After a 10 year wait, Blizzard has finally released Diablo III. If you’re wondering why a lot of people seem irritable and tired lately, it’s probably because they’ve been spending late nights playing the game.

Glee is great fun for all ages – well, mostly the singing and dancing. The rest of Glee will give some parents pause, especially more mature topics like teen pregnancy and alcoholism. Well, there’s now a solution for that. 20th Century Fox has released Glee Encore, which is essentially music videos from the Glee TV series.

With Glee Encore you get 34 musical numbers, none of the drama and you can safely leave your kids with the DVD player.

Here’s the song list:

“On My Own”
“Don’t Stop Believin’”
“Gold Digger”
“I Say a Little Prayer”
“Alone”
“Somebody to Love”
“It’s My Life/Confessions Part II”
“No Air”
“You Keep Me Hanging On”
“Defying Gravity”
“I’ll Stand By You”
“Don’t Stand So Close to Me/Young Girl”
“Lean on Me”
“Imagine”
“True Colors”
“Smile”
“Don’t Rain on My Parade”
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want”
“Gives You Hell”
“Hello”
“Vogue”
“Like a Virgin”
“Like a Prayer”
“Fire”
“One Less Bell to Answer/A House is Not a Home”
“Beautiful”
“Run Joey Run”
“Total Eclipse of the Heart”
“Jessie’s Girl”
“Rose’s Turn”
“Bad Romance”
“Beth”
“Faithfully”
“Any Way You Want It/Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’”

Buy Glee Encore DVD set.

Last Christmas, the Glee team released just one holiday single, Last Christmas (get it?). This year (to save you from tears), they’ve released a whole album, which includes the previously released Last Christmas.

This latest album contains 12 holiday-themed songs, mainly classics.

Track Listing
1. We Need A Little Christmas (Glee Cast Version)
2. Deck The Rooftop (Glee Cast Version)
3. Merry Christmas Darling (Glee Cast Version)
4. Baby, It’s Cold Outside (Glee Cast Version)
5. The Most Wonderful Day Of The Year (Glee Cast Version)
6. Last Christmas (Glee Cast Version)
7. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Glee Cast Version)
8. O Christmas Tree (Glee Cast Version)
9. Jingle Bells (Glee Cast Version)
10. You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Glee Cast Version featuring k.d. lang)
11. Angels We Have Heard On High (Glee Cast Version)
12. O Holy Night (Glee Cast Version)

Buy Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album

The world’s favourite new musical TV series is back, and this time they brought along Madonna. An early episode of Glee featured Madonna’s Papa Don’t Preach. Now there’s a whole episode with nothing but Madonna songs. No real Madonna, but there’s a cool video of Vogue featuring Sue Sylvester as Madonna.

Here are the 7 songs featured in the episode.
1. Express Yourself (Glee Cast Version Featuring Jonathan Groff)
2. Borderline / Open Your Heart (Glee Cast Version)
3. Vogue (Glee Cast Version)
4. Like A Virgin (Glee Cast Version Featuring Jonathan Groff)
5. 4 Minutes (Glee Cast Version)
6. What It Feels Like For A Girl (Glee Cast Version)
7. Like A Prayer (Glee Cast Version Featuring Jonathan Groff)

Buy Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna.

I have to admit that I’m a big fan of Neil Gaiman, from back in his Sandman days. Gaiman has done several books for teenagers and younger (Coraline, Graveyard Book) and this new story Hearts, Keys and Puppetry is also targeted towards the same audience. However, even the young at heart can enjoy it.

About Hearts, Keys and Puppetry by Neil Gaiman

“Sam was brushing her hair when the girl in the mirror put down the hairbrush, smiled, and said, “We don’t love you anymore.”

So began the Twitter Audio project, with a dazzling first line penned by New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. What followed was an epic tale of imaginary lands, magical objects, haunting melodies, plucky sidekicks, menacing villains and much more. From mystical blue roses to enchanted mirrors to pesky puppets, this classic fable was born from the collective creativity of more than one hundred contributors via the social network Twitter.com in a groundbreaking literary experiment.

Together, virtual strangers crafted a rollicking story of a young girl’s journey with love, forgiveness, and acceptance.

Download Hearts, Keys and Puppetry by Neil Gaiman