MTV Games has announced that songs from the first Rock Band game will not be available as downloadable content for Rock Band 2. Apparently, the reasons are capitalistic as they plan to publish the first game "indefinitely." Better call up your friends and see if you can borrow a copy to export the songs.

According to Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith, here will be an increased focus on downloadable content in Call of Duty: World at War (PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii, DS). To further "increase online monetization", Activision is also planning premium content like the "Day One Advantage" promo. More in the full article.

Those of you who've seen the previous promotional artwork for Mega Man 9 might be surprised to find out Capcom has gotten more than a little bit serious about it. Despite being delivered as downloadable content for various consoles, the publishers have come up with a promo "box art" for the game using a retro-styled NES box and casing. View the box art and its description in our full article.

A totally different take of open-developed Frets on Fire is Guitarfun, a multi-platform rendering of the music rhythm game Guitar Hero. While available for Windows and the PlayStation 2 (version 2.7), Guitarfun version 2.7b is ever so Wii-friendly and even comes with its own Wii menu channel. Get more details at the full story.

Download: Guitarfun 2.7b

Square Enix has released new content for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King in Europe and other PAL territories. The new content consists mainly of new dungeons, but there are also new costumes available for the king and Chime. Actually it's pretty similar to the DLC announced for Japan a while back. Details in the full article.

Mario Kart Wii has some new downloadable content for people to enjoy, and it comes straight from the worlds of Super Mario Galaxy. Want to see this new content in action? Then head on over to the full article for more info and a video!

Square Enix recently arranged an interview with Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King director Kenichiro Yuji to talk more about the game's development phase. Aside from elaborating about challenges of developing a WiiWare title, Yuji also hinted at some of the new downloadable content that's coming soon. More on this in the full article.

Yes, we know Konami Gamer's Night 08 is long and done with, but only lately have video coverage spewed out for the recently concluded event. And one of the goodies we've managed to snag from Konami's gaming bash is a video interview with Associate Producer Keith Matejk, who was happy to provide input on what Rock Revolution (DS, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360) had to offer for us. The video follows at the full story.

 We've been clamoring for downloadable content for the Wii for some time now, but it's currently available to Wii Ware games only, like Final Fantasy Chronicles: My Life as a King. But there's light at the end of the tunnel, it seems, in the form of Samba de Amigo's boxart in GameStop sporting Nintendo's Pay-to-Play logo. Check out the box art in the full article.

Nintendo Wii owners in Japan, rejoice - if you've been knee-deep solving puzzles in Namco Bandai's WiiWare title, Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan, then you'd be glad to know that for a mere 200 Wii Points, you can wade even deeper into it until you drown. Yep, that's right - the first downloadable content pack for this highly-addictive puzzle game has hit the Nintendo Wi-Fi tubes, and all the details about it is in the full article. Hurry up!