Nice timing there, Ubisoft. To go alongside this week’s release ofScott Pilgrim vs. the Worldon DVD and Blu-ray, the beat-’em-up game counterpart is getting some fresh add-on content. For $2, you’re getting Knives Chau as a playbable character, the Battle Royale and Dodge Ball modes, plus there’s a separate — and totally free — patch that introduces drop-in co-op and fixes bugs. It’s weird how we have reached the point where two-dollar digital content seems strangely cheap....

I…I feel like I could just sit back and let this one take care of itself. I could say all the obvious things and run all the obvious header images. Furry references? Sure. Cosplay fail? Yeah, of course. But this just seems to assume that you’d think that automatically, so I don’t even need to bother. I’m not going to be that guy. This year a Sonic the Hedgehog themed convention will be held in Plano, Texas....

Here are a bunch of screenshots forSonic Generations. Don’t get too excited — they’re for the “City Escape” level which we already knew about. In fact, some of these screens aren’t new at all (they’re in the preview I just linked, actually), so I don’t know why they were sent out. Naturally, I am too lazy to sort out the new screens from the old ones, so I’ve just posted them in their entirety for completions sake....

Who doesn’t want a chair or a pen created from a PSOne? Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has contracted a UK-based company by the name of Electronic Waste Company to potentially recycle several hundred thousand PSOne cases and turn them into household objects like chairs or even pens. The idea behind this move is brilliant. As it stands now, SCEE is sitting on top of at least 300,000 PSOne cases in their repair center, and that’s probably a few too many than what is needed....

One of the more interesting choices Sony made available for PS3 owners, the ability to install an operating system other than the console standard, looks like it’s about to go out the window. While PS3 Slim users have never had the opportunity to install a different OS, even older systems will have the capability disabled, according to the Official PlayStation Blog. Security concerns have been cited as the reason. The change goes down with firmware update 3....

It’s the ball on a stick. The wand thingy. The “Arc.” Whatever it is, Sony is going to show it it off at PS3 at next month’sGame Developers Conference. In an hour-long presentation called“Introducing the PlayStation 3 Motion Controller,” SCEA’s Platform Research Manager David Coombes and Kirk Bender will show off the tech publicly at the conference on March 11th, the first proper showing since last year’s E3. I think it would be in Sony’s best interest to show off actual games and not just tech demos this time around....

So, this costume of Spider-Man’s was acquired in the Negative Zone where it’s former owner was a rebel leader named Dusk. Spider-Man assumed the identity of Dusk as an icon to help the rebels and then took it back with him where he would later don it as one of four alternate identities that allowed him to keep fighting crime when framed by Norman Osborne and the Trapster. Apparently it makes him pretty much invisible or something and you’ll be able to make him wear it inSpider-Man: Shattered Dimensions....

Ghost Recon Advanced WarfighterandSplinter Cell Double Agentare, uh, sort of available for download through Microsoft’s brilliant Xbox 360 digital distribution platform,Games on Demand. GRAWis available in most regions. The list of exclusions includes the-always-forgotten Australia, Korea and New Zealand. In North America the downloadable is priced at a bloated thirty bucks and … wait … GameStop bargain bin just called us. It said it wants to chase whatever dragon the Microsoft pricing gurus have stuffed in their shoes....

With all their recent moves involvingexpansion into casual marketsandbuyouts, one gets the feeling that Square-Enix has this little thing called world domination on the drawing board. Factor in that Square Enix Inc. has just announced a licensing agreement withEmergent Game Technologiesfor use of their Gamebryo engine on a yet-to-be-announced project, and you can see how their sphere of influence is ever widening. Square is staying mum on the use of the Gamebryo engine, only saying that details on the project it is being used for will be released at a later time....

Not surprisingly, it seems that Blizzard Entertainment’sStarCraft II: Wings of Libertyis doing really well at retail. Okay, not just really well — according to Blizzard, it’s the “fastest-selling strategy game of all time.” Here’s what that means: over the course of the first 48 hours, more than 1.5 million copies ofStarCraft IIwere sold. The number is comprised of worldwide sales; the game saw release in North America, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, certain regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau....

On today’s Swagtacular, I get to do my very first special edition unboxing! I’ve never gotten to do one of these before, so this was a lot of fun. Of course, since I can’t ever do anything properly, things go a bit … spicy … towards the end. In fact … I’m sorry. I’m very sorry. In this episode, I ruined videogames for everybody.

Holy crap! PAX is just 21 days away now! PAX really is the best event for gamers to check out, and if thislist of exhibiterscan’t convince you, then nothing will. 2K Games, Blizzard, Valve, Nintendo, EA, BioWare, Ubisoft, Capcom, Rockstar, Bethesda and many more publishers are going to be at the show giving you a chance to play their games long before they’re released. Some of the exhibitors, like EA, are even going to have multiple booths to show off their products....

Speaking with Famitsu, Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi gave an update on a few of the studio’s missing projects and, of course,Ninja Gaiden 3. He revealed that theDoAprequel,Dead or Alive Code Cronus, has been scrapped, as hasProject Progressive, a game I have no memory of whatsoever. As for brighter (and bloodier) news,Ninja Gaiden 3is still progressing along nicely. “We’ve already completed an internal prototype,” says Hayashi. “We held a sampling event for the prototype, and it was well received within the company....