Here's a tip straight from the multiplayer experts of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: When you find your opponent, stab them. Repeatedly.

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• Choose your persona for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood's tense and addictive multiplayer. Yes, including that creepy little harlequin that everyone wants to play. [GameTrailers]

Continue after the break for the prestigious battle suits of DC Universe Online, a fur-singeing lava level in Donkey Kong Country Returns, and the epic, cat-assisted battles of Monster Hunter Freedom 3.

• True, the heroes and villains of DC Universe Online are measured by their costumes, but these powerful battle suits are a little ridiculous. Admittedly, I've always wanted my alter ego to look like an evil clown spider....

• Things heat up when Donkey Kong skirts some lava to recover his banana hoard in Donkey Kong Country Returns. Don't miss the nefarious psycho chicken and his bipedal mecha-egg, the bane of tie-wearing primates the world over.

• Monster Hunter Freedom 3 is a world of sweeping vistas, hulking creatures, and poorly scaled weaponry. Luckily, I can look forward to being doted upon by cats after I return to town from a stressful hunt.