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RZA, founder of Wu-Tang Clan and world famous DJ, will lend his appearance and a couple of mixes in DJ Hero 2.

He’ll join other DJ ‘heroes’ appearing in the game such as Deadmau5, David Guetta, DJ Qbert and Tiësto when it comes out on October 22.

He brings two exclusive tracks:  LL Cool J “I Can’t Live Without My Radio” mixed with Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five “The Message” and the other track being a mix of Damian Marley’s “Welcome To Jamrock” with Walter Murphy’s “A Fifth of Beethoven.”

“As both a DJ and gamer from an early age, the game combines two of my passions,” said RZA. “I loved working with the team and am excited for the fans to hear the two brand-new mixes I put together just for this game. Bong bong!”

Blizzard have announced that over three million fans ‘zerged’ to buy Starcraft II within a month of its release, making it one of the fastest selling Real Time Strategy games of all time and the best selling PC games in 2010.

This large number of sales is helped by its simultaneous worldwide release in North America, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau on July 27.

Of these sales, one million were made on the first day, with more than 1.5 million after 48 hours.

“We appreciate all the enthusiasm that players around the world have shown for StarCraft II,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “It was important to us to deliver an overall gameplay experience that was accessible, balanced, and fun, and it’s been gratifying to see how strongly the global community has already embraced the game.”

This is also just the first of three games, with the Heart of the Swarm and Legacy of the Void expansions still to come. Looks like Blizzard have got a profitable few years to face.

Microsoft have unveiled the new design for the 360 pad which should solve the D-pad problem.

Despite taking them around five years, the new feature allows users to twist the D-pad to turn it from a disc shape to a plus shape. The pad might be chunky still, but at least now you can actually select the right spell on Oblivion without accidentally downing all your potions. 

Sitting with a sleek, dystopian style, the new grey shaded buttons and chrome finish are perfect for fans of Orwell or film noir or those lacking oppression in their lives.

The new pad comes bundled with a charge kit and should be available worldwide by the beginning of 2011, though North America can get a hold of it from as early as November 9 for $64.99.

If you were planning on going out to pick up a DSi or DSi XL for back to school, WAIT!  Nintendo announced that they will be cutting the price of the DSi to $129 (currently $149) and the DSi XL to $169 (currently $189).  This is likely being done to anticipate the release of the 3DS.  Most of us will probably just keep waiting for the the 3DS though.  Of course the other side to this is you may want to go ahead and sell that system you have just been thinking about getting rid of for the past month before prices are reduced!

Rockstar Games have revealed more about the up-and-coming ’Liars & Cheats’ and ‘Undead Nightmare’ packs for Red Dead Redemption today.

The Liars & Cheats pack is set for a September 21 release date and is to incorporate new free roam and competitive multiplayer elements. First off, there is multiplayer gambling in the form of poker and liars’ dice games, which is a most requested feature by fans and should be fairly addictive.

Along with that is multiplayer horse racing which allows mounted combat against the opposition and to help there is a new gun, the Explosive Rifle, a useful tool for destruction in single and multiplayer.

For multiplayer free roam there are seven new gang hideouts to storm and four new hunting grounds that are said to have ‘some of the most action-packed wildlife hunting yet.’

On top of that there is a stronghold competitive multiplayer mode where teams take it in turns to attack and defend. All of this is complimented with leaderboards to help compare stats and 15 additional multiplayer characters from the main story to use online.

So for all you drunks and gamblers this will cost you £7.99 on PS3 or 800 MSP for Xbox 360.

That, however, is not all. More information has risen (mind the pun) about the Undead Nightmare pack which is to appear sometime in Autumn. This piece of DLC will be single player orientated with a new story campaign. In it, John Marston is on a quest for the cure to an infectious zombie plague that is spread across the frontier.

Additionally, new weapons, zombified animals, mythical creatures, secret locations and some new multiplayer modes are to be expected as part of the pack. The price so far has been marked as the usual £7.99/800 MSP pack price. Zombies always make for a good gameplay mechanic.

Game developer Valve today released an updated set of usage statistics, including those for its Steam for Mac digital distribution platform. There’s diamonds and lead depending on your point of view.

Bad news first, of course. Mac usage of the gaming service has dropped off since the big debut a few months ago. Originally around 8 percent, Mac usage has fallen down to about 5 percent of the total Steam audience.

Good news! Five percent of Steam’s 25 million users is still a significant audience. Add this to EA and Blizzard’s growing support for native Mac games – those developed in-house simultaneously with the PC version, rather than transcribed by a third party like Aspyr.

Apple seems to be taking notice, too. The recent Snow Leopard Graphics Update was tuned to clear up issues that Valve reported, so that’s definitely good.

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The downloadable content for Dragon Age has been constant, addressing various loose ends and now Bioware are wrapping it all up with one of the biggest loose ends of the first game: what happened to Morrigan?

Entitled ‘Witch Hunt’, the DLC will be available on September 7 for 560 MSP, 560 BioWare points or $6.99 on PSN .

At the end of Dragon Age: Origins, Morrigan helped fight the Archdemon but then left afterwards with only the words “never follow me”. Now you finally get to find out what happened.

A year has passed since her disappearance and there have been sightings of her in the wilds to the South close to where you first met. Whether you’re looking for her as a scorned lover or seeking revenge, this promises to be an epic conclusion to the Origins story.

On top of that, achievement fans will presumably get more achievements, as well as new equipment for your characters. Let’s just hope Morrigan doesn’t take after Flemeth.

It’s promotion time again for Team Fortress so that means only one thing – more hats and shinies for your pretties.

Anyone who buys a copy of Worms Reloaded before September 2 will get the limited edition Holy Hand Grenades to wear with pride on the soldier’s chest as well as the worms hat seen above. Sadly you can’t throw them, but then they’d be better used on killer rabbits.

New gear isn’t the only buzz at Valve central. It’s time for another community contest, the Hat Describing Contest, for all those people who felt left out in the designing contests.

The premise is simple. Write a short, fictional piece about your favourite hat, with the winner getting their description getting used in TF2. Time to get writing.

GamesAid are auctioning a full-sized Solid Snake statue this Friday, finally answering the question of what is missing from your life.

The UK based charity for children and young people will begin the auction on Friday 27 August on their eBay store, which can be found here.

The statue, as seen on the right, is modelled on Snake from Metal Gear Snake 4 and will have a reserve price of £1,250, with all proceeds going to GamesAid and its supported charities.

Andy Payne, Chairman of GamesAid, said: “This is a unique and rare opportunity for fans to own a money can’t buy piece of gaming history. The sale of this imposing mannequin will undoubtedly excite the game’s huge fan-base.”

Bioware has announced the next piece of DLC for Mass Effect 2, called ‘Lair of the Shadow Broker’, will arrive on September 7 for 800 MSP for Xbox 360 and 800 BioWare points for PC.

The add-on will give players the chance to recruit Liara T’Soni as a party member on her hunt for the Shadow Broker and the man he has kidnapped. This hunt will take her from the heights of Illium to the Broker’s lair.

Included with this pack is five new achievements, the Shadow Broker intel centre, new research and the chance to continue your relationship with Liara.

More screens of this DLC can be found here.