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How's your Expo been so far? Three days in and there's a certain happy fatigue setting in, with a fistful of highlights already and the sense that there's still plenty left to see.

REMINDER: Our panel discussion 'Settling the Score: The Truth About Game Reviews' takes place at Eurogamer Expo today at 2.30pm. Although it's not in the main developer sessions room, you can queue for it at the same place as all the other sessions. Unfortunately Oli Welsh isn't able to make it due to illness, but EG's features editor Martin Robinson will be stepping in to represent the site.

Halo chief Frank O'Connor has explained the quick-time events some Halo fans have expressed concern about in Halo 4.

Dishonored started life with a 'hide in the shadows' stealth mechanic like Thief had. But Arkane ditched it - for a couple of reasons.

The world of open source handhelds is a strange but exciting place, dominated not by overbearing and cash-hungry manufacturers and publishers, but by the same breed of indie coders who are slowly but surely infiltrating the likes of XBLA, iOS, Android and Steam. Since the first truly 'open' consoles started to appear in the Far East at the dawn of the millennium, we've seen a long line of systems created with the ideals of freedom and experimentation very much at their core. These are platforms on which rules are made to be broken, and the only limitation is how far savvy and resourceful developers can push the host hardware.

Capcom is hosting a Resident Evil-themed art installation this weekend at the Smithfield Meat Market in East London, Neatorama has reported.

Filmmaker Werner Herzog once said "if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs." Games these days are wholly diverse visually ranging from gritty realism, to slick and cartoony, to retro abstractions, but I'm not sure I've seen anything that looks quite like free indie RPG Middens.

Naughty Bear Panic in Paradise - the sequel to 2010's crude action-adventure Naughty Bear - is dated for release on 10th October for XBLA and PSN, publisher 505 Games has announced.

With Assassin's Creed 3 nearing completion after three long years of development, we sat down with creative director Alex Hutchinson at the Eurogamer Expo to discuss what the new instalment means for the series - and what will come next.

Treyarch design director David Treyarch took to the stage at Eurogamer Expo this afternoon to discuss what it's like to be in charge of the design of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and dish the dirt on the game's new prestige system.

Turn-based RPG Rainbow Moon is expanding from a PS3 exclusive to the Vita sometime next year, publisher eastasiasoft has announced.

Assassin's Creed 3's DLC will contain a wacky extra slice of narrative best described as a "what the f***" side-story, the developer has revealed.

If there's one thing a beta never lacks, it's disclaimers. Everything's subject to change! This is not indicative of the finished product! Everyone plays along, rightly acknowledging that there is the scope for big changes, but we know that this is fundamentally it: in Heart of the Swarm's case, the next iteration of Starcraft 2 multiplayer nestling comfortably into your PC. Things will change, but more will stay the same.

How do you get a job in the game industry? According to Valve, all you have to do is give yourself one.

The Football Manager 2013 release date has been set: 2nd November. But you can play two weeks earlier if you pre-order the game.

Sega's just announced that the original Rome: Total War will be sold for £1 on Steam this weekend. The Total War: Master Collection, which contains seven TW games, will be just £26.23.

It's Halo. I don't know why I was so surprised by that, but Halo 4 feels very much like another Halo game. There's the spongy movement, that wonderful combat loop and a sense of pomp and scale so grand you can't help but be carried away in its ridiculous sweep. There are shrill aliens, both squat and tall, and gunfire that sends multi-coloured traces across strange landscapes.

The negative response of some fans to Splinter Cell: Blacklist has simply been a "kneejerk reaction" based on selected "vertical slices" of the game, the game's director has told Eurogamer.

"Technical challenges" are holding up the OnLive iPad app, the company has told Eurogamer.

Hitman: Absolution developer IO Interactive has said that, while standard multiplayer deathmatch modes were "always tempting", such offerings must always feel appropriate to the game in question.

The Eurogamer Expo may be better known for the bigger games on the show floor and the star-packed developer sessions, but one of my favourite aspects is always the Indie Games Arcade. It's where I first got to see and play stuff like Frozen Synapse and VVVVVV, and this year I helped regular curator David Hayward and the Rock, Paper, Shotgun guys decide what should go into the 2012 line-up.

Nintendo has detailed its DLC for New Super Mario Bros. 2 at its recent Japanese Nintendo Direct livestream in the Wii hours of the night.

The Vita version of cult-classic bug massacring shooter Earth Defense Force 2017 is heading to the west at an unspecified point, publisher D3 announced on Facebook.

We don't often report on Japanese dating games here at Eurogamer, but when a game features intentionally crude character designs this stupendous we can't help ourselves.

State-of-the-art 3D VR headset Oculus Rift is now accepting pre-orders for its dev kits.

Scientists at Austin's University of Texas and Romania have created game-playing artificial intelligences that fooled a panel of judges into believing they were human based on their behaviour in Unreal Tournament 2004, Phys.org has reported.

Outspoken indie success story Markus 'Notch' Persson tweeted to Microsoft that he'd rather not put his phenomenally successful sandbox game Minecraft on Windows 8 than support the closed platform.

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.