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Major Nelson’s podcast number 330 is loaded to the gill with stuff.

Want proof? It’s 321 minutes long and contains chats with Xbox Live boss Stephen Toulouse, The Guild’s Felicia Day, development manager at Tiburon, Ryan Ferwerda chatting about Madden NFL 10, Josh Randall, the creative director behind Beatles Rock Band and Dan Maher, Xbox UK’s XBL editor.

If you don’t feel like listening to the whole thing, the Major has kindly listed the time each one starts.

Very kind of him considering most of us have ADHD.

Hit up the link to hear all about it.

Music games have a “weird” and possibly console-less future, Harmonix chap Josh Randall has told Videogamer.

“I think you could foresee a future where maybe you don’t even have a console,” he said.

“Your instrument can have all these songs and you just plug it into your TV. I’m sure it [the genre] is going to start to move in weird ways that no-one’s even thought of yet.”

Awesome. And don’t just think a music world without consoles. Think phones, people.

“We’re obviously focused on the consoles, but outside of Harmonix there are people doing interesting stuff in the mobile space,” Randall added.

“It’s going to be interesting when it all splinters apart and then comes back together in some form we’ve not even thought of yet.”

We’re all about the splinters. Hit the link for more.

Harmonix creative director Josh Randall has told 1UP that if you want to play the Beatles song in Beatles: Rock Band, then you’re going to have to buy the game as downloadable content for the title won’t be compatible with other versions of the game.

However, it works both ways too. If you’re a Beatles Rock Band only owner and want to sample other track, you’ll simply have to buy another game in order to do so.

The game is out on September 9 ’09.