It was another busy day here at El33tonline with competition winners to announce, exciting screenshots and trailers to pore over and lots of great news flowing through the pipe, but the biggest news of the day must surely go to the launch of the Wii U in Europe and South Africa.

Peruse El33tonline’s latest round-up of our headlines from today to catch up on anything you might have missed, and jump into our previous wraps at the bottom of the page to review the rest of this week’s game news:

• PS3 Essentials hamper competition winner revealed!

• Did you win a Toxic Bunny HD competition hamper?

• This is your Assassin’s Creed III competition winner

• El33t’s Pre-W33kend Post: Happy Wii U Launch Day!

• Wii U lands in European territories today, all the launch details inside

• El33t’s Question of the Day: Is id Software still relevant in the gaming landscape?

• UK 3DS eShop Update for November 29th: Aero Porter, DotMan

• UK Wii U eShop Update for November 30th: Trine 2: Director’s Cut, FIFA 13 Demo

• Battlefield Friday War Cry: Going for Domination

• 12 Deals of Christmas promotion kicks off on EU PlayStation Store tomorrow

• Sony reveals Black Friday sales for PS3 and PS Vita

• Free Xbox LIVE Gold weekend for US and most other regions

• Entertainment Weekly selects top 10 games of the decade… do you agree?

• New PS Vita bundle announced for North America

• THQ puts together a Humble Bundle of its own, slashes prices on Steam

• EA details Origin Advent Calendar sale, major discounts listed

• Crushing Company of Heroes 2 trailer reveals an RTS war like no other

• Cheery New Super Mario Bros. U launch trailer celebrates Wii U launch today

• Devilish Details: Crysis 3 behind-the-scenes video discusses Crytek’s painstaking work

• Terrifying new screenshots for Dead Island Riptide emerge

• First Halo 4 map pack dated with action-packed screens, new game mode revealed

• Good Times, Horrific Times, new Dead Space 3 screens have their share

• MoMA Adds 14 New Games to its Collection – MoMA.org

• God of War: Ascension multiplayer beta sign-ups begin – PlayStation Blog

• Mirror’s Edge Easter Egg in Battlefield 3 DLC – MP1st

Catch up on the rest of this week’s headlines:

• El33tonline News Wrap – 26/11/12 Edition

• El33tonline News Wrap – 27/11/12 Edition

• El33tonline News Wrap – 28/11/12 Edition

• El33tonline News Wrap – 29/11/12 Edition

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