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It feels strange to say it again so soon, but E3 is nigh once more. As per usual, the rumour mill has been working full tilt in the run up to the conference, even if this year's rumours have been dominated by what won't be at the show as much as what will.

Black Desert Online is one of the most interesting MMOs to come along in some time. It first caught our attention due to the startlingly realistic character creator, which lays legitimate claim to being the best in class - but it's a compelling game in its own right, thanks to engaging combat that Bertie reckoned to be revolutionary.

Yesterday Doom developer id Software told us it has plans to spruce up the game's barebones multiplayer (a feature of the game id outsourced to developer Certain Affinity before taking the reins post-launch) and already that's starting to happen - if only just.

Actor Kit Harington, best known as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, will play the villain in the upcoming Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.

It's real, then, in case there was ever any doubt. Confirming what's been known in considerable detail for some time, Sony has acknowledged the existence of a new, more powerful PlayStation 4, choosing to do so via a glib admission in a Financial Times interview timed to clear the air ahead of next week's E3, where it won't be discussing the new console any further.

The Guilty Gear series is driven by the unmistakeable hunger of the underdog. When series creator Daisuke Ishiwatari was a university student he obsessed over how he could design a fighting game to compete with the genre's heavyweights, Capcom's Street Fighter and SNK's King of Fighters. His solution was twofold: a thematic lunge away from martial arts into the fantasy excess of the anime tradition, and a doubling down on graphical fidelity.

Sony has confirmed the long-reported existence of PlayStation 4K.

Epic Games' MOBA Paragon goes into open beta 16th August. That means you won't need to buy into any Early Access programmes to play it - it will be free on PC and PS4. You do not require PlayStation Plus.

In the wake of Sony's confirmation of the PlayStation 4K Neo's existence, we thought we would re-publish this Digital Foundry article, outlining how the original PS4 and the new model will co-exist. This article is based on guidance given out to developers, and it is still current, to the best of our knowledge.

The final episode of Dreamfall Chapters, Book Five: Redux, will be released 17th June. A stirring teaser trailer was released that shows a montage of scenes from the game.

When it comes to video games, World of Warcraft is probably my biggest cultural blind spot. I'm aware of how significant Blizzard's MMO is and how much it's impacted lives across the world (who isn't) but beyond that, I'm a babe lost in the woods.

Star Wars Battlefront's second big batch of DLC is coming on June 21st to Season Pass holders, with other players having access to the new content a couple of weeks later.

UPDATE 11:45AM BST: Eurogamer can confirm that Techland, the Polish company behind Dying Light, will publish Torment: Tides of Numenera. It will be the first game Techland has published as part of a brand new venture.

From Software's Souls series is notorious for its punishing difficulty. Yet just being hard wasn't enough for some people. They needed to make things extra hard. Do things like completing the entire game without ever levelling up or using a shield. Then other people had to come along and put those already impressive tasks to shame by playing these games with cumbersome guitar or bongo controllers, completing a campaign without getting hit, or figuring out buff concoctions that can fell colossal bosses in one hit.

3DS has now notched up 60m sales, Nintendo announced last night.

The Overwatch launch appears to have been a phenomenal success. With more than seven million players having registered since launch, across three different platforms, Blizzard's first multiplayer shooter is already one of the largest in the world. But for this game to truly achieve its ambitions, it's going to need to hold on to that playerbase in the months and years to come. Blizzard has reached its payload, but there's a ways to go yet.

One of the most exciting powers of VR is the power to make developers see things afresh. Edge of Nowhere is hardly an enormously experimental title - Insomniac's first Oculus outing is a traditional action-horror game about an expedition to the South Pole that goes terribly awry - but I'm not sure the team would have handled the cut-scenes, say, in quite the same manner if they weren't counting on tech that put players right inside the moment. In third-person VR, the player is a camera, and that often means that you feel like an un-named lurker within the game, viewing proceedings from a physical vantage point. Edge of Nowhere opens with something very bad happening in a jungle, yet Insomniac chooses to place you behind a clump of bushes for much of the action. In VR, this strange conceit works beautifully, as it creates a real tension. Something ghastly is unfolding, but the view is blocked. Or is it?

Valve has released a new piece of software. No, it's not Half-Life 3. Sorry. But it is a tool that allows folks to create VR environments.

Bungie formally unveiled this year's big Destiny expansion, Rise of Iron, this evening. It costs £24.99 and launches on 20th September.

Ubisoft has shifted its policy towards cheating in The Division and will now issue permanent bans to anyone caught cheating, even if it's a first offense.

Bungie will officially announce its new Destiny expansion Rise of Iron tonight during a livestream at 6pm UK time, but its trailer has now leaked.

Three new PlayStation VR games have been announced.

Tada! There's a new HTC Vive Business Edition and it's more expensive but no different.

Street Fighter 5's new story mode, due out at the end of June as part of a free update, lets you play as all six DLC characters, Capcom has said.

This whole Nostalrius business has been remarkable. Who would have thought a team behind a private/pirate World of Warcraft server - depending on how you look at it - would one day be invited to Blizzard for a meeting that included Mike Morhaime (CEO), J. Allen Brack (WOW executive producer), Tom Chilton (game director), Ion Hazzikostas (assistant game director) and Marco Koegler (technical director)?

UPDATE 2.10pm A whopping 16 new franchises are joining Lego Dimensions for its second year, Warner Bros. has now confirmed.

The Duncan Jones Warcraft movie may be on course to flop in America (where it opens 10th June) but in China it's bigger than Star Wars: The Force Awakens - it's massive! Perhaps we'll see sequels after all.

So, just to clear things up, and flying against Betteridge's law of headlines, the answer is yes. I have played APB Reloaded on Xbox One, and while I can't claim to have tried out everything else on the console I can say with some confidence this is as bad as it gets on Microsoft's machine, for now at least.

Footballing car favourite Rocket League will be free to download and play on Xbox One this weekend.

Doom's campaign was a wonderful surprise, and a progressive and worthy follow-up to a true classic. The multiplayer? Not so much. Sure, it's fun enough, and as Jon Denton said the other day, it features some smart design. But few would argue that Doom's multiplayer holds a candle to its campaign, despite it being a major focus in promotion on the run-up to release.