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I'm sat in Wapping Power Station at half nine in the morning listening to Ubisoft talk about Assassin's Creed Syndicate. The surroundings are fittingly Victorian, dotted with industrial machinery that likely once ran on adorable orphan labour. Creative director Marc-Alexis Côté is telling us how the game introduces its two main characters, Jacob and Evie Frye, and why his team are excited about Syndicate's London setting. But everyone sat listening really has just one question they want answering - can Syndicate revitalise the franchise following Assassin's Creed Unity?

When is the best time to review an expansion for a massively multiplayer online game? If you ask developer Bungie, they'll tell you Destiny isn't an MMO, but its shared-world questing and shooting, its collecting and grinding and levelling and looting, make it similar enough that there is little real distinction. And with The Taken King, Bungie has embraced a new vision for Destiny - one that many hoped it would deliver last September - following an overhaul, expansion and polish for the game.

The Star Wars Battlefront Beta will run from 8th-12th October on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, publisher EA has announced.

We've just wrapped up the first day of developer sessions here at EGX 2015 in Birmingham's bewilderingly huge NEC - seriously, you should see the size of this thing - and you can watch all of them below.

Telltale's The Walking Dead Season One and tear-jerking World War 1 puzzle adventure Valiant Hearts are both free on Xbox One during October.

The release of FIFA 16 has seen an interesting debate spring up among veteran players, and it has to do with passing.

Creative Assembly's free-to-play team-based strategy game Total War: Arena launches in closed beta form today.

Vermintide, the cool-looking co-op first-person Warhammer game from Fatshark, comes out on Steam on 23rd October.

Cops and heavily-armed robbers shooter Battlefield Hardline will be added to the EA Access Vault next month.

The Escapists The Walking Dead - a standalone spin-off to prison breaking sim The Escapists reimagined as a The Walking Dead title - arrives on 30th September for Xbox One and PC.

1997 Cult classic puzzle platformer Abe's Oddysee is free on Steam until 6pm tonight.

A new Grand Theft Auto 5 Easter egg has been discovered that lets you play the game as Bigfoot.

I have had advance warning - a few days - but it is not really enough. Simogo, the developer of Year Walk and Device 6 and much else that is good and clever, has been determined to release SPL-T, its new minimalist puzzle game, without announcing it in any way. In a similar spirit, I've been playing it for the last few days without reading the instructions. Simogo wants you to come to this cold - and I have been willing to accept those terms.

Local multiplayer masterpiece TowerFall Ascension now has a level editor on Steam Workshop.

Spooky subterranean exploration game Iron Fish has a nifty new trailer showing us some deep sea gameplay along with a newly announced Q1 2016 release window. It was previously slated to arrive later this year.

Frenetic twin-stick shooter Assault Android Cactus has finally left Early Access for an official release on PC, Mac and Linux.

Voice actors union SAG-AFTRA may initiate a strike if enough of its members vote to do so by 5th October.

The Angry Birds movie now has a debut trailer teasing its May 2016 release.

Forza Motorsport 6 is introduced by a toe-curling live action video which, in its anodyne, expensive pomposity, might as well be a banking advertisement. As you play, new features are explained to you in the soporific tones of a supermarket checkout kiosk. It is saturated with commercial tie-ins: for its cover star, the 2017 Ford GT supercar, which itself is really just a fantastical advertisement for more humble Fords, and for Top Gear (although, amusingly, Jeremy Clarkson's voice is nowhere to be heard). It's one of the most corporate video games ever made.

Creativity - or, more specifically, the art of making stuff - has been a common thread running through Nintendo's gaming output in 2015. Kirby and Yoshi celebrated the aesthetic joys of craftsmanship on Wii U, with their worlds of lumpen clay and wool, while the advent of Splatoon's chaotic ink fights saw Nintendo subtly shifting focus, moving the tools of (in this case, riotously messy) creation directly into players' hands.

Nathan Fouts' one man studio Mommy's Best Games made quite a name for itself a few years back by bringing uncharacteristically high quality games to XBLIG. Such titles included: Weapon of Choice, Explosionade, Shoot 1UP and Game Type.

During the Enemy Lines level from Halo 5's campaign, which takes place around halfway through the game, Spartan Locke leads Fireteam Osiris into a huge goldfish bowl of an arena set on Sanghelios, homeworld of the Elites. Arbiter has formed a new alliance called the Swords of Sanghelios, and Osiris lends Master Chief's alien mate a hand in putting down the Covenant. It's all kicking off.

Developer Overkill has promised to fix Payday 2 on Xbox One by the end of 2015.

It looks like a new Wolfenstein game is in the works.

Patrick Plourde is fond of arboreal analogies. Actually, he's fond of frondescence - a word I only just looked up and now love - in general. Testify: "I always say the projects I work with are like a garden of flowers, because they're really fragile, because they're small." And: "If you take the context of Ubisoft Montreal, we're making these giant blockbuster games. How can you exist in the shadow of these giant trees? These sequoias! And we're growing flowers or little plants - that might become in the future sequoias themselves."

Careful, measured footsteps, sticking to the shadows and keeping a watchful eye out for guard patrols - that's one method for stealth. In Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, there's also another that's not quite so subtle.

Activision has switched sides and joined forces with Sony, so there's now a special Call of Duty-themed PlayStation 4.

Two days ago the Super Mario Maker community marvelled at Bomb Voyage, an excruciatingly difficult level that was finally beaten after 11,000 attempts from players across the world.

A motorist who lead police on a 100mph car chase through Lincolnshire has admitted that his only knowledge of driving came from his PlayStation.

Inon Zur, composer of all of the Fallout games since Fallout Tactics, has worked his magic for Fallout 4, and Bethesda has a released a video showing him playing the game's main theme on piano.