As each week passes, the MTV Rhythm Game Track Finder becomes a more complete database for searching rhythm game music.

In fact, we are almost at a point where there are no additional older games to add, aside from a few miscellaneous “DDR” titles. We’ve searched GameSpot, IGN, AllGameGuide, and even Wikipedia, but out list gets shorter and shorter each week. If there are any glaring omissions, please let us know so we can get those games added right away.

This week’s updates includes one of our last archival additions, Tecmo’s “UNiSON: Rebels of Rhythm & Dance,” our weekly “Rock Band” update, as well as the remainder of the “Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore” downloadable content for both the Xbox 360 and PS3.

“UNiSON” was a bit of a surprise; we didn’t even know it existed until we stumbled upon it in Wikipedia last week. Once we saw it, we made sure to add the full U.S. release song list to our database. It appears to be one of the most story-based rhythm games on this list, but it also has one of the smallest track listings as well. It tops out at only 12 songs. but one of them is the classic “O.P.P.” by Naughty By Nature, so it’s okay.

The full update is below:
Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore (Xbox 360, PS3) 40 Songs Added
Rock Band (Xbox 360, PS3) 3 Songs Added (Blondie’s “Hanging On The Telephone,” Sonic Youth’s “Kool Thing,” and The Clash’s “Train In Vain”)
UNiSON: Rebels of Rhythm & Dance (PS2) 12 Songs Added

As always, go to trackfinder.mtv.com, for all this and more — it’s the definitive search engine for all your music gaming needs.

This week’s Rhythm Game Track Finder update focuses on three of the biggest names in music video games “Rock Band,” “Guitar Hero” and “Alvin and The Chipmunks.”

Right about now, you may be wondering just how “Alvin” made it onto that list. While “Alvin and The Chipmunks” may not have been the most critically acclaimed game of last year, it does boast one of the most diverse and well-rounded soundtracks in quite some time. Granted, all songs were performed as covers by The Chipmunks, but, if you check out a few of the previews at the game’s official site, you’ll see just how amusing The Ramones and Run D.M.C. sound performed at such a high pitch.

In addition to “The Chipmunks” both “Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero 3″ saw three song updates in the form of downloadable track packs. However, it was announced today that “Rock Band” owners who have a PS2 or Wii will be able to purchase twenty song track backs to supplement the Xbox and PS3’s downloadable content. The “Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1” disks will be available on July 15. Also added were the first 15 (of 25) confirmed tracks for “Guitar Hero: On Tour.”

Check out the full list of updates:
Alvin and The Chipmunks (Wii, PS2) 40 Songs Added
Guitar Hero 3 (Xbox 360, PS3) 3 Songs Added (Muse’s “‘Exo-Politics,” “Stockholm Syndrome,” and “Supermassive Black Hole”)
Guitar Hero: On Tour (DS) 15 Songs Added
Rock Band (Xbox 360, PS3) 3 Songs Added (Angels & Airwave’s “It Hurts,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Date With The Night,” and Fall Out Boy’s “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race”)
Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1 (Wii, PS2) 20 Songs Added

As always, go to trackfinder.mtv.com, for all this and more — it’s the definitive search engine for all your music gaming needs.

Since we launched the Rhythm Game Track Finder back in January, there haven’t been too many rhythm games actually released. Our updates have mainly been focused on downloadable content, or adding classic rhythm games from years past. However, this past week “Battle of the Bands” was released, and it was the ideal candidate for inclusion in the database.

THQ released this Wii-exclusive title with 30 songs from artists from drastically different genres. Whether you like Korn or The Commodores there’ll be something for you to play in “Battle of the Bands.” All the tracks are covers, but that actually plays into the game itself, since the challenge is to complete the songs as they are “remixed” into different styles by the “bands” in the game. Multiplayer’s own Patrick Klepek describes it as a “refreshingly different” rhythm game.

The Track Finder was also updated this past week with “Karaoke Revolution American Idol Encore” PS3 downloadable content, as well as “SingStar”’s official release date and track list for here in the States. Last, but not least, we added three more song’s to “Rock Band” (one of them being The Smashing Pumpkin’s greatest song of all time, “Zero”).

The full list is below:

Battle of the Bands (Wii) 30 Songs Added
Karaoke Revolution American Idol Encore (PS3) 43 Songs Added
Rock Band (PS3, Xbox 360) 3 Songs Added (The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Zero,” and The Mother Hips’ “Red Tandy” and “Time Sick Son of a Grizzly”)

As always, go to trackfinder.mtv.com, for all this and more — it’s the definitive search engine for all your music gaming needs.

You may have heard about our biggest addition to the Track Finder this week already - “Rock Band”’s first full albums.

Three albums totaling 34 songs were added last week to our ever-growing database of rhythm game songs. Once these songs are released Xbox 360 and PS3 owners will have 176 songs available to them, mostly via download, but that’s more than any other game that is currently a part of the Track Finder. So, take your pick from The Cars, Pixies, and Judas Priest and play that endless setlist like it was meant to be played.

Rock Band: (PS3, Xbox 360) 34 Songs Added (The Cars’ Self Titled, The Pixies’ Doolittle, Judas Priest’s Screaming For Vengeance and Motley Crue’s “Saints of Love”)

Rock Band: (Wii) 63 Songs Added

As always, go to trackfinder.mtv.com, for all this and more — it’s the definitive search engine for all your music gaming needs.

This week’s Rhythm Game Track Finder update is not only plentiful, but also home to at least one interesting video game fact that I did not know.

The past few weeks of Track Finder updates have been a bit slow, only adding some DLC one week, and half of an upcoming game the other. However, the same can’t be said about this week. We are back on track, with updates for the biggest rhythm games around: “Rock Band,” “Guitar Hero,” and “DDR.”

“Rock Band” and “Guitar Hero III” both saw updates of newly announced track packs, but the “DDR” addition was more archival, since it added “DDR Ultramix 2” to our database. In doing so, it also added one of the first games to really take advantage of Xbox Live’s downloading capabilities.

There were six downloadable track packs for the original “Ultramix,” and once “Ultramix 2″ was released, there were another set of six for that game as well. However here is where it gets interesting, if you bought any of the track packs for the original, you could play those songs in the sequel as well. So your purchase wasn’t just tied to one game, instead it was tied to a franchise. Sadly, this is an opportunity that “Guitar Hero III” has already missed out on, but there is still hope for “Rock Band.” I mean, if this kind of technology worked four years ago, on a last generation console, why can’t it work now?

Here’s this week complete update list:
Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix (Xbox) 5 Songs Added
Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2 (Xbox) 130 Songs Added
Guitar Hero III (Xbox 360, PS3) 3 Songs Added (Def Leppard’s “Rock of Ages,” “Photograph,” and their still yet to be released new single “Nine Lives”)
Rock Band (Xbox 360, PS3) 3 Songs Added (Blondie’s “Call Me,” The Police’s “Message in a Bottle” and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Simple Man”)

As always, go to trackfinder.mtv.com, for all this and more — it’s the definitive search engine for all your music gaming needs.

If you’re a fan of “Karaoke Revolution” classics, then your in luck - they were the only additions to the Track Finder this week.

Konami’s “Karaoke Revolution Presents American Idol Encore” was updated this past week with all 85 downloadable songs that are available. These updates are part of three different track packs that have all been made available since the game was released. While most of them are for both the PS3 and Xbox 360, there is a handful that are still Xbox 360 exclusives. 85 different songs from the likes of Dusty Springfield, Boyz II Men, Jamiroquai, and The Jackson 5 were added as part of this update.

Karaoke Revolution Presents American Idol Encore (PS3, Xbox 360) 85 Songs Added

As always, go to trackfinder.mtv.com, for all this and more — it’s the definitive search engine for all your music gaming needs.

It was a slow week for the Rhythm Game Track Finder, but it wasn’t completely silent. We were able to get all of the announced tracks for the next console iteration of “Guitar Hero” added.

19 tracks for the upcoming release of “Guitar Hero: Aerosmith” were added, 13 from Aerosmith, and six from a variety of other classic bands. This ratio helps keep within the 60/40 split of tracks that was recently described by Gamespot. With 21 more tracks to go, will your favorite Aerosmith songs be making their way into the Rhythm Game Track Finder?

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii) 19 Songs Added

As always, go to trackfinder.mtv.com, for all this and more — it’s the definitive search engine for all your music gaming needs.

Most of this past week’s track finder update came courtesy of a giant mouse, and “Rock Band” heads to its hometown for one rockin’ track pack.

The two full games added to the Rhythm Game Track Finder this past week were brought to you by Disney. Both “Dance Dance Revolution Disney Mix” and “High School Musical: Sing It!” have Mickey’s stamp of approval. “DDR Disney Mix” is packed with twenty songs that you most likely grew up singing along with like ” Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” and (the perpetually annoying) “It’s A Small World.” Thanks to the game, you can dance along to them. In addition, it features the first appearance of Chubby Checker’s dance classic, “The Twist.” We also added the second game for the phenomenon that is “High School Musical.” “Sing It!” adds 23 more HSM songs to the database, as well as a couple other modern day Disney classics from the likes of Aly&AJ and Jesse McCartney.

This week’s “Rock Band” update offers a track pack from the band that shares their name with Harmonix’s hometown, Boston. When the songs go live later this week on Xbox Live and the PSN you’ll be able to jam to one of the greatest karaoke songs of all time “More Than a Feeling.” It’s about time.

This week also saw an update to one of the games that was already included in the Track Finder. The Xbox version of “Karaoke Revolution” was updated with fourteen tracks additional tracks that are platform-specific exclusives. Ten of the fourteen songs are master tracks for some of the greatest Motown songs of all time including “Stop! In the Name of Love” and “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.” The entire list of updates is below.

Dance Dance Revolution Disney Mix (PS1) 20 Songs Added
High School Musical: Sing It! (PS2, Wii) 30 Songs Added
Karaoke Revolution (Xbox) 14 Songs Added
Rock Band (Xbox 360, PS3) 6 Songs Added (Boston’s “Hitch a Ride,” “More Than a Feeling,” “Peace of Mind,” “Rock & Roll Band,” “Smokin’,” “Something About You”)

As always, go to trackfinder.mtv.com, for all this and more — it’s the definitive search engine for all your music gaming needs. 

The Rhythm Game Track Finder saw one of it’s most diverse updates ever last week, with the addition of one game, one video editor, and two sets of DLC.Some of MTV’s biggest artists including Snoop Dogg, Paramore, The Black Eyed Peas and C + C Music Factory (come on … they were big once) help round out the now 60 different games included in the Track Finder.Some of the biggest names in hip-hop come together to help gamers prove who has the best skills in “Get On Da Mic.” With 40 different tracks from artists like Kanye West, Dr. Dre, NWA, and Digital Underground “Get On Da Mic” spans the old school to new school hip-hop, and should have a little something for everyone.

This week’s “Rock Band” updates come courtesy of South By Southwest, and Earache Records. Last week’s songs (the announcement came late, which is why they weren’t included in last weeks update) were from bands playing the “Rock Band” showcase at the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, TX last week. This week’s tracks are all Earache Records artists, and, as you may be able to guess, a bit on the heavy side. At the Gates, Evile, and The Haunted will all put your eardrums to the test.

For all the updates check the list below.
Get On Da Mic (PS2) 40 Songs Added
Power Factory Featuring C + C Music Factory (Sega CD) 3 Songs Added
Rock Band (Xbox 360, PS3) 6 Songs Added (Serj Tankian’s “Beethoven’s C***,” Paramore’s “crushcrushcrush,” Black Tide’s “Shockwave,” At The Gate’s “Blinded By Fear,” Evile’s “Thrasher,” and The Haunted’s “D.O.A.”)

Apparently the kids love this “High School Musical” thing.

In fact, they love it so much so that it has spurred a series of video games, the first of which was added to the Rhythm Games Track Finder last week.

The 12 songs of “High School Musical Makin’ The Cut” for the Nintendo DS made their way into to the database, and coincidently, they’re all performed by the” High School Musical” cast.

Also added were two upcoming track packs for “Guitar Hero III.” The Modern Metal Pack features a total of three tracks by The Deftones, Thrice and Avenged Sevenfold. We also dropped in a threesome by those rowdy sons of Boston, The Dropkick Murphys. The tracks “Famous for Nothing,” “Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya” and “(F)lannigan’s Ball” will be hitting your Xbox 360 and PS3 just in time , so that you can spend your St. Patrick’s Day pretending you’re Irish in front of your TV. And the best part — it’ll be free.

For all this week’s updates, see the list below:

• Flow: Urban Dance Uprising (PS2) 50 Songs Added
• Guitar Hero III (Xbox 360, PS3) 6 Songs Added (Deftones’ “Hole in the Earth,” Avenged Sevenfold’s “Almost Easy,” Thrice’s “The Arsonist” The Dropkick Murphys’ “Famous for Nothing,” “Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya,” “(F)lannigan’s Ball”)
• High School Musical Makin’ The Cut (NDS) 12 Songs Added

We aren’t sure what’s up with this week’s “Rock Band” announcement (it’s already three days late). Hopefully they’re putting the final touches on “Still Alive.”