Imagine A World of Keflings filled with gingerbread and candy. How about living the pirate life, or in a gruesome graveyard world overflowing with skeletons and zombies.

NinjaBee, an independent game developer, is letting gamers decide which theme will be the next downloadable content. Players can vote for either the graveyard, candy or pirate theme between today and midnight PST, Friday, Jan. 20.

The official Microsoft Studios’ Xbox Live Arcade blog, PlayXBLA.com, is working with NinjaBee and hosting the vote. The new theme will give players new characters, buildings and storylines to experience, expanding the play value of the game.

Brent Fox, the art director and co-owner of NinjaBee said, each time a player votes NinjaBee enters them into a drawing to be made into a Kefling character that will turn up in the game.

“I mean, who doesn’t want to be turned into a tiny, chipper peon forced to eternally work for free,” said Fox.

Other gamers will win Keflings t-shirts, plushies and NinjaBee game codes. NinjaBee will announce the winning theme on Monday, Jan. 23.

So, let’s hope candy wins, because evil wizards and unicorn kings are awesome. Oh, did I mention candy?

Fan favorite of the franchise, NESTS Style Kyo is available on the Xbox for 400 MS points and on the PSN for a discount of $2.99, but only for a limited time. If you want him get him while he is cheap! Mr. Karate is also 400 MS points, and $4.99 on the PSN.

The series has 34 other fighters to choose from, including Lori with the Power of Flames.

King of Fighters XIII has also been revealed as an EVO Championship Series 2012 game.

No clue what this DLC actually is (but it’s probably maps, if previous games’ content is indicative), and it doesn’t look like we’ll get much of a hint at the moment.

As per usual, PC and PS3 players will likely have to wait a few weeks for the content.

Techland’s Dead Island has been promised DLC since its release on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC in September. Yesterday, we finally got word that the content’s arrival is imminent — November 22.

The “Bloodbath Arena,” which is free to all who pre-ordered the game and $9.99/800 Microsoft Points for everyone else, offers four arenas and multiple challenges for co-op mode. In this mode, which seems to amount to a zombie survival challenge, you collect experience points that you can bring over to the main campaign. This content also adds leaderboards and a new weapon, the brain wave bomb. Somehow, I don’t think I want to know what that is.

Bethesda Softworks announced a new “Ultimate Edition” of Fallout: New Vegas today.

The new version of the game will be available in stores on February 7 in North America, and in Europe, on February 10.

The Ultimate Edition comes with all of the game’s add-on content — Dead Money, Honest Hearts, Old World Blues, Lonesome Road, Courier’s Stash and Gun Runners’ Arsenal. Each of these increases the max level cap by 5, so that brings you up to a total of 50 levels.

The announcement was made on the Epic Games forums late last night:

The scheduled Horde Command Pack release for Gears of War 3 is temporarily delayed due to a technical issue. We apologize to those of you who are anxiously awaiting to play. We know this is disappointing news as we’ve seen a lot of posts today showing excitement for this content. We have folks working around the clock to resolve this issue ASAP so you can all play and enjoy the Command Pack.

The Epic Games Community team will stick around and keep you posted with any further information. Stay tuned for updates!

So it’s coming (hopefully soon), but I can see where a few people may be just a little upset.

Paradox Interactive announced today that Magicka‘s getting another adventure added to the fun: The Stars are Left.

The story is inspired by Cthulhu, and includes several new enemies and bosses.

Only one person in any group of four needs to own the content to take it on — so every group just needs one host player. Here’s a full list of features from Paradox:

• An all-new adventure, several levels long, allowing players to get lost in space and time
• 2 new challenge maps
• 2 new robes
• 2 new bosses
• 5 new achievements
• 7 new enemies
• Considerably more than 2 new items and Magicks
• Also, we make fun of Minecraft this time

See? Making fun of Minecraft. That’ll be interesting.

The “Hail to the Icons Parody Pack” does…exactly what the title says it does — adds a few parodies to the game in the form of three new multiplayer modes and four new new multiplayer maps:

Hail to the Icons Parody Pack includes:

Three All-New Modes – Freeze Tag provides some of the best team gameplay in Duke Nukem Forever.  Players cooperate to freeze and shatter their opponents in succession for huge point streaks and combos.  See who can hold on to the babe the longest in Hot Potato, and play free-for-all Duke-style in Hail to the King.
Call of Duke – Duke engages in modern combat in a war-torn city. Foes don’t stand a chance against Duke when he spams the map with the N00b T00b.
Sandbox – Players take the role of mini-Duke in a giant sandbox with two bases at either end made out of children’s toys. This map features Sticky Bombs.
Inferno – Time machine engage! Duke does combat in a hellish landscape of lava and teleporters. Who turned on the 16-bit graphics, and more importantly, where did this DFG come from?
2Forts1Bridge – Hats? Duke loves hats. Give him a mini-gun and take down all comers.

It’ll set you back $9.99/800 MS Points, if you decide it’s worth it.

I won’t lie. It’s the Team Fortress sendup that made me giggle. I’ll go stand in the corner now.

The Xbox LIVE Arcade title’s first DLC, “It Came From Outer Space,” adds a “full cast of Kefling-sized alien characters” as well as a new kingdom where you can build a whole alien city!

“Aliens have crash-landed in the Kefling world and you and the Keflings need to use your mad building skills to get them home,” said Mike Nielsen, lead designer on the DLC. “You’ll be building giant robots, crazy alien structures, and even robotic Keflings all in the name of repairing their mother ship. There’s plenty of new stuff to explore – a new kingdom, new characters, new resources, new buildings… It’s pretty substantial.”

We currently know nothing about release timing or pricing.

The DLC adds online co-op with four players in a special mode called Exterminatus (how convenient) where you’re fighting Orks and the Forces of Chaos. You know, the usual. This mode will feature two scenarios: Assault on Hab Center Andreas and Escape from Kalkys Facility. Perks from multiplayer will carry over to this mode, and your performance here will also affect your multiplayer ranking.

For the Eurogamer article, Warhammer producer Andy Lang hinted that future DLC would feature both free and paid elements.

To find out what we think of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, check out Keri’s review.