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Do you remember E3 2011? When everything Sony said was underpinned with an assurance that 3D was the future–and PlayStation 3 was going to be right at the heart of that future? Well, that didn’t last long. Sony cannily recognised that its customers didn’t share that vision, and quietly got …

Microsoft has announced a number of changes to the way Achievements will work on Xbox One (opens in new tab). Speaking via Major Nelson’s blog (opens in new tab), Cierra McDonald, the Program Manager of Xbox Live Achievements, confirmed that your Gamerscore and XBL profile will carry over from Xbox …

Microsoft has detailed this year’s Xbox Live Summer of Arcade line-up. Featuring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows from developer Red Fly and publisher Activision, Flashback from VectorCell and Ubisoft, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons from Starbreeze and 505 Games, and Charlie Murder from Ska Studios and …

UPDATE: Following comments made by Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Jack Tretton (see below), SCE Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has assured fans that the elusive The Last Guardian is still “alive and kicking in terms of development”. In an interview with CVG, the exec added: “If you visit Japan …

Microsoft’s director of programming for Xbox Live, Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb, has posted an E3 2013 countdown clock on his blog, fuelling rumours that a successor to the Xbox 360 will be revealed by Microsoft at this year’s gaming convention. In the post, titled ‘Countdown to E3 2013’ and accompanied …

Don’t call it a port, and definitely don’t call it a remake. Though the 3DS follow-up to Castlevania: Lords of Shadow harkens back to the classic two-dimensional Castlevania entries, it’s forging a decidedly-Western-style path for itself – and that’s not at all a bad thing. Ever since it was revealed …

Nintendo has announced that RPG favourite Fire Emblem: Awakening for 3DS will be coming to the US at some as-yet-unspecified point in the future. There’s no other details, but it’s still great news. In fact, if we were Nintendo we would consider it to be the sort of news our …

David Cage kicks off Sony’s E3 press conference by revealing his next title, Beyond: Two Souls, a game that explores what we know about life and beyond. “Death is the biggest mystery to mankind,” he explains. The game stars Jody Holmes, voiced and acted by actress Ellen Page (Juno), who …

Ubisoft took the stage this year at Microsoft’s press conference to announce that they’re bringing Splinter Cell: Blacklist – their latest in the series – to the Xbox 360 in Spring of 2013. They even showed off some early footage of the game in motion which exhibited several of the …

So there’s every chance that this story is strewn with typos. I apologise ion advance, but if it is, then it’s only because I’m currently vibrating so hard with excitement that accurate keyboard work is becoming a bit of an issue. Also, I’m too excited to care about making corrections, …