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With Microsoft and Sony in a state of détente a year out from their respective next-generation reveals, Nintendo had a great opportunity this week to convince you, me and the rest of its fans that Wii U will be worth buying this Christmas. But despite the encouraging way it trailed its E3 conference over the weekend, it completely blew it.

The Last of Us, Naughty Dog's gritty post-apocalypse action game, has been confirmed as a 2013 release.

Fire up those thrusters? Count the escape pods? Mute the audio? All good, but maybe double-check the last one - it's super important. Great! All done. We're ready to go into space, then, up into a realm of bloomy suns and neon disco nebulae. Silpheed Alternative is going to show us the galaxy, and then we'll get to shoot it to pieces.

A demo of promising-looking 3DS dungeon-crawler Heroes of Ruin arrives on the eShop this Thursday, Nintendo has annnounced.

Nintendo has revealed a list of all Wii U titles revealed so far.

Techland has announced Dead Island Riptide, the sequel to last year's divisive zombie kill 'em up.

Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 launches on 20th June, Wizards of the Coast has announced.

The PlayStation 3 version of acclaimed Valve puzzler Portal 2 will receive a new slice DLC, designed for use with PlayStation Move.

Square Enix has released a video that shows us what a next generation Final Fantasy game may look like.

24 hours on and both media and fans have had plenty of time to chew over Microsoft's 2012 E3 press conference, and it's fair to say that not all of the commentary has been entirely positive.

Two special editions of Resident Evil 6 have been spotted on Amazon: one for PlayStation 3 and one for Xbox 360.

Day two of our joint podcast with The Gameological Society is actually day one of E3, as the show opens its doors after the last of the press conferences. We could hardly find the enthusiasm to go on though, after Nintendo lifted our hopes and then dashed them on the ground.

Four gigabytes for 5.5 minutes of footage. When Sony delivers a video game trailer in Apple's ProRes intermediate format, it's great news for Digital Foundry, because we're seeing the game's visuals running in a virtually lossless state; a quality level pretty much on par with the code running locally. Every pixel, every shader, every filter - it's all there in a pristine, precision format - and like Patrick Stewart in Extras, we can see everything. Sony is inviting a higher level of scrutiny and it has confidence that Beyond: Two Souls will not fall short.

You will be able to transfer any game downloads or save information from your Wii to your Wii U, Nintendo has confirmed at an E3 roundtable event.

Nintendo has refused to be drawn on whether mini game collection Nintendo Land will be a Wii U launch title.

Nintendo has detailed how it intends to keep players from posting game spoilers to the Wii U's Miiverse feature.

It all started so well. The charming intro video of Shigeru Miyamoto and his Pikmin moistened the eyes of a few attendees overwrought by all of yesterday's throat-stabbing and dubstep. It heralded a look at a long-awaited and gorgeous sequel, and did our ears deceive us, or was the legendary game designer up on stage actually talking about deep game mechanics? This would be a different kind of E3 press conference from Nintendo!

The Last Guardian was conspicuously absent from Sony's E3 press conference on Monday evening - early Tuesday morning UK time.

Gears of War: Judgment kicks back against the recent trend for linearity and low difficulty, promises series creator Cliff Bleszinski.

In Dawnguard, you can become a Vampire Lord. If you choose to, that is. Hours in, you'll face a choice - do you want to be a Vampire Lord or do you want to join the Dawnguard, the vampire hunters? You'll hear about the new content through Skyrim's guards, who tell you the Dawnguard are recruiting. The content will be available early on in the Skyrim game, but the real meat won't begin until level 10.

We've been told a number of times now that the new Tomb Raider game will deconstruct the iconic Lara Croft character by letting us live through her earliest experiences as an unlikely, reluctant adventurer. It's a great idea, and a welcome departure from solid but increasingly metronomic and processional fare like Tomb Raider Underworld.

Crystal Dynamics' Karl Stewart has said that the latest Tomb Raider game includes a large cast of supporting characters so Lara Croft can establish her personality by talking to other people - something he feels hasn't happened in previous games.

Nintendo has announced Nintendo Land, a mini-game collection for Wii U which will be available at the console's launch.

Mass Effect 3 has been confirmed for Nintendo's yet-to-be-released Wii U console, and it heads up an impressive third-party line-up.

A post on the Oddworld Inhabitants Facebook page has revealed that PSone platformer Oddworld: Abe's Odyssee will be re-released next summer

The battery life of the Wii U's GamePad controller has been fully detailed by Nintendo, with a single charge expected to last between three to five hours.

Lego City Undercover has just been unveiled for Wii U at Nintendo's E3 show.

An all-new Wario game has been announced for Nintendo's Wii U - and it seems to take its cues from classic Game & Watch titles, as evidenced by its name, Game & Wario.

At E3 today, cloud gaming service OnLive announced that a bunch of new games from the likes of Sega, THQ and Square Enix will be heading to its service this year.

Zen Studios, creator of Zen Pinball 3D, has announced that Marvell Pinball 3D will be released for the 3DS via the Nintendo eShop.