Guitar Center, the world's largest musical instrument retailer recently announced the findings of their national survey. The survey shows that popular music titles Rock Band and Guitar Hero increase gamer interest to own and play actual instruments, instead of just the gaming peripherals. More details after the jump.

MTV Games has spoken out about the lawsuit filed against them, as well as Viacom, Harmonix and EA for allegedly profiting off of their defective Rock Band (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii) drum pedals. This lawsuit, according to them, is nothing but an "opportunistic and baseless" attempt. Read more in the full article.

Monte Morgan from Kansas claims that Harmonix and co. not only know that there is a defect in Rock Band's  (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii) drum kit pedals but are actively trying to profit off of it. He hired a team of lawyers to put his grievances into writing and slapped Harmonix, EA, MTV and Viacom with a class action lawsuit.

Just yesterday, Activision announced that Guitar Hero: World Tour will be getting some DLC tracks from The Killers. Don't look now, but Rock Band's getting the same treatment! Not losing a step in the race, MTV has now also revealed that three tracks from The Killers are headed their way to the Rock Band music store - on the very same date as World Tour's The Killers DLC: November 25. Ha!

DLC week 11/18 for Rock Band 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2) is going to see quite a variety: Punk, post puck, heavy metal and hard rock. Check out the full article to see who you could be rocking out to next week.

Dan Teasdale, the lead designer for Rock Band 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2), was asked about the music studio feature included with Guitar Hero: World Tour (Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, and Wii). He declared it to be too restrictive and elaborated on Harmonix's plans for user created and published music.

With the September release of Rock Band 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2), Harmonix now sits at 5th in US video game sales. As if that's not good enough news for the company, Viacom will pay Rock Band creators video-game bonuses exceeding US$ 300 million. Details and big sums in the full article.

Harmonix has announced that a second track pack disc for Rock Band  will be coming to retail outlets on November 17. The disc will also work with Rock Band 2. The first track pack disc Harmonix released was only for the PS2 and Wii, but this one. This disc will also be available for the game's PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. Check out the track list and price details at the full article.

The Foo Fighters are the DLC for the week of 11/11 for Rock Band 2 (Xbox 360, PS3, PS2). The tracks available will be from their album "The Colour and the Shape" so it's a good buy (assuming you're into them in the first place, that is).

Further problems with Rock Band 2's (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2) 20 free DLCs: Looks like more delays as they suspend sending out the token codes. Sean Baptiste issued an apology via the Rock Band Forums and promised to try to get the tracks up and available within 24 hours.