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Standalone expansion Fall of the Samurai has been announced for Total War: Shogun 2.

UPDATE: The petition reported below is in fact the work of satirical website Christwire. It was a joke and we fell for it. Sorry guys!

Grand Theft Auto may be taking a more serious tone as the series matures but the Saints Row games are moving in the opposite direction. In-depth characterisation and an intriguing story are left behind in favour of what made the earlier GTA games so much fun to play in the first place - that is, being able to mess around in an open-world playground where realism is given the elbow in favour of all-out insanity.

For a developer that once had a reputation for producing some of the most expensive console games ever, it's sad to say that in more recent years, SNK Playmore's output has gone from the bleeding edge of arcade sophistication to lingering in the unflattering depths of bargain bins across the country. And for those of us who still fondly remember the glory days of Mark of the Wolves and The Last Blade, this steady fall from grace has been more than a tad disheartening.

Microsoft plans to release a next-generation Kinect device so accurate it can lip read, sources have told Eurogamer.

Privates, the PC sex education platform shooter game, has won a BAFTA.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has won a third week atop of the UK all format charts, while several other major launches suffered.

Spotted: evidence of a new Lego Batman video game that will feature DC superheros Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern.

Images of Sony's rumoured Smash Bros. rival have emerged.

The next game from Brendan McNamara, the controversial writer and director of L.A. Noire, is called Whore of the Orient.

Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell believes piracy stems not from price, but from convenience. And as Steam boasts fast access to a dizzying selection of games, so piracy has become "basically a non-issue" for Valve.

New Batman: Arkham City downloadable content launches on 20th December, Rocksteady has announced.

Sony has declined to comment on a rumour that it is making a PlayStation 3 exclusive Smash Bros. rival.

Some games age well, and some just age; take a look at Shinobi. The 1987 arcade game and its home console sequels are, in the memory, death-defying adventures through samurai death mazes, a precision gauntlet. But these days, Shinobi plays worse than the memory. It feels like an archaism rather than a forerunner.

Sony's PlayStation 3 3D TV won't be available in the UK this year, according to online retailer Amazon.

Here's a small weekend Digital Foundry bonus. Last week we published our Skyrim: World in Motion timelapse, based on 1080p captures acquired from the PC version of the game running at ultra settings. However, before we began work there, we experimented a great deal on the Xbox 360 version which we received several days ahead of release.

An enormous world rich in adventure, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is remarkable in that its entire game world - meshes, textures, characters, audio, logic - is all contained within a paltry 3.8GB on Xbox 360. In the age of the 50GB Blu-ray, it's amazing that what is arguably the deepest, richest adventure of the year could fit with on a single-layer DVD with space to spare. Even the PC version - with its higher-quality artwork and superior quality settings - still only weighs in at a 5.5GB download via Steam.

Gary Garcia died last weekend. On the scale of pop music fame he was more Babylon Zoo than Lady Gaga, but for a few giddy months in 1982 videogames turned him and his musical accomplice Jerry Buckner into stars.

A friend posited recently that this has been the best year in gaming since 2001. I've got to disagree. The quality's been exceptional, no doubt, and over the last few months there's been any number of handsomely produced, craftsmanlike distractions competing for our free time, from Arkham City to Forza 4, Skyrim to Skyward Sword. They've all been gigantic, too: quality and value! There's never been a better time to buy your gaming by the yard.

The games industry's insistence on selling big budget video games for $60 a pop is a broken model and needs fixing, so says the boss of 5th Cell - the developer behind DS hit Scribblenauts and forthcoming XBLA shooter Hybrid.

Google's Chrome browser gets support for gamepads early next year, the search engine giant has revealed.

The Star Wars: The Old Republic beta weekend that Eurogamer gave away 12,000 keys for has begun.

Moneybags Microsoft has bought video search engine VideoSurf primarily for use with Xbox Live.

Weekly shop giant Sainsbury's has slashed the price of gaming hardware in an aggressive bid at the Christmas present market.

Why 7? There was never a Mario Kart 6 or a 5 or even a 2. Chronologically, of course, sequel has followed sequel with that dependable Nintendo plod. But the company has always chosen to brand each game as a discrete entity, never a numbered notch on an implied arc of evolution.

Zavvi's world exclusive Metal Gear Solid Ultimate HD Collection has disappeared from its website.

With World of Warcraft expansion Mists of Pandaria, Blizzard will overhaul a character talent (extra ability) system that has existed for seven years.

PlayStation Vita game New Little King's Story will launch in Europe, Konami has confirmed.

Epic-owned Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly will develop the next Gears of War trilogy, according to a rumour in the latest US Offical Xbox Magazine.

Nintendo 3DS game Zoo Keeper 3D has been spotted in Japan.