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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.

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.