Metallica is bringing its next album, Death Magnetic, to Guitar Hero III in glorious simultaneity with its retail release.

So... that'll be nice. If you like Dad-Metal. Still, we shouldn't chunter. This is the first time an album has been simultaneously released in a game and in stores.

Activision also says it "announced five new titles in development". Treat it more like confirmation, however, since information on three of the titles has emerged in one form or another already and Activision isn't saying a whole lot more about the titles than the fact that they exist.

Here's the list as presented by Activision - "Wolfenstein, the highly anticipated title from id Software; Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2: Fusion by Vicarious Visions, the sequel to one of the best-selling action RPGs; Singularity (Working Title), a first person action game, based on an all-new wholly owned intellectual property, from Raven Software; a Luxoflux game based on “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” from DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, in association with Hasbro, the follow-up to one of 2007’s biggest blockbuster movies and games; and a title based on Twentieth Century Fox/Marvel’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine in development at Raven Software."

Singularity and the Transformers games are the only ones that can really be counted as "new".

It was confirmed by Activision that a new Wolfenstein game was coming as far back as 2005. Back then it was slated for the Xbox 360 and the PC, but the PS3 has now been thrown into the works.

An Ultimate Alliance sequel, meanwhile, was confirmed back in February by an Activision conference call.

As for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, comics and TV writer Marc Guggenheim has reportedly already said he was working on a script for the game.