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Rock Band's DLC for next week includes the exclusive Green Day three-pack that was announced last month, in addition to eight tracks from artists involved with the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. The Mayhem Festival eight-pack will go for $13.49 (1080 Microsoft points), and the Green Day three-pack will cost you $5.49 (440 Microsoft points). Individual songs, as usual, are set at $1.99 (180 Microsoft points, 200 Wii Points).

Expect the following tracks to show up next Tuesday, July 7 on Xbox Live and Wii, and Thursday, July 9 on the PlayStation Store:

• "21 Guns" by Green Day
• "East Jesus Nowhere" by Green Day
• "Know Your Enemy" by Green Day
• "Conquer All" by Behemoth
• "What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse" by Black Dahlia Murder
• "Hammer Smashed Face" by Cannibal Corpse
• "Empire of the Gun" by God Forbid
• "Embedded" by Job for a Cowboy
• "Disposable Teens" by Marilyn Manson
• "Black Magic" by Slayer
• "This Is Exile" by Whitechapel

What's it going to be -- a sampling of Green Day's latest, or some good old fashioned metalcore? With a song title like "Hammer Smashed Face", how could you possibly go wrong?

The past two holiday seasons have not been kind of Eidos Interactive. Kane & Lynch: Dead Men and Tomb Raider: Underworld received lukewarm reviews at best, with sales to match. Eidos president Ian Livingstone says there's no room for that this year.

"A lot of titles have already hit the shelves and there is a deluge planned for Christmas, but I think 2009 will be remembered as the year of 'roast duck or no dinner,'" Livingstone told GamesIndustry.biz.

"There's a glut of product and in a discerning market there is no room for mediocrity. To make a suboptimal game with a suboptimal marketing spend is a recipe for disaster."

EA set a date for their downloadable World War II shooter Battlefield 1943 this morning, and it's coming a lot sooner than you may have predicted. The Battlefield 1942 followup should be arriving on the Xbox Live Marketplace next Wednesday, July 8 and the PlayStation Store that Thursday, July 9. It'll set you back a cool $14.99, or 1200 Microsoft points.

It ought to be interesting to see what happens to the number of multiplayer users in Halo 3 and the Call of Duty games over the next couple of weeks. Will DICE's budget-priced, multiplayer FPS be able to make a dent in the following of the established kings of the genre, or will it simply go under the radar of most mainstream players?