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Xbox 360-exclusive Halo 4 is the new UK all-format chart number one, albeit with lower launch week sales than Halo 3 and Halo: Reach.

The Wii U version of Mass Effect 3 will not receive upcoming add-on Omega, publisher EA has announced.

Hitman: Absolution publisher Square Enix has backtracked on its earlier decision to include an online pass with the game.

The PS Vita firmware update 2.0 does more than add PlayStation Plus to the handheld - it improves its web browser, too.

Your Wii U Nintendo Network ID - the equivalent of an Xbox Live gamertag - can only be used on the console where it was created, Nintendo has confirmed.

Activision has released a patch to combat the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 system lock-ups some were experiencing on PlayStation 3.

Agent 47 doesn't begin Hitman: Absolution with amnesia, but the six years that have passed since we last took control of him in Blood Money do seem to have dulled his creators' recollections of what made him so popular in the first place. Hitman: Absolution is a slick, responsive and mechanically confident game - and on occasions it's one of the most satisfying stealth games in a year that already includes Dishonored - but a range of compromises to Hitman tradition mean it's still going to rub some people up the wrong way.

It's a murder simulator, right? IO is, quite literally, simulating murder, albeit of the professional variety. But Agent 47 isn't some kind-faced Jean Reno with a plucky Natalie Portman by his side. There are no redeeming features to the bald, bar-coded clone, and yet we still thrill to be placed a few feet behind his head. Disguising, strangling, sneaking and blasting our way through mostly civilian locations to kill whoever has the bounty on their head, along with a sizable handful of their personal entourage.

Seaman creator Yoot Saito's upcoming airport simulator/puzzle game Aero Porter is coming to the 3DS eShop on 29th November in Europe and North America, publisher Level-5 has announced.

Like one of those brilliant scuffles between two men in rubber monster suits stomping around in a miniature city, this week saw not only the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, but also the unveiling of Grand Theft Auto 5's second trailer. Over at Outside Xbox we clambered all over Black Ops 2 Live like an amorous spider, grabbing a chat with Michael Rooker, who stars in the game, and experiencing the contrast between mumbled missives and boundless enthusiasm from Jack Whitehall and Chris 'Kammy' Kamara respectively. More usefully, we chatted to Treyarch's eSports advisor Hastr0 about how to read a Call of Duty match using the game's new revamped spectator and theatre mode, which forms the basis of 'CoDcasting'.

MMORPGs had a good run. There's no shame in admitting their time in the sun is over, and that it's time to package the whole genre into a small cardboard box, label it 'Fond Memories', and slide it under the bed with classic adventures and those little dancing flower things that seemed like magic back in the '80s.

A man allegedly hacked an MMO, stole its source code, created a clone of it, then attempted to blackmail the original game's developer. No, really.

Held for 70 days behind bars in a Greek cell, ArmA 3 developers Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar have now been denied an appeal against their charges of espionage.

Ubisoft has unveiled an enormous new patch for Assassin's Creed 3 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Black Ops 2 is probably the highest earning Call of Duty game in the space of 24 hours, Activision has announced. But actual sales figures weren't revealed.

The video game version of fantasy board game Talisman launches in two weeks, its developer has told Eurogamer.

Black Ops Declassified is a Call of Duty game minus the spectacle. And for a series that has placed almost all of its energy into developing spectacle over the past few years - the snowmobile leaps over famished ravines, the horseback charges into tank fortresses, the collapse of the Eiffel Tower - this leaves us with something of a flaccid anachronism, one that exposes the tired heart beneath the bluster.

I was going to start by saying that Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage feels like the Borderlands 2 experience ramped up to 11, but I realise that's a foolish claim to make. Borderlands 2 twisted the dial on its own amplifier far past 11 long, long ago. At some point that dial fell off, was kicked under the sofa and was chewed by a drooling bulldog, while the valves in the amp are close to bursting from the endless power chords hammered out on a grimy Les Paul.

In a watershed moment for Nintendo: the Japanese developer has released its first paid-for iOS app.

We here at Eurogamer are quite fond of a little game called Hotline Miami. Once described as a "top-down f***-'em-up," it follows the exploits of an animal mask-wearing man cruising the neon streets of Miami with a thirst for blood.

US gamers can now download a YouTube app for Wii, just 48 hours before the console is replaced by the Wii U.

It's fair to say that Treyarch's track record in terms of cross-platform conversions is patchy at best, especially evident when the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of 2010's Call of Duty: Black Ops are compared directly. Lower frame-rates, lower resolution frame buffers, and PSN's online issues gave the impression that the firm's focus had been directed towards the Xbox 360 version of the game, resulting in a sub-par experience for PS3 owners. So how does Black Ops 2 fare?

Sony has shipped 70 million PlayStation 3s to shops worldwide since it launched.

Digital sales of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City have been halted due to a music licensing dispute. The game is no longer on Steam, for example.

A Hat in Time is an upcoming "collectathon adventure game" for PC and Mac that combines Wind Waker's cel-shaded visual style with the early 3D platforming of such titles as Conker's Bad Fur Day and Donkey Kong 64.

Scott Derrickson - the director of Sinister, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still - will be directing a feature film based on Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

The next numbered series in the cult favourite Shin Megami Tensei series of role-playing games has been detailed.

US retailer GameStop has revealed that it's received 1.2 million pre-orders on Wii U games, which is more than double what it saw on Wii launch titles back in 2006.

The Borderlands 2 DLC leaked last month in a PS3 trophy data update has been officially confirmed by Gearbox.

Historically games haven't done a very good job at recreating what it's like to inhabit a specific time and place. Assassin's Creed 2 may get the surface details of Renaissance Italy down - the architecture, the costumes, and the technology - but I can't tell you how life in Florence differed from life in Venice, aside from the fact that they seemed to both have a lot of stabbing and people yelling "thief!" I've traveled the globe in Call of Duty shooting men in army fatigues and blowing up tanks, but based on that I wouldn't be able to say how modern day Russia differs from Afghanistan, besides one being a bit snowy while the other's a bit sandy.