Namco Bandai held its annual, amazing, Level Up event in Dubai yesterday and tons of major announcements were made. Seriously, this news is easily E3 level. Not a bad idea really, considering it means everyone will be talking about all the Namco Bandai games now and they won’t get lost in the shuffle in June.

Since there’s tons of news to go over, let’s start by looking at some of the console games we’ll be seeing in 2011 and 2012…

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a creative amalgam of pretty much everything cool. It takes a quirky manga story, features scads of video game style fight scenes and special effects and, with a dash of eclectic European movie sensibilities (I’d say French films but would not want to offend the director), creating a funky fun film about young love.

After seeing the movie and watching several hours of the extra features, I’m now a Scott Pilgrim fan (and you will be, too, assuming you are not already, of course)…

From the farewell post at Newsweek’s Level Up – N’Gai Croal, one of the best and most successful proponents of improving videogames journalism, had this to say: “I guess it’s finally time for me to level up”…