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Guitar Hero: World Tour, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Guitar Hero: On Tour… could Activision possibly milk its peripheral rock series any more this year? Well yes, because it looks like there’ll be a fourth game out within the next 12 months too.

Following in the same vein as the Aerosmith spin off - which lets you play through the career of the Walk this Way rockers - Guitar Hero: Metallica has also been spotted, and will be out on “multiple consoles” before the end of Activision’s fiscal year (that’s before March 31, 2009).

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Nintendo really wants to make the world a better place. Not content with making stupid people smarter with Brain Training and fat people thinner with Wii Fit, it’s now going after smokers.

As of November, those hoping to kick the habit will be able to purchase Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking for Nintendo DS.

Based on a popular range of books and DVDs, it will seek to help smokers find the psychological reasons and motivations behind their habit.

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