Finally, I have some good ol’ fashioned gaming news to deliver. Sadly, it isn’t good news.

Chris Priestly, a community manager overseeing the nerds clogging up the BioWare forums, let slip a few hours ago that the Return to Ostagar DLC planned for release today on Xbox Live and PC won’t be on time. Not today, not tomorrow, not next week—well, scratch that, I guess it could be next week. The point is, Priestly said the DLC pack won’t be coming out as scheduled.

The PS3 version of Return to Ostagar had a later, indeterminate release anyway, so maybe this means all platforms will see it at the same time.  Perhaps we’ll be heading back to corpse-filled Ostagar on, say…the 19th? 26th? Hopefully the pack hits sooner instead of ridiculously later.

Kotaku just reported that four major Capcom titles—Super Street Fighter IV, Lost Planet 2, Dead Rising 2, and Monster Hunter Tri—have all been delayed, starting from April 1, 2010 and stretching out twelve months. This meshes with the recently rumored rescheduled release of Super Street Fighter IV in early April.

As for the other titles, Capcom isn’t giving any exact dates yet. Instead, Capcom simply stated that the usual rigmarole explaining the delay (competing titles; financial gain; all that jazz). So for the time being, we have no idea when we’ll all be able to shoot giant monsters with co-op partners, run through a Vegas-like city cutting down zombies, or…um, hunt monsters.

If anybody truly thought Activision-Blizzard’s first release of the three-part StarCraft II, titled Wings of Liberty, would make its original 2009 release date, those folks better get out a few tissues. Yep, Blizzard delayed the game, stating it will be released sometime next year. It’s OK—go ahead, let it out. Cry if you must.

Seriously, can any of you honestly say you’re surprised? Also delayed: Singularity. Honestly, I don’t much care for the look or feel of that one, so that’s not a big deal in my book, but perhaps some of you care. Never let it be said I don’t look out for you kids.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot announced during a recent company conference call that Splinter Cell Conviction and Red Steel 2 are being pushed back to early 2010 (anywhere from January to March), while I Am Alive and Ghost Recon (which I assume is the next game in the series, or possibly a relaunch) will be pushed further into next year—possibly late spring or early summer.

I’d love to say that I’m happy because I’ll have less new games to worry about this winter; but with so many delays, will there really be much left to play later this year? Oh, I know—there’s always Modern Warfare 2. That alone will probably fill up a lot of gamers’ time this holiday season. Me? I’ll probably be too knee-deep in homework to care.

Sony and Zipper Interactive’s PS3-exclusive Massive Action Game, or MAG as it’s more commonly known, may or may not be delayed until next year. Originally scheduled for release this October, the MAG release date listed on GameStop and Gamefly’s websites now says January 2010.

Best Buy, however, still shows an October release, while Amazon has no release date listed. The folks over at Gamespot contacted Sony about a possible delay, but Sony did not respond. Most interesting of all is the fact that although GameStop and Gamefly now say MAG is releasing in January 2010, neither site says the same day. GameStop lists the release date as January 12, while Gamefly lists it as January 31.

If Sony officially confirms a delay, we’ll update with the information. In the meantime, get your first-person shooter fun on with Killzone 2. I need somebody to play online with in that game, dang it!

Earlier today, Take-Two Interactive made the very disappointing announcement that they were pushing the release date for BioShock 2 back until the 2010 fiscal year. For those not in-the-know, said fiscal year will run from November 1, 2009 until October 31, 2010. The original release date was set for November 3 in North America, so this announcement seemed rather vague and random.

Now we have a bit of clarification. Take-Two added that BioShock 2 will definitely not release in 2009, but rather in the first half of 2010. That’s the real 2010—not some fiscal year gobbledygook. Take-Two says the delay will “provide additional development time for the title.” Hopefully, the extra time in the oven will result in more delicious gaming experience.

We’ll let you know about any further changes to the release date as soon as the info is available.

Sony has announced that due to references to the Qu’ran in the music licensed for LittleBigPlanet, the game is being delayed and recalled from every retailer in the world. This means that stores that have the game in stock will be sending them back and getting new copies from Sony. A new release date has not been announced yet.

According to an archived Playstation forum post, Muslims believe that mixing music with verses from the Qu’ran is offensive. I know little about Islam or their beliefs, but that was the alleged issue that started this whole thing.

UPDATE: The new release date is the week of October 27th.