Harmonix and MTV Games has announced 12 of Bon Jovi’s greatest hits, including four tracks with Pro Guitar and Pro Bass, as well as tracks from New Order, Deftones and Talking Heads, which also feature Pro Guitar and Pro Bass upgrades, will be available November 9 in the US and November 10 in Europe for Rock Band 3.

Each offering will be made available individually, as well as through the Bon Jovi Greatest Hits: Rock Band Edition for PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360 and include the following tracks (those marked with “*” will include ProGuitar and ProBass expansions for $0.99 per song):

Bon Jovi

• Bad Medicine
• Blaze of Glory
• Have a Nice Day
• I’ll Be There For You
• It’s My Life
• Lay Your Hands On Me
• Livin’ on a Prayer (RB3 version) *
• Runaway *
• Wanted Dead or Alive
• We Weren’t Born to Follow
• Who Says You Can’t Go Home
• You Give Love a Bad Name (RB3 version)

Def Tones – My Own Summer (Shove It) *
New Order - Blue Monday *
Talking Heads – Burning Down the House *

Price: $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points), $2.00 USD (200 Wii Points) per song; $0.99 USD (100 Wii Points/80 Microsoft Points), £0.59 UK, €0.75 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade
$19.99, £9.99 UK, €14.99 EU (1,600 Microsoft Points, 2,000 Wii Points) for Bon Jovi Greatest Hits: Rock Band Edition.

Honey, you give love a bad name.

Sorry had to be done.

Bon Jovi will release its Greatest Hits collection in stores on November 9, and as part of the promotion, the band will allow the collection to be downloaded as DLC for Rock Band 3.

“Bon Jovi is undergoing all manner of promotional activities, including a tour,” MTV’s SVP of electronic games and music, Paul DeGooyer, told MCV. “And we are partnering with them to help bring that to the masses.

“Bon Jovi, for us, is one of our most requested artists. We’ve had a couple of songs on disc, but we’ve never done a vertical campaign like this with them. We are working with Bon Jovi on activity for the compilation and other elements that they haven’t announced yet.”

The band’s guitarist, Richie Sambora, added: “The great thing about Rock Band is it gets music to a whole new generation of people, which is totally amazing to me.”

All of you are lying if you say you won’t download at least some of this. God squashes kittens when you lie, you know.

Rock Band 3 is out October 26 and 29 in the US and UK, respectively.

Looks like the lawsuit between Activision and pissed-off rockers over Guitar Hero 5/Band Hero is still on the docket, if Courtney Love’s newest comments are any indication.

According to an interview with NME Magazine, Love says her late-husband Kurt Cobain would have been amused over “singing a Spice Girls song” in Band Hero, which is why she’s a bit conflicted over the lawsuit.

Still, she says that someone has to stand up for others in the music biz, so she is hopping on the white horse with the rest.

“What pisses me off the most about it, is I think Kurt would be fine with having five Kurt Cobains singing the song Wannabe, like, ‘Tell me what you want, what you really really want’, she told the mag (via Contact Music). “I think he’d find that really funny, but at the same time it’s gross what they did.

“Gwen (Stefani) started the lawsuit. I have really good lawyers now and will join that lawsuit. There was this gray area and they fucked the lot of us. They didn’t fuck Jack White, but they fucked Gwen, fucked Johnny Cash and fucked Kurt… It’s just gross.

“This is the rock ‘n’ roll business, this is what people do. They are sleazy [and] they do sleazy things.”

Former Nirvana members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic also felt the Cobain bit was in bad taste, and even Jon Bon Jovi agreed, telling the BBC that he personally “passed” on being included in either title.

The shit storm all started back in September, when Love when on a rant fueled Twitter rampage against Activision on her now-canceled account, saying she was going to “sue the shit” out of the publisher – who responded citing it had obtained the “necessary rights” to use Cobain’s iconic image.

When we spoke with Love’s lawyer regarding her claims, he confirmed that there would indeed be legal action taken if Activision did not prohibit users of the game from using Cobain’s image to sing the songs of others.

Regarding the suit filed by No Doubt that Love plans to join, Activision in turn filed a countersuit against Gwen’s band, alleging breach of contract and unjust enrichment.

Don’t expect a conclusion to this any time soon, kiddos.

A promotion advertising Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers in Japan will boast a Bon Jovi song as the background music.

Apparently, Square Enix has decided to use the song “We Weren’t Born to Follow” for use in the game’s commercials.

The title hits Japan on November 12 with the Bon Jovi commercials airing later this month.

Don’t worry folks, the commercials are for Japan only.

Via IGN.