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UPDATE: Serafinowicz's role is limited to Assassin's Creed 3's marketing campaign only, Ubisoft has just clarified.

Did EA mislead people about how much their choices would affect the ending of Mass Effect 3?

Cel-shaded Vita adventure Gravity Rush headlines this week's EU PlayStation Store update.

Final Fantasy 14 Online didn't come out on PlayStation 3 in 2010 as once promised. Delays later, the console version has a prospective Q1 2013 release date.

You're trapped in a dungeon and you have amnesia: Block Rogue's set-up doesn't promise too many surprises, but beneath the rather traditional façade lurks a wonderfully quirky adventure. Buzz Monkey's iOS and Android charmer takes elements from the basic Roguelike format (there are a series of caverns for you to explore: how deep can you go?) and throws in the kind of game mechanics that would be more at home in a Sokoban block-dragging puzzler.

It was the E3 that nobody wanted to happen. Rumours around the show floor claimed Microsoft had been planning to announce its next-generation Xbox until a couple of months ago but pulled out and Sony gratefully followed suit - or the other way around. Which left us all standing around like party-goers when the guest of honour doesn't show, politely grazing on the canapés of previously-announced games and making smalltalk. Awkward!

Last week, Eurogamer flew on an aeroplane to Los Vegas - oops, Freudian slip - Los Angeles, to report from the annual video gaming extravaganza, E3. You'll have read some of our coverage already, and there's plenty more to come. But, headlines aside, we also wanted to share what it's like to be at E3, and so we asked each Eurogamer writer - Oli Welsh, Fred Dutton, Robert Purchese, Jeffrey Matulef - to document their adventure via a gallery of smartphone or compact camera images. These were to be quick, rough pictures to capture a moment - not exposures for a photography contest. We also asked the writers for a brief summary of their E3 2012 tour of duty. Behold, the Eurogamer E3 2012 Scrapbook.

Nintendo is currently contemplating which Zelda game to remake next for 3DS, top designer Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed.

PS3 game Way of the the Samurai 4 will arrive in Europe in September, NIS America has announced.

Get ready for digital versions of Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Look, I was as cynical as anyone. "Take down forts, castles and even a fire-breathing dragon in Catapult King - the King of castle crushers!" goes the iTunes blurb for this latest Chillingo offering. Yes, we've gone full circle. Crush the Castle begat Angry Birds and now the games that are jumping on the Angry Birds bandwagon are starting to look like Crush the Castle again.

The delayed European Diablo 3 Real-Money Auction House will finally arrive this Friday, 15th June, Eurogamer can confirm.

A couple of former Zipper Interactive developers have joined Serellan, the team working on recently Kickstarted tactical shooter Takedown.

All XP earned in Battlefield 3 multiplayer this weekend will be doubled, EA has announced.

Slant Six, the Canadian studio behind critically-mauled zombie shooter Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, has shed more than a quarter of its payroll in a round of redundancies.

Rockstar has announced a new initiative to combat cheaters in Max Payne 3 multiplayer.

PlayStation under-used minis service would get a huge shot in the arm if Sony allowed developers to include Trophies in their games, according to the developer behind critically lauded shoot 'em up Velocity.

Pid, the delightful-looking 2D platformer currently being pieced together by a group of from Grin employees, arrives on Xbox Live Arcade later this year, new publishing partner D3 has announced.

While the Wii U will hold on to its predecessors' much-maligned Friend Codes for online matchmaking, Nintendo plans to make the system much more user-friendly this time around, according to NOA boss Reggie Fils-Aime.

THQ has hit rock bottom, so says CEO Brian Farell, but has now started to bounce back.

It was very tempting to ignore Ubisoft's Wii U survival horror ZombiU on the E3 showfloor last week. The combination of that anonymous title and the seemingly gimmicky gameplay demo shown during Nintendo's conference gave off a very distinctive whiff of Red Steel, the French publisher's limp attempt at a quick core offering for early Wii adopters back in 2006.

Rumour had it that Sony would announce a game-streaming deal with either Gaikai or OnLive at E3. But Sony did not.

Will Sony launch a new super slim PlayStation 3?

Half of one per cent of Skyrim Dawnguard beta applicants received invites, Bethesda has revealed.

Blizzard has threatened Diablo 3 cheaters and hackers with permanent bans.

Hi-Rez Studios has announced a new update for Tribes: Ascend, called Accelerate.

Apple's big World Wide Developer Conference announcement last night was a new MacBook Pro with Retina display.

Introversion Software, the UK-based developer of PC classics Uplink, Defcon and Darwinia, will be delivering a presentation on its latest game, Prison Architect, at Rezzed next month.

EA has likened the difference between digital platforms Origin and Steam to the difference between Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty.

This review of Indie Game: The Movie was written after a screening at the Game Developers Conference earlier this year. We present it again today to mark the digital release of the film on Steam, iTunes and direct download today. For full details, see 'How to See It' below.