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Once the undisputed king of the Android smartphone market, Korean firm Samsung has had a bit of a wobble over the past few years. Its yearly Galaxy S updates have always supplied processing power in abundance, but Samsung's overzealous use of plastic and seeming inability to evolve its basic design language gained the firm some fierce critics. Of course, when sales are brisk it's relatively easy to ignore such negative feedback, but last year was something of a turning point for Samsung. The Galaxy S5 sold worse than expected and overall profits dropped as a result - unsurprisingly, the Korean giant has been spurred into action and this year's flagship offering couldn't be more different - in physical terms, at least.

Bethesda has accidentally revealed that it has a new Dishonored project to announce tomorrow during the company's E3 press conference.

UPDATE 13/06/2015 5.12pm: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night's Kickstarter campaign has ended at a spectacular $5,545,991.

Astute readers may remember that Trials HD contained loads of cryptic easter eggs and fourth wall-breaking riddles. Naturally, developer RedLynx decided to continue this trend into 2012's Trials Evolution, only this time it's gotten much, much more ambitious.

Only available as bundled bonus with Final Fantasy Type-0 HD, the Final Fantasy 15 demo impressed us with the scale of its technological ambition, but fell short in terms of performance. But that's OK for now - the game is still deep in development, after all. Now, in an unprecedented move, Square-Enix has seen fit to update this demo based on real feedback from fans around the world. It's a fascinating new approach to game development from the Japanese giant - and with version 2.0 of Final Fantasy 15 Episode Duscae comes a whole host of improvements and changes.

One of my heroes is Gunpei Yokoi. Nintendo's master engineer in the early years, Yokoi transitioned from designing physical contraptions like the Ultra Hand to the calculator-inspired Game & Watch and then the Parnassus of the Game Boy. Yokoi was a genius and yet, at the end of his time at Nintendo, there is one haunting image.

A few years ago, there was something of an unspoken question hanging over the E3 conferences: did the audience have a genuine appetite for a new generation of consoles? In 2015, it seems clear that the answer, broadly speaking, is yes - meaning that, for the third-parties, the blockbuster is centre-stage again, even if the fundamentals that underpin it have shifted slightly with an emphasis on fewer, bigger bets. At E3, where two more publishers have decided to stage their own conferences this year, it's increasingly all about mega-games whose release dates send competitors scurrying, in much the same way that an extinction-level meteor scatters clouds as its entry sets the surrounding atmosphere on fire. Will there be genuinely new stuff on show at the conferences? Hopefully - but it might be hard to find space for it amongst all the behemoths we already know about.

By the time this article goes live, my journey to E3 with Aoife, Tom and Oli will be underway. A frenzy of writing, filming, coffee drinking and very little sleep awaits, and I couldn't be more excited. There's so much to look forward to already but, if there's one thing E3 is good for, it's producing the odd surprise.

Back in 2013 a man named Erik Chevalier announced that he would not be able to produce the board game he raised $122,874 for. Naturally, the backers behind the project weren't happy.

Tearaway Unfolded, the PS4 conversion of the fourth wall-breaking Vita adventure, will arrive on 11th September in the UK.

ACE Team - the developer behind Zeno Clash, Rock of Ages and Abyss Odyssey - has revealed its latest game, a B-movie inspired romp called The Deadly Tower of Monsters.

Manga spin-off Afro Samurai 2 has received its first trailer, albeit a story-focused teaser with no gameplay.

Music industry diva and R&B singer legend Mariah Carey will front a new promotional campaign for free-to-play mobile app Game of War: Fire Age.

Tales of Zesteria, the latest entry in Bandai Namco's long-running RPG series, will launch in the UK this October.

The basic idea behind almost all of Battleborn's 25 launch characters can be conveyed in just two words. Sword mage. Jetpack trooper. Chaos witch. Mushroom ninja. Vampire knight. Space elf. Those two words and a lot of bright colours are all there is to them, really, and as archetypes in an online co-operative and competitive shooter, that's probably all they need.

Just over a month ago, a motley crew of ex-Rare employees revealed Yooka-Laylee, their spiritual succesor to Banjo Kazooie.

Nintendo won E3 hands-down last year, even if its victory counted for squat: for all the success of its Direct approach, and for all the strange new pleasures to be found in its line-up, there wasn't much by way knock-on effect on for the fortunes of the Wii U. It didn't really matter back then, and it doesn't matter much now, either: last year wasn't about saving the Wii U, but about introducing a new, revitalised Nintendo, one that had decided to take its critics head-on, to tackle the circus of E3 on its own terms, and one that came out on top even though its home console can't hold a candle to its competitors sales-wise. That one of Nintendo's finest games in a generation came in its wake - an all-new IP by a new generation of talent within the company, no less - was just gravy.

Each Oculus Rift headset comes with a wireless Xbox One controller, Oculus has announced.

Insomniac is making a game for Oculus Rift.

Sony goes into this year's E3 on the crest of the same wave it's been riding ever since Jack Tretton's killer blows a couple of years back, when the company didn't so much grasp victory as sneakily pocket it while the Xbox One floundered in the turbulent twilight of Don Mattrick's reign. Microsoft has since made up for its early missteps and then some, cutting the Xbox One's price and unleashing wave after wave of big-hitting exclusive games as the console has been dynamically realigned, but the momentum has remained firmly with Sony all the same. The 22 million consoles shifted in the first 18 months of the PlayStation 4's life has already laid down a significant marker.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has warned fans not to expect anything new on Crackdown, Quantum Break or Scalebound at E3 2015 next week.

Nintendo is continuing its drip-feed of new Splatoon features with the Splash-O-Matic!, the third extra weapon to become available since the game originally launched.

Top mobile puzzler Threes! has launched a free version of its app via the iOS App Store and Google Play.

Last December Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy creator Keita Takahashi teased an upcoming PS4 game called Wattam, which featured a green cubic character with a penchant for adorning their head with bombs and bowler hats, and now we know what it's all about.

And we're done! The conference brought us a new final form, new controllers and a whole world of new games. Plus Palmer Luckey wearing flip-flops. Next E3's going to have to go a long way to top that.

Snuggle Truck developer Owlchemy Labs' quirky survival sim Dyscourse has added several indie game developers to its roster of NPCs as free DLC.

Street Fighter 5, the next game in Capcom's brilliant fighting game series, is more evolution than revolution, but when it comes down to mechanics, important changes have been made.

Following several leaks, Logitech has confirmed the existence of the G29 steering wheel, the successor to its successful line of peripherals that took in the G25 and G27 - and it's also revealed the G920, the Xbox One equivalent that's launching in October this year.

Remember Bedlam? It's a retro-themed first-person shooter based on the novel of the same name that doffs its pixelated cap towards the online games of the '80s and '90s.

UPDATE 11/06/2015 4.49pm: Shadow Warrior 2 is confirmed for PS4, Xbox One and PC, publisher Devolver Digital has announced.