Another quiet week of PlayStation Store updates, outside of Zen Studios' downloadable shooter The Punisher: No Mercy.

The FPS title set in the Marvel universe promises six multiplayer modes--Vigilante, Team Deathmatch, Punish the Punisher, Elimination, Time Trial, Survival--and supports up to eight players online. A story mode offers four levels and supports two player co-op.

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The promised Green Day downloadable content for Rock Band is set to arrive next week, along with a roaring selection of tracks from artists on the metallicious Mayhem Tour.

Green Day Pack
• Green Day - "21 Guns"
• Green Day - "East Jesus Nowhere"
• Green Day - "Know Your Enemy"
Mayhem Pack
• Behemoth - "Conquer All"
• Black Dahlia Murder - "What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse"
• Cannibal Corpse - "Hammer Smashed Face"
• God Forbid - "Empire of the Gun"
• Job for a Cowboy - "Embedded"
• Marilyn Manson - "Disposable Teens"
• Slayer - "Black Magic"
• Whitechapel - "This Is Exile"

The tracks hit Xbox 360 and Wii on July 7 then PlayStation 3 on July 9, priced at $2 a pop (160 Microsoft Points, 200 Wii Points). 360 and PS3 rockers can also snag the whole Green Day Pack for $5.49 (440 MS Points) or Mayhem Pack for $13.49 (1,080 Points).

Capcom wasn't kidding when it teased that you could "expect to see a whole slew of downloadable PSP and PSone titles from our vault" appear in the PlayStation Store.

Over on the PlayStation.Blog, the publisher has listed a number of the digital re-releases coming to the online PlayStation 3 and PSP marketplace, beginning with tomorrow's online release of the once disc-only Capcom Classics Collection: Remixed on PSP.

Initially released in 2006, the arcade compilation packs twenty of Capcom's old arcade games, including Final Fight, Bionic Commando, Street Fighter, Strider, and 1941.

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Skateboarding's prestigious Maloof Money Cup competition is set to arrive in Skate 2 as downloadable content shortly before the real event kicks off in July, EA has announced.

The Maloof Money Pack recreates the contest's park with freeskate, vert and street contests for singleplayer skaters, and online play receiving new competitive activities and challenges. The Xbox 360 version also picks up another 250 achievement points.

The DLC arrives July 9 in the Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store for a mere $3 (240 Microsoft Points), just in time for the real Maloof Money Cup which runs July 10-12.

The PS3 and Xbox 360 editions of Volition's volatile open-world action game Red Faction: Guerrilla are to receive three downloadable content packs, publisher THQ has said.

The first of those three, "Demons of the Badlands," arrives on August 13. Priced at 800 Microsoft Points ($10), the pack is said to add "a destructive single-player mission arc that takes place in a new Mars landscape outside of the game's expansive world."

As for the other two, nothing else is known except that they're both due later this year.

Update: SouthPeak, which is publishing Trine PC in North America later this summer, just let us know that the North American release of Trine PC will carry a suggested retail price of $30 in lieu of the $40 price point set by international publisher Nobilis.

Original: The PlayStation 3 edition of Frozenbyte's downloadable platformer Trine will sell for $20, half the "official" international price of the PC version, publisher Nobilis has confirmed to Shacknews.

While the Nobilis-set "official price point" for Trine PC is $40, a price that several digital distribution outlets and European retailers currently list, digital distribution provider Steam is currently offering pre-orders of the game for $30. However, the Steam product page indicates that independent developer Frozenbyte is self-publishing on the service.

Though publisher Nobilis has yet to explain the substantial divide between the pricing of the PC and PlayStation 3 editions--a difference the development studio was apparently unaware of--Frozenbyte has already been defending the higher-than-expected PC price.

Noting that "[pricing] guidelines are set by our publisher," developer FB_Lauri took to the company's official forum to explain that "Trine is far from a game created by a solo hero developer (we have over 20 employees and Trine has contributions... Read more

Next week's batch of Rock Band downloadable content has been announced through developer Harmonix's "Community Zine," with the following due next week:

Foreigner Three Pack
• "Blue Morning Blue Day"
• "Feels Like the First Time"
• "Headknocker"
Vans Warped Tour Three Pack
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Citing "surprisingly strong support" of the downloadable demo for Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman! What Did I Do To Deserve This, publisher NIS today announced that the PSP action-strategy game will only be released as a PlayStation Store download.

Priced at $19.99 and slated to release July 17, the Acquire-developed title has players crafting a dungeon and an accompanying self-sustaining ecosystem of monsters that can fend off the pesky human heroes trying to capture the Overlord and restore peace.

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Three more downloadable Pearl Jam tunes for Rock Band and Rock Band 2 will hit this week alongside the previously announced DLC, developer Harmonix has revealed.

Pearl Jam "Ten" Bonus Pack
• "Brother"
• "Alive (Live: Drop in the Park)"
• "State of Love & Trust (Live: Drop in the Park)

The three tunes were originally offered as an incentive to buy the physical re-release of Pearl Jam's "Ten" the week it hit stores--the same week that saw the bulk of the "Ten" album released as downloadable content for Rock Band and Rock Band 2.

Per usual, each song will sell individually for 160 Microsoft Points ($2), with the entire three-pack also available in a 440 Microsoft Point ($5.50) bundle. The tracks hit Xbox 360 on Tuesday, June 23, with the PlayStation 3 release following on Thursday, June 25.

Friday brings Rock Band downloadable content news of a pack featuring arists from the bodaciously gnarly Warped Tour festival, as well as tracks by the mellow Maroon 5.

Warped Tour Pack
• A Day to Remember - "The Downfall of Us All"
• Bad Religion - "21st Century Digital Boy"
• Chiodos - "I didn't Say I Was Powerful, I said I was a Wizard"
• Escape the Fate - "The Flood"
• Underoath - "Reinventing Your Exit"
Maroon 5 Pack
• Maroon 5 - "Little of Your Time"
• Maroon 5 - "Makes Me Wonder"
• Maroon 5 - "Wake Up Call"

All from original master recordings, the tracks will be available at $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) a pop. The Maroon 5 Pack can also be bought complete for $5.49 (440 MS Points), while the whole Warped Tour Pack will run you a tidy $8.49 (680 MS Points).

Xbox Live Marketplace will be rocking to the sound of these tracks on Tuesday June 23, while the PlayStation Network will have to wait until Thursday June 25.

Today's update to the PlayStation 3's online marketplace brings a re-release of the original Metal Gear Solid, a demo of NCAA Football 10, the usual assortment of downloadable tunes and MotorStorm decals and...well, that's about it.

A complete breakdown of today's new offerings, via the PlayStation.Blog, follows:

PSone Classics PS3 / PSP
Metal Gear Solid ($9.99)
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The second map pack for Call of Duty: World at War only took four days to surpass a million downloads, publisher Activision revealed today.

Released for PS3 and Xbox 360 users last Thursday, June 11, the $10 add-on brings four new multiplayer maps to Treyarch's shooter.

The game's first map pack, released in March, took an entire week to break a million.

Update: The general Madden NFL 10 demo is slated for "late July," EA has clarified. We're also told that the public Giants vs. Cowboys demo will sport 1 minute quarters, not the previously reported 2 minute quarters, with the company apologizing for the confusion.

Original: Though GameStop yesterday announced that it was offering an "exclusive demo" of Madden NFL 10 as a pre-order incentive, publisher Electronic Arts has informed Shacknews that a downloadable demo will be available to the public as well.

"We will also be issuing a demo via Xbox LIVE and PSN that features the Giants vs. Cowboys with 2 minute quarters," the company told us. "The GameStop demo is exclusive in terms of content. For example, the GameStop exclusive demo features a rematch of Super Bowl XLIII featuring the Steelers vs. Cardinals with 5 minute quarters."

We're checking in to see when the public demo will be released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The GameStop exclusive demo is expected "by the end of July."

The full version of the football game--in development for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and PSP--arrives in North American retailers on Friday, August 14.

Continuing the increasingly popular trend, Electronic Arts today announced that it has partnered with GameStop to provide those that pre-order Madden NFL 10 from the retailer with an "exclusive demo" of EA Tiburon's August 14-due game.

Pre-ordering either the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 edition of the football game from GameStop should net you a download code, with the demo due "by the end of July."

Recreating the Super Bowl XLIII match between the the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers, the demo will offer gamers the chance to play four, 5-minute quarters.

No word yet as to if or when a downloadable Madden NFL 10 demo will be available to the general public, but we're checking in with Electronic Arts.

Ubisoft has released the Supremacy pack for Tom Clancy's HAWX, a download that compiles the previously released expansion planes into a single package. The pack is available now on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 for 800 Microsoft Points and $10, respectively.

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Continuing the long-running Friday tradition, Rock Band series developer Harmonix pulled back the curtain on the next batch of downloadable content for the franchise.

The following tunes hit Xbox 360 on Tuesday June 16 and PS3 on Thursday June 18:

Spinal Tap Pack
• Spinal Tap - "Back from the Dead"
• Spinal Tap - "Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare"
• Spinal Tap - "Saucy Jack"
• Spinal Tap - "Warmer Than Hell"
Evanescence Pack
• Evanescence - "Bring Me to Life"
• Evanescence - "Call Me When You're Sober"
• Evanescence - "Weight of the World"

Per usual, each Rock Band and Rock Band 2-compatible track will be sold individually for 160 Microsoft Points ($2), with a four-track Spinal Tap bundle going for 560 MS Points ($7) and the entire Evanescence Pack available for 440 MS Points ($5.50).

This week's PlayStation Store update brings us the Killzone 2 Flash & Thunder Pack ($5.99), a pack including two original Killzone multiplayer maps remade for the sequel. Also included in the update is the LittleBigPlanet ICO and Shadow of the Colossus content, the second map pack for Call of Duty: World at War, and the Burnout Paradise Big Surf Island DLC.

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Developer Harmonix today announced a deal that will see American pop-punk act Green Day appear exclusively in the Rock Band series of multi-instrument music games.

Three tracks--"21 Guns," "Know Your Enemy," "East Jesus Nowhere"--will be released as downloadable content on July 7, with word that "additional Green Day songs and projects will be announced at a later date." The band is perhaps best known for "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)," a song immortalized in numerous graduation ceremonies, countless video montages, and the Seinfeld series finale special.

"Green Day not only rock hard, but are also epic storytellers," said Van Toffler, president of Harmonix owner MTV. "Their message and their music have been the voice and sound of this generation."

The extent of those additional Green Day "projects" is unknown, though Harmonix has previously released an AC/DC-specific edition of Rock Band, with the company currently prepping The Beatles: Rock Band for its September 9 release and... Read more

The bulk of the second "SEGA Vintage Collection" arrived in the Xbox Live Arcade today, offering six classic SEGA games--Gunstar Heroes, Altered Beast, Shinobi, Comix Zone, Phantasy Star 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3--at 400 Microsoft Points ($5) a pop.

Each has been updated with support for high definition displays and leaderboards, with Gunstar Heroes, Altered Beast and Sonic 3 also getting online multiplayer.

Excluding Gunstar Heroes, the remaining five games can also be found on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 retail compilation Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, though the versions found in that bundle don't pack online multiplayer.

While most of the downloads are exclusive to Xbox 360, with Ultimate Genesis Collection reject Sonic & Knuckles due later in the summer, Gunstar Heroes will also be making its way to the PlayStation 3 through tomorrow's PlayStation Store update.

The second downloadable map pack for Call of Duty: World at War will be available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 players tomorrow, developer Treyarch has announced.

Priced at 800 Microsoft Points ($10), the June 11-due download adds four new multiplayer arenas to the war-centric shooter. Three of those--Banzai, Corrosion, Sub Pens--are for traditional competitive multiplayer antics, with "Shi No Numa (Zombie Swamp)," bringing new content to the Nazi Zombie mode.

No word yet as to if or when the maps will arrive for the PC edition. The first map pack ended up hitting PC as a free download a few weeks after it arrived on consoles.

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