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This year's Sony E3 press conference happens in the middle of the night: 1am (BST - UK time) Tuesday, 7th June.

Hideo Kojima has ruled out a Metal Gear Solid 5 reveal at this year's E3.

PixelJunk developer Q-Games will show off three new titles at E3 next week.

Nintendo will unveil a new The Legend of Zelda game at next week's E3 event, a fresh report claims.

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is complete, won't feature series villain Ganondorf as its antagonist and will get a 10 minute live-action prologue, according to a slate of rumours published by Zelda Informer.

UPDATED: Developer CD Projekt has confirmed the news during its Summer Conference - the The Witcher II is coming to Xbox 360 later this year with all the content from the PC version intact.

Sony's expanded its line-up for its NGP console, revealing a diverse range of software including new games from the developers of Invizimals and Everyday Shooter.

Sony doesn't see any clear competitor for its PlayStation Portable successor, codenamed the Next Generation Portable.

Sony has unveiled an all-new wipEout for the NGP, and it's the first game to feature cross-platform play between the forthcoming handheld and the PlayStation 3.

The NGP's Uncharted finally has a name, and it's been revealed that the game is set before the events of the PlayStation 3's Drake's Fortune.

Update: Namco Bandai has confirmed a 7th October European release date for Dark Souls.

To keep us on our toes this week, Microsoft decided to turn off the Xbox Live Arcade pipe. And with the PSN Store remaining offline until yesterday, you might think that it's all tumbleweed in download-ville. Well, as Dave Gahan might roar, wrong.

In F1, as in life, it's not about the result but the journey towards it. This is, after all, a sport that's just as in love with legends like Gilles Villeneuve and Stirling Moss - two drivers who would never get their hands on the championship - as it is with Fangio or Schumacher.

So, where were we?

Do you need a new social network in your life? Activision thinks you do. It's betting so hard on it, in fact, that it's set up an entire developer, Beachhead Studios, just to create and maintain one – or something that certainly looks like one, anyway. It's aimed at the millions of people out there who play Call of Duty multiplayer.

For fans of the beautiful game, the purchase of a new FIFA has become as much a seasonal ritual as the purchase of their team's new football shirt. It's safe to assume both products will be well-tailored and relevant for a whole 12 months, but when there's talk of one of them offering "revolution not evolution" there's a hollow ring of marketing speak.

If it's true that art imitates life, we're glad that we don't live in Ukraine. Home to 4A Games, their debut title, Metro 2033, was an unremittingly bleak affair. Based on a novel by young Russian author, Dmitry Glukhovsky, it was set in a post-apocalyptic Moscow where a handful of survivors took refuge in the city's hermetically sealed underground system, a world noticeably bereft of primary colours, and largely short on laughs. Referencing its geographical origins is more than mere flippancy, however, as the Ukraine-based American producer of sequel Metro Last Light confirms.

If there is one game that has defined the PlayStation brand throughout the ages it's wipEout. Psygnosis's 1995 original arrived alongside Sony's very first console, bringing with it a promise of the future - a vision that was as chic and urban as the twenty-somethings the game's marketing sought to seduce.

So much for pocket gaming. The first thing that strikes you about Sony's NGP (a name whose days are numbered, with a sexier and more practical alternative likely to be unveiled at E3) is its size. Larger by some measure than its competition, the NGP's closest comparison in handheld history is Atari's Lynx.

It's an Uncharted game, running on a handheld. That's impressive enough in itself, but to understand the implications of that simple statement you've got to appreciate what Naughty Dog has crafted - a series of light-hearted adventures based around solid third-person mechanics, all wrapped up in Hollywood production values and framed within this generation's most sumptuous backdrops.

EA has created a new digital distribution service called Origin.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater HD, announced last night as part of a Metal Gear Solid HD Collection due out this year, is the Subsistence version.

A brand new Contra game is on its way, judging by a tease at the end of Konami's pre-E3 showcase earlier this evening.

Hideo Kojima's next game will be built on his studio's new Fox Engine, the Metal Gear Solid creator announced during Konami's pre-E3 showcase this evening.

A brand new Silent Hill game, subtitled Book of Memories, is in development for Sony's NGP, publisher Konami has announced.

Hideo Kojima has just announced Metal Gear Solid HD Collection for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The new Syndicate game thought to be in development at Starbreeze will reinvent Bullfrog's top-down classic as a first person shooter, so say insider sources.

THQ has announced a downloadable Warhammer 40,000 game called Kill Team.

Jaws: Ultimate Predator appears eerily out of the gloom later this year ready to take a bite out of the 3DS and Wii market, publisher Majesco has announced.

A new patch for The Witcher 2 goes live tomorrow, developer CD Projekt has announced.