Coming to Battlefield 3 is the Strike at Karkland expansion that features a good selection of maps that bring that Battlefield 2 nostalgia. One of those maps from back then was the Gulf of Oman and in the trailer up top you get to see this map in action. If you read our review you may have doubts of the game, but the Strike at Karkland might be something worth checking out if you already have the game. Unlike Modern Warfare 3 the DLC will be free to those that have the limited edition of the game.

Nintendo’s smash-hit fighting series Super Smash Bros. pits Nintendo mascots like Mario and Link against each other in a virtual brawl. It’s a Nintendo fanboy’s wet dream, and sometime in the future, Sony fanboys might be seeing Kratos and Sweet Tooth go at it in Sony’s own version of Smash. Bros..

There’s quite a bit of unconfirmed evidence that suggests that we’ll be getting a Sony Smash Bros.-style game, one that’s being developed by California-based studio SuperBot Entertainment, whose website says that “We are an exclusive developer of Sony Computer Entertainment America and are currently in production of a yet-to-be announced PS3 title. “

A look at one of SuperBot’s online job listings reveals that the studio is looking for a senior combat designer with “a strong familiarity with fighting games and fighting game theory is a major plus.” Additionally, the posting describes the project as a “very amazing PS3 game” that’s “multiplayer”-based. Meanwhile, another job listing asks for a lead designer with a “strong familiarity with online mode and matchmaking design as they apply to console gaming.”

Other evidence of this Smash Bros.-style game apparently includes some things that SuperBot’s senior level designer Chris Molina posted on Twitter. While the tweets have been removed, NeoGAF saved some of them and posted them on their forum. One tweet linked to this familiar video, with the accompanying line reading: “New Sony Playstation commercial vaguely foreshadowing our soon to be announced title.”

Furthermore, there’s a leaked online screenshot apparently showing SuperBot developers playing with arcade fighting sticks. More juicily, though, is a look at character model images of Twisted Metal’s Sweet Tooth (pictured above) and an unidentified female character (posted here).

As for details about the title, Paul Gale Network reported earlier this month that the game is called “Title Fight,” a Smash Bros.-like game featuring Sony mascots including God of war 3’s Kratos, Parappa the Rapper, Fat Princess, Uncharted’s Nathan Drake, Sly Cooper, and Killzone’s Colonel Meal Radec.

PGN goes on to say that there will be a LittleBigPlanet stage, as well as a level of Jak and Daxter’s “Sandover Village” (with Hot Shots Golf characters in the background).

The game is expected for release in 2012, according to PGN.

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Rumor: Sony working on Smash Bros-style fighter [Shacknews]

What is SuperBot’s “very amazing” PlayStation 3 exclusive? [Eurogamer, via NeoGAF]

Rumor: Sony/SuperBot Making Sony Smash Bros [Basically Confirmed, More Gameplay Info] [NeoGAF, via Shacknews]

A patch for the PlayStation 3 version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is now available in Europe and North America, announced Bethesda Softworks on their official blog today, adding that the update will also be released for the Xbox 360 and PC this Wednesday, Nov. 30.

Update 1.2 fixes, among other things, two notable problems: the Xbox 360 texture loading issue when installing the game on the hard-drive and PS3’s lagging problem caused by growing save file data.

Resolving the former is great news for me, since I can now install the game which hopefully means shorter load times and an overall smoother gameplay experience. I mean, Skyrim is not the kind of game that should be streaming off the disc like less-epic games.

Head on over to Bethesda’s official blog via the link below for the list of fixes. Oh, and if you’re wondering, there’s no mention of the infinite gold glitch, so it looks like those taking advantage of that are safe (for now).

Skyrim 1.2 update [Bethesda Blog, via Game Informer]

Even though Rage did pretty well and it received positive review scores, the folks over at Bethesda will be releasing a demo that will be available in about two weeks. The demo will be on the Playstation store and XBOX live this December 6, 2011. According to our sources, Rage will be on sale in a few retail stores after Black Friday for about $29.99 US and we will be linking everyone to the Black Friday sales of that will be coming soon.

Mass Effect fans out there you may want to tune in to the VGA’s this time around. According to a VGA’s trailer the good folks over at Bioware will be announcing what could be the end to Mass Effect or a game that could take the series to a new direction. As you may know there is a new Bioware studio and just knowing that there will be a first look at what might be in the works just keeps us all hyped. Take a look at the trailer below and tune in to the VGA’s this December 10, 2011. In case you do not catch the VGA’s we will be doing some coverage of the event as it happens, so keep checking with as updates come.

We expected a Motorstorm title for the Vita in the future, but what we didn’t know was that the game will be RC based. According to the trailer below, Sony will be bringing an RC Based Motorstorm version that will be available for download on the PSN to your Vita and PS3. There will be four player multiplayer available to PS3 usersand what’s nice about is that with the cloud game save the game will let you play and save the game on the PS3 and you can continue on playing on the Vita while traveling.

Watch the announcement trailer below and expect this game sometime in 2012.