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The LA Times has revealed details of the Cirque de Soleil event Microsoft has commissioned to introduce its final vision of Project Natal to the world this evening in Los Angeles.

Ubisoft has confirmed that Patrice Désilets "has decided to take a creative break from the industry".

The first thing you do when you spawn outside the gates of Orgrimmar is run in and see what they've done to your home. The scooped plaza of the once-ramshackle desert town is changed forever. The low-slung bank is now a menacing, fortified tower studded with black iron from which the zeppelins fly around the world; the surrounding architecture has gone from tumbledown to terrifying.

Blizzard has shown third World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm to the press, revealing that it will ship with three times as many new quests as last effort Wrath of the Lich King. But much has been cut from the game too, including the planned new customisation system Paths of the Titans.

Housemarque has said that the 3D update to its stunning PSN shooter, Super Stardust HD, also significantly boosts elements of the existing 2D version of the game.

Sony is rumoured to be preparing a premium PSN reveal for E3 next month.

In Digital Foundry's last Saturday feature before the onslaught of E3, we talk to one of Media Molecule's tech masterminds, Alex Evans, about the origins of the company's association with Sony and how they got to grips with unique PlayStation 3 architecture.

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.

Danny Bilson, THQ's executive vice president of core games, has told Eurogamer that the publisher has "to compete at the highest level of excellence" these days and he sees it as his job to protect software from being released in a poor state.

Codemasters has told Eurogamer that it does not plan to support PlayStation Move or Project Natal in F1 2010, which is due out later this year, and that we're also not going to see any downloadable content.

With E3 just a few days away, it looks as though Sony could be set to unveil a new iteration of the PlayStation 3.

Ignition Entertainment has confirmed that El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is heading west.

3D Realms boss George Broussard has told Eurogamer that he hopes to see Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project and Duke Nukem 3D appear on PlayStation Network.

The latest Media Create data has revealed that PSP was the best-selling bit of games hardware in Japan last week, with more than 23,000 units shifted.

Moonlight bathes the rolling hills and forested glades, glinting off our serried rows of troops. Up ahead, a white castle gleams from the top of a steep hill, torches flickering distantly under the sloping eaves of its distinctive roof, a pale sentinel watching over the valley; our objective.

Whether we like it or not, whether we're ready or not, cloud gaming is coming. The idea is simple - instead of buying consoles or high-end PCs, instead we log in to servers many miles away hosting the requisite hardware and while our control inputs are transmitted across the net, video streams of the gameplay are beamed back over IP. Say goodbye to the console and indeed piracy as we know it, say hello to the dumb terminal.

Pricing evidently has absolutely no bearing on the quality of download games right now. Some are happy to take a punt at retail prices with quite dismal offerings, while others are practically giving away their hard work despite being obviously brilliant.

Forget Project Natal - Microsoft's new motion-sensing camera will have a new name by the time it's released.

Valve has announced, via a quirky email, that the Portal 2 E3 event has been replaced by "a surprise".

Microsoft has revealed that its E3 press conference this year will take place on Monday 14th June at 10am PST, or 6pm BST.

Microsoft's pre-E3 Project Natal showcase will be, "A spectacular live performance imagined by Cirque du Soleil," according to US invitations.

With just weeks to go until E3, details of the price and launch date for Microsoft's new Project Natal technology appear to have leaked onto the internet.

Eurogamer has learned that Activision is working on a James Bond: GoldenEye title for Wii and DS that should be released this November.

SEGA has revealed details of the 20948129810th instalment in the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

Sony has confirmed that inFamous 2 is in development for PlayStation 3 and will be shown off properly at E3 next week.

Sony has officially unveiled the third game in the MotorStorm series, which takes place during the apocalyptic disintegration of an unnamed American city.

If there's music playing at the end of the world, it will probably be dubstep, the brutally slow, lurching concoction of industrial beats and weapons-grade bass distortion currently dominating the dancefloors of London and the teenage bedrooms of Antwerp. If there's music playing at crusty extreme sports festivals - like the festival of outlaw off-road racing that's the fantasy of the MotorStorm games - around the world right now, it's probably dubstep too.

With E3 just days away, you'd think Sony would be busy finishing all those conference trailers and working out how many HD tellies you can fit in a suitcase without exceeding BA's baggage limit. However, the platform holder still found time to hold a special event in London today to show off its new 3D technology.

Analyst Michael Pachter has told Eurogamer that what he said about a Twisted Metal PS3 game was "a guess".

Rockstar's not going to E3, favouring instead a more personal event that will take place later in the year.