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Xbox 360 copies of Borderlands 2 have been hit by a malicious attack that is wiping player saves, developer Gearbox has announced.

Namco Bandai will change stage in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 after it was found to contain the Arabic script for Allah.

Has it really been a month since the Eurogamer Expo? Yes.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is being readied for release on PlayStation 3, a new ESRB listing suggests.

Hacker collective Anonymous has turned its attention to embattled social game maker Zynga.

"AND LO, it was written: verily from here on forth, every version of Football Manager shall be more time-consuming and complicated than the last, until managers can one day pick the colour of their players' underpants, and the people shall rejoice as it takes longer to play a season in the game than it would in real life. This was the word of the Brothers Collyer. And it was Good."

During production of yesterday's Digital Foundry vs. Forza Horizon article, we reached out to Playground Games with a view to adding their input to our analysis on this exceptional game. We could only include some of their information in our piece, but the team was so lavish and exhaustive in its replies to our questions that we realised that we'd be doing our readers a disservice by not publishing the entire transcript verbatim.

The Assassin's Creed games may be about exploring the genetic memories of Desmond Miles' ancestors, but you won't need a fancy Animus device to remember the series' first instalment. It came out just five years ago, and it's weird to think that it was as recently as the start of November 2007 that we had no idea about any of this. Since then, Assassin's Creed has become one of the biggest game series of its generation, and in Ezio Auditore - star of three games in the peculiar grouping that is 'the Assassin's Creed 2 trilogy' - it has come as close as anybody to creating this generation's equivalent of the classic gaming mascot. How fitting that Ezio had an uncle called Mario.

Judged in terms of established precedents, Forza Horizon simply has no right to be this good. Handing off the keys to a prestige franchise to an all-new development studio was a massive gamble in itself, but the risk-taking doesn't end there. Playground Games didn't take the obvious safe route and simply iterate on the existing formula using the established engine: instead the fledgling developer took that technology, retained its core attributes and then expanded upon them, taking the whole franchise in a new direction.

Greetings! This is the spot graciously given us by Eurogamer to lay out a video sampler of what's been going on at Outside Xbox in the past seven days.

It's been said in the past that Gears Of War is the most referenced game in all of videogames journalism, thanks to its tenets of cover, carnage and meat-headed chunkiness. I've been scouring the four corners of the globe's games writing in the past year, though, and I'd wager it's been replaced. Barely an article slides through a printing press or CMS back-end without the words Dark and Souls appearing next to each other at some point during the body copy.

The highly anticipated MechWarrior Online is going to enter open beta on 29th October, Infinite Game Publishing has announced.

A new Indie Royale bundle has been released to commemorate Halloween.

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime has to be one of the coolest game titles I've heard in awhile and it looks like it's got the gameplay to match. Two characters - ostensibly lovers - must run around a tiny 2D space station manning turrets, lasers, shields, and thrusters in an effort to fend off nefarious aliens.

Ratchet & Clank: QForce - or Full Frontal Assault as it's known in North America - has been given a 27th November release over there for $19.99.

A new PC mod for Super Mario 64 allows two players to tackle its challenges cooperatively online.

Earlier this week notorious indie developer Jason Rohrer - of Passage and Sleep is Death fame - announced an all new game entitled The Castle Doctrine.

The iOS ecological puzzle/adventure Waking Mars is coming to PC, Mac, Linux and Android on 6th November, Joystiq has reported.

Trails Evolution and Motoheroz developer RedLynx is bringing its next game Nutty Fluffies to iOS on Thursday, 1st November, publisher Ubisoft has announced in the new teaser trailer below.

Hisorically speaking game developers haven't been happy with people pirating the fruits of their labour, but that's starting to change. Last month McPixel creator Mikolaj "Sos" Kaminski supported those who sought to pirate his game and now Hotline Miami developer Jonatan Söderström is following suit.

The Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition Halloween Skin Pack has just launched on Xbox Marketplace, with every penny of its price-tag going to charity.

Imagine being eight years old today. You pack your bag, hop on a bus, act like your crush has cooties and go through lessons on history, English, maths, science, and... Minecraft?

Sleeping Dogs developer United Front Games has claimed there is still life in the zombie genre, as it prepares to launch undead-themed DLC Nightmare in North Point next week.

Games used to be such hostile places. Dropped behind enemy lines or sneaking through monster-infested caverns, everyone you'd meet on your journey seemed to want to kill you. Over the last ten years or so, there's been a gentle rebalancing, however. From Pey'j to Yorda to Alyx Vance, designers have started giving you friends as well as enemies.

Fondly-remembered neon masterpiece Grand Theft Auto: Vice City will be released for iPhone, iPad and Android devices later this autumn, Rockstar has revealed.

Apple had a wildly successful year and made a mountain of profit. More importantly, Apple now has a war chest (a cash pot, if you like) stuffed with $121.3 billion (£75 billion).

Assassin's Creed 3 is the most pre-ordered Ubisoft game of all time, according to Ubisoft.

Ubisoft could not have chosen a more fitting setting for Assassin's Creed 3 than the American Revolution. The series feels on the brink of change, ready to shed some of the uglier points of its history.

Some relatively good news about Windows 8 at last: Microsoft won't prohibit PEGI 18-rated games like Skyrim, Dishonored and Mass Effect from sale on the Windows 8 Store.

Mass Effect 3 developer BioWare has released nine minutes of footage from the game's upcoming anime prequel, Paragon Lost.