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• Passionate psychopaths: Dark Souls debuts in Dubai

  Proud publisher Namco Bandai shows off Dark Souls in motion for the first time in Dubai. Impressions, quotes, new screens.

• Ridge Racer: Unbounded screens and video feature cars, roads

  More assets from Namco, this time from Ridge Racer: Unbounded, the latest big instalment in the veteran drive series. Get it all below.

• Ace Combat: Assault Horizon gets new screens, movie

  Namco’s stuck out new shots and a movie of air-fighter Ace Combat: Assault Horizon as part of its Dubai Level Up event this week. Get it all after the break. The publisher chose to hold this week’s press event in Dubai as it’s the Assault Horizon’s setting. Looking good.

• First Soul Calibur 5 art shows Siegfried, Patroklos

  Here’s your first SoulCalibur 5 art, following the game’s announcement in Dubai yesterday.

• Namco nukes Dubai: Soul Calibur 5 announced for 2012

  Namco Bandai’s Level Up press event has wrapped up at the Madinat conference center in Dubai, with the big news being Soul Calibur 5’s announcement for a 2012 release.

• Croal quits Newsweek

  N’Gai Croal is leaving Newsweek, according to this Gama report, after 13 years at the magazine and three years on the Level Up blog. Croal is to pursue a career as a creative consultant to game developers. There’s a brief interview through there.