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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.

Pre-order Assassin's Creed 3 or Far Cry 3 at the Eurogamer Expo and you'll get a numbered, limited edition print you'll find nowhere else.

There's new Gran Turismo 5 DLC on the PS Store, highlighting the shop-arrival of GT5: Academy Edition on Friday.

The discounted, downloadable PS3 Essentials range arrives on PlayStation Network today.

If you read Chris Donlan's WWE 13 preview last month then you know a few important things: 1) He got to go to Summer Slam, and is therefore a lucky git. 2) It's another extremely polished fighting game based on the noble art of jumping around on canvas and trying to avoid lying down for too long. And 3) While it's full of contemporary superstars, it's also a bit of a trip down memory lane.

Phew! Unless something goes horribly wrong oh god what if it all goes wrong why would I even say that then in less than a week we'll all be wandering happily through this year's Eurogamer Expo, sampling all the treats the games industry has to offer.

Dead Space 3 developer Visceral Games has shown a meaty chunk of footage from the sci-fi horror's single-player campaign.

These people deserve a certificate or something, because today there's another reason to go back to System Shock, Homeworld 2 and Thief 2: fan-made mods and patches.

"With great power comes the need for great sacrifice," says Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune, offering a riff off Spider-Man's mantra to apply it to his upcoming game, Soul Sacrifice.

Historical stabathon Assassin's Creed 3 is the latest game to drop Windows XP support for its upcoming version.

The Humble Indie Bundle 6 has added four new games to its already ludicrously cheap collection.

We all remember growing up and plugging an NES cartridge into the console's slot only to get a jumbled up error screen. And we all knew the solution to this particular query; blow on the underside of the cartridge. Yet a recent study has shown that not only did blowing not help, it may have actually hurt the cartridge.

Far Cry 3's minimum, recommended and high-performance system specs have been released for the PC version of Ubisoft's upcoming psychedelic open-world first-person shooter.

Platinum Games - the highly acclaimed developer of such titles as Bayonetta, Vanquish and Anarchy Reigns - has called the PS3 version of Bayonetta the studio's "biggest failure."

Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto cleared up a series of misnomers about the portly plumber's lore in an illuminating interview at GameInformer.

Valve has announced a spruced up Collector's Edition of Portal 2's soundtrack, Songs to Test By, due on 30th October.

A slew of new DLC for Beenox's The Amazing Spider-Man is slated for release tomorrow on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, Activision has announced. It's out today in North America.

A new bug has reared its ugly head in the savage wastelands of Borderlands 2 that resets player's Badass Rank and strips them of all the rewards that come with it like skins, heads and stat boosts.

Too-self-important-by-half production company Psyop has put together three very stylish story-setting videos for Dishonored.

Conspiracist David Icke is up in arms because Sega won't let him use a song that belongs to Total War.

When the new Devil May Cry game was announced in 2010 fans of the series were united in their criticism.

LittleBigPlanet PlayStation Vita developer Tarsier is offering one aspiring game creator the chance to work alongside its top men and women.

Buy a copy of guitar-teaching game Rocksmith at HMV and £5 will be donated to the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Duke Nukem Forever creator 3D Realms has returned with a new first-person shooter on a new crowdfunding site that launched today.

If a fighting game sequel is going to be a critical and commercial success, it has to offer tangible progression for a wide variety of players. For dabblers who tend to dismiss the online arena in favour of solo modes and local multiplayer, the new iteration needs to deliver an enticing range of new characters, a cosmetic upgrade and a weighted helping of single-player content that lasts more than an afternoon. For ardent fans, the mechanical changes need to strike an even balance between familiarity and innovation.

Back when we revealed that you would be able to play Company of Heroes 2 at this year's Eurogamer Expo, we promised that everyone who played it (or attended the developer session on Saturday at 2.30pm) would get "a special gift".

Just Cause maker Avalanche Studios has set its sights on becoming the best open world developer.

"This is a work of fiction. Any persons or groups named herein are entirely ficitious." Thank goodness that disclaimer appears every time this game boots up. It'll certainly save confusion next time I'm walking down the high street and spot an elephant being chased around a derelict tube train by a pack of golden retrievers wearing pink shower caps.

Samsung has sent over word about some more of the things it's planning to do at our lovely Eurogamer Expo between Thursday and Sunday.

Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner's adventure game epic The Last Express is coming to iOS worldwide on 27th September, according to the new release date trailer below.