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Nintendo’s moustached Mario has been king of the karting games for some time now (seven editions in fact), but now a couple of upstarts are attempting to steal the short plumbers karting krown.  Little Big Planet’s SackBoy is taking to the kart tracks as a PlayStation exclusive, whilst Sonic the Hedgehog is bringing his transformed racing pals along for the ride.

In a time of frenzied release schedules Agent 47 is entering the fray in a cold calculated way.  Witness the launch trailer for Hitman Absolution

It is a strange, yet expected phenomenon when PR companies roll out the latest dollar value earned in the early sales period for one of their charges.  So it is with the return of Master Chief to our not-so-small-any-more screens in Halo 4