Tiny Rebel Games have announced details of the upcoming launch of version 3.0 of Doctor Who Legacy, due in mid August

3.0 brings players the Sonic Adventures story arc, led by the First Doctor and which includes characters Donna Noble, Mickey Smith, River Song, and the introduction of the Third Doctor's companion, Jo Grant and which will find players collecting many of the sonic devices and gadgets from over the years of Doctor Who.

Another major feature of 3.0 is the addition of Doctor Who: Legacy Kids, a special dedicated area for the youngest Doctor Who fans, inspired by the popular Anna's Playground levels which were created for the child of one of the games fans.

As with Season 8 in 2014, the team is currently working closely with the BBC Doctor Who brand team and BBC Worldwide to prepare for the new series with plans to release allies, costumes, enemies and levels based around the upcoming tv season the same weekend as the new episode airs.

Doctor Who: Legacy, played by nearly 2 million Doctor Who fans, is now over 80 hours of playable content and includes all 13 Doctors, over 140 playable allies and companions, enemies from both modern and classic Doctor Who, and extended universe content from Big Finish, Titan Comics, and George Mann’s Engines of War novel as well as the Bigger on the Inside 8-bit style retro adventure.

Twilight Comics have announced an Exclusive #DoctorWho #1 Four Doctors Wrap-Around Variant, prepared for the Titan Comics special event, coming in August.

The cover is painted by David Carr of artmonkeyworld.com, and is limited to 1000 copies only. It is only available through Twilight Comics.

The actor Edward Burnham has died at the age of 98.

Edward Burnham had two major roles in Doctor Who. In 1968 he played Professor Watkins, the uncle of Isobel, in 4 episodes of the second Doctor story The Invasion. He returned to the series at the end of 1974 in Tom Baker's début story Robot, playing Professor Kettlewell, the creator of the Experimental Prototype Robot K1.

Edward Burnham was an actor for over 60 years, appearing on Television as early as 1938 in productions of The Marvellous History of St. Bernard and The Swiss Family Robinson. In 1959 he appeared in the science fiction series Quatermass and the Pit. Other roles followed in productions such as The Citadel, Z Cars, The Plane Makers, To Sir, with Love, The Pallisers, The Search for the Nile, Churchill's People, All Creatures Great and Small, Nightingales and Nicholas Nickleby.

In the early 1960's he played Dr. Dorking and Dr. Danvers White in Emergency-Ward 10 and in 1985 he played Mr. Grimwig in Terrance Dicks's production of Oliver Twist. He also appeared in the feature films 10 Rillington Place, Young Winston and The Hiding Place.

Edward Burnham died peacefully at home last Tuesday, 30th June.

Today, Wednesday, sees the release of Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor #9 by Robbie Morrison (Drowntown, Nikolai Dante) and Brian Williamson (Torchwood)!

Director Rachel Talalay, who helmed last year's finale Dark Water/Death in Heaven, has confirmed on Twitter that she is returning to the series to direct this year's as yet un-named two-part Doctor Who finale:

Recovering from a case of The Silence. #DoctorWho I am so fortunate to be asked back for the finale S09. #DontScrewItUpPt2

— Rachel Talalay (@rtalalay) July 1, 2015