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Work has been suspended on the Heavy Rain Chronicles downloadable add-ons.

Overlord, the latest and largest of the Mass Effect DLC packs, is a mixed bag in the best possible way. It's a medium-sized adventure that never lets one gameplay element dominate for too long, leavening the expected duck-and-cover combat with openworld exploration and a dash of environmental puzzling, all wrapped up in a story that builds to a satisfying and pathos-heavy finale. It is almost exactly what you want from a low-priced downloadable add-on.

SEGA's PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade revival of Crazy Taxi has had to forfeit the original soundtrack and some in-game locations such as Pizza Hut due to licensing issues.

Ruffian Games' Crackdown 2 may not be out until 9th July, but a demo version of the Xbox 360-exclusive third-person openworld effort is due today.

Microsoft won't budge on the line that Xbox 360 Kinect pricing has yet to be determined, despite all the major US games retailers lining up behind a $149 price point.

With Microsoft Kinect and Nintendo 3DS dominating the E3 headlines, it is perhaps too easy to overlook the strong showing of PlayStation Move at the industry's showpiece event.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial, is a weekly dissection of an issue weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

InFamous was a decent open world superhero game with just one problem: the superhero himself. Cole McGrath is a fine enough name if you're a guy who mows other peoples' lawns for a living, but it lacks a little spark when you transport it the world-saving business - and the face behind it wasn't much better either.

GamesIndustry.biz, the trade arm of the Eurogamer Network, recently completed the next step in its evolution toward greater support for the videogames business with the implementation of a full registration system.

"We basically showed the world first-person shooting." So says id Software's Matt Hooper, referring to one of the studio's best-loved titles, Wolfenstein. "That was a big deal. With Doom and Quake we had these successive leaps in technology, where people were moving around in a 3D space and doing things online. So we've had this history of doing things on the technology side and bringing out new IPs."

FIFA boss man David Rutter has said there are no plans to incorporate Kinect or Move support into his game any time soon, as his team has yet to find a compelling reason to offer it.

From one angle it seemed like an odd choice to end the Sony conference with: a series that has faded from relevance, that had its last major outing all of nine years ago with 2001's Twisted Metal Black on PS2, and which has absolutely none of the cultured cool or mass-market Hollywood sweep with which Sony in particular likes to associate itself. Guns and cars, rust and destruction: this is an absolutely unreconstructed videogame.

E3's over! Out of the frying pan and into the games.

After the best part of a decade, Nintendo's weirdest mascot - the one who inhales his enemies and plods through bright cartoon worlds looking like a squishy little tumour - is back on home consoles in a game that looks, for all this world, as if my grandmother made it to sleep in.

David Perry's Gaikai cloud gaming service has announced that it has signed a deal with Electronic Arts to include a number of titles from the publisher's key PC franchises.

Remedy has said that its first two downloadable add-on episodes for Alan Wake will cost 560 Microsoft Points apiece (£4.76 / €6.72).

Hideo Kojima has said that Zone of the Enders 3 has been "sort of pushed to the back" due to "various things", meaning we probably won't see it for an age.

Child of Eden, Tetsuya Mizuguchi's stunning new conduct-'em-up shooter, was one of the more interesting motion-control games announced at E3, but a preview session with the director yesterday revealed the game will also support control pad input on both the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Child of Eden is the child of Rez, which might explain why Tetsuya Mizuguchi's astonishing new synaesthesia epic feels both warmly familiar and wonderfully inventive at the same time.

Bungie's final Halo game is a "labour of love" that will "push the envelope as much as possible" without "ruining the core for fans".

Is lag a problem for Kinect? Not according to Rare, the studio tasked with producing one of its flagship launch titles, Kinect Sports.

David Reeves, 14-year veteran of Sony and now chief operating officer of Capcom Europe, has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz that Sony needs to release a true sequel to the PSP quickly if it expects to compete in the handheld market.

This week may be all about E3, but don't go thinking it's all about E3 - even though it is - because it's also about some games being sold in shops and that. The ones below most specifically.

Bethesda Softworks has confirmed to Eurogamer that Splash Damage's upcoming multi-format shooter Brink has been delayed until spring 2011.

Nintendo has been looking at 3D technology for more than two decades according to Shigeru Miyamoto, but the 3DS only came together relatively recently.

Those of you keen to have a crack on Ubisoft's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World game will be able to do so on 10th August.

EA and DICE have said that the Xbox 360 version of the Medal of Honor multiplayer beta won't start until next week.

SEGA has said that PlatinumGames' upcoming cover shooter Vanquish will be released for PS3 and Xbox 360 in October.

Interplay's massively multiplayer Fallout title now has a website and that website is encouraging people to sign up for a beta test.

Everyone's smart at Valve. The designers are smart, the art teams are smart, and the lady behind the reception desk can answer the phone in Latin or Aramaic if she has to - trust me, I've made her do it. Most of all, though, the games are smart, and the smartest of them all is Portal: chic, goofy, devious, practical Portal.