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Activision’s Guitar Hero World Tour is one of that year’s most eagerly anticipated games, but the company has big news for fans who can’t wait for that: Metallica will be releasing its next album, Death Magnetic, as a Guitar Hero III download on the same day that the CD arrives in stores.

“It’s exciting, 27 years into your career, to be doing something first,” said Metallica drummer Lars

Ulrich. “In five to 10 years it’ll be a normal thing to release an album to Guitar Hero the same day as the record.”

To manufacture its big announcement, Activision eschewed a booth at the E3 Media & Business Summit in Los Angeles in favor of a reception at a former cathedral. A big chunk of the video games community — namely, the companies that build them and the journalists who write about […]

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