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It's tempting to think of Darksiders: Genesis as Darksiders does Diablo but, while they may look very much alike at first glance, the comparison is actually some way wide of the mark. An isometric view is about as deep as the similarities go - the intention in developing Darksiders: Genesis, Airship Syndicate CEO Joe Madureira told me at E3, was to make a true Darksiders game despite the new camera angle.

Mortal Kombat 11 gets a ranked mode tomorrow, 18th June.

Timeloop games, in which players try to find their way out of a cycling series of events, are enjoying something of a renaissance. It's as if the industry were caught in a Groundhog Day scenario devoted to the creation of Groundhog Days. Last week's E3 announcements alone gave us Luis Antonio's 12 Minutes, in which players endlessly relive their deaths at the hands of a mysterious housebreaker, and Arkane's Deathloop, in which two assassins vie for dominance of one and the same day on a swishly late-70s island base.

Destiny 2 Stadia players can only play with other Stadia players, Bungie has confirmed.

Sword and Shield will be the first new, mainline Pokémon games not to support every single Pokémon species.

At the bottom, this is clearly a climbing wall: artificial handholds, a ladder leaned just so, a sense of urban kibble to things. And you know Twitter, the pull-back-to-refresh action? That action spread everywhere on touchscreens, and it's how you climb this wall, too. You pull back, feel the elasticity in your body, and then let go, and you arc through the air, hands and feet flailing and gripping onto any colourful handholds they come into contact with.

Blizzard has seemingly announced plans to "squish" World of Warcraft's level cap by way of a customer survey.

A former Epic Games director has admitted he would have cancelled Fortnite if he'd remained at the company.

Shenmue 3 developer Ys Net insists it is "listening to [fan] concerns" and will "assess the situation and together find a way forward to justify the trust you placed in us" once its back in the office after E3.

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has reportedly filed an injunction against a hacker group that allegedly helps players to cheat.

Seven months after Fallout 76 came out, Bethesda has finally delivered the canvas bags those who bought the £179.99 Power Armour Edition of the game thought they were going to get originally.

Frontier has released a 17-minute video showing in-game footage of the promising Planet Zoo.

Anyone's who's been playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's multiplayer recently will know about the S6 Stingray, one of a handful of DLC weapons added to the game recently - but locked behind loot boxes.

Bethesda has extended the pre-beta of Fallout 76's Nuclear Winter mode.

Watch Dogs: Legion, unveiled at E3 this week, is set in a post-Brexit Britain. It deals with themes of civil unrest, the surveillance state and, from the looks of things, dodgy London accents.

The Last of Us 2 looks set to come out in February 2020, according to various reports.

I don't know if you've ever tried to caramelise sugar, but trust me: it's pretty magical stuff. You measure your water and your sugar and you dump them into a saucepan. You swish it around until the sugar's gone. Then you put the saucepan on the heat. After a while, stiff little bubbles start to form. After a little while more, the pan is filled with them. The temptation to do something at this point is almost unbearable. But resist it! After a few more minutes, something astonishing happens. The clear liquid in the pan starts to transform. What was clear and thin slowly becomes thick and golden. Snakes eyes, pal: you've got yourself some syrup.

When Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order initially revealed its gameplay demo last week, I think it's fair to say the reaction was subdued. Fans felt it was missing a certain spark, while others expressed disappointment at not being shown the promised Metroidvania-inspired gameplay. Many complained about the protagonist feeling a little boring.

Earlier in June, we reported on how a Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 update added exciting new weapons - but locked them behind loot boxes.

Ebay is no stranger to listings for promotional items handed out at E3. Each year sees an influx of E3 items up for sale - lanyards, figurines, exclusive Funko Pops, that sort of thing.

One of the nicer nods to previous games in the series found in Mortal Kombat 11 was Kabal's screamer brutality.

Valve has released a new game - Dota Underlords.

This is the final E3 bulletin of 2019. Previous entries: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

If, in a darker moment or two, you've wondered to yourself whether Fallout 76 really is as much of a "bizarre, boring, broken mess" as Eurogamer's Wes once said it was - or if it's improve in any way since - then now your chance to find out. Fallout 76 is currently free to try for a week.

We had an inkling that it was coming but E3 has confirmed it - The Witcher 3 is indeed heading for Switch in what must surely be one of the most challenging ports yet delivered for Nintendo's hybrid console. The conversion is being handled by developer Saber Interactive, known for its work on the Halo and Halo 2 Anniversary Editions, working in concert with CD Projekt RED, while the mothership concentrates on delivering Cyberpunk 2077 for April next year. But just how well can a port of one of the current generation's most challenging games work on the Switch's Tegra X1 processor? Initial footage revealed this week is fascinating.

It's time to prep those waving arms and ready those hankies: Nintendo has announced the dates for Splatoon 2's last-ever Splatfest. Deep breaths now.

Life is Strange developer Dontnod has shared two bits of news concerning its small-town psychological thriller Twin Mirror: the game now won't release until 2020, and secondly, Dontnod has signed a deal with Epic to restrict sales to the Epic Game Store on PC for a year.

Video game streaming isn't quite here - but it's certainly coming. Google, Sony and of course Microsoft are all set to enter the streaming fray over the next year - and in a big way. But does streaming signal the end of consoles?

Hori's no stranger to out there controllers - witness, if you please, its ongoing line of Slime controllers that will soon be finding their way to Nintendo's Switch - but its latest creation is something else completely.

It's been nearly 20 years, but it seems the original Shenmue still has a little left to offer. Fans have dug deep into the code to successfully unearth a secret move that was recently hinted at by one of the original developers.