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Slick Entertainment's top-down racer Scrap Metal continues Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade Block Party promotion this week, Major Nelson reports. It'll be available this Wednesday for 1200 and almost begs comparison to classic racer-shooter hybrid, Rock N' Roll Racing -- in that, both games have rock and roll and racing. And guns ... to be used during the rocking and rolling and racing. It's like a fruit salad of slaughter and sweet licks, we guess.

Hey everyone, happy Monday! Mick Perona here again with your “This Week in DLC” goodness! And because it’s been crazy busy in the world of PlayStation, this week we’re combining the usual “Sack it to Me” post with today’s DLC update. Here’s what’s going on with LittleBigPlanet.

New This Week

St. Patrick’s Day Costume for LBP PS3 (FREE) – Celebrate St. Patty’s Day in your favorite LittleBigPlanet levels with this FREE costume!

In Case You Missed It

Canyons Costume for LBP PSP (FREE) – Get a sneak peek of what’s in the Canyons Theme Pack with this FREE Canyons costume!

Canyons Theme Pack for LBP PSP ($2.99) – Download a new set of goodies to create your own Canyons themed levels. The Canyons Theme Pack includes 2 Costumes, 19 CREATE Materials, 15 Stickers, 1 Music Kit, and 1 Background.

What’s New?
A heartfelt welcome to all the folks over at Media Molecule as they join us as part of SCE’s global development operation, SCE Worldwide Studios (SCE WWS).

Ever Wonder “who’s who” over at Media Molecule? Allow us to introduce our new family members!

Workshop of the Week

At LittleBigWorkshop.com, it’s time to get in on the fun for their March contest, and this time up it’s a sports theme! Have at it, SackPeeps!

Music to make War to.

Vintage covers and Centerfolds from the archives of the world's best-selling men's monthly magazine to be found throughout the world of Empire Bay.

#ubisoft The downtime that plagued PC gamers trying to play Assassin's Creed II yesterday was the result of a denial-of-service attack, causing one of Ubisoft's new DRM-servers to become unreachable. But hey, at least no one has hacked the game yet. More »

I just don’t think Sonic works well in 3d. Sonic 3D Blast was the first step in the wrong direction, and it seems like 3D Sonic games have been downhill ever since. I can’t really look back on any Sonic 3d game and say that I absolutely love it. Help me change [...]

Nintendo is adding an ambulatory flourish to its Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver launch, celebrating the PokeWalker accessory with a guided walk around New York City's Times Square. On Sunday, March 14, Pikachu footprints will be placed around Broadway Plaza, inviting fans to trace the trail of the fictional giant rat, with live demonstrations of the game and accessory along the trail.

Nintendo's usual launch events take place at the Nintendo World Store in Rockefeller Center, but this one is located in (and around) the Times Square Toys 'R' Us. Should you show up at the NWS, you'll just have to do a little extra walking.

Get the lowdown on motion-controlled titles this summer.

burda:ic expands its alaplaya gaming platform in Europe and North America with the autumn release of online RPG Forsakia.

Rising Star Games has taken an unusual, cost-effective step to get Fragile Dreams into Spanish-speaking homes. In collaboration with fansite DSWii.es, Rising Star is helping a group of 50 fans produce their own translation of the game's 35,000-word script. The translated text will be made available from DSWii and Rising Star's site following the European release of the game on March 19.

This is a clever approach to localization for a couple of reasons. First, fifty motivated kids will be able to get the job done in a fraction of the time a professional localization team would take. Additionally, it'll be much easier for Rising Star to laugh off the inevitable errors than it would with a 'real' localization.

#apple Gaming on the iPhone and iPod touch has been a huge hit for Apple — a neat, unique experience combining a relatively big screen, multi-touch controls, motion-sensor controls, network access for social gaming, in-app commerce for virtual goods, and more. More »

Mac users getting access to entire library next month.

And your humiliated foes will have to watch it.

Get your magic marker on.

Filed under: Podcasts It's a tough week for the Fancasters, who soldier on throughout a show without their usual host, Richard. He's the glue that holds this whole mess of madness, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 praise and Halo: Reach beta excitement together, y'know? Still, a podcast is what you expect and we try our best to create one of those things. Put it in your earholes and judge our success for yourself!

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Hosts: Alexander Sliwinski (Sli Xander), Xav de Matos (Snypz) and Dave Hinkle (KnifefightYaDad)

Produced by David Hinkle

Music: Intro/Outro: "Electromooq" by Uma Floresta. Break: "Endless Shovel" by Rogue Wave

For fans: Xbox 360 Fancast Facebook group

#ps3 It may have taken a bit longer, but today Gearbox Software was kind enough to send along this batch of free codes for the PS3 version of Borderlands' expansion pack The Secret Armory of General Knoxx. More »

GDC gets super addition.

#valve After much speculation and some not-so-subtle hinting, Valve has officially announced a Mac version of popular gaming service Steam coming in April, and its bringing Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series with it. More »

Ubisoft today offered up a bit of an explanation to those of you on PCs yesterday who were desperately trying to play the publisher's games with the cumbersome new DRM (Assassin's Creed 2 and Silent Hunter 5), only to find yourselves unable to authenticate said DRM because of the outage. Apparently it was (gasp!) ... hackers! "Servers were attacked which limited service from 2:30PM to 9:00PM Paris time [8:30AM to 3:00PM ET]," the company announced via Twitter.

It also noted that most folks were unaffected by the outage, saying "95% of players were not affected, but a small group of players attempting to open a game session did receive denial of service errors." Needless to say, the company of course apologized to anyone who wasn't able to play its games yesterday. We would once again like to point out that this situation would never have occurred if such a poor DRM system weren't in place to begin with.

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