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Former Lionhead boss and 22 Cans founder Peter Molyneux has just outlined plans for an experimental app called "Curiosity".

Sine Mora, the exquisite scrolling shooter from Digital Reality in partnership with Grasshopper, is coming to the PlayStation Vita according to a press release that's emerged in the run-up to Sony's E3 conference.

Entertainment Software Association president Michael Gallagher has told the LA Times that E3 may leave Los Angeles in 2013 if certain issues are not resolved.

Imangi Studios has announced a sequel to our first ever App of the Day, Temple Run, based on Disney Pixar's upcoming film Brave and due out this month.

Bohemia Interactive has announced a downloadable expansion called Army of the Czech Republic for Arma 2, due for release in Q3 this year.

Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment appears to be teasing a new entry in the series.

Much as the yanks and canucks like to big up ice hockey as a team sport, the truth is its purest expression is one-on-one: fisticuffs, mano-a-mano, Wayne and Garth in the middle of the road. Well, maybe you're allowed a goalkeeper, but everyone knows they're not real people anyway.

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.