This week, the Rock Band DLC is Red Hot Chili Pepper's Blood Sugar Sex Magik (full album). One track from the album - Give It Away - is already available on Rock Band 2 (due November 2008 in Europe!).

Blood Sugar Sex Magik

The Power of Equality
If You Have to Ask
Breaking the Girl
Funky Monks
Suck My Kiss
I Could Have Lied
Mellowship Slinky in B Major
The Righteous & The Wicked
Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Under the Bridge
Naked in the Rain
Apache Rose Peacock
The Greeting Song
My Lovely Man
Sir Psycho Sexy
They're Red Hot

Christmas Game Releases 2008.

In light of the avalanche of games heading our way in October and November this year we did an episode focusing on each week of release, and the choices we have to make.

Pretty much every important Q4 release is discussed (Except Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, which we forgot.)

Let me tell you folks, this Christmas is going to drain your wallets dry, BUT the games themselves look absolutely kickass so it WILL be worth it in the long run.

Due 23 September on Xbox Live and 25 September on PSN:

Moving Pictures by Rush (Full Album) - At last!

Tom Sawyer (Original Version)
Red Barchetta
YYZ
Limelight (Original Version)
The Camera Eye
Witch Hunt
Vital Signs

Also available as individual tracks:

Bad Religion - Sorrow
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Hot Hot Heat - Bandages
Kasabian - Shoot the Runner
Sleater-Kinney - You're No Rock N Roll Fun
The Stone Roses - Love Spreads

All master tracks, as per usual.

Awesome week ahead, all in all. Good thing I got a load of MS Points recently... :-D

Metallica/Too Human/Soul Calibur IV/Merceneries 2.

To combat the rambling nature of recent shows we've streamlined this week so there's minimal wandering off on tangents and instead we strike straight at the heart of the games to give you swift, concise reviews.

So Paul discusses the new Metallica album, released as DLC for Guitar Hero, Tony talks Too Human and Alex reveals whether Merceneries 2 rocked his world.

Also discussed are Soul Calibur IV, price cuts for the 360 and an awesome album we've been listening to recently.

SNES Special.

We're back! After two weeks up to his arms in baby business, Alex returns refreshed and ready for more DC action.

What better way to start the first of his episodes broadcasting as a father than  to focus on the console that so many folks recall most fondly from their childhood; The Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Paul's back too, after a month off to move and relax. He's been playing many a music rhythm-action game and has a juicy snippet of news about Rock Band 2 to confer.

And of course, faithful, lantern-jawed Tony is here as always to join in with the many stories and tidbits of information on this most hallowed console.

As a result of the podcast, Alex went out and bought a SNES, so be warned, you may find yourself cruising ebay, hungry for 16-bit goodness.

(Note. Alex mentions the construction of a picture of a man in a SNES joypad costume for this weeks episode. the result was so freakish, he destroyed it out of fear and anger and went with the far more tasteful image you see above. It's better this way.)

Alex needs another week to focus on fatherhood before coming back, but as a taster of what's to come, think retro console review, think the best 16 bit machine ever created.

One word, one (or four) syllable(s): SNES!

After last week's Moving Pictures delay fiasco, Harmonix are set to release the PAX 2008 Collection Pack on 2 September. All tracks are master recordings and will costs 240 MS Points for the pack and 80 MS Points individually. Proceeds from the sale of this Pack between launch and Holiday 2008 will be donated to the Penny Arcade run Child's Play Charity in order to help out children's hospitals around the world. Those tracks in full:

Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain
MC Frontalot - Livin’ on the Corner of Dude and Catastrophe
Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - Shhh…

The Locksley track pack was also hastily put up last Thursday following the announcement of the Rush delay. All masters, 240 MS Points for all 3 or 80 per individual song (these prices are effective until 29 September):

All Over Again
Don’t Make Me Wait
She Does