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Forza Motorsport and Gran Turismo pride themselves on a passion for cars. Simulated handling, fastidiously recreated bodywork, under-the-hood tinkering, carefully curated car lists: they leave no stone unturned in satisfying the ownership fantasies of every car lover.

I spend a frightening amount of my spare time pretending that I'm God. Or rather, I spend a frightening amount of my spare time playing From Dust, in which you get to play as God, but only if you happen to view God as a cross between a mouse pointer and a vacuum cleaner. Most evenings you'll find me in the middle of the primordial gloop, inhaling sand and then dumping it out again into wonderful sagging mini-mountains, dribbling ridges of hot rock along the edges of canyons, or simply slurping stray water out of a pit I've just punched into the ground.

The big creative leap promised by Assassin's Creed 3 would have been impossible had Ubisoft not annualised the franchise, according to the sequel's creative director Alex Hutchinson.

One of the big takeaways from E3 this year was the sheer brutality - and frequency - of the violence on display in trailers and demos during the big publisher press conferences.

It's a funny place we've found ourselves in at this year's E3 - if not necessarily stuck between a rock and a hard place then certainly trapped in an awkward twilight, having old tech repackaged and resold to us while we marvel at a future that's very much here amongst us, even if certain parties refuse to acknowledge it.

Microsoft's European Xbox 360 chief has shed a little more light on the platform holder's controversial decision to shut down its core-orientated on-console Inside Xbox video service.

The recent iPad port of PC hacking simulation Uplink is a fan-made project, the developer has revealed.

Outspoken God of War and Twisted Metal designer David Jaffe's new project is a free-to-play shooter.

Intriguing shooter Rainbow 6: Patriots was withheld from E3 as it was "the best thing for the brand", publisher Ubisoft has said.

UPDATE: Digital Foundry's analysis of Unreal Engine 4 is now live, and includes high quality videos of the Epic engine tech demo in action

At E3 this year, Epic delivered something few others dared to offer - a vision of the future in gaming, a look ahead to the graphical possibilities afforded by the next generation of console hardware. We've seen it in motion and today, on this page, you will too. Unreal Engine 4 may not be entirely what you expect, but it is very real, obviously ambitious and in many ways, rather spectacular.

Turn-based strategy RPG Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land hits Android today, indie developer Red Wasp Design has announced.

Fortnight-long super offer Humble Indie Bundle 5 has added top titles Super Meat Boy, Lone Survivor and Braid to its steller line-up.

Flying Hamster is a pleasantly conventional game that I discovered because of an extremely weird one. The weird one's Gauge, a brilliant minimalist action thing for iOS in which you control an expanding bar in the name of fun and high scores. It's published by The Game Atelier, as is Flying Hamster. That's the connection! Cool story, bro.

The Skyrim 1.6 update is now live on Xbox 360, Bethesda has announced.

Batman Arkham City expansion Harley Quinn's Revenge is no longer downloadable from the Games for Windows Live Store.

A Wii U incarnation of The Legend of Zelda game is still in the research and design phase, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has explained.

Bethesda still intends for id shooter Rage to be a big franchise.

Crysis maker Crytek is turning itself into a F2P only studio, it's revealed.

ShopTo estimates the Wii U price will be £280 and games will cost £40.

38 Studios, the now-bankrupt developer of Kingdoms of Amalur, has a liquidation value "in the tens of millions of dollars".

World of Darkness, the vampire themed MMO from the makers of Eve Online and upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive shooter Dust 514, is still in "active development", its makers have promised.

Naughty Dog has said that it's a "complete coincidence" that the studio changed the appearance of Ellie in The Last of Us after she was said to resemble Ellen Page - and before the actress was confirmed as the star of Beyond: Two Souls this week.

Activision is publishing Angry Birds HD on consoles.

George Lucas may have gone downhill as a director over the last three decades, but he's remained at the vanguard of special effects and high production values. Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm, and Skywalker Sound are all among the best production companies in their respective fields and now they're all working together to lend their expertise to Star Wars 1313, the first mature-rated game from LucasArts.

Cloud gaming is one of the industry's hottest topics, but for Microsoft, it'll be a long time before it realises its potential.

For Nintendo, the Wii U and its GamePad controller usher in a new era for design and play - but Xbox maker Microsoft and developer legend Peter Molyneux aren't convinced.

BioWare has addressed the importance of gamer feedback in the wake of the Mass Effect 3 ending furore and the company's recent request for fan suggestions on the future of its Dragon Age series.

Sniper Elite publisher 505 Games has signed Payday 2.

Acclaimed PC hacking simulation Uplink is now available to download for iPad, developer Introversion has announced (via Modojo).