A Day to Remember, "Bomb the World" from The Sleeping, and "I Am The Arsonist" by Silverstein.
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Is an additional co-op mode secretly being prepared for Activision’s recent release of Prototype? The game certainly lends itself well to a co-op mode a la Crackdown. Msxbox-World explores the possibility.
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