As if ATT hadn’t monopolized the mobile phone industry enough with the iPhone, the mobile giant has just niched an incredible deal with Activision for Guitar Hero Mobile.
Guitar Hero III Mobile dethroned Tetris in mobile gaming on Verizon, a miraculous feat, by offering three popular songs per month taken straight from Activision’s console game. Users who subscribe by March 1 will receive the standard start-up song package and also the month’s playlist, including Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Freebird’, Black Sabbath’s ‘War Pigs’, and Iggy Pop’s ‘Search and Destroy’. Dilly-dalliers who subscribe after March 1 will have to wait for April to get any bonus song releases.

Membership on AT&T-supported phones has other benefits, too. The Java platform has allowed for certain upgrades to the BREW version of the game currently out on Verizon phones. The graphics are slightly larger and clearer, and Hands-On Mobile has added a haptic dimension to a missed note: the phone vibrates in response to butter fingers.

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Guitar Hero metal lovers all across the land have some new tracks to rock out with this weekend.  Priced at 500 Microsoft Points ($6.25) and featuring master recordings of Deftones’ “Hole in the Earth,” Avenged Sevefold’s “Almost Easy” and Thrice’s “The Arsonist,” the Modern Metal Pack is now available for purchase from the Xbox Live Marketplace.  The exclusive metal music packs should be available in the XBOX marketplace later today for your enjoyment.

Finally, new song packs can be downloaded from XBOX Live for Guitar Hero III and one of my favorite bands, No Doubt, seems to be the headliner.  Take a look at what’s waiting for you at XBOX Live in the download department for Guitar Hero III:

No Doubt Track Pack

• “Don’t Speak” by No Doubt
• “Excuse Me Mr.” by No Doubt
• “Sunday Morning” by No Doubt

Classic Rock Track Pack

• “Peace of Mind” by Boston
• “Juke Box Hero” by Foreigner
• “Any Way You Want It” by Journey