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Our daily roundups from E3 2015: Monday | Tuesday | Thursday | Friday

Our daily roundups from E3 2015: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Friday

Right. Listen. I know what you're going to say. Eurogamer published a written list of 'alternative awards' yesterday, which gives the impression that team video has just gone and copied that very idea for this week's show. That's not the way of it. I've got emails that will back this up, I assure you.

When Microsoft announced that backwards compatibility would be hitting the Xbox One this year our collective jaws hit the floor. Even factoring out the effort involved in mapping the Xbox 360's GPU functions to entirely different Xbox One hardware, the idea of translating the 360's tri-core 3.2GHz PowerPC CPU to six low-power x86 Jaguar cores seems like a herculean task - yet somehow the engineering team has delivered. It's not perfect in several cases, but the fact that the virtualisation works at all is a supremely impressive achievement.

Bad news: if you want to become a fossil when you die, you should know right now that it's probably not going to happen. Most of us don't end up as fossils. Most of us just end up plain old dead - vanilla dead, if you will. Turning into a fossil requires dying in the right sort of place, in the right sort of conditions, often at the right sort of time. Even then, there's no guarantee that anyone's going to bother digging you up. Man, being a fossil is surprisingly tough!

Zelda: Triforce Heroes' main story mode won't support two-player play.

What a week it's been.

Music games have returned and the battle off the brands is back on. This October it's Rock Band 4 up against Guitar Hero Live. And of the two it's Activision's Guitar Hero Live that will be cheaper.

A Destiny clan has waved goodbye to a member who recently passed away in an emotional video tribute.

It's done, it's over, E3 2015 is officially dead - and judging by some of the drawn faces across the Eurogamer team, so are we. Yet what a week it was! There were shocks and surprises as some long-forgotten faces were reintroduced, as well as the joy in seeing fresher faces giving us some genuinely exciting new prospects to look forward to. Despite what some may tell you, though, E3 isn't about the games: it's about that strange, awkward magic that comes about when you give this industry a global stage for a week, some of which we seek to celebrate in this year's alternative awards.

Czech developer Warhorse has put out a tasty trailer for medieval no-fantasy role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance. And it continues to look very impressive.

You can now watch a whopping 40 minutes of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain gameplay, via a new E3 video by IGN.

Microsoft's most eye-catching E3 2015 announcement was the addition of backwards compatibility to the Xbox One. It means some Xbox 360 games will be playable on the console.

Oh, Deer! Alpha is out now. Open the PlayStation Store using PlayStation Vita, find the PlayStation Mobile tab, and press it. Scroll through the newest releases until you find Oh, Deer! Costs a paltry 49 cents.

Square Enix has released a video of action role-playing game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, showing off a solid chunk of gameplay (warning, there's a potential spoiler scene from 18.25 to 22.20).

I love karaoke, and I'm a horrible singer. But that's okay - people don't go to karaoke to get a singing lesson, and folks don't play Rock Band to become a guitar hero or a rocksmith. A lot of music games might now focus on teaching players how to play real instruments and the like, but Rock Band is happily going back to basics after figuring out what's really important to its fans. "We really took a hard look at what the fantasy of Rock Band was," Harmonix' product director Daniel Sussman told me at a hands-on event. "What were we trying to do? And if we could go back in time and do it better, what would we do?

Devolver Digital, the publisher behind Hotline Miami and Shadow Warrior, has revealed its latest jam Eitr, a retro hack-and-slash about Norse mythology.

When Microsoft announced that it would be bringing backwards compatibility to Xbox One for Xbox 360 games, it resulted in perhaps the biggest applause at this year's E3. But there were naturally questions about this grand reveal: Notably which Xbox 360 games would be compatible with its successor?

Back in January Life is Strange and Remember Me developer Dontnod teased an upcoming vampire-themed RPG called, well, Vampyr.

Asymmetrical man-vs-monster shooter Evolve will receive a second Season Pass next week, publisher 2K has announced.

Batman: Arkham Knight may have a ton of convoluted retailer-exclusive bonus goodies, but Warner Bros. has confirmed that all of these will be included in the Season Pass within six months of the game's launch.

Halo 5 has microtransactions and they have caused a stir among the community.

A good 10 minutes of proper Mad Max gameplay footage has been shown at E3.

At E3 this week Capcom held a 12-person invitational tournament for upcoming fighting game Street Fighter V - and it starred some of the world's best fighting game players.

AMD has revealed its new top-tier performance graphics line - Radeon Fury. Three different cards based on its new silicon, codenamed Fiji, have been revealed - led by the ultra high-end watercooled Fury X, due for release before the end of the month. Later on in the summer we can look forward to a slower, cheaper, air-cooled Fury along with Fury Nano - a small form factor iteration.

The beta for Dota 2's huge Reborn update is out now and available for everyone to download and play.

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World of Warcraft's next major patch comes out 23rd June, according to a post on the game's official site yesterday evening.

Harmonix Music VR is coming to Project Morpheus, the developer has announced.

So, it actually happened. Waking up Tuesday morning, still weary from the long, strange night of surprises that E3's first day of conferences conjured up, it was hard to tell if it had all been but a dream. The Last Guardian is real, and very much tangible - there was enough wonder in the extended gameplay presentation that kicked off Sony's show to keep us all going until its release sometime next year. Final Fantasy 7 was getting the remake so many had been clamouring for, but strangest of all was the news that Shenmue 3 is being ushered into life by Yu Suzuki and a handful of the original development team.