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Katsuhiro Harada is Mr. Tekken. That much is clear simply from the way he strides onto the stage. He's clad in a leather jacket and thick black shades, even in the pitch darkness of the cinema auditorium.

Rezzed is over! If you came along, thank you so much. If you didn't, hopefully you liked some of the headlines you saw and will think about it next year. As far as I know everyone had a great time, so we're certainly aiming to do it again!

Tales boss Hideo Baba has explained why the latest entry in the series is typically late arriving in Europe - and how he wants that to change in the future.

If Treasure ever make an iOS game, it's likely to resemble Project 83113. The intense action is reminiscent of a fast-paced Gunstar Heroes or Silhouette Mirage (minus the sugary acid trip), while the amount of on-screen chaos reminds me of Bangai-O.

Prometheus and X-Men: First Class star Michael Fassbender will star in and co-produce Ubisoft's planned Assassin's Creed film.

Peter Molyneux has said that the much-celebrated Peter Molydeux Twitter account was one of the reasons that he left his position as creative director at Microsoft Games Studios - and that Molyneux's a big fan of the off-the-wall ideas that the Twitter parody account has become famous for.

The mapmaking Forge mode of Halo 4 will be developed by Creative Affinity - the studio that collaborated on the recent remake of Halo 1, as well as made extra maps for Halo: Reach.

Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes has soared to a third consecutive week atop the UK all-format charts.

We've already made some huge content announcements for this year's Eurogamer Expo - including playable Assassin's Creed 3, Resident Evil 6, Tomb Raider and Hitman: Absolution - and we have a lot more to come, including some exciting stuff this week.

The Kickstarter drive for author Neal Stephenson's sword fighting game, Clang, has reached its funding goal.

Nintendo will launch 3DS photo-editing software Sparkle Snapshots this week as a paid download from the eShop.

Street Fighter 4 has a new world champion: South Korean Akuma player Seon-woo Lee.

Simple rules are the prerequisite for a good board game, and there are two reasons why. The first is that people can get down to playing the thing relatively quickly. But the second is that a combination of simple rules can lead to extremely complex systems: depth is not necessarily a matter of detail.

So it turns out that Nintendo has a bunch of decent games for the Wii U. They just chose not to show people all of them. It's a question of priorities, really. I understand. Why make room in your E3 press conference for a brilliant new Platinum Games project when it's going to eat into precious time that Reggie could be using to do an impression of a randy French zombie? (It was meant to be randy, right?) Why tell anyone you've got a new WarioWare in the works, when you could be showing off Batman - a dazzling action adventure that absolutely everybody's already played?

A quarter of a century ago in the Japanese home computing market, a Microsoft-sponsored machine called the MSX2 dominated. It had done so since launching in 1983 and, despite the rising fortunes of Nintendo and the Famicom, remained a key platform for the region's game developers. In late 1986 to early 1987 Konami was on a blistering hot streak, producing first Castlevania for Nintendo's Family Disc System then Contra in the arcades. Nevertheless, July 7 1987 saw the exclusive release of a new title on the comparatively underpowered MSX machine: Metal Gear.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney is writing music with former Halo developer Bungie, he's confirmed.

NiGHTS title character NiGHTS will be a playable character in Sonic & Sega All Stars: Racing Transformed.

Cel-shaded shooter Borderlands 2 will include rewards for players of the original Borderlands, developer Gearbox has announced.

A new Halo 4 trailer has popped up on Halo Waypoint, offering a few fresh seconds of multiplayer footage.

It's the second day of Rezzed, our new PC and indie games show in Brighton. Compared to the Eurogamer Expo it's an intimate affair - so far, anyway. But a couple of things about it have been striking.

The first in-game screenshots of Survarium, the first title from the former Stalker 2 developers, have been released.

Four new characters have been added to the bulging roster of playable characters in upcoming fighting game Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

Atlus has launched an impassioned defence of fighting game Persona 4: Arena, the first region-locked PlayStation 3 game.

Resident Evil 5 proved to be a divisive release for the Capcom faithful: the survival horror stylings that had defined the series were unceremoniously given the boot in favour of a more action-orientated experience that felt a touch empty and unsatisfying in single-player mode, but proved to be plenty of fun when played online with a co-op partner. Resident Evil 6, released this week in demo form for Xbox 360, offers a supercharged enhancement of the existing formula, but with a hint of gameplay elements that harken back to the original games.

Tekken favourite Heihachi Mishima and Toro Inoue, the Sony Cat, have joined the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale roster of playable characters.

12 new characters will be available to download for fighting game Street Fighter x Tekken on 31st July 2012, Capcom has announced.

New details and a release date have emerged for Peter Molyneux and 22 Can's first game Curiosity, with the experimental title coming to iOS, Android and PC on August 22.

Games never have much difficulty making us feel like a hero. Cheerful psychopaths are the bread and butter of entire genres. Guilt? That's trickier. It's a rare game that even tries, and only a tiny fraction of those even come close to making it good to feel bad.

Dedicated laptop graphics cards rarely live up to the performance level of their desktop counterparts, meaning that many so-called gaming laptops simply can't cut it on more modern games - despite some lofty price-tags. In putting together this feature, we decided to test two of NVIDIA's less powerful laptop GPUs to see just what kind of experience you can get at the mid-range level on some of the PC's most demanding titles.

Tiny Wings - recipient of Apple's 2011 game of the year award on the European app store - is getting a sequel on 12th July.