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Who would have thought the best third-person shooter to emerge at last week's E3 would come from Nintendo? The reveal of Splatoon, a colourful squad-based shooter, was typical of a company that managed to hit all the right beats in Los Angeles, delivering something far more significant than a new Mario, or a new Metroid - it was an all-new IP, produced by the next generation of talent within Nintendo that's all-important to its future.

Seven wins straight. It's almost unthinkable that anyone could pull off the perfect MotoGP season by winning every single race, but in the here and now, with 11 races to go, that's exactly what Marc Márquez could achieve. He's this year's defending champion, and despite strong competition from Rossi, Pedrosa and Lorenzo - the latter of whom won more races last season that any other rider - it looks like the new ace up Repsol Honda's sleeve is going to walk it. This leaves the fight for second place as the more interesting proposition, especially with so many contracts about to expire.

Snake is undoubtedly the star of the Metal Gear show, but in The Phantom Pain, Mother Base runs him a close second.

Reporting from last year's E3, I chided Nintendo for its deeply conservative line-up that traded on past glories. I felt that, despite their obvious quality, games like Super Mario 3D World and Mario Kart 8 showed a publisher and developer that was at risk of growing inward-looking and creatively stale. Seven months later, after a dismal round of financial results for the firm, I took up the theme again. Had the mighty Shigeru Miyamoto lost his touch? Where was the young talent that would replace him, and where were the killer new gameplay ideas the company was known for?

EA has detailed the Battlefield 4 Dragon's Teeth expansion, due out this summer.

Since DayZ launched in Early Access, developer/publisher Bohemia has discouraged people from impulse - hype - buying it. "We strongly advise you not to buy and play the game at this stage unless you clearly understand what Early Access means and are interested in participating in the ongoing development cycle," a clear warning on the game's Steam page reads.

In more than 50 years of broadcasting, Dr Ian Higtonborough has circled the globe to document the living world in all its majestic wonder. Now, in the landmark series Kyrat Life, he goes in search of the animals in Far Cry 4. Dr Ian Higtonborough's Kyrat Life is told with stunning photography, state of the art visual effects and the captivating charm of the internet's favourite naturalist.

Undead survival game Dead Rising is being turned into a film by Legendary Digital Media, a new report has revealed.

A sniper's lot is presumably a lonely one, up on a hillside or deep in brush somewhere covered in camouflage gear and trying to avoid needing the toilet. But thanks to the internet it needn't be. Ian is going to be online at 5pm BST / 6pm CEST sharing the experience as he plays through the first 90 minutes of Sniper Elite V3 live on YouTube. Join him to see how Rebellion's latest squares up ahead of its release next Friday.

League of Legends maker Riot Games is offering newly hired staff 10 per cent of their salary if they quit. This Queue Dodge initiative hopes to weed out - in a positive way of course - those only after money, and to retain those there for something more.

Microsoft has unveiled its line-up of Xbox One software for the console's Japanese launch on 9th September.

The PC version of zombie kill 'em up Dead Rising 3 launches on 5th September 2014, Capcom has announced.

Halo was once on PC. Will it ever be again?

Titanfall is currently free to download and play via Origin for a 48-hour period.

EA has addressed what the boss of the company has described as the "unacceptable" launch of Battlefield 4 - and detailed the new processes it has put in place to prevent it from happening again.

Fable Legends developer Lionhead has charged a small team with coming up with the studio's next big new intellectual property.

It's the virtual reality video game dream: the next Mirror's Edge game played using a VR headset.

Steam has launched its latest Summer Sale with 80 per cent off The Witcher 2 and 75 per cent off Far Cry 3 and XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

UPDATE 19/06/2014: Call of Duty: Ghosts' Invasion DLC is set to launch on 3rd July for PS4, PS3 and PC, Infinity Ward has announced.

Are you sexist? I am.

Microsoft's sixth ID@Xbox title, Sixty Second Shooter Prime, is now available to download on Xbox One.

Bandai Namco has announced its intention to shut down the servers for Ridge Racer Driftopia.

Ageing games company Atari is seeking to redefine itself as an "interactive entertainment production company" with a new focus on online games, gambling and wearable devices.

"World" has pretty specific connotations in Nintendospeak. Ever since being used to mark the moment that Super Mario Bros. graduated from the NES to the SNES and became the all-encompassing platforming genius we know today, it's become a signifier not only of a series moving to new hardware, but of that series cementing its evolution and preparing for the future. "This sequel," it says, "is a new beginning."

A pile of screenshots have been unearthed that show the new bits coming to the Ultimate Evil Edition of Diablo 3 - ie. 'the new console version' - on 19th August.

Has there ever been a series as tonally diverse as Far Cry? Sure, the likes of Final Fantasy, Assassin's Creed, and BioShock have drastically changed their settings, genres, and flavours to various degrees, but the feelings they invoke remained largely the same. Far Cry, however, went from a light, goofy shooting adventure about aliens on a tropical island to a sombre dissection of the African blood diamond trade, to a satirical take on the modern open-world shooter, to an extraordinarily goofy parody of "edgy" 80s sci-fi culture. Now, with Far Cry 4, Ubisoft has settled on a tonally ambiguous Himalayan adventure that rests in the nebulous place between drama and comedy, light and dark, satire and sincerity. It's not a place often explored by the medium and that makes it as difficult to decipher as its wildly enigmatic cover.

Will 3D fly for Amazon Fire, Amazon's newly unveiled phone?

Saving the world is easy. Conquering it, however, is hard. The former I've done in thousands of games, but the latter? That's the tricky part. At least that's how it is in Fable Legends, Lionhead's asymmetrical third-person brawler/RTS hybrid that cleverly mixes team-based co-op with tactical top-down defence.

You've read what I thought about the Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain E3 gameplay demo - now it's time to check it out for yourself.

Magical platformer Trine is now available to try in its Enchanted Edition, which reworks the game into the beautiful Trine 2 engine.