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Valve's unannounced game Deadlock has attracted thousands of players, hinting at the potential for success. A secret playtest for Deadlock on Steam had over 16,000 concurrent players, sparking interest in the mystery surrounding the game. Valve's potential return to game development with Deadlock, merging Moba & hero-shooter genres, shows promise.

Despite Valve not even acknowledging its existence, the company's unannounced video game Deadlock has already pulled in thousands of players. One of Valve's worst-kept secrets, the hero-shooter Moba has suffered several major leaks that have all but confirmed everything about the in-development project but that hasn't deterred the fledgling community. More than a few managed to gain access to Deadlock over the last weekend, resulting in a strange surge in players for a game that hasn't yet officially been announced.

Per GamesRadar+, a playtest for Deadlock that was discovered deep in Steam's backend has grown so popular that it's managed to...

Take One Action | Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival | Into Unknown Territory: The Cinema Of Roland Klick | Raindance Film Festival

Take One Action, Edinburgh & Glasgow

Think globally and watch locally with this respected social action festival. There are big topics here, addressed through drama and documentary and invariably accompanied by panel discussions. A new "Sisters" strand puts women's stories to the fore but the opener, Fire In The Blood, takes a detailed look at Big Pharma and its control over medical drugs. Elsewhere, nuclear orthodoxy is challenged in Pandora's Promise, and other topics up for inspection include Russian politics, HIV and urbanisation.

Edinburgh Filmhouse & Glasgow Film Theatre, Fri to 12 Oct

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

The tourist-friendly Northumberland border town has found an ingenious way of attracting visitors: by turning the whole town into a "living cinema". New video artworks and site-specific installations have been commissioned for some of Berwick-upon-Tweed's celebrated landmarks.

Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now will close the festival, which has assembled it largest programme to date.

The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival (Sept 19-29) has unveiled its 2013 line-up, comprising 150 titles from 40 countries.

As previously announced, Professor Stephen Hawking will attend the opening night gala of documentary Hawking, which will be broadcast live to more than 60 screens across the UK.

The festival will close with Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now, an Orwellian vision of a post-apocalyptic future starring Saoirse Ronan and George MacKay.

Alongside Hawking, other special guests to the festival will include directors Lucy Walker (The Crash Reel), Roland Klick (Deadlock), Mark Levinson (Particle Fever), Julien Temple (Oil City Confidential), Ramon Zürcher (The Strange Little Cat), Małgośka Szumowska (In The Name Of), Marzin Malaszczak (Sieniawka), Matt Hulse (Dummy Jim) and Andrew Mudge (The Forgotten Kingdom), Bob Stanley, John Pearse and actress Stephanie Stremler (Dust On Our Heart).

Strands include Young Americans, aimed at showcasing...

Famed scientist Stephen Hawking to present the Stephen Finnigan-directed documentary in Cambridge.

The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival, which runs from September 19-29, is to open with documentary Hawking.

Told in his own words and by those closest to him, the film relays Professor Stephen Hawking’s journey from boyhood underachiever, to PhD genius, to being diagnosed with Motor Neurone disease and given just two years to live. Despite the constant threat of death, Hawking has risen to fame and stardom and continues to make scientific discoveries.

Review: Hawking

The professor, best-selling author (A Brief History of Time) and Cambridge resident will present the film in person on September 19.

Stephen Finnigan, BAFTA-nominated series producer of The Choir: Military Wives, directs the Channel 4 and PBS co-production, which is produced by Darlow Smithson Productions (Dsp).

It received its world premiere at SXSW in March and the UK rights have been secured by Vertigo Films. It is also...