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Valve have announced that the closed beta for Counter Strike: Global Offensive has officially gone live today. Valve had delayed the CS:GO closed beta, which missed its previously planned October launch window, to implement improvements to the game. Valve’s Chet Faliszek said at the time that the beta had been pushed back “a bit” following …

Three new previews and footage of Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand were released today with video of a fan favorite map, Wake Island. Get your German dictionary out, or just watch the pictures! The last one is in English.

Following last week’s large PC patch, EA has released a major update for Battlefield 3 on PS3, with an Xbox 360 version to arrive shortly. Weighing in at 700MB+, the update introduces weapon and vehicle damage tweaks, the ability to spot explosives, spawn protection in Conquest, a whole squad system revamp and much more. Here …

Bethesda have released The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Japanese trailer and it’s atmospheric and looks soo pretty! Let’s just hope they don’t play it on the PS3, which, despite last week’s patch still suffers from crippling lag issues. Earlier this week it was revealed that Bethesda’s RPG has become the first Western game to receive …

Following on from this month’s Forza 4 Speed Pack DLC, Microsoft is to release another car add-on pack on December 6th. Dubbed the IGN Pack, here’s what you’ll get for 560 Microsoft Points (£4.80 / $7): • 2011 Monster Sport Suzuki SX4 (pictured) • 2011 Mazda RX-8 R3 • 2011 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor • …

EA chief financial officer Eric Brown has announced Battlefield has sold 8 million copies. Speaking at the Baird Technology Conference, Brown revealed EA has managed to sell 5 million during its first week on sale in late October. Brown also announced that the publisher has now shipped 12 million copies of the game to retailers, …

Ubisoft have announced that the PC version of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Revelations will be getting patched on day one. The patch won’t include anything too big, but will be essential for anyone wanting to play the game using Nvidia’s 3D vision. The majority of the update’s features relate to visual and UI tweaks. Here are …

Noone is really surprised by this news, and neither is developer Techland, but Dead Island has been banned in Germany. “This isn’t unexpected,” the developer told Eurogamer. “Germany has its unique regulations regarding video games and violence and the industry can only comply. “Both Deep Silver and Techland were aware of such a possibility from …

The full patch notes for World of Warcraft version 4.3 Hour of Twilight have gone up on Blizzard’s blog. The patch includes a whole host of tweaks, fixes and new additions such as new dungeons, raids and items. New features include the new Raid Finder which “allows players to quickly and easily form a pick-up …

EA has released a new trailer for Battlefield 3′s Back to Karkand expansion pack. At least, it’s newISH. Focusing on the re-imagined Gulf of Oman map, the gameplay movie reveals a number of vehicles you will be able to strap yourself into come December. The three combat vehicles returning from Battlefield 2 in Back to …

Another set of new NVIDIA drivers have been released (290.36), adding ambient occlusion support for Skyrim and Modern Warfare 3. Among the improvements in the drivers are screen flickering and triangular artefact fixes in Battlefield 3, and Nvidia also recommends the update to troubled Batman: Arkham City players. The update streamlines PhysX support, says Nvidia, …

Rocksteady Games has confirmed that players will be fly-kicking bad guys in the Batcave this Christmas. Posting via Twitter, the developer has said: “Brand new DLC coming December 20th with all new Batcave.” It says nothing more about the challenge map other than that date, and it’s yet to release any images. The Tweet adds: …

The first premium DLC for Modern Warfare 3 is to be a map pack consisting of five new maps, according to new crazy rumours. Kotaku reports that the maps will be called; Morning Wood, Concrete, Park, Italy and Overwatch. Yes, really, one of them’s apparently called Morning Wood. If you need a reason to be …

Naughty Dog have finally released the Uncharted 3 patch to fix the game’s aiming mechanics. Along with a bunch of other tweaks and fixes, the new 1.02 update adds “Alternate Aim Settings” to the options menu under camera settings, but will only apply to the single-player game. For the full list of changes, see the …

A talented gamer has remade Grand Theft Auto 5′s debut trailer in GTA 4′s Liberty City, and it’s impressive to say the least. In case you’ve had a captured-by-Somali-pirates calibre break from the general public in the last few weeks, the first look at Rockstar’s new GTA crash landed onto the internet earlier this month. …