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In Puppeteer, you play a boy trapped in a wooden puppet without a head, fighting to escape a nightmarish world terrorised by a giant moon bear. Gavin Moore, the Brit leading development of the PlayStation 3 exclusive at Sony Japan Studio, admits it's a bit bonkers.

In sport, as in business, as in life, competition can only be a good thing. Without an opponent to pit your skills and development against, how can you know if you're improving? For proof of this maxim, you need look no further than the Madden games.

Those of you who came along to Rezzed this July were privileged to check out a small glimpse of Rome 2, The Creative Assembly's newest instalment in the all-conquering conquer-'em-up Total War series. If you're coming to the Eurogamer Expo, however, you'll witness the first public demonstration of playable code in an exclusive Creative Assembly developer session.

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes developer Capybara has revealed its next project: hardcore platform shooter for Xbox Live Arcade named Super Time Force.

Another night, another flurry of activity by Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet. An MMO community thrives on maker-to-mouth communication and, so far, ArenaNet has showed a healthy regard for just that.

Sony will package together the three major Killzone games for release in trilogy form, a new product listing by Amazon France suggests.

Dungeon-crawling sequel Torchlight 2 will arrive for PC on 20th September 2012, developer Runic Games has announced.

Skyrim vampire add-on Dawnguard may never come to PS3, Bethesda forewarned overnight - and nor may the newly announced Hearthfire DLC, either.

UPDATE: Just a quick note to say that next week's community night (details below) will also include playable F1 2012 and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 thanks to our friends at Codemasters and Namco Bandai. Come along and drink and be merry!

You may not have heard of Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton - the new writers of the long-awaited God of War movie - but you've probably heard of some their films.

In the circus that is video game promotion, sporting celebrities up and down the alphabet come and go like journeymen clowns, back-flipping in and out of on-stage demonstrations with awkward smiles and a few words for the cameras. Pele for Ubisoft at E3 2009. Pete Sampras for EA at E3 2009. Wayne Bridge for Activision at the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops in 2010.

In the past, the Gears of War series hasn't been particularly lauded for its writing.

The new multiplayer God of War game, Ascension, will be released in the UK on 15th March 2013.

How powerful is the Wii U really? Is it less powerful than the PS3 and Xbox 360? Is it as powerful? More powerful? And how will it compare to the next generation? What quality of graphics will we see from Wii U games?

Downloadable retro fighting game medley Marvel vs. Capcom: Origins will be released on 26th September, Capcom has announced.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 will launch on the Wii U, the game's ESRB ratings board listing suggests.

RuneScape's preparing to fly the PC nest - the decade-old browser MMO is being developed for "your favourite tablets, platforms and even smart TVs".

Controversial L.A. Noire developer Team Bondi is targeting the PC and the next-generation of consoles up for its upcoming project, Whore of the Orient.

2K and Gearbox have promised four add-on DLC packs for Borderlands 2, post-launch. There aren't any specific dates, but they'll all be out by June 2013, apparently.

Atari has launched a new website that lets you play re-imagined versions of its classic games for free.

An update for the Xbox 360 iPlayer app has added a number of BBC radio stations to the service.

Update #2: It sounds like there may still be a problem downloading Tomb Raider 4. Again, please let us know if any other PSone Classics aren't downloading to Vita properly for you. There's plenty of chat going on below.

3DS puzzle adventure Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask will arrive in Europe on 26th October, publisher Nintendo has announced.

Update: Sony's confirmed that the UK release date will indeed by 2nd November.

Guild Wars 2 has enjoyed a relatively smooth launch, but there are still teething problems - maybe they're unavoidable when launching a game and online service of this magnitude.

Fans of streaking rejoice! We're very happy to reveal that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Multiplayer will be playable at this year's Eurogamer Expo.

Being a morbid and even a maudlin sort, I'm right up for games set deep within the human body. I want to race nano-bots through bustling arteries, grapple-jump across sparking synapses, and score complex multipliers deep inside the medulla oblongata. The body has great brand awareness, really: surely somebody wants to make the most of that?

Indie game shops around the UK will be offering an exclusive deck of Borderlands 2 Top Trumps to those who pre-order the game - and Eurogamer now has a list of the retailers taking part.

Update: The viral website has been removed, as has the YouTube video advertising it. Bethesda couldn't tell us why, but I can only imagine there are two possible explanations: one, it's been terminated permanently because it's not very good; or two, it wasn't quite finished.

UPDATE: Eagle-eyed fans have pegged the below images as being of Solid Snake mentor Big Boss, whose 1970s exploits were chronicled in previous Metal Gear Solid installments.