Mass Effect and Heavy Rain were two titles that came out tops at the British Academy Video Games Awards (BAFTA) recently held in London.

Heavy Rain walked away with three BAFTAs, for Original Music, Technical Innovation and Story. Mass Effect was crowned Best Game, applauded for being a “combined achievement of technology, art, design [and] audio… a beautiful complete gaming experience.”

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Valve has released the first weekly mutation for The Passing DLC for its co-operative zombie shooter, Left 4 Dead 2.

The Passing DLC was released last month and introduced new single player, multiplayer and co-operative gameplay to the game. It also introduced a series of weekly game mode events dubbed “Mutations.”

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Valve recently announced that the demo for their upcoming zombie themed cooperative first-person shooter, Left 4 Dead 2, is now available for all PC gamers (not just those of you who pre-ordered it this time) and Xbox 360 gamers who just so happen to be Xbox LIVE Gold members as well.

The demo gives players a taste of the new features in Left 4 Dead 2 over an above the original game, containing gameplay from a campaign called ‘The Parish,’ set in the New Orleans French Quarter, while also allowing players to glimpse all of the new infected zombies, and a variety of new melee weapons present in the full game.

If you’re a PC gamer, or you’re an Xbox LIVE Gold member, the Left 4 Dead 2 demo is available to you now. Silver members will get access to the demo next week, on November 10th, so don’t fret too much Xbox fans.

On its first attempt at trying to become accepted by the age ratings board in Australia, the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC), Left 4 Dead 2 had a miserable time and was ultimately rejected and denied a rating, which meant that Valve’s next zombie co-operative shooter wouldn’t be allowed to appear on store shelves in the country.

Valve recently appealed the rejection, however, by submitting a version of Left 4 Dead 2 to the classification board with altered content, in order to ease the board’s concerns over the game.

[Update] Details on what’s been cut from the Australian version of Left 4 Dead 2 follows below:

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A new set of extremely detailed Uncharted 2 screenshots have been released, revealing an amazing amount of detail in the characters and environments, as well as the smart use of technology such as depth-of-field.

For the low price of one click, you can see an additional five such screenshots (as well as the latest official trailer for Uncharted 2 thrown in for free) below:

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