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Oh, Michael. How you are missed. You had so much to give, just like your dear friend Princess Diana, who taught us that it's OK to devote your life to landmines and homelessness and own a wardrobe full of £10,000 frocks.

A wave of incredulity and knowing laughter rippled across the audience of last year's Sony E3 press conference as Valve's Gabe Newell appeared on-stage to announce that Portal 2 was coming to PlayStation 3.

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First things first: congratulations to everyone in the UK who booked next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday off work, scoring an uninterrupted sequence of 11 days to sit around in your pants playing Portal 2.

Now that there's several years worth of quality download content in the respective archives of Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft – not to mention the various PC and Mac services – it's harder than ever to make a substantial impact.

"I got the opportunity to work with Shawn Michaels, but guys like that are your heroes. I like to keep them at arm's length, because you don't want to find out they're not how you thought."

When RAGE was announced a few years ago, the common consensus was that it was another big, dumb shooter (but this time with cars); another id Software game where the technology was in the driving seat and the game logic and creativity were riding double-barrelled shotgun.

Shadows of the Damned, EA's forthcoming action horror romp, has had its release date pushed back by a fortnight.

Child of Eden, Tetsuya Mizuguchi's forthcoming synaesthetic shooter, will launch on PlayStation 3 in September, according to IGN.

The first episode of Telltale's Hector: Badge of Carnage revamp arrives on PC, Mac and iPad on 27th April.

PlayStation Network could remain out of action for the next two days, Sony corporate communication boss Patrick Seybold has announced.

The forthcoming 3DS Super Mario title is a cross between Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario 64, so says creator Shigeru Miyamoto.

Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has poured water on speculation that a Borderlands 2 reveal is imminent.

Mega Man Legends 3: Prototype Version will be a 3DS eShop launch title when the service goes live next month, Capcom has announced.

Many customers who were expecting to receive Gears of War 3 beta keys this week thanks to their GAME pre-order have been left disappointed, with the UK retailer running out of access codes.

A new update for the PC and Mac versions of Portal 2 is now live on Steam, offering a number of bug fixes.

The Weinstein Company has released a movie tie-in game for slasher flick Scream 4.

Sony is investigating the possibility of "targeted behaviour by an outside party" as the PlayStation Network continues to remain offline across the US and Europe.

The PC version of Lionhead role-playing game Fable III will launch on Steam and Games for Windows Live, Microsoft has announced.

SEGA has announced Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games for the Wii and Nintendo 3DS.

Borderlands 2 has been spotted on a game developer's online CV – sparking speculation that the sequel will be announced at E3 in June.

The Shoot maker Cohort Studios has shut down, Develop reports.

PC game Super Meat Boy Ultra Edition will launch in the UK as a boxed title between July and September this year.

Much like Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room or the sudden death of a minor enemy, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions was an unexpected small-scale delight. It may not have been the openworld swing-'em-up a lot of fans are still waiting for, but its loadout of four different – well, kind of different – webslingers, coupled with a really excellent pun-riddled script and some decent brawling, made for one of the licence's better outings.

Sony has launched a new PlayStation Plus offer that allows subscribers to get 15 months for the price of 12.

On the day of Mortal Kombat's UK launch, series creator Ed Boon has recounted the controversy that marred the very first game in the gory fighting series.

Call of Duty and its ilk are fairground-ride approximations of modern warfare. Their designers carefully arrange buildings, beams of sunlight and terrain to turn the head and draw the eye as you move along the rails. Explosions blast and enemies pop up as you pass through invisible triggers, only to be reset by the SFX team as soon as you're done, ready for the next tourist to gawp at.

Yoostar 2 has gained the in-game ability to upload videos directly to YouTube.

It's official: the PSPgo, Sony's UMD-less portable handheld, is no more.

SOCOM: Special Forces is out now on Playstation 3!