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It was one of those little moments in my personal gaming history that I don't think I'll ever forget. We'd been summoned to a classmate's house to witness the beginning of a new chapter in console technology: Sony's hip and edgy PlayStation. The classmate (let's call him Rob - after all, that was his name) was a rarity in our peer group - someone whose parents considered it entirely reasonable to spend around £300 on something which then, much more so than now, was considered little more than a toy. Rob was unpopular, in an awkward 11-year-old sort of way, but that night his living room would become the centre of our worlds.

Sony Online Entertainment's H1Z1 zombie MMO sure reminds me of something else.

Limbo developer Playdead has finally revealed its upcoming game, Inside, which will be an Xbox One timed-exclusive.

UPDATE #2 9.15PM Square Enix has now released its first trailer for Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, which confirms the game will launch for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

EA showed concept footage of the new Mirror's Edge game during its E3 conference. No release date was announced.

Add-on content for Tom Clancy's The Division, Ubisoft's ambitious 2015 open-world shooter, will launch first on Xbox One.

CD Projekt Red took to the Microsoft E3 stage to show brand new gameplay of The Witcher 3.

Last year, Call of Duty: Ghosts tried to get us excited about a dog. This year, Battlefield Hardline is trying to get us excited by throwing in a bit of, well, Dog Day Afternoon. Developer Visceral Games is adamant that this isn't the Battlefield you're used to, because it's shifting its focus from saving-the-world military battles to tense skirmishes in familiar settings.

Well, this one came out of left field: Microsoft Studios' Ken Lobb has announced that the Xbox One will be getting a remake of cult original Xbox game Phantom Dust.

Bayonetta and Vanquish developer Platinum Games has announced a new Xbox One-exclusive action game entitled Scalebound.

EA Sports has announced that PGA Tour, which is due out in 2015, will be the first game in the series to use DICE's Frostbite 3 Engine.

Conker, the absuive, drunken squirrel created by Rare and the star of the cult classic Conker's Bad Fur Day, will be in Project Spark.

Microsoft has just shown off beautiful new platformer from indie developer Moon Studios, named Ori and the Blind Forest.

Sunset Overdrive, the forthcoming Xbox One exclusive platforming-shooter from Insomniac, will be getting an eight-player co-op mode called Chaos Squad.

At today's E3 Xbox press conference, Playground Games' Ralph Fulton announced that Forza Horizon 2 will be released on 30th September.

Microsoft has opened its E3 2014 conference by showing off new footage of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and confirming that once again the series' DLC will launch on Xbox One first.

Capcom has announced Super Ultra Dead Rising 3 Arcade Remix Hyper Edition DX Plus Alpha, an add-on for Dead Rising 3.

The sequel to 2013's Tomb Raider reboot has just been announced during Microsoft's E3 press conference. It's called Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Assassin's Creed: Unity will support four-player online co-op play for the first time in the franchise, Ubisoft has just confirmed.

Fable Legends will be launching its beta this autumn, developer Lionhead announced during Microsoft's E3 press conference today.

UPDATE: Harmonix has announced Dance Central: Spotlight at E3. It's a digital-only (download only) game that's coming this September. Harmonix boss Alex Rigopulos said the game had new technology that gets music tracks into the game faster than ever before. This should mean more, newer content and more often.

Turtle Rock Studios' upcoming competitive man-vs-monster competitive shooter Evolve will launch its beta exclusively on Xbox One, Microsoft announced today during its E3 press conference.

Popular iOS and Android puzzler Threes is coming to Xbox One as an ID@Xbox title, Microsoft announced during its press conference pre-show.

Xbox One will get a new Achievements-tracking app "later this summer", Microsoft has announced.

Killer Instinct Season Two starts this autumn, Microsoft has announced - and boxer TJ Combo will be the first free new character.

Free-to-play brawler Happy Wars, previously on Xbox 360 and PC, is now headed to Xbox One, Microsoft has announced.

There are plenty of nice people working in the games industry, but Spilt Milk's Andrew Smith could stake a decent claim to being one of the very nicest. His two permanent props, a broad, handsome smile and a half-empty bottle of beer that's always hanging from one hand no matter what time of day you bump into him, tell a little of how this former Realtime Worlds employee escaped from the misery of APB's development to a career in indie development - his easygoing, go-getting attitude helping his debut game Flock become part of the first wave of downloadable console games last generation before he helped make the sardonic, Snake-like Hard Lines.

The UK games industry appears to be back on track. Employment levels haven't been this high since 2008, an 2013 census led by developer body Tiga reported.

UPDATE 09/06 11.30AM BST: There's been a Shards Online pre-alpha playtest this past weekend and there are a handful of videos of it. They show a game that's a lot like Ultima Online, both in perspective and design.

Let me tell you the story of the number 33, an American teenager called Marine14, and how I never became a doctor of film.