Hello and welcome to the first edition of The Gaming Vault‘s Rock Band 3 Tuesday Track Pick! In this series, we take a look at specific songs in the Rock Band 3 library that are especially awesome or extra fun on certain instruments. This first week’s choice, we take a look at Siouxsie & The Banshees‘ track “Cities in Dust.”

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We’ve recently ended a decade in which it’s been absolutely fantastic being a gamer. Not only was video games brought into the mainstream, mostly thanks to the Nintendo Wii and iPhone, and some truly fantastic games have come out during the past 10 years. But the days of looking back are in our Game of the Year article. This particular piece is about looking forward. So far 2011 is looking [...]

It’s not actually Europe coming to Rock Band next week, but we are getting a slew of popular artists from the continent, as well as a special Christmas song “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and The Plastic Ono Band just in time for the holiday (sorry, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah)!

Hey, you know that bitchin’ Squier guitar by Fender that’s coming out? You can pre-order that bad boy on BestBuy.com now! The guitar will be exclusive to Best Buy at first, but other retailers will make it available as time goes. $279.99, free shipping, and all the sweet, sweet rocking you can do until your fingers bleed! March 1st, please hurry! Via Rock Band Twitter.

So much finger bleeding.

The Rock Band 3 MIDI Pro-Adapter is finally shipping, thanks to a press release from Mad Catz themselves.

Legendary foursome Queen are getting the all-star Rock Band 3 treatment with not one, but two packs come December 7th.

You can now find us on Itunes! Please subscribe if you enjoy the show. In our fourth episode of The Gaming Vaultcast Tony, Derek, Michael, and Jens bring you this week’s selection of news. reviews and debate. We go over the usual selection of last weeks news, and Derek discusses his Call of Duty, Black Ops review. Our topic of the week is “characterisation in video games.” What makes a [...]

Classic rockers! Gather! Today is the day your calls are answered! Mighty Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd get their very first pack to accompany Rock Band 3‘s on-disc “Free Bird” and DLC singles “Simple Man” and “Gimme Three Steps.” English rock band Bad Company are getting a second track in the series, and American rock artists .38 Special are making their debut! And there’re PRO Upgrades!