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Serious Sam has one trick. It's simple, but effective. First it puts a big shiny thing in front of you. "Check this out, Dicky-boy, it's a COLLECTIBLE!" You pick it up, and immediately a hundred monsters spawn around the plinth. You either emerge like Bruce Campbell clutching your prize between clenched butt-cheeks, or reload and pick up the shiny thing again in all innocence. And then, a little way on, you find another shiny thing.

Superhero MMO DC Universe Online gets a free DLC expansion next week, Sony Online Entertainment has announced.

More than 40 staff members at 2K Czech, the studio behind crime epic Mafia 2, are looking for new jobs following redundancies this week.

The PlayStation 3 version of acclaimed arena shooter Section 8: Prejudice gets a new DLC pack this month, developer TimeGate Studios has announced.

Activision has sold 18 million Call of Duty: Black Ops map packs, the publisher has announced.

Action RPG sequel Dungeon Siege 3 gets a beefy DLC expansion this October on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, publisher Square Enix has announced.

Sony has added three million new PlayStation Network accounts since the widely-publicised security breach earlier this year that shut the service down for more than a month and compromised users' personal details.

Blizzard goes big at GamesCom, and this year was no exception. Gargantuan queues wrapped around its Diablo 3 booth on the show floor, and its 20th anniversary press conference was packed to the rafters. With Diablo 3, StarCraft 2 expansion Heart of the Swarm, an unnamed World of Warcraft expansion and Project Titan all in the works, these are exciting times for the company.

The final Red Dead Redemption DLC add-on, titled Myths & Mavericks, launches on 13th September, Rockstar Games has announced.

UPDATE: Activision has told Eurogamer there are "currently no plans" for it to publish the game in Europe.

In the absence of genuinely new games, this one was always going to work pretty well. Not only is 3D uniquely suited to rendering Lylat War's angular Arwings and chunky extra-terrestrial battlefields, but Star Fox 64 3D - it sounds, just for a minute, as if he's been shipped off to prison and assigned a number - as been helped onto Nintendo's handheld by Q-Games, the outfit that created the wonderful and quietly unappreciated Star Fox Command.

I had heard that Kali was good. Heard she was better than Malik and better than Rex, and both Malik and Rex were good too. I'd scoped her out, read the profile, boggled at the Word IQ of 195. Even the name was a giveaway. Kali. I'd seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Nintendo has updated the eShop this week with a solitary slice of DSiWare: 1950s Lawn Mower Kids.

Hogrocket's first iOS game, Tiny Invaders, has launched on the App Store for £2.49.

Cryptic Studios is developing a free-to-play business model for Star Trek Online, new owner Perfect World has revealed.

Nintendo's 3DS Ambassador programme kicks off today, rewarding pre-price drop adopters with 10 NES titles absolutely free.

Eurogamer Expo will host the first public UK hands-on with PlayStation Vita.

Sony's PlayStation-certified tablets have been renamed, dated and priced.

18 unannounced PlayStation Vita games will be playable at the Tokyo Game Show, Sony has announced.

L.A. Noire developer Team Bondi has entered administration, according to a new report.

It started with a nuke.

A number of DLC packs are on their way to Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online, Capcom has announced.

The contents of the Modern Warfare 3 Hardened Edition have apparently been made public, courtesy of a promotional shot leaked to Wired.

Quirky arcade effort Brick People is coming to iOS, Sega has announced.

Pre-order Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition through Game or Gamestation and you'll get an exclusive mini art book, Microsoft has announced.

Top-down pile-up sim Burnout Crash! hurtles onto PlayStation Network Xbox Live Arcade on 20th September, developer Criterion has announced.

The 3DS continues to post impressive numbers in Japan following its recent price cut.

A Resident Evil alternate reality game has just gone live on the web to tie in with forthcoming squad shooter Operation Raccoon City.

So, what to make of God of War Collection: Volume II? Developer Ready at Dawn has retooled both of Kratos' PSP outings - Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta - presenting them in full 1080p and with stereoscopic 3D support.

Sony is re-branding its digital delivery services as Sony Entertainment Network, the platform holder has announced.