So apparently we’re not cool enough to receive one of Bethesda’s lovely-looking Brink goodie parcels, mailed out to certain lucky journos this morning. The package includes a couple of tasty concept art posters and brand new character customisation footage in USB credit card form.

Oh well, turn the other cheek. Here’s the footage spoken of, ripped from the sycophantic frontpage of those brown-nosing bastards at VG247. Try not to trip over your popularity ratings, Pat.

Edit: check with me next time, eh Ed? They DID send us the promotional tat in question – and rather nice it was too… (-Adam)

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"You can't catch me, I'm the GINGERBREAD MA-" BOOM.

Oh come now, you remember Brink. Made by multiplayer shooter specialists Splash Damage? The guys who did Quake Wars? Published by Bethesda? On Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3?

Got some gameplay footage here. A big “huzzah” for damage splatter which doesn’t block out the whole screen (yes Infinity Ward, I’m looking at you). The SMART system – Mirrors Edge’s free-running for idiots/the impatient, basically – seems to be shaping up nicely.

That’s Splash Damage overlord Paul Wedgwood doing the talking.

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