It's the first Humpdate without Simon DI, so we're taking the old jalopy out for a spin with a new co-pilot.

In an effort to show their love for listeners, the GameHounds staff decided to bring on a listener for a little live-action test driving of the Humpdate.

This week, listener William Griffin brings his A-game to the podcast as he and Edie Sellers discuss the first half of this week's gaming news. Topics include AC/DC's upcoming track pack (and all its weirdness), the rumored new DS announcement, the Xbox Slim, Playstation 4 spec speculations, and other cool stuff.

... And hookers. Yeah. Really. Hookers.

Topics and links after the jump...

This week, Will and Edie discuss:

Rumor: , Nintendo doesn't exactly deny it.

Xbox India o Split-Screen.com, which wrote the story, now says its writer could have made a mistake. Whups!

Xbox with a website modeled on the new navigation methods coming in the update.

According to Japanese website Impress, Sony has sent a very, very rough draft of Playstation 4 specs to third-party developers to get their opinions. .

AC/DC is coming to Rock Band and Rock Band 2 on November 2 for PS3 and 360, November 16 for Wii. ? Really?!?!

Dan "Shoe" Hsu has done it again. Part five of his "Behind the Scenes" blog series discusses, among other things, . We did say we'd talk about hooker, didn't we?

Enjoy.