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PlayStation Suite, Sony's range of PlayStation-certified content available on mobile phones, is to be re-named. It's new moniker is PlayStation Mobile.

UPDATE: Beyond: Two Souls will offer PlayStation Move compatibility, similar to Quantic Dream's predecessor Heavy Rain.

Update: It's all over! At the end of a mammoth first day of E3 week, Sony closed things out with a bunch of mostly expected announcements and some powerful stage demos. Here's the highlights:

UPDATE: THQ has confirmed the closure of its San Diego studio. A statement read: "THQ confirms that today's announcement regarding the UFC license transition will affect the company's San Diego studio. THQ is working closely with those relevant staff to either find possible employment within the company, or potentially with EA."

Sony has announced a new platform for interactive storybooks on the PlayStation 3, and has unveiled the first publication: Book of Spells, a magical tale that's been penned by Harry Potter author J.K Rowling.

Assassin's Creed 3 will get PlayStation 3-exclusive DLC at the game's release, Ubisoft has announced, after demoing an impressive new naval warfare section of the game.

Sony's confirmed an all-new Call of Duty game is heading to the Vita - and it'll be a spin-off of the conspiracy-loving Black Ops branch of the best-selling first-person series.

New DLC due later this year will let you use the Vita as a controller for LittleBigPlanet 2, Sony has announced.

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, the tongue-twisting brawler that stars some of Sony's highest profile mascots, has been confirmed for the PlayStation Vita - and it will allow cross-platform play with the PlayStation 3 version of the game.

UPDATE: First gameplay details from ZombiU have been revealed by Ubisoft. Players will use the Wii U GamePad as a survival kit, known as the "Bug Out Bag".

Over-the-top PC shooter series Painkiller is making a return with Hell & Damnation, a new outing overseen by Nordic games and being developed by Polish studio The Farm 51.

UPDATE: Ubisoft has since amended its official materials, confirming the game for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

The first beta event for online PlayStation 3 shooter Dust 514 will launch on Friday June 29th, developer CCP has announced.

Update: The conference is now over! Highlights included:

Microsoft has announced Xbox SmartGlass, a set of new features for streaming content between Xbox 360, Windows tablets and phones. It'll launch this autumn.

Update: It's all over! Here are all the key headlines from Ubisoft's conference, the undoubted star of which seemed to be new IP Watch Dogs from Ubisoft Montreal.

UPDATE: Nintendo has moved to debunk Nikkei's report, saying that it's inaccurate and is merely rumour and speculation, in an official statement picked up and translated by Andriasang.

You probably think you've got a pretty good handle on what to expect from the third entry in Ubisoft's Far Cry series. A lush jungle paradise to sneak around in, a rag-tag army of dangerous thugs to dispatch, some grounded, gritty dialogue to wrap your ears around - that all sounds about right.

Ubisoft's given Rayman Legends its debut proper, allowing us one of our first looks at a third-party Wii U game - and showing the multiplayer possibilities of Nintendo's new console.

The fourth entry in Ubisoft's Just Dance series launches on 4th October, the French publisher has announced.

Criterion's second take on the Need for Speed franchise, a reboot of Most Wanted, made an impressive debut at EA's E3 press conference - and got a firm release date to boot.

The latest installment in Crytek's attractive first-person shooter series has been narrowed down, with EA confirming that it's aiming for a February release for Crysis 3.

EA's officially lifted the lid off of Dead Space 3 with an action-packed onstage demonstration at its E3 conference in LA.

Update: The EA conference is now over and yielded a number of announcements:

The Star Wars: The Old Republic level cap will rise this year, BioWare has announced at E3.

They aren't arguing any more - EA has wrestled the UFC license from struggling publisher THQ in a multi-year, multi-product deal.

Previously-leaked subscription service Battlefield Premium will be exclusive to PlayStation 3 until next week, EA has announced.

EA Sports detailed the added connectivity that's coming to FIFA 13, outlining an expanded EA Sports Football Club as well as link-ups between the iPhone and iPad versions of the game with the mainline console versions.

The first slice of Tomb Raider DLC will be coming early to Xbox 360, developer Crystal Dynamics has revealed.

All Resident Evil 6 downloadable content will be available on Xbox 360 first, before PC and PlayStation 3.