Do you want game trailers? Do you want tons of El33tonline editorials and features? How about some reviews, previews and exciting announcements? Then cast your minds back to last week when we pasted up vast collections of all of these things, plus more, and look over our round-up of videogame news for the week ending February 5th!

Of course, you can look forward to more of this content this week, too, but just in case you missed any of it, here’s what happened last week:

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The Settlers Online starts out familiarly for anyone who’s played a Settlers PC game. You begin with an untouched, newly found piece of land. The Mayor’s House has already been built, presumably with resources brought across on the boats. The first thing you need is wood, so you build a fir wood cutter to start cutting down trees. Next you build a sawmill to convert the logs into planks that can be used to build with. You’ll also need to build a forester to ensure you don’t completely use up the forest without replanting. Each of these buildings takes a few minutes to build so you can do quite a bit of waiting around as they complete. If you want to you can pay 2 crystal to complete each building instantaneously. Crystal can be bought with real currency, so this is how the free-to-play game is intending to extract revenue from players.

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… The hope for THQ was that its development partners would be able to introduce truly useful and groundbreaking features in the 2012 edition of the series, while the publisher itself went about the important business of gathering fan feedback in order to improve and evolve different features of UFC Undisputed 3 to deliver the best game possible.

From what we’ve seen of UFC Undisputed 3 so far, changes have indeed been made, improvements have been massaged into the gameplay and those useful features are definitely present and accounted for.

Will UFC fans love or hate the changes made to the series?

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I didn’t play The Darkness so I was a bit unprepared for what I was about to experience in The Darkness II. Suffice to say I was creeped out pretty much immediately and it’s not often I can say something like that. After playing mostly kids games with my children I wasn’t mentally prepared for the violence and gore that The Darkness II displays. And, of course, one must not forget the evil undertone that the game has either.

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Asura’s Wrath is a game unlike any other I have played. In this time of sequels upon sequels upon clones of sequels, that sure is saying something. But will this originality mean success or failure in a world where the familiar often wins out over the new?

Asura is angry. The gods killed his wife, kidnapped his daughter and assassinated the emperor. Asura is banished from Earth and then awakened from a 12 millennia hibernation. And now it is time for payback.

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When big names collaborate it often turns out to be more hype than it’s worth, but when one of the world’s best comic book artists, Todd McFarlane, comes together with one of the world’s best fantasy writers in the form of R.A. Salvatore and one of the world’s best RPG game designers, Ken Rolston (the man behind The Elder Scrolls III and IV), then you better sit up and take notice.

The result of this amazing get-together is more than just a few embarrassing photos on Facebook. These guys have all contributed their strongest work to make the best game they can possibly make.

This game is Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

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I’ve wanted to play a proper, portable Resident Evil game for a long time. I was understandably disappointed when Resident Evil Portable for PSP never materialised into anything, and later looked forward to playing Resident Evil: Revelations on 3DS once it was announced.

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Hot dang, the world of videogames has been shunted into 2012! The usually ‘quiet’ beginning period of the year has already seen a torrent of news and El33tonline has been keeping up the pace, with features of our own to complement the deluge.

And we’re only just getting started.

After a successful and highly enjoyable meeting of Durban gamers this past weekend, and ahead of another busy week with events in Johannesburg and Cape Town as well as another wave of game announcements, let’s catch up on the week of January 15th with El33tonline’s round-up of videogame news:

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The recent demo for Final Fantasy XIII-2 proves that Square Enix is more adaptable than many people give it credit for. The game went on sale last month in Japan and hasn’t been the runaway hit the publisher was hoping for. It’s sold around 739k in roughly two weeks, placing it well below the brisk sales achieved by previous Final Fantasy games.

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It remains to be seen if Grand Slam Tennis 2 can topple Top Spin 4 from the tennis throne, but judging by what I’ve seen in the demo I reckon it’ll offer tennis fans stand-out features that were missing from 2K Czech’s offering.

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With the announcement of IO Interactive’s Hitman Absolution earlier this year, and subsequent teaserly trailers and reveals, the gaming world has been waiting for its first glimpse of in-game action from the studio’s next stealth-action title, and during an El33tonline-attended presentation of the game, we got this sneak peek, and more!

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I got some great four-player gaming in with Rayman Origins this weekend at rAge. The guys I played with were complete strangers and highly varied in skill levels as well as age, but it was a really fun experience. That’s because Rayman Origins is a game that is pure quality in graphics, design and style.

It’s the New Super Mario Bros Wii of this year - the best option for a four-player local-multiplayer gaming session for friends or family looking for more than just a party game. Not that I have anything against party games.

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I got a chance to play a bit of Uncharted 3’s singleplayer at rAge recently and it has left me even more excited for the game. The guys and gals over at the Ster Kinekor stand had a playable version of the singleplayer on the show floor, and I took a quiet moment late on Friday afternoon to give it a go.

The burning château and the sinking ship levels were playable, and while the cargo plane was listed on the menu it unfortunately wasn’t playable due to technical issues.

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In an El33tonline-attended gamescom presentation for Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma, the game’s producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi was present to take us through the fantasy action RPG’s many features and provide a lot more clarity on what the game really is, as well as showcase what kind of gameplay we can expect while explaining why ‘Pawns’ are so important and intriguing.

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After the legendary Ken Rolston subversively berated videogame marketers and reviewers for the clichés they use in their descriptions of games during an awesome presentation at EA’s press conference ahead of gamescom this year, El33tonline had the chance to attend a demo for Rolston’s latest masterwork, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

We were taken through the demonstration by lead designer Ian Frazier, as well as Big Huge Games studio general manager Sean Dunn, and while we were told that it was difficult to reveal everything that’s in the game in only 30 minutes, together the pair did a great job of introducing us to the massive open-world RPG stylings of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

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