It's a special Thursday for the PlayStation Store, as Sony's digital distribution center for all things PlayStation has gotten its last Thursday update for the month.

Next week's update will arrive early--on Tuesday--in honor of the Thanksgiving holiday.

In any case, this week brings the exclusive DLC for BioShock from 2K's studios in Boston, Australia, Marin, and external studio Digital Extremes. Also available is a whopping $32 in Dead Space downloadable content consisting almost entirely of new looks for weapons.

The full update, courtesy Sony, follows:

Add-on Game Content

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Capcom's John Dianomon has revealed the price Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix: $14.99 for the PlayStation 3 edition.

The price is expected to be the same on the Xbox 360, at 1200 Microsoft Points ($15).

Writing on Sony's official PlayStation Blog, Dianomon added that a "remix soundtrack" will hit the PlayStation Network as a free download, featuring the sounds of hip-hop artists Redman, Hieroglyphics, DJ Qbert, DJ Toure, Zion I, Mistah F.A.B. and Oh No.

Developed by Backbone, the downloadable fighting revival hits the PS3 on Tuesday, November 25 and the Xbox 360 the next day.

After its revelation of DiRT 2 for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, developer Codemasters today announced that the off-road racer will also hit Wii, Nintendo DS and PSP.

"Rally racing has attracted new stars and a new style that makes it more vibrant and exciting than ever before; it's right up there as a premium extreme sport, attracting fresh crowds and a new confident attitude," noted executive producer Gavin Raeburn.

"DiRT 2 mirrors this new, exciting direction and, in a way, we'll be throwing off some of the shackles and constraints that real-world rallying has to abide by. We're pitching players against the most spectacular and dangerous environments in the real world."

All versions of the game are slated to be released simultaneously in 2009.

Sony has decided to lay to rest the PlayStation Underground, which hosted part of its online community features on PlayStation.com.

The area hosted personal game libraries, wish lists, and similar community features which will be rolled into an upgraded PlayStation.com launching next week.

The new website will integrate PlayStation Network accounts, the same ones used to download content from the PlayStation Store for the PS3 and PSP.

Using their PSN accounts, gamers will be able to make profiles, rate games, assemble game libraries, make wish lists, and chat with friends.

The new features launch "early next week," with further improvements promised by the end of the year.

Ubisoft has handed out a new developer diary for its refreshed Prince of Persia, which is in the works at its Montreal studio. The video discusses about the acrobatic platformer's semi-open world and story driven by the "on-demand dialogue" feature.

Promising DLC of significant value next year, the newest adventure of the Prince arrives on December 2 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. A PC edition follows on December 9.

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Any PlayStation 3 game released after January 2009 will be required to have Trophy support, Sony Computer Entertainment has confirmed with VideoGamer.

"From Jan 09 all games must have trophies," Sony told the site.

Rewarding players with virtual recognition for their in-game achievements a la the Xbox 360's Achievements, the Trophy system made its debut in a July PS3 firmware update.

While certain games include native Trophy support or have been patched for compatibility, especially though published by Sony, many of this year's other holiday titles do not currently support the functionality.

Ten new screenshots have emerged for Gaijin's anime-esque action romp X-Blades, featuring yet still more exposition of heroine Ayumi, just in case crotch shots, rear shots, and general sexiness weren't enough.

Published by SouthPeak, X-Blades reveals itself on PC, 360, and PS3 later this year.

Warner Bros. today officially announced Terminator Salvation - The Videogame, based on the Christian Bale-starring Terminator Salvation flick that hits May 22, 2009.

Crafted by Bionic Commando and Wanted: Weapons of Fate developer GRIN, the game is billed as "an action-packed, third-person shooter" with game-exclusive enemies, and will arrive "in conjunction" with the movie.

Apart from a mention of "next generation consoles," platforms for the game were not provided. A previous report pegged it for "next-generation consoles, PC and mobile."

"The player will be led through a visceral story with extremely polished production values to create a fully interactive Terminator experience," noted Cos Lazouras, president of Terminator license holder Halcyon Games.

The game will sport "an incredibly fluid and realistic control set," Lazouras added.

Upon its release, Terminator Salvation - The Videogame will be published by Equity Games, co-published by Evolved Games and distributed by Warner Bros.

The new Los Angeles studio of Japanese publisher Square Enix will start by focusing its efforts on downloadable games, according to Square Enix US president John Yamamoto.

"We started the in-house development team a couple of months ago and we're starting with downloadable content because the team is still small," Yamamoto told GamesIndustry. "All formats--Xbox Live, WiiWare, PlayStation Network--are all viable formats for us," he added.

The Los Angeles development team is very small, with "a skeleton crew of only three members." The publisher reportedly wants to boost that team up to 30 inside the next year.

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Publisher Activision has modified the box art for Left Field Productions' offroad racer Score International Baja 1000 following a legal complaint that the original cover art was too similar to that of the THQ-published, 2XL-developed Baja: Edge of Control.

THQ and Activision settled the issue out of court, reports Patent Arcade, with THQ having dismissed the lawsuit and Activision rolling out redesigned cover art.

Both Baja: Edge of Control (PS3, 360) and Score International Baja 1000 (PS3, PS2, Xbox 360, Wii) are now at retailers, with the new artwork expected to hit shelves shortly.

Following up on yesterday's revelation of Colin McRae: DiRT 2, developer Codemasters has released three images of the "target visuals" it hopes to achieve with the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 racer by the time it arrives next year.

Sometimes, the PlayStation 3's famed horsepower just isn't enough. When the systems aren't being linked together to make supercomputers, they apparently get connected to have some fun, as the Gran Turismo team did last month.

In celebration of the racing series' tenth anniversary in October, the crew from developer Polyphony Digital threw a party in New York City in which some Sony displays let players try out versions of Gran Turismo 5 Prologue in 2160p resolution and at 240 frames per second.

The high-resolution display and the super-smooth display, which were separate demonstrations, each used four PlayStation 3 consoles in tandem to produce the on-screen image.

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That blue hedgehog is at it again in this trailer for Sega's Sonic Unleashed (360, PS3, PS2, Wii). This time it's the locations that are given special attention, as the speedy wonder runs through a huge variety of climates and geographical features as if the Travel Channel were viewed in fast-motion.

Despite Sonic's curious delay in Japan, Unleashed is still on track for release this holiday season in North America.

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The Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental non-profit group, has studied the energy consumption patterns of the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii, and released a report showing each system's impact on the environment.

The study, noticed by Slashdot, found that American console players consume 16 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, on par with the entire consumption of the city of San Diego, California.

The Wii is far and away the most frugal of the three current-generation consoles by consuming an average of only 16 watts while active. The next best, the Xbox 360, leaps up 119 watts on average, and the PlayStation 3 steps up further to an average 150 watts.

The NRDC argues that the use of power-saving features in consoles could cut up to 11 billion of that 16 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, saving $1 billion on electric bills and cutting CO2 emissions by 7 million tons--as much as all the cars in San Jose, California.

The group pointed out that the 360 and PS3's power-saving auto-shutdown features are turned off by default. Shacknews readers are encouraged to visit the NRDC's guides for enabling power-saving features to save a few bucks.

Codemasters has taken the wraps off DiRT 2, the sequel to the 2007 off-road racer expected next year for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.

The game will focus largely on improving upon the original DiRT, and executive producer Gavin Raeburn promised that the game's graphics, physics, single-player career, and multiplayer features will get some extra attention from the internal Codemasters studio working on the game.

In territories outside North America, the game will still be called Colin McRae: DiRT 2, in honor of the legendary rally racing driver who was killed in 2007 in a helicopter accident. The new game will also take inspiration from McRae's late career, according to Raeburn.

"His ventures into events such as the X-Games, Dakar Rally and the Race of Champions have inspired us to look at events covering the extremes of off-road motorsport," said the producer to IGN UK.

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Backbone's Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix will hit PlayStation 3 next Tuesday, November 25, and Xbox 360 next Wednesday, November 26, Capcom confirmed today.

Capcom inadvertently revealed the Xbox 360 date yesterday, leaving gamers wondering when the PlayStation 3 version would arrive. Though the PlayStation Store usually updates on Thursdays, next week's update comes early due to Thanksgiving.

The publisher has yet to specify a price point for the downloadable fighter.

In addition, Capcom declared a "Season of Street Fighter" that will see Street Fighter-branded content hit other games, such as Pinball FX and UNO on Xbox 360, with a "little" PlayStation 3 surprise said to arrive later in the holiday season.

Midway Newcastle's Vin Diesel-starring driving-action game Wheelman will hit PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on February 16, 2009, Midway announced today.

Originally slated to arrive in 2007, the oft-delayed open-world effort was co-produced by "action-film megastar" Diesel, with his production company, Tigon Studios, said to have worked on the game "in close partnership" with Midway Newcastle.

Both Tigon and Midway expect an eventual feature film, with a script in development.

"This is not just another run-of-the-mill, licensed Hollywood knock-off," asserted Midway CEO Matt Booty. "Wheelman features revolutionary new game design mechanics like cinematic super moves and vehicular combat. Once you experience Wheelman's Vehicle Melee, you'll never want to play another driving game without it!"

Get tired of shooting up the same LCDs and file cabinets in the original F.E.A.R.? Monolith was listening, as the team members explain in the following design video for the upcoming sequel.

F.E.A.R. 2 is set to hit PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on February 10.

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Backbone Entertainment's long, long-awaited Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix will arrive as an Xbox Live Arcade download come Wednesday, November 26, according to a newly released screenshot from publisher Capcom.

The image, left, details the SSF2THDR "branded destination experience" that debuts as part of the New Xbox Experience tomorrow. According to Capcom, it's "a central place for Xbox Live Arcade gamers to learn about new content, view the latest trailers, and access downloadable content [for Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix]."

Capcom had previously promised that the downloadable fighter would arrive within November, implying that the PlayStation 3 release should arrive when the PlayStation Store updates on the following Thursday, November 27.

A price point for SSF2THDR has yet to be announced.

Valve has announced that the PC version of Treyarch's Call of Duty: World at War is now available on the Steam digital distribution service.

The World War II shooter, which is selling like hotcakes, can now be purchased online and downloaded through Steam for the price of $49.95, the same as buying the disc-based game from a brick-and-mortar retailer.

World at War released last week for a whole bevy of platforms. Treyarch handled the PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wiieditions, while the PS2 version came from Rebellion and n-Space handled the Nintendo DS port.