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Sony will, as ever, host the last E3 conference of a busy E3 keynote day - Monday, 9th June. The time difference means it's a late one for Europe: 2am in the UK and 3am in central Europe.

Ubisoft has confirmed Far Cry 4 will be released on 21st November in the UK for PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

Ubisoft has said it will continue to support the Assassin's Creed franchise on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, despite the recently-announced Assassin's Creed: Unity only being headed to PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

UPDATE 16/5/14 2.20pm: The first slice of concept art from Halo 5: Guardians has been released via Halo Waypoint.

Nintendo's stable of iconic characters isn't the most diverse cast you could imagine, but the Kyoto-based company is making an effort to rate higher on the Bechdel test by adding more playable female characters to its upcoming Super Smash Bros. title on Wii U and 3DS.

Guerrilla Games is busy working on a significant four-player co-op expansion to its PlayStation 4 launch title Killzone Shadow Fall - but it's also busy working on its secret next effort on the console.

Microsoft will release Halo: The Master Chief collection for Xbox One later this year, according to a new report.

Valkyrie... is about to diet. Enforced dieting. Starvation, you might call it, and it's sort of Valkyrie's fault. Early on in the dungeon, the monsters came slowly and the food was everywhere. Valkyrie gorged. But then things got tougher, her health took a battering, and she was always a second or five too slow to get to the turkey legs whenever the opportunity presented itself.

Remember Hyrule Warriors, that odd Legend of Zelda spin-off that Nintendo announced last year? Well, more of the title has now been shown off as the game's Japanese release nears.

Evolve wasn't the game I expected. I knew going in that it was an asymmetric FPS from the makers of Left 4 Dead, in which one team of four futuristic hunters chases down and defeats a rampaging monster, controlled by a fifth player. In my head, that (very uncharitably, I admit) sounded like it was going to be, well, Left 4 Dead-style shooting, only in the future, and one person on the other team controlling a scaled up Tank or Witch or whatever.

UPDATE 1.45PM BST: Oh look, the official Arena of Fate website is live. Mentions characters Fenrir, Tesla, Joan of Arc, Robin Hood and Little Red Riding Hood. You can sign up for the beta there too.

Gragnor - I think I've remembered the name correctly - was afraid of beasts. Specifically, he was afraid of caragor, the thuggish cat beasts who roam the scrubland of Mordor, displaying surprising litheness when it comes to climbing walls, pouncing on foes, and ripping the throats of their victims open. Gragnor was a captain in the Uruk army, one of two personal bodyguards to the warchief I was ultimately gunning for. To make that final confrontation easier, my plan was pretty simple: brainwash the bodyguards and use them to undermine the warchief himself. Once he was weakened by their betrayal, I could kill the chief, replace him with one of my own guys - hey, maybe Gragnor? - and move on to my next job.

Earlier this month it emerged that PlayStation 4-exclusive racing game DriveClub includes micro-transactions - and it caused quite a stir.

Metro 2033 and its sequel, Metro: Last Light, are getting next-gen remakes this summer with "Redux" versions coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC. Now, publisher Deep Silver has revealed the first gameplay footage of both titles in Metro Redux.

Nintendo has patented a game that looks suspiciously like a Wii U version of Wii Music.

Success has made the Lego games quietly lavish. Take the Batcave as an example. In the Dark Knight's latest adventure, it's a complex network of gantries and glittering rock, built around a column of falling water. Secrets beckon from every alcove, while studs jitter and jump from even the darkest corners of the screen. It's a reminder that, despite the headline IP, the Lego games have never really been about creativity. What they're about is busyness - and as the hardware improves and the production budgets increase, they've never looked busier than this.

Sony and developer Ready at Dawn have delayed PlayStation 4 exclusive The Order: 1886 from late 2014 to early 2015.

I'm trapped in a strange and sinister place, knee deep in gore and a vindictive supernatural force is toying with me for reasons I don't understand. It's strangely comforting. That's the curious contradiction at the bloodied and disembodied heart of The Evil Within, the new game from Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, which publisher Bethesda Softworks has just announced will be released on 24th October in Europe, a couple of months later than previously expected.

If you're eagerly anticipating The Evil Within, Shinji Mikami's return to the survival horror genre he helped invent, then it turns out you will need to anticipate it eagerly for a little while longer than previously expected.

Details of the next Battlefield game, apparently titled Battlefield Hardline, have been spotted online following a new Battlelog update.

There are plenty of great horror stories in the world and there is no shortage of great detective fiction out there either, but for some the two go best hand in hand. For his studio's first release, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, former People Can Fly creative director Adrian Chmielarz is betting that they mesh particularly well in a video game, and that this combination captures the imagination more effectively than mere jump scares.

UPDATE 3: EA is working to have the leaked Battlefield Hardline gameplay video removed from the internet (good luck with that), so we thought it useful to round up all the information it divulges in text form.

If you were going to assemble a team to design a new action game for the PC hardcore, you wouldn't go far wrong with the names Bethesda Softworks has assembled at its new BattleCry studio.

Xbox One exclusive Quantum Break launches in 2015, Microsoft has announced.

The Wii U is getting a GameCube controller adapter, Nintendo has announced.

Box art for a sequel to Homefront, THQ's 2011 shooter set in a North Korea-invaded United States, has popped up online.

UPDATE: NetherRealm Studios chief Ed Boon has announced Mortal Kombat X, due out in 2015.

Crytek UK has announced that its Homefront sequel, now titled Homefront: The Revolution, will be released next year for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

UPDATE: It's been confirmed via Forza Motorsport's official Twitter account that the Xbox 360 version is being handled by a different developer, and running on a different engine. Playground Games is handling the Xbox One version, working from the engine used in Forza Motorsport 5, while Sumo Digital will be working from the original Horizon engine model to create the 360 iteration. That's likely reason for cheer, given Sumo's impeccable racing heritage - the Sheffield studio created the excellent Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, as well as the definitive versions of Sega's OutRun 2 on console.

Fantasy role-playing remake Fable Anniversary will launch on PC, its developer has teased.