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Whoever would have thought bees would help settle a long-running feud? Well they have and, "honestly and truly", the creators of Star Control, and Stardock, are finally getting along.

Development of the second game in the Final Fantasy 7 remake project will be "more efficient", Square Enix has said.

I think maybe the number one rule about anything made by David Lynch is that you should never write about anything made by David Lynch. I'm going to break that rule - just quickly I promise - to say there was a moment that felt straight out of the Lynchian playbook in the Control demo I played at E3, and it was wonderful.

With, perhaps, less competition than in previous years, Cyberpunk 2077 has once again stolen the show at E3 2019. Stamping its presence on the event with the reveal of both Keanu Reeves and a solid release date during Microsoft's Xbox press conference last weekend, CD Projekt's role-player impressed again during its second hands-off gameplay demo - even if it did feel much more like a video game and less like magic this time around.

Before this year's E3, I doubted Square Enix's ability to actually make good on its promises for Final Fantasy 7 Remake. The trailers seemed too polished, too beautiful to be something a studio could actually deliver; they promised an impossible dream, not a video game.

In addition to the Dark Crystal game, Netflix has announced two more games, both based on Stranger Things, and teased a Fortnite-Stranger Things collaboration, presumably timed for when the new TV series airs on 4th July. You've probably already seen the Stranger Things Scoops Ahoy ice-cream shop in Fortnite's Mega Mall; Netflix said "there's more to come soon".

Google Stadia is an exciting prospect - 4K, 60fps gaming via any screen connected to the internet. But as with so many things, Stadia's reality may not match the theory.

Cyberpunk 2077 has sparked debate over an in-game advert which uses the tagline "mix it up" paired with an image of a transgender woman.

Superb action-RPG Torchlight 2 is making its way to Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 starting 3rd September, courtesy of well-regarded porting studio Panic Button.

I Am Setsuna and Lost Sphear developer Tokyo RPG Factory has announced that its new action-RPG, Oninaki, will be coming to Switch, PS4, and PC on 22nd August.

Square Enix is resurrecting the ridiculous Dragon Quest Slime controller, and this time it's coming to Switch.

The tongue-twistingly titled Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age: Definitive Edition will launch for Nintendo Switch on 27th September.

Pokémon Sword and Shield is limiting the number of Pokémon available in the game to those found in the game's new Galar region.

Xbox One accessories will work on Project Scarlett, Microsoft has confirmed.

Black Desert Online, the Korean MMORPG perhaps best known for its impressively intricate character creator, will be making its way to PlayStation 4 this year, developer Pearl Abyss has announced.

Well, I don't know what to tell you. Borderlands 3 is very Borderlands, as I discovered in a hands-on session at E3 earlier today. While there's nothing really wrong with Borderlands 3 - it's essentially a more polished version of its predecessors - it's so far failed to satisfy my desire for compelling new gameplay additions. Where Borderlands 2 brought genuinely innovative contributions to the table, Borderlands 3 is playing it safe - and it's starting to feel like the series is playing catch-up with the rest of the industry. It's not the end of the world, but more a missed opportunity.

Cyberpunk 2077 very much has a presence at E3 this year - but it's also very much the same as it was the year before. Cool Keanu aside, there wasn't much new in what was shown to the public in the Xbox conference, and there wasn't any gameplay at all.

CD Projekt has confirmed the resolutions The Witcher 3 will run at on Nintendo Switch.

Nintendo's always marched to its own beat - it's what makes the company so fascinating, and just as often so frustrating. Sometimes that approach falters, sometimes it soars, and this week's E3 was a prime example of the latter. As the rest of the industry attempted the awkward - arguably impossible - balancing act of trying to put on a show while maintaining a holding pattern as Sony and Microsoft's next-generation consoles wait on the horizon, Nintendo delivered a breathless presentation that played to all of its strengths. Oh, and it delivered news of a Breath of the Wild sequel, too, which helped.

After seven livestreams, several late nights and a lot of coffee, we made it - E3 2019 is finally underway.

Behold the latest shrunken console revival: Konami's TurboGrafx-16 mini.

Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics is a real game based on the series being made by Netflix, and it's headed to Nintendo Switch.

Rebellion has announced that it's bringing its popular Sniper Elite series to PSVR, Oculus Rift, Vive, and SteamVR in conjunction with developer Just Add Water.

Tropico publisher Kalypso Media has shared first footage of its newly remastered edition of WW2 real-time stealth-tactics classic Commandos 2.

Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics finally unveiled its long-awaited Avengers project at E3 this week, but left us with more questions than answers.

Honestly, I went into my hands-on with Bleeding Edge thinking there was more than a little whiff of Lawbreakers about it - and you can't really blame me. Here we have a well-known developer going all class-based-multiplayer-action-team-based et cetera et cetera. Especially, too, as it's been so long since Overwatch first carved out that little corner of the market, and so clear that most of the plucky, edgy-haircutted challengers that tried to go toe-to-toe - Lawbreakers yes, plus Battleborn, Drawn to Death, Paragon and the rest - have largely fallen by the wayside.

Following criticism from fans, Nintendo has announced that it will be adding the ability to matchmake with friends when playing Super Mario Maker 2's online mode.

A Twitter user who has published accurate information about E3 announcements ahead of time says they've been threatened with legal action by Nintendo.

Riot has announced a new autobattler mode for League of Legends, called Teamfight Tactics, and it's going to be available to all players from 25th June (and on the public beta environment later this month).

Developer Vaulted Sky Games has given its promising ghost-versus-hunters multiplayer escapade Midnight Ghost Hunt a fresh airing, with word of an alpha coming this summer.