Furthermore, a $99 pre-order-only Collector's Edition of the game has also been announced, which includes a DLC voucher, life-sized Death Mask with stand, exclusive in-game armor and scythe set with "enhanced stats," a "digital version" of the soundtrack, and a hardcover art book. We can't wait; this is exactly what we need to finish our Casey Jones costume.

Heck, just the city of Sanctuary, something like that couldn’t exist in the first game. Our technology has evolved a lot to enable us to do that now,” he added.

This is at least the second time Gibson has sought to put numbers on just how large the sequel is; he estimates Borderlands 2′s campaign is 58 hours long.

Borderlands 2 arrives on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in September.

The messages were surrounded by sequences of dashes and underscores – morse code is a theme in the games and their marketing – and followed up by a cheerful message from Ubisoft.

“Sorry for the disruption, Assassins. We were experiencing some technical issues, but we’re back up to 100% now. Thanks for your patience.”

Spoiler time: for those who came in late, Subject 16 was one of Abstergo’s captive assassins, subjected to the same forced Animus treatment as Desmond, the current series protagonist. He was killed, but as of Revelations, his mind still existed within the Animus, guiding and protecting Desmond, leaving mysterious puzzles for the player, and possibly sacrificing his fragile hold on sanity to save our hero. Twitter user @m_ath points out that Subject 16′s in-game death was today; the Assassin’s Creed series has been building towards a 2012 climax.

This isn’t the first time Ubisoft marketing has gone a bit bonkers; around the launch of Brotherhood, multiple related Twitter feeds were regularly disrupted by communications from its tie-in Facebook game.

Assassin’s Creed 3 arrives on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 30 in the US and October 31 in Europe; a PC launch is expected before the end of the year, with a Wii U release as yet undated.

The Silent Hill HD Collection was ported from incomplete versions of the original games, and has drawn strong criticism for its bugs and performance issues.

A complete listing of leaked dialogue from the revised ending can be found over on the Bioware forums, where members extracted the info from the upcoming content and posted it to Pastebin.

Mass Effect 3′s Leviathan DLC will be released later this summer for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.

Irrational Games creative director Ken Levine declined to comment on the speculation, instead saying, “As I’ve always said we are experimenting with things, and only if they are good enough will we put them in the game.”

This potentially troublesome news comes just a day after learning that two key members of Bioshock Infinite’s dev team, director of product development Tim Gerritson and art director Nate Wells, parted ways with the studio within the last month.

Levine addressed the departures, saying, “In a company of 200 people you’re going to have turnover. We never like to see a guy like Nate leave because he’s been here for a long time but it’s been 13 years and I think sometimes people want to spread their wings.
I’m not going to stop people. We love Nate and I think we all remain friends. After 13 years he sort of finished his work on BioShock Infinite, as you will be able to tell when you see the game again…