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Monolith Soft's successor to the top-notch Xenoblade Chronicles has been given an extensive demo during Nintendo's Treehouse E3 livestream.

Creative Assembly's Alien Isolation may be a bit of a departure for the Total War developer, but it's already looking like a much more assured step in a new direction than anything else the developer has tried outside its famous strategy series.

I have a very mild fever. A very mild World Cup fever. I've been told it's about to start, I've seen that John Oliver clip so I now know what FIFA's up to these days, and I've just scored my very first goal. My very first goal ever. And I was driving a tank when I scored it.

Frame-rate is paramount for Blizzard and the new-gen console version of Diablo 3 - The Ultimate Evil Edition (launching 19th August). 60fps is paramount.

In Alien Isolation, the first-person survival horror game from Creative Assembly, you end up carrying a revolver - at one point you can even pick up a flamethrower - and as you're exploring the giant, decommissioned trading space station Sevastopol, slowly, as silently as possible, you bump into other humans. That's what happens to me when I play the game's newest playable level, lifted from a section set further into the game than those previously shown. As I skulk around the ruined corridors of the spaceship, all of a sudden I find myself face to face with a man.

UPDATE 12/6/14 #2 3.15pm Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has appeared live on stage at E3 2014 to demo his two new IPs - Project Guard and Project Giant Robot.

Capcom can be a difficult company to read. So many of its games are downright silly, painted with big, broad arcade strokes and brought to life with straight-faced bombastic zeal, but it's hard to tell if the publisher is in on the joke.

Ubisoft was "inches away" from including female co-op characters in Far Cry 4, the publisher has said.

A minute of Bloodborne gameplay footage has surfaced online, via NeoGAF, having been recorded off-screen from a demo at E3.

There aren't a huge number of people still playing Halo online. Franchise custodians 343 know this. And ahead of the launch of Halo 5: Guardians, potentially the biggest Xbox One exclusive yet, it's time to do something about it.

The most amazing thing about the Battlefield Hardline beta on PC? It works. No black screens. No hard crashes. No rubber-banding. What relief after months of tussling with DICE's rarely functioning Battlefield 4. Those struggles had started to feel like features. Yet Visceral's debut in the Battlefield universe (as it will likely be called from now on) runs like clockwork, even at this stage.

Nintendo has announced a new turn-based strategy game for 3DS called Code Name: STEAM, due out in 2015.

The first half of Tim Schafer's Broken Age is now available on iPad, developer Double Fine has announced.

An upcoming Titanfall patch will bring two new modes to the game: Marked for Death and Wingman LTS.

Crytek UK has shown off its first slice of Homefront Revolution gameplay - it's the mission Eurogamer were talked through when we first saw the game last month.

UPDATE 11/06/14 19:07: This report from GamingBolt.com suggests that the Uncharted 4 trailer is indeed running in real-time - a simply phenomenal achievement. We've studied the video in a little more depth and have concluded that it's definitely running at native 1080p resolution (as opposed to being rendered at a very high resolution, then scaled down - a process known as super-sampling). Small clipping anomalies, a touch of specular aliasing on Nate's shirt as he sits up, along with some shadow aliasing on his forehead also suggest a real-time render. On the face of it, we're still looking at some pretty incredible anti-aliasing here for a real-time technique on a game running at 60fps, particularly when it comes to the perfect, artefact-free rendering of Nate's hair - but the combination of the low contrast setting, slow camera movement, motion blur and depth of field would work well generally in making aliasing much less of an issue.

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty - the remake of the original 1997 Oddworld adventure, Abe's Oddysee - is set for a PS4 release on 23rd July in Europe and the previous day in North America, developer Just add Water revealed on Twitter.

UPDATE #2: I'm not only writing about Dragon Age: Inquisition today but I couldn't resist adding this: on Twitter, producer Cameron Lee has revealed that DAI will have "40 major endings with additional variations".

PS4 and Project Morpheus game The Assembly has been announced.

UPDATE: In addition to The Last of Us-themed Nephalem Rift, buyers of The Ultimate Evil Edition of Diablo 3 on PS3 and PS4 will get another treat: a Shadow of the Colossus-themed transmogrification set called Guise of the Colossi.

PSP role-player Final Fantasy Type-0 is being remastered for release on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, publisher Square Enix has revealed.

UPDATE 11/6/14 10.30am: Destiny will run at 1080p and 30fps on Xbox One following Microsoft's resource-freeing June software development kit update.

Last night Nintendo held its first ever Super Smash Bros. for Wii U invitational tournament, live on stage at E3.

Don't eat for eight days because on 19th June the Steam Summer Sale begins.

UPDATE #2 11/6/14 12.05pm: Sony has told Eurogamer that the £84.99 price point for PlayStation TV does not include a DualShock 3 after all.

Hideo Kojima's exacting standards for Metal Gear Solid 5 are plain to see. Few developers target 60fps, and fewer still actually achieve a completely locked, flawlessly smooth experience. Kojima Productions achieved just that with Ground Zeroes, and the brand new E3 2014 trailer gives us the chance to see whether the technology can achieve the same trick with a more demanding range of characters, actions and locales.

The 3DS and Wii U versions of Super Smash Bros. will include another new fighter - Pac-Man, Nintendo has announced.

Sega's teamed up with Sony Pictures to make films about its mascot Sonic the Hedgehog.

First things first, congratulations to Microsoft. I have been on their case ever since that awful mess in Redmond last May, but Monday's E3 press conference was a vast improvement. The message may have taken a long time to go in, but the focus on games that everyone has been asking for was inarguable - so much so that even a cool new Snap mode app giving you more control over Achievements was relegated to the pre-show, presumably not to dampen the focus and risk incurring further wrath.

Cliffhorse is fun for five minutes or so but - for a certain strain of its audience - it must be troubling for a whole lot longer. To elaborate: on Saturday, Markus 'Notch' Persson released a game that had taken him about two hours to knock up using the Unity engine. Then yesterday, Sony and Microsoft - and Ubisoft and EA - spent millions of dollars renting auditoria, giant screens, and often weird light-up wristbands to get the news of their new games to the world. They flew developers around the planet to appear on stage in LA and splashed out, in some cases, on Hollywood talent to really drive the point home. Notch? Two hours. Unity. A game about a horse pushing a marble about. And yet when Sony and Microsoft reached the technology page of the BBC News website, Notch and Cliffhorse were there too.