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Treyarch will remain quiet on Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's exciting new zombies mode right up until release because it wants players to find out how it works for themselves.

Torben Ellert and Christian Elverdam from IO Interactive demonstrated the Contracts mode of Hitman Absolution to a rapt audience of murder simulation fans at the Eurogamer Expo this evening - describing the player-created assassination challenges as "a reverse murder mystery".

With all the hullabaloo over whether or not games cause violent behaviour, we can say at the very least that they can inspire TV shows that in turn inspire silly government militaries to develop weapons. No, really.

OnLive is dead. Last month's news shocked the game industry, sent confidence in cloud gaming tumbling and left OnLive's staff out of a job. Soon after founder Steve Perlman, his reputation shredded, packed his bags for something else.

The alpha build of DayZ standalone will be released before the end of the year, probably in December.

Hideo Kojima is open to reviving Policenauts and Snatcher as well as lending a hand to a new Silent Hill game - though it's unlikely he'd be able to take a direct role in any of the projects himself.

Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes will see the base-building and development from PSP outing Peace Walker return - and it'll be a feature that will likely be accessible from smart phones and other devices.

The Darkness developer Starbreeze along with publisher 505 Games have announced their upcoming collaboration Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, due next spring on XBLA, PSN and Steam.

At the end of Halo 3 the Covenant, Halo's long-running alien bad guys, were thought disbanded and destroyed, with the Elites not exactly on the side of the human race, but not exactly against them.

Elder Scrolls series: thou hast been a "huge" inspiration to gory tropical open world shooter Far Cry 3.

The recently announced Mass Effect Trilogy Edition won't contain an optional female Shepard cover, EA has revealed to Kotaku.

It's a cloudy day in Horsham, West Sussex, and as I arrive to conduct a second interview with some of the senior members of The Creative Assembly's staff, the news breaks that Sony Liverpool has been closed. This was a developer that could trace its history all the way back to 1984 when, known as Psygnosis, they were one of The Creative Assembly's peers. News of the closure has The Creative Assembly's staff wondering if this means they're now the UK's oldest surviving developer.

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's next iOS game at his studio Mistwalker is Blade Guardian, a real-time tower-defense strategy title due on 1st October, the developer tweeted.

We've spent the last few months telling you about all the games you can expect to play at the Eurogamer Expo, which starts TOMORROW and runs until Sunday, but we haven't always been able to tell you exactly what bits of those games you'll be playing. That's because this sort of stuff gets locked down quite late in the day.

Tokyo Jungle director Yohei Kataoka said that Sony Japan Studio's initial reaction to the zany post-apocalyptic animals-run-amok concept was "bad."

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Crotch-kicking comedic point-and-click adventure McPixel is the first game from Steam Greenlight to appear on Valve's distribution service where it's available for £3.99 / $4.99 on PC and Mac.

Last week Activision teased a zombie mode in Treyarch's upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, but now we can see it in action in the full trailer below.

Last November Youtube user ParadiseDecay created a spectacular Minecraft video re-enacting the famous Death Star trench run from Star Wars. Now, he's made the sequel, recreating the Hoth battle from The Empire Strikes Back.

BioWare has announced the Mass Effect Trilogy Edition, a compilation of all three Mass Effect games in one big box.

Pokéfans have stepped up to turn Pokémon Red into a fully-fledged MMO.

Joe Danger 2 is coming to the PS3 within the next couple of weeks, and it'll be coming with 10 hours worth of extra content. The announcement comes under two weeks after the game launched on Xbox 360 in what many assumed was a platform exclusive.

Madcap animal survival sim Tokyo Jungle is slated to get Remote Play support in Europe and North America in an impending patch.

343 Industries is set to keep faith with the existing Halo engine for future Halo games.

The Total War: Rome 2 gameplay footage shown to the public for the first time at Rezzed this summer has been polished up and released to the masses.

RuneScape has a novel new way of dealing with bots: Botany Bay.

Prison Architect is playable at the Eurogamer Expo this week. Developer Introversion is also putting on a pair of special developer sessions at 3.45pm on Saturday and Sunday to talk about the decision to go for a Minecraft-style alpha sales model. Check them out.

At the Tokyo Game Show last week Capcom showed for the first time Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on Wii U and revealed how it will work in tandem with the Nintendo 3DS version, already out in Japan but scheduled to launch on these shores alongside the Wii U version in March 2013.

Post-apocalyptic Attenborough 'em-up Tokyo Jungle is available to download from the EU PlayStation Store today. It costs just £9.99.

Did you play Dante's Inferno? Never mind if you didn't - you can't be expected to play every game based on a religious poem, after all - just try to picture it based on what you remember. It was a very particular vision of Hell, wasn't it? A lot of people go with lava, skulls, horns, that sort of thing; Visceral Games went for a giant naked woman who spits demon spiders out of her teats while screaming, gasping and clawing. And that was just the elevator ride down to the front door.