Hello there, long time no see. Just a quick message to everyone who still has me on their friends list.

Giant Bomb totally exploded, and I made an account there.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/Shasam/

I will be posting stuff there from now on. I havn't posted here in ages, but I came back to see if anyone was making accounts and such. I have added those of you that I found have made profiles. Those who I havn't added, add me. So yeah, this is nothing more than a needy guy looking for friends post, I feel so dirty... =P

For the longest time I have been looking for a reason to move from GameSpot to 1UP.com, but it just made no sense. My friends were here, I had a laugh with the unions, and I liked to blog (though that has gone downhill recently). After all of this "Gerstman-Gate" fiasco, however, I think it's finally time.

See, I have been listening to the 1UP Network Podcasts for ages, and loving them. They make me laugh, they provide good, honest opinions and above all, I still respect them. The HotSpot is still funny, but not in a way that these podcasts are. In the same way I grew to know the different editors of GS, I have begun to recognise the familiar voices over at 1UP.

As such, this is goodbye. I am cancelling my subscription, and leaving this account here to wallow in the mound of blogs, reviews and forum posts that I have dedicated to it. I am taking my caravan and following the dusty trail over to 1UP.com.

If anyone ever joins me, or is perhaps already there, my username is Shasam (YAY! No 712!). Although I may check this account from time to time to see comments, friends blogs and updates, the majority of my future in online game perusing is going to be done at 1UP.

It's been real, and for that I thank you, but for the last time...

Sam "Shasam712" Earl, Gamerscore - 40048.

See you around, GameSpot ol' buddy.

I am in a half conscious state while writing this, this list has kind of knocked me for six. Without further ado, I present to thee, Rock Band Downloadable Content.

The Police pack:
"Roxanne"
"Synchronicity II"
"Can't Stand Losing You"

Queens of the Stone Age pack:
"3s and 7s"
"Sick Sick Sick"
"Little Sister"

Metallica pack:
Three or six songs, none announced yet

Black Sabbath pack:
"N.I.B." (cover)
"Sweet Leaf" (cover)
"War Pigs" (cover)

David Bowie pack:
"Moonage Dream"
"Heroes"
"Queen B***h"

Punk pack:
"Ever Fallen in Love" by Buzzcocks (cover)
"I Fought the Law" by The Clash
"Rockaway Beach" by The Ramones

Single Songs:
"Fortunate Son" by Credence Clearwater Revival
"Juke Box Hero" by Foreigner
"My Sharona" by The Knack
"Cherry Bomb" by The Runaways
"Bang a Gong" by T-Rex
"Joker and the Thief" by Wolfmother
"Brass in a Pocket" by Pretenders
"My Iron Lung" by Radiohead
"Buddy Holly" by Weezer

I feel like I should be typing something like "Awsome" or "Rad", or whatever buzz words are cool these days, followed by a random combination of !'s, 1's, the words one, eleven and onehundredandeleven, and maybe a two for good measure, but I can't be bothered. I don't dance to your tune internets! Unless you tell me things like this news, then I'm all yours.

PS, no word on pricing or in what order these are going to be released, but I would bet good money that the packs cost the same as the Guitar Hero ones. I just hope they price single songs slightly less.

I know that by this point I sound like a broken record, continuously babbling on about this single game, but to be honest there's nothing else that's just around the corner which is exciting me this much. My excitement reached a peak earlier this week as they announced the remaining songs from the "main set list". In short, I'm a 70's music freak and I'm getting my fix whilst having to deal with too much Fall Out Boy (which is, by the way, any Fall Out Boy).

It's a bit disappointing that there're only 58 songs on the disc. I know that sounds like splitting hairs, such as complaining about the number of maps in shooters and such, but I was hoping for just a few more. I suppose that with Rock Band having so much (alleged ) DLC coming so regularly they have saved a few surprises for that, or at least hope so.

Despite all of that though, I still hold the Rock Band list leagues above the Guitar Hero III List. I know a lot of people don't agree with that, but it all comes down to taste. You can't really argue with peoples taste, but most of us will give it a try. As previously mentioned, I love the 70's when it comes to music, and the 13 70's songs in Rock Band are generally pretty awsome. It also helps that The Who are my favourite band of all time and Rock Band comes with lashings of them.

It's still a long way off though, over here in the UK. Guitar Hero III, however, is right around the corner. 20 days, I can't wait. I have been playing the demo a lot and generally like it, but there are a few weird Hammer On/Pull Off issues which come from the way they decide which notes should or shouldn't be HOs/POs. Apart from that the game play seems great, but the character models are some of the ugliest models I have ever seen and the loading screens have changed from sometimes hilarious lessons in rock to random fabricated quotes that take those rock lessons from the previous games and put them in a the mouth of a band member. At the moment, those loading screens are not doing it for me.

That's pretty much all I came to talk about, although I am really excited for COD4 next week and then Mass Effect shortly after. It's also good to have done a blog for this thing, it's been a while. On a parting note, a few random bands I want for Rock Band DLC, most of these aren't huge hits or anything but they are a few of my more recent favourite songs that I think would be awsome.

Biffy Clyro
The Cribs
The Darkness
Kings of Leon
MORE FOO FIGHTERS!!!
...and most importantly, any Dragonforce, I know GHIII has Through The Fire and Flames, but Rock Band needs their stuff more, because drums and vocals are fun too Red Octane.

With that, I'm done.

It's finally official. After a few rumours and speculation over what Free Radical would be doing after Haze is released later this year, they have gone and confirmed that they are indeed working on the 4th TimeSplitters game.

I have talked about this before...a lot, but TS2 is my favourite game of all time. I have played it to death and could still go and play it some more now. The third one was great, though it didn't top 2, and with the 4th now officially on it's way I am going to hyped from now until it comes out.

So, keeping this short and sweet, I can't wait. The TimeSplitters gameplay, comedy, aesthetic, I love everything about those games. Here's hoping that this one's great and comes to the 360! Also, the fact that the can blatantly parody Halo so soon after it's release is fantastic, wonder how long they were planning that one for.