Episodic adventure mastermind Telltale Games will give you a free episode of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People on Wii if you take a couple of minutes out of your time and fill out a short survey.

Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free will be your prize, and free copies are limited, so apply post-haste. This promotion ends when there’s enough data collected, which Telltale told Eurogamer should be around 300 responses.

The data, incidentally, hopes to shed a bit more light on European customers, particularly those in the UK and Germany.

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Ubisoft’s piped up and explained that Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter V were not removed from Steam due to DRM disagreements.

“The games listed are available for sale in all other countries on Steam. The fact it is not available on Steam UK has nothing to do with the DRM but is linked to a local business discussion between Ubisoft and Steam in UK,” said Ubisoft in a statement.

Both games had mysteriously vanished amid speculation that Valve didn’t want to muddy its reputation and be associated with Ubisoft’s controversial DRM solution that requires users to be online at all times.

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Ubisoft has revealed that Splinter Cell: Conviction on the PC will now be released on 30th April, two weeks after the Xbox 360 version.

That’s according to the publisher’s latest release schedule issued this afternoon.

Ubisoft has had some PR difficulties with PC gamers lately, stemming from its controversial DRM system, which has become a target for hackers since it launched with Assassin’s Creed II and Silent Hunter 5.

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Valve’s released the first “bunch” of user-made items and weapons for Team Fortress 2 on Steam.

These were submitted to the new Team Fortress 2 Contribution Site, and Valve’s excited about the potential this has for the future.

“This is really exciting for us here at Valve,” reads a post on the TF2 blog. “This update represents the next step in that process. The line between developers and players is getting very blurry, and we think that’s a great thing. ”

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In case you hadn’t noticed, Telltale’s Tales of Monkey Island PC adventure series is being put on disc this spring.

The box, available to pre-order from the Telltale Shop right now, costs $34.95 (£22.90) and offers the full five-game series on both PC and Mac. Plus, extras: design team commentary videos, official trailers, cliff-hanger videos, wallpapers and a sneak peak at new series Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse.

There’s a Deluxe Edition, too. In here are collectible replicas of in-game items as well as all the guff from the standard box. There’s a Voodoo card, Piratey Piece of Eight, coaster from Club 41, souvenir button from the Trial of the Century and a fancy slipcase cover for the DVD drawn by Steve Purcell.

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The Steam edition of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will ditch SecuROM in an upcoming game patch. Valve’s own authentication service will be used instead.

The update, version 522175, is imminent. Apparently there’s a bit of extra QA on Steam to bypass.

All non-Steam users can download the patch now. Unfortunately, a few problems appear to have cropped up; members of the BFBC2 forum report crashes to desktop after installing the update, and some are having account login issues.

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Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has admitted that Nintendo is “not good” at creating “core” games, and needs to actively court third-parties to make more mature titles like BioShock 2 for the platform.

“The fact of the matter is we know we create great content for younger consumers, we know we’ve got great content for more casual players, and we want fantastic content for that more active player who loves Metroid or Zelda but maybe also wants something like a BioShock 2 to play as well,” he told Industry Gamers at GDC.

“And we also recognize that we don’t create that type of content ourselves. We’re not good at it and it’s not a key focus area. We want that content on our platform, so we have to court third-party developers and encourage them to make [those games].”

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Blizzard, not short of things to do, has burped out a patch for Warcraft III – a game eight years old.

The update fixes “tower hack”, “summon/cooldown hack”, “new crash hack”, “phoenix hack” and ” sheep hack” exploits.

Full patch notes are on the Blizzard support site, as are sign-posts to download locations.

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Blizzard hopes to have a Mac version of the StarCraft II beta up and running in April.

The developer said on the Battle.net forum this was being worked on “currently” and for us to “hang in there”.

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty – the first of three StarCraft II games – will be be released in the first half of 2010.

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