The Saints Row Facebook page has news that Saints Row IV is gold, and on track for release on August 20th in North America and August 23rd in other regions (thanks nin). The post also offers more on the Enter the Dominatrix "Director's Cut" DLC, a second DLC pack to follow later this year, and word on a season's pass to buy both packs in advance:

Saints Row IV has gone GOLD!

Now that the game has been finished, Volition will be working on additional mission packs that didn't fit the main game. The first of these is a "Director's Cut" of "Enter the Dominatrix" which will be released some time after release (when it's done!).

This will be a tongue-in-cheek vision of what this content was originally going to be like, before parts of the next Saints Row (which started development before Saints Row: The Third was released) and elements of the original Enter The Dominatrix DLC were merged to form the glorious beast that is Saints Row IV.

A second mission pack will be released late 2013.

Both of these mission packs are collected at a discount in a "Season Pass" for $9.99 / 9.99 euro / £7.99, available from launch onwards. The price of all combined Season Pass content, if purchased separately, will be over $15 / 15 euro / £12.

The Season Pass will also give you the Rectifier weapon as a bonus: an alien anal probe weapon that lets you launch enemies and NPCs across the horizon! It's the only way the Zin will learn to leave Earth alone.

Saints Row IV will be released on August 20 in North America, August 23 elsewhere, on PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.