The special offers for PlayStation Plus subscribers will get a routine shakeup on January 18, Sony has announced, as an old wave gets swept out and new offers arrive, including 50% off retro-styled comic book brawler Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

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Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features new media for Call of Duty: Black Ops, Crescent Pale Mist, Bloodline Champions, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, a DLC trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The UnderGarden, Get Fit With Mel B, and Digger Simulator 2011. Also included is the debut trailer for Royal Quest. Read more »

The retro-style beat-em-up based on a comic, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, can be added to your digital Xbox 360 collection for 50% off, this week.

Major Nelson revealed that, from now until November 14, the Ubisoft-developed title has been reduced in price from 800MS Points ($10) to the retro Xbox Live Arcade price of 400MS ($5). The promotion is only available to Gold members. Read more »

In an effort to achieve maximum synergy, Ubisoft has announced plans to unleash DLC for its downloadable title Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, alongside the DVD and Blu-ray release of the movie in November.

The content will add a new playable character, Knives Chau, and two new modes, dodgeball and a free-for-all battle arena. Downloadable content for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World will launch on the PS3 and Xbox 360 for an asking price of $1.99 (160MS Points). Read more »

Forecasting & Analyzing Digital Entertainment (FADE) is reporting that Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade enjoyed its best month to date in August, built on the strength of the Summer of Arcade promotion.

According to the report, Microsoft brought in $17.5 million in August 2010 over $16.5 million in August 2009, which was the second year of the Summer of Arcade promotion. The report presents a top 10 list of games sold, ranked by revenue generated, and includes the total number of copies purchased. Note that some titles were not included in the Summer of Arcade promotion or were released before August. Read more »

Xbox Live's Major Nelson has released the Live Marketplace content schedule for the remainder of August.

Although the dates and prices have previously been reported, it's a good reminder that Shank and Dead Rising 2: Case Zero are launching this month alongside the Xbox 360 version of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Hopefully you've still got a few Microsoft Space Dollars saved up after the pricey 2010 Summer of Arcade promotion. Read more »

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Daily Filter features the "launch" trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, a dev diary with an insane amount of hoodies for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, a "combo" trailer for the upcoming downloadable title Shank, a trailer featuring the upcoming DLC "The Golems of Amgarrak" for Dragon Age: Origins, a video for Naughty Bear announcing upcoming (and free) DLC, and additional videos for Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, the newest EverQuest 2 expansion Destiny of Velious, the PSN-exclusive Top Gun and Tales of Cosmos. Read more »

In the first week of ongoing, fortnightly updates to the roster of PlayStation Plus content, non-subscribers get a good variety of new content on the PlayStation Store this week.

The festivities kick-off with the Canadian-born brawler, Scott Pilgrim in his video game debut. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game is a timed-exclusive for PS3 users and is available for $9.99. Read more »

Although PlayStation 3 fans will enjoy some exclusive time with Scott Pilgrim's video game debut, Xbox 360 owners won't have to wait long to brawl on the mean streets of Toronto, Canada.

IGN UK is reporting the upcoming four-player co-op beat-em-up is set to arrive on the XBLA on August 25, fiftteen days after Scott's August 10 PSN debut and one week following the XBLA Summer of Arcade. Read more »

Ubisoft's comic and movie-inspired video game Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is a downloadable side-scrolling beat 'em up, Game Informer reveals, coming to the PlayStation 3 in August and then Xbox 360 sometime later.

Supporting up to four offline players, the game follows the events of the tongue-in-cheek comic and (presumably) the upcoming film, with Game Informer writing that "the levels follow along with the book volumes, as world three takes place inside the club where our heroes take on rival band The Clash at Demonhead just like in [book three]." Read more »

While we still don't know what platforms Ubisoft's Scott Pilgrim game will hit or how it will play, creator Bryan Lee O'Malley has revealed one very important tidbit: it's due next summer.

"Can't tell you much about SP game yet," reads a tweet from O'Malley, who both writes and illustrates the titular comic. "Not out til next summer. Mustn't blow our wad early. When you hear who's involved, you'll freak!" Read more »

Alongside an Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) directed, Michael Cera (Arrested Development) starring film adaptation, Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic sensation Scott Pilgrim is also set to become a video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal (TMNT).

O'Malley expects the game to be a side-scrolling game that embraces the cartoony aesthetic of the comic instead of the film's real-life look, reports IGN. No platforms have been confirmed. The comic's fifth volume included pixel art mock-ups of a game on its back cover, though there's no word as to if the actual game will resemble them. Read more »