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Majesco has announced that it's picked up Ghostwire: Link to the Paranormal for DSi, which is only the second DSi-exclusive cartridge game that we're aware of.

1up reports that Borderlands players are encountering a rather serious bug that resets their character's skills to zero when they try the game online.

EA and Double Fine have announced that they'll be releasing the first downloadable content for heavy metal adventure Brütal Legend next week.

One of the star attractions at the Eurogamer Expo 2009 will undoubtedly be New Super Mario Bros. Wii.

Broken Sword creator Charles Cecil has revealed the first hints of what we can expect from his next game.

The Eurogamer Expo 2009 welcomed over one thousand people in its first hour, as day one of the Leeds event sets off at a blistering pace.

Here's a sequel that takes precisely zero time to prove it's not simply a repeat of its forerunner. Remember all those super-long, super-serious conversations between unsmiling men? From the very off, Assassin's Creed II features gags, flirting and urgency. Even Desmond, the glowering buzzcut bloke whose ancestors' memories the Assassin's Creed games document, gets to grin, joke and make eyes at a lady. What, what, what? Light-heartedness in my gritty historical stealth game?

The doors are opening on the Eurogamer Expo 2009 as the first day of the Leeds event gets under way.

Battlefield developer DICE has fired a shot across the bows of rival Infinity Ward, reassuring fans that it will be sticking with a dedicated server set-up for multiplayer in the PC version of Battlefield Bad Company 2.

Capitalising on the momentum generated by its free-to-play relaunch of Dungeons & Dragons Online, Turbine is releasing Update 1 to DDO Unlimited tomorrow, 28th October.

Microsoft has revealed how much you can expect to access the Sky Player via your Xbox 360 in the UK.

Roger Daltrey has suggested that his band The Who is to get a Rock Band special edition next year.

Activision has halved the price of all three Call of Duty: World at War map packs on Xbox Live Marketplace, an offer that runs until 1st November.

Nintendo is planning to launch a new DS with even bigger screens, according to a Japanese news outlet.

A new version of UNO is in development for WiiWare and DSiWare.

Relentless seems to be tapping into a curious cultural phenomenon. No matter how much the British are pilloried and stereotyped as braying aristocrats or straw-munching yokels by other cultures, we'll always be better at it ourselves. Never a nation to shy away from a hearty laugh in the mirror, we're our harshest and most accurate critics, self-deprecating with a quietly scathing gentleness which endears us to ourselves. Blue Toad Murder Files is very much in this vein, an excellently observed take on rural Britain - heavy on stereotype without the inherent laziness which this so often implies - wrapped around a murder mystery board-game concept.

We've all pulled the heads off things before, of course. Pretty much all videogames include pulling the heads off things (with the possible exception of Imagine Babies). But no other example springs to mind just now, because the only one worth remembering is Kratos' angry, barehanded decapitation of poor old chariot-riding Helios in God of War III. Helios is a fiery, antagonistic little pretty-boy, but once you've watched his skin stretched taught into tendrils and torn, like so much plasticine flesh in a George Romero movie, you can't help feel sorry for him.

The price of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is being slashed by 75 per cent this week on Steam.

Microsoft has confirmed that Dead Space and Colin McRae: DiRT will both be made available on Xbox 360's Games on Demand service today.

Nintendo has announced a new Excitebike game for WiiWare.

Microsoft's Major Nelson has announced this week's new Xbox Live Arcade titles on his blog.

Infinity Ward has said that Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer supports third-person view in private matches.

Rockstar Games has become a major sponsor of the charity drive known as Movember.

Balancing three distinct factions in a competitive multiplayer game is one of the tougher challenges in game design. (Just ask Blizzard, which has seen StarCraft's tenth anniversary come and go before it's managed to nail down the second outing for the Terrans, Protoss and Zerg.) Three is too few to allow for variations on a theme; in such intimate company, each faction is going to have to stand out as an individual in the whole, not just in the detail. Each needs to present a completely rounded, completely unique play style.

As executive producer Jeffrey Steefel points out, it's been about 11 months since The Lord of the Rings Online MMO had a proper expansion, which is why Turbine is about to release mini-expansion Siege of Mirkwood. This raises the level cap, adds a new adventuring zone (Mirkwood) and introduces the Skirmish system. With Skirmish, players can set up and join dungeon instances from anywhere on the map; take an AI-controlled and fully customisable Soldier with them; and re-run the dungeons with randomised objectives on tougher difficulties to earn Skirmish points for special prizes.

Following on from Monday's news about the Eurogamer Expo's Brink developer session, taking place at 1.30pm on every day of the show, we're pleased to announce the full programme of talks from the industry's brightest stars. See below for a table of events and read on for full explanations.

Nippon Ichi has announced a sequel to Prinny: Can I Really be the Hero? for PSP.

Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 has overturned a rampant FIFA 10 to take the UK all-formats top 40 crown. The PS3 had the lion's share (66 per cent) of the sales.

In a fantastic, revealing interview with Game Informer, Warren Spector has spoken about how he came to be making a Mickey Mouse game - Epic Mickey - for Disney.

Infinity Ward and Activision have chosen to use Valve's Steamworks suite of tools for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.