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We could sit around all day talking about how marvellous E3 is. How it's a wonderful opportunity for our favourite entertainment industry to shine, to showcase its diverse range of exciting new offerings, technical achievements and creative talent. But we know that really, it's all about who's got the biggest console.

The British Red Cross has thanked PlayStation users for their "amazing contribution" to the Japanese earthquake appeal, which has raised a total of £466,465.60.

The first DLC for Operation Flashpoint: Red River has been confirmed by Codemasters.

Kojima fans with an aversion to boxes are in luck as Konami has confirmed that the HD collections of Metal Gear Solid and Zone of the Enders will also receive a digital release.

The PlayStation Store catch-up continues, although today's update is less exciting than the initial splurge.

A private-public beta test for Call of Duty Elite will begin on 14th July, Activision has announced.

Swords and shields adventure Hunted: The Demon's Forge hopes to capture your imagination this week. By virtue of it being the only major release, will it capture the contents of your wallet too?

Dark detective drama L.A. Noire has extended its reign on top of the charts, spending a third week at number one.

THQ and Adidas have teamed up to create some new athletic training software for PS Move and Kinect.

Cheer up, Sony! It's not just you hackers are having a pop at - turns out Nintendo recently took a bullet too. Or rather, dodged one.

Microsoft has registered Fablethejourney.org as a domain name, along with three other phrases which seem to suggest a bunch of Kinect titles is on the way.

Activision's long-rumoured Call of Duty subscription service was finally outed last week to great fanfare. But while there will be premium features for paying customers, the publisher claims the service will also be "the best free service on the market".

Will Wright, the man who created the best-selling PC game series of all-time, is wearing a leather jacket and smoking a cigarette outside Chaplin Theatre in Raleigh Studios, Los Angeles. He has just delivered a BAFTA-sponsored blow-by-blow account of his illustrious career, dissecting PC classics SimCity, SimAnt, The Sims and Spore and revealing his musical preferences (seventies rock, in case you were wondering).

Blizzard appears to want to adapt Diablo III for PlayStation 3.

Shigeru Miyamoto has admitted work on a successor to the Wii is underway, but suggested not all the rumours doing the rounds about what Nintendo has planned for the machine are true.

Nintendo's rumoured Wii successor, thought to be codenamed Project Café, will run off AMD's R700 GPU architecture, according to a new report.

Six weeks away from E3 and we now know that Nintendo will announce its high-definition successor to the Wii at the Los Angeles event. It's a new piece of hardware that the rumour mill tells us will not only offer a superior spec to the current crop of HD consoles, but will also change the way we play our games. Based on comments in Nintendo's recent announcement, the new hardware could be with us within a year.

Nintendo is getting ready to introduce a new home console because its current hardware has lost the power to surprise, CEO Satoru Iwata has revealed.

Project Cafe, Nintendo's codenamed successor to the Wii, reportedly has 8GB of on-board Flash memory.

Tecmo Koei has announced it hopes to have titles ready for the launch of the Wii's successor next year.

A video of a "Private Presentation of 'Project Cafe' by a Video Games Editor" has appeared.

It's here! Well, almost. The little screen in the back of Rupert's seat tells me that as I write, E3 is hurtling towards us at a rate of exactly 532 miles per hour, from our current vantage point 38,000 feet above the Hudson Bay and 2552 miles from our target.

Will Wright is making a video game inspired by a short story by science fiction author Bruce Sterling.

They're both open-world action titles with super-powered protagonists – but Radical Entertainment insists Prototype 2 is "completely different" to Sucker Punch's InFamous 2, which launches this week.

This week, Microsoft unveiled its new vision for its next-generation operating system, Windows 8. It's an intriguing concept where the desktop with the ubiquitous mouse pointer has been relegated to legacy status in favour of a tile-driven, touch-based "experience". The writing is on the wall for the traditional point-and-click: according to Microsoft, and indeed Apple - who will probably get there first - the future is all about gestures, taps, swipes and multi-touch, with the mouse well on the way to being jettisoned in favour of a new control interface.

While controversy surrounded attempts to appeal to a mainstream audience with DiRT 2, there's a real sense with the sequel that Codemasters has recaptured the raw essence of car and driver that has felt rather a touch subdued since Colin McRae Rally adopted the DiRT moniker.

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Colourful fantasy adventure Papo & Yo arrives on PlayStation Network in 2012, Sony has announced.

Sony has lifted the lid on Payday: The Heist, a co-op first person shooter for PC and PlayStation Network.

The sequel to 2010 downloadable FPS Blacklight: Tango Down has just got itself a name - Blacklight Retribution - and a publisher.