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On the eve of the E3 trade show, Diablo 3 for PlayStation 3 has popped up on an online shop's website.

Clearly, we don't know every detail of what this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo will bring to light. (You only need to check out our E3 predictions for ample evidence of that.) But we do know what we like, and we're not afraid of displaying a little enthusiasm.

You fly halfway round the world to hear Nintendo's future plans and then what happens?

Released a couple of weeks after the console versions to avoid being crushed by the Diablo 3 juggernaut, Max Payne 3 on PC is no mere afterthought or lazy port. Put simply, it's by far and away the best version money can buy, embossed and embellished to a standard that should satisfy the majority of the PC userbase.

Dead Space 3 does not feature the competitive multiplayer seen in Dead Space 2.

For Gearbox chief Randy Pitchford, the recently unveiled Wii U GamePad is "the best controller I've ever had from Nintendo".

Gears of War: Judgment features class based multiplayer - a first for the series.

UPDATE: The next entry in Epic's Xbox 360 franchise is called Gears of War: Judgement, so says Game Informer.

The first thing you'll see when you turn on a Wii U is Miiverse, Nintendo has revealed.

Nintendo has shown, named and demonstrated an evolved Wii U GamePad in a pre-E3 video announcement.

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is the UK's number one game for the second week running despite a 35 per cent reduction in sales.

UPDATE: A source has told Eurogamer that Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD is indeed part of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade promotion, as is Kinect physics-based score attack game Wreckateer.

Atlus has announced Zeno Clash 2, due out on PC, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade early 2013.

Collectors of the legendary SNK Neo Geo system must secretly smile to themselves when they hear modern console manufacturers waxing lyrical about grandiose 10-year hardware cycles; their beloved platform is now over two decades old and continues to enjoy software support - albeit in a somewhat limited capacity. Amazingly, NG Dev Team's Gunlord is a professional-quality Neo Geo cartridge released in the year 2012 - something that nobody could have predicted way back in 1990, when SNK launched its bold (and incredibly expensive) console/arcade hybrid. Few vintage systems can boast such astonishing staying power.

UPDATE: Battlefield developer DICE has confirmed Battlelog will be down for maintenance today for five hours as it prepares for the launch of Battlefield 3 Premium and the Close Quarters expansion.

It's been a strange year to be European. Never mind that we have less money in our pockets to spend on things; some of us can't even predict which monetary unit we'll actually have in our pocket in 12 months' time. Gaming, so often our refuge from real life, hasn't escaped either - earlier this year harsh reality intruded on our secret world of space RPGs and Shenmue 3 petitions to announce that our most obvious representation on the high street, the GAME Group, was probably doomed, and that the repercussions could mean fewer games or at least fewer risk-taking games made for the likes of us in the long term. (Fortunately it didn't pan out like that, but we still don't know what the future holds.)

BioShock's Big Daddy and Uncharted's Nathan Drake are in Smash Bros. style fighting game PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, an official Sony poll has revealed.

E3? Man, that show's so predictable. Or so goes the refrain. But while it's true that patterns have emerged over the years (press conferences trumping the show itself, for example, and at least one of the platform holders trumping its own conference by uploading all the good stuff to its own website by accident two hours beforehand), do we ever really know what's coming? Did we expect Project Natal? Or the Beatles? Or Riiiiidge Racer?

Epic Games is planning to open a new studio in Baltimore staffed predominantly by former Big Huge Games employees.

Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson has said on Twitter that rumours Sega Europe is to close are "false".

You don't have to understand baseball to love baseball, if you ask me. As sports go, it's pure romance. From the rust-coloured brick dust of the infield to the holler of the guy throwing hot dogs around in the stands, it's stylish, cinematic, and pleasantly old-fashioned in a weird sort of way. Does lawn bowls put you in mind of rugged ol' Kevin Costner making quips? No it doesn't. Baseball does. Lawn bowls is rubbish. Baseball rules. Coincidence?

The Sony/cloud collaboration story just keeps on rolling, this time with the revelation that older PlayStation titles will be streamed to PS3 and PlayStation Vita. GamesIndustry.biz ran the story first with editor Matt Martin having spent a while chasing down multiple sources willing to confirm it.

It's the 18th annual running of the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, an excuse to get giddy about forthcoming games and tech as well as an excuse, as Tom put across yesterday, to put aside many fears, doubts and gripes and just revel in the heady thrill of what's to come.

This is an import review of the North American edition of Game of Thrones, published by Atlus USA and available now. The European version, published by Focus, will be released next week on 8th June. To our knowledge this review is accurate with respect to both versions.

The Isle of Wight doesn't really do excitement. My wife, an Islander, often regales me about the time BHS in Newport installed an escalator - and she joined the crowds of people queuing up to have a go on it. If you ignore the increasingly chronic youth unemployment (as most do) the Island is a place of beautiful green fields, cream teas and a well-supported donkey sanctuary. It's not where you'd expect to find the birthplace of Carmageddon.

It may sound like an annex of Hogwarts, but Spelltower offers its own breed of magic. This is a game where you won't touch the screen for minutes at a time, staring fruitlessly at a jumbled layout of letters that seem to contain nothing at all. And then suddenly you'll realise that going over to a T then reversing can DETOXIFY a giant segment of the board. Your finger, almost trembling, traces out the word. Half the board disappears. You are some kind of wizard.

After a year of rumours and speculation based on developer leaks and inconclusive E3 2011 demos, we are now just days away from our first real look at the final version of Nintendo's new Wii U hardware. While controversy surrounds the spec of the machine and whether there is any kind of generational leap from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, perhaps the more interesting topic is just how some of the world's greatest game designers will utilise the immense level of graphical performance a more modern GPU has to offer. In short, to what extent is Nintendo HD ready?

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is now coming to PC as well as consoles, developer High Moon Studios has announced.

Skyrim's Dawnguard DLC gets an Xbox 360-only beta run-out this Summer, developer Bethesda has announced.

Microsoft is gearing up to launch a companion app called Smart Glass that will let you stream film or music content from a smartphone or tablet directly to your Xbox 360, according to unconfirmed reports today.