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The official Doctor Who website has released details and a video for a new online game called Amy’s History Hunt. It will launch next week on their site (note this is not the next Adventure Game).

The History Hunt stars Karen Gillan as Amy in a series of exclusive, specially shot videos. Your challenge is to help Amy unlock the Doctor’s safe and you can find out how and what’s at stake on Monday. But if you’re successful you’ll release a special short story by Paul Cornell, writer of Father’s Day, Human Nature and The Family of Blood.

Throughout the quest you’ll find out more about the Doctor’s friends and places he’s visited. Plus, you’ll get Amy’s unique point of view about some of the amazing people she’s met during her adventures with the Time Lord.

Matt Smith and Toby Jones (aka The Dreamlord) are reunited in new BBC drama, Christopher And His Kind, coming soon to BBC2. Smith plays writer Christopher Isherwood in the film that chronicles his formative years in Thirties Berlin. It also features other Doctor Who actress Lindsay Duncan (Adelaide in The Waters of Mars). Check out a preview below.

We’ve compiled a video of our ten favourite moments from Series Five. It’s was a tough job as there were so many great ones to choose from, but we got there in the end! Enjoy the video and feel free to list your own favourite moments in the comments.

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Matt Smith appeared at this year’s Glastonbury with Orbital who performed a cover of the Doctor Who theme tune. Check it out below.

While The Big Bang answered a fair few questions, it also left more open. For example; who was voice in the TARDIS, who was controlling it and what caused it to explode; who exactly is River Song, what is her relationship to the Doctor and who did she murder; and just who or what is the Silence?

Tonight’s episode of Doctor Who Confidential gave some hints of what to expect in the next series and it was revealed that Steven Moffat has plotted the Silence Will Fall story arc beyond the fifth series.

“Something that we’ve been hearing about throughout this series is going to continue and become more significant, and we’re going to learn more in the next series, which is the Silence.” said executive producer Beth Willis.

Moffat added “What is that? Who is that? Who are the Silence and what’s coming. The whole point of the Silence is next series. Also who is River Song? Who is she really? That’s what we’re going to find out next year.”

Here’s the video extract;

We’ve got a long time to speculate!

Here’s the intro sequence to Blood of the Cybermen.

Here it is, our first glimpse at The Big Bang.

The second Doctor Who Adventure Game has been officially announced as Blood of the Cybermen (previously rumoured as Winter of Terror). It will be released free on PC this Saturday in the UK immediately following The Big Bang. Press release and screen shots below.

An abandoned Arctic research centre… an ancient relic… an off-screen terror -- the classic ingredients of a Doctor Who episode. Only this time you are the Doctor.

Episode two of the Doctor Who: The Adventure Games has today been unveiled by the BBC -- and the good news is fans won’t have to wait long to get their hands on it.

The game will be available to download from the Doctor Who website (www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho) this Saturday (26th June 2010), immediately after the thrilling TV series finale.

‘Blood of the Cybermen’ has been executively produced by Steven Moffat, stars Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, has been written by Phil Ford, and is developed by BBC Wales and Sumo Digital. The games have been designed to complement the TV series, giving players the opportunity to finally ‘be’ the Doctor. The first episode ‘City of the Daleks’ received over 525,000 download requests in its first 12 days.

“Blood of the Cybermen is classic ‘Who,” says Phil Ford, Writer, Blood of the Cybermen, Doctor Who Waters of Mars and The Sarah Jane Adventures. “From the intriguing title, through the pre-credits intro to the mystery surrounding the Arctic base, this is everything you expect from a TV episode -- only this time you control the action. It’s an epic story, and one we could only tell in a computer game. We’ve ambitious sets, a thrill-a-minute narrative, and we re-introduce a Doctor Who adversary not seen since the Tom Baker era.”

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games has been produced by a team drawing on the very best talent from TV and gaming. The interactive episodes are executive produced by Steven Moffat, Piers Wenger, Beth Willis and with Anwen Aspden (BBC Wales Interactive), alongside Charles Cecil, one of videogaming’s most revered creators. The games are being developed by Sumo Digital, one of the UK’s best game designers. Stories and scripts are from Phil Ford (co-writer Doctor Who ‘Waters of Mars’) and James Moran (Severance, Torchwood Children of Earth). The project has been commissioned forBBC Online by the Vision Multiplatform team, headed up by Simon Nelson and is being driven by BBC Wales Interactive.

Matt Smith and Karen Gillan have been digitally recreated in-game, and have provided full voice-overs. Music has been provided by TV series’ composer Murray Gold. An additional cast portray original characters and classic enemies.

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games episode two ‘Blood of the Cybermen’ will be available to download for PC for UK users at no additional cost from the BBC Website from Saturday, 26th June 2010. A Mac version will follow shortly afterwards. International availability will be announced soon.

Update: Trailer added

Matt Smith teases the Series Five finale, The Big Bang (spoiler-lite).

Don’t forget, tomorrow will see the release of the first clip from the episode!

Here’s a incredible new clip from The Pandorica Opens. Hurry up Saturday!