Team Meat's crushingly difficult (and insanely fun!) Super Meat Boy launched this week on Xbox Live Arcade to mostly rave reviews. A trio of cool meat-related announcements have been made recently that are sure to please fans.

Though the game is currently only available from Xbox Live Arcade, a PC version is expected to hit Steam sometime next month. Destructoid reports that after some public back-and-forth tweeting with Minecraft creator Notch, Team Meat was given permission to include Mr. Minecraft (the game's protagonist) in the PC version. Mr. Minecraft will join a playable-character roster already jam-packed with appearances from other indie heroes, ranging from the BIT.TRIP. series' Commander Video, to Tim from Braid. Read more »

Rock Band Network, the toolset that allows anyone to create playable tracks for sale in Rock Band, will be getting a face-lift for the release of Rock Band 3. Dubbed Rock Band Network 2.0, the tools will support the new keyboard peripheral, pro drums and keys, vocal harmonies, and more (via RockBandAide)

Any content already made in RBN will be supported by RBN 2.0 in Rock Band 3. Using any of the new features will presumably make your content RB3-exclusive. Songs for RBN 2.0 will begin to release at the end of Q1 2011. Left out, however, is support for pro guitar authoring, as explained by Harmonix: Read more »