Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway comes out next month, and if you’re planning to get the game on PC, Steam might have the best deal going right now. From now until the game launches in September, anyone who pre-orders the game through Valve’s download service will receive a copy of Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 for free. That should let you get your tactical World War II shooter fix for the next few weeks. I’m still not sure how I feel about Hell’s Highway. I played some of it at E3 and was fairly unimpressed, but at that moment it was being easily eclipsed by some much more high-profile titles.

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You can also view another Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway trailer by clicking through the link below. The game is slated for an August release for the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

E3 2008 Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway

It’s Thursday, so PS3-owning Rainbow Six fans needn’t wait any longer: the Vegas 2 Gift Pack DLC has finally arrived. PC and Xbox 360 owners have had it for almost a week, but when you’re talking about playing the same exact maps you’re already used to — only at night — there’s really no wait that’s too long. That might not be entirely true, but as I said before, at least it’s free.

Rock Band’s weekly track release includes four songs from Rush and Red Hot Chili Peppers, which is also the number of new demos that have been released: Siren: Blood Curse, Monster Madness: Grave Danger, WALL-E and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian are all available in demo form on the PlayStation Store.

And there’s all sorts of trailers for you to check out, including one for the Super Stardust HD add-on which I’ve been raving about ever since it was released. Now you can see what I’ve been talking about.

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The newest trailer for Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway shows off a new addition to the franchise with tanks. Yes, this isn’t exactly new to the World War II shooter genre, but it is the first time we’ve seen them in Brothers in Arms. Nevertheless, you’ll be able to blast, gun down, or run over enemy soldiers in a metal behemoth to provide support to your on-foot comrades. You do have to wonder just how many people from that war were stupid enough to get crushed by a tank though.

Ubisoft has released the first making of trailer for Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway.

There’s simultaneous a lot and not very much on the PlayStation Store this week. There’s a new character for PAIN, the painful “I am Murloc” World of Warcraft single for Guitar Hero III, two demos, and all sorts of other stuff. And yet it doesn’t feel particularly substantial, but perhaps I’ve simply become spoiled in a world of multiple downloadable game releases on Xbox Live Arcade, Virtual Console and WiiWare every week. (Of course, you could make the argument that there’s more garbage released on those platforms, but that’s besides the point.)

Rock Band gets a crapton of Weezer and Pixies songs, including a full album from the latter group. As usual, the music is very hit-or-miss, as you like their music or you don’t. Likewise, if you don’t like sports, you probably won’t care for the pair of demos — Hot Shots Golf and Top Spin 3.

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Ubisoft has unveiled a new trailer for the upcoming Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway. This video shows off once of the newest features in this latest installment in the series: destructible cover. Based off this video, the destructible environments already look better than even Battlefield: Bad Company, with certain objects disintegrating piece by piece. We’ll have to see if this one can keep the World War II genre slightly fresh when it comes out.

Ubidays is a great event. Not only is it thrown by a very nifty publisher/developer, but they even have the foresight to hold in a venue that is even more cool and artistic than the games they are showing off – the Louvre. So, what pieces of gaming art were shown off at the Ubidays event yesterday? Many a screenshot and trailer were debuted with their respective games throughout the day, but why go looking for them all over the internet when you can get them all in one place?

Here is a small round up of screens released yesterday:

Prince of Persia: Prodigy

Beyond Good & Evil 2

Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway

Shaun White Snowboarding

If there’s one World War II game that I’ll bother giving a second glance, it has to be the next Brothers in Arms title (back off, Call of Duty 5). It’s one of the few video game series that seems to really put an emphasis on telling a well-made story. Given this trailer for Hell’s Highway, it looks like they’re going for the throat this time. The gameplay will most likely be the usual squad-based FPS stuff from the past games, but you can probably bet that the story will be super dramatic.

This week’s update is a fairly tame one, although I believe some new ground is being broken with the release of a game’s soundtrack on the PlayStation Store. $2.99 will net you the original soundtrack to PixelJunk Monsters, which includes 24 tracks in total. That’s not a bad deal for $3, but if you want music you can actually do something with, there are nine new Rock Band tracks for $2 each, or you can find two songs — “We Care a Lot” by Epic and “All the Small Things” by Blink 182 — at the discounted price of $0.99 each.

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