Lisa was killing it today, writing up a storm to get El33tonline’s news day started right. While Tom and I tried to keep up, Lisa began work on a few end-of-year features that you can look forward to reading next week, but today, you can catch up with our hefty number of headlines.

We’ve got patch and downloadable content news. Trailers and screenshots. A competition, features, a review, a Question of the Day and a few tasty industry announcements. All wrapped up, nice and neat, below:

• El33t’s Pre-W33kend Post: Holiday merriment

• Win an amazing Far Cry 3 hamper with game, backpack and goodies!

• New Super Mario Bros. U Review

• El33t’s Question of the Day: What does the game industry have against female heroes?

• UK Nintendo eShop Update for December 13th: Crimson Shroud, Rayman Legends demo

• El33t’s GotY 2012 Community Podcast: Have you listened in yet?

• Xbox LIVE Activity for week of December 3rd: You’ve won this time, Black Ops 2…

• Devil May Cry dated for PC, system requirements released

• Report: Next Borderlands 2 DLC is ‘Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt’

• Journey soundtrack receives Grammy nomination

• Metro: Last Light Limited Edition detailed, pre-order bonuses revealed

• Dead Space 3 gets Kinect voice controls

• Hitman: HD Trilogy coming in 2013, box art revealed

• Humble THQ bundle brings in over $5 million

• Far Cry 3 PC patch out now to improve playlists and fix your many cores

• CoD: Black Ops 2 Double XP Weekend begins today, play with devs

• Massive Borderlands 2 patch hits Xbox 360 and PS3 – what’s fixed?

• EA server shut downs to hit FIFA 11, NBA Jam and others in early 2013

• 14 Days, 14 Specials: Xbox LIVE content gets price cuts until New Year’s

• Rayman Legends demo now available from Nintendo eShop

• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance demo headed to all regions next month

• New Company of Heroes 2 multiplayer trailer released

• Explosive new trailer for Dead Space 3, and terrifying new screenshots

• New Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time trailer directs the spotlight at Sly

• Munch’s Oddysee HD and Stranger’s Wrath HD Vita hit the PlayStation Store next week, latest screens inside

What news caught your eye today?

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