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Gaming's filled with long words these days. I'd just gotten used to 'asynchronous', for example - although I still can't spell it first go - and now here comes 'asymmetry' to mess me up even further. Asymmetrical gaming. It's straight over to autocorrect for that one, too. Damn you, double-m.

Back in the 1980s you couldn't consider yourself a true geek unless you had programmed an entire game from your own back bedroom, preferably in assembly code. While game development has moved on somewhat since the Dark Ages, every now and then a new company pops up from the proverbial back bedroom and delivers the kind of innovative genre-defying game that a big international publisher wouldn't have touched with a barge pole. Enter Uplink, produced on a shoestring budget by a tiny British team called Introversion.

The problem with success is that it leads to saturation, and at the risk of sounding like a certain Vodafone-shilling muppet, that leads to suffering. As soon as you know Kingdom Rush HD is a tower defense game the brain starts ticking over with comparisons: the best and worst and the many, many more that operate in a limbo of mediocrity. But what's important about Kingdom Rush HD isn't really the genre. It's the fact it's absolutely awesome, and has a structure that makes it even better.

Peter Molyneux's new game has a £50,000 DLC.

Blizzard has released the Diablo 3 patch 1.0.2.b.

It's been all too brief, but now we bring our fling with The Gameological Society to a close with the third and final or our joint E3 podcasts.

Messages posted to Miiverse, Nintendo's suite of Wii U social functions, could face a delay of around 30 minutes to appear.

Mac and Linux versions of Carmageddon Reincarnation are confirmed after its Kickstarter ended with 156 per cent of its target raised.

Blizzard has detailed the Diablo 3 patch 1.0.3, due out later this month.

Amidst all the excitement about E3 press conference stars like Beyond, Watch Dogs and Need for Speed: Most Wanted, it's easy to forget that not everything we hear about will make it to fruition, and that the time it takes for a game to go from spectacular reveal to an ignominious death that no one even bothers to report is only as long as it takes for a trailer to fade from memory. Given that we've published 478 videos so far this week, and some of them were for games like that Nike Plus thing, that's not long.

Wii U games shown in Nintendo's E3 "launch window" line-up could arrive anywhere up to four months after the console hits shop shelves.

There will be no Call of Duty XP event this year, Activision has confirmed.

Bethesda has discussed the reaction to Elder Scrolls Online, saying even before work on the game had begun it expected it would be mixed.

It was, to be frank, the best E3 appointment I have ever had. Today I met id Software founder and legendary coder John Carmack and tried his bonkers homebrew virtual reality headset.

Ghost-fighting sequel Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon will be available to download from the Nintendo 3DS eShop when it launches during this year's "holiday" season.

Upcoming 3DS platformer New Super Mario Bros. 2 will offer a co-operative option for the game's campaign, allowing a second player to join the action, playing as Luigi.

Epic Mickey 2: Power of Illusion has been given a firm release date, with the side-scrolling spin-off due out on November 18, the same date as its console brethren Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two.

Dark Souls developer From Software is having a torrid time getting its beloved action RPG up and running on PC and has confirmed it isn't including any optimisations for desktop gamers.

A deal between cloud gaming company Gaikai and Sony Computer Entertainment does not exist, Gaikai boss David Perry told Eurogamer at E3 today.

PS3 shooter MMO Dust 514 has unprecedented freedom on PSN to be updated by developer CCP. This is crucial for an MMO.

Kinect Sports Ultimate Collection has been revealed by two recently published Xbox videos.

Sony has indicated its priority with PlayStation 4 is to have it be the "best" next generation console - not the cheapest or out before Microsoft's next Xbox.

Sony has said no to a PS Vita price cut.

Two Worlds developer Reality Pump Studios has announced Sacrilegium, a new survival horror game with "modern" vampires.

Square Enix role-player Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry no Wonderland 3D has stormed the Japanese software chart, selling more than 500,000 copies in its first week on sale.

Trine 2 developer Frozenbyte has detailed the game's Wii U Director's Cut, announced yesterday during Nintendo's E3 press conference.

At the time of writing, EA Sports has already unveiled a handful of fairly influential changes to the FIFA formula for this year's iteration, but after playing a dozen or so games of FIFA 13 the one that really stands out is the one with the least exciting name: Attacking Intelligence.

For a series that stubbornly refused to modernise its controls for ages, Resident Evil sure has mutated a lot over the latter half of its 16-year life. During its first eight years, it relied on a nightmarish camera-relative "tank control" system that was much derided in the new millennium. Then Resident 4 came along and transformed the franchise into a tense, methodical action game. Then it was followed by the bombastic Resident Evil 5, which basically excised the horror elements completely in favour of action-heavy co-op.

Digital sales platform Steam has a reputation for its 75 per cent sales - and many gamers love them. But for rival Origin and its maker EA, that's not the right approach.

EA has launched a new FIFA 12 and UEFA Euro 2012 bundle on the EU PlayStation Store, Sony has announced.