UPDATE: The BBC has responded to its broadcast of a Halo logo during Thursday's News at One, admitting its mistake and apologising to viewers.

A BBC spokesperson told Eurogamer: "BBC News makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all images broadcast, however very occasionally mistakes do happen. Unfortunately an incorrect logo was used during a segment on last week's News at One bulletin and we apologise to viewers for the mistake.

"The image was not broadcast in our later bulletins."

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Posting the screenshots, Microsoft Studios' XBLA website PlayXBLA said the name of the game was a secret to be revealed during its press conference at E3 next week. But the name of the image files - AMX_Mystery_1 and AMX_Mystery_2 - give the game away somewhat.

Avatar Motocross Madness is an avatar-friendly Xbox 360 update of the original, published by Microsoft on PC back in 1998. It was followed by a sequel in 2000. The developer responsible, Rainbow Studios, was purchased by THQ in 2001 and went on to work on the MX vs ATV racing series before being closed down late last year.

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Revitalised retailer GAME has launched a new online price checker tool for you to total up your trade-in games.

The chain is also currently offering 25 per cent extra credit on trade-ins until the end of May.

GAME's price checker forces you to enter in the barcode of the product you want to trade in, then fill in a CAPTCHA form.

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UK engineers are preparing to dock two orbiting satellites using technology stripped from Microsoft's Kinect camera.

Space innovators at the Univeristy of Surrey and Surry Satellite Technology are developing STRaND, a twin-satellite mission to test the new docking technique.

Each STRaND satellite is constructed from low-cost parts found in consumer devices, with STRaND-1 using a Google Nexus phone as its onboard computer.

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According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the filing (via Trademarkia) for Remember Me was made on 22nd May 2012, and relates to computer game software.

A trademark for Remember Me was also filed in Europe, with OHIM, on 25th May.

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Just Cause developer Avalanche is working with Square Enix on an open world game, it's revealed.

Square Enix published the first two Just Cause games. Is this evidence that is will publish a third?

In an email sent to Eurogamer today to advertise a recruitment event at The Crowne Plaza Baltimore North Hotel on Wednesday 30th May, the Swedish developer said it was ramping up development on multiple current and next-gen console projects due out in 2013 and 2014.

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Unannounced Vita titles Ghost Recon: Final Mission and Assassin's Creed 3 have been spotted on retailer websites, both listed for launch later this year.

It's the first we've heard of Ghost Recon: Final Mission. Ubisoft told Eurogamer last month it was seeking to "widen" the Ghost Recon franchise. Final Mission would be the third title in the series due in 2012, following the just-released Future Soldier and this autumn's free-to-play PC and Wii U entry Ghost Recon Online.

GAME listed Ghost Recon: Final Mission with a generic "TBC 2012" launch date, priced £34.99.

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The actor who plays the IT Crowd's Douglas Reynholm is doing a voice for Worms Revolution, Team17 has announced.

Matt Berry played corporate boss Douglas Reynholmin in the IT Crowd and has also appeared in The Mighty Boosh and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. In Worms Revolution he plays Don Keystone, a wildlife documentary maker and unseen narrator.

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Borderlands 2 and XCOM: Enemy Unknown will be at Rezzed, Eurogamer's PC and Indie games show.

Gearbox FPS Borderlands 2 will be playable for the first time in the UK, while Firaxis strategy game XCOM will see a 15-minute demo narrated by one of the developers.

Rezzed takes place on Friday 6th July and Saturday 7th July at the Brighton Centre. Tickets are on sale now at www.rezzed.com, priced £12 for one day or £20 for both.

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As video game leaks go, it's one of the strangest we've ever seen.

The below video, posted to YouTube by one Skid Kid, shows plenty of Halo 4 multiplayer gameplay. The only problem is, Skid Kid filmed off of what looks like a 20-year-old standard definition telly, playing a VHS, in a barn. Really.

Also, the music isn't safe for work, or your ears. We advise you turn your speakers down, or, preferably, off.

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Ubisoft's first Rayman platformer launched on PlayStation 1 in 1995 before receiving a Game Boy Color port in 2000.

It's yours to download this week for £4.50/€5.

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The Carmageddon: Reincarnation Kickstarter is funded.

Stainless' $400,000 goal was met yesterday with 10 days to go. At the time of writing, $421,532 had been raised off the back of 10,833 backers.

"We MADE IT!" read an update on the Carmageddon Kickstarter page. "Thanks to ALL OF YOU for the support and backing so far! As you'll see, I don't have the power of speech or typing completely down at the moment (some would say, most of the time...) as I'm STUNNED at the speed it's happened this weekend!

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Sci-fi shooter Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier has shot to the top of the UK all-format charts, beating Max Payne 3, last week's number one.

In a busy week for new releases Capcom RPG behemoth Dragon's Dogma slotted in in third place, ahead of Codemasters' latest racer DiRT Showdown in fourth.

Mario Tennis Open on 3DS managed an 11th place entry, while Doctor Who tie-in The Eternity Clock materialised in 34th from retail sales alone (digital downloads are not counted).

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Zone of the Enders creator Hideo Kojima has revealed he will take a supporting role on the recently-teased ZOE sequel, code-named "Enders Project".

Kojima will serve as a producer on the project due to his ongoing work on the under-wraps "Project Ogre".

"Since I am currently in beta on Project Ogre, I became the producer for the Ender's Project," Kojima wrote on Twitter (via gematsu. "From the start of the plan, it was clear I was just support. In reality, the game design, script, production, level design, etc. were all supervised by other staff. Even when I tried to force myself into things, I didn't have any success."

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There won't - "barring some sort of miracle" - be any new patches released for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, developer Big Huge Games has announced.

Lead designer Ian S. Frazier said a PC patch was in development, and would have added new difficulty modes, camera features and fixed bugs.

"But before we finished," Frazier wrote on the Kingdoms of Amalur forum, "the company collapsed."

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There is yet another version of Guilty Gear, considered by many to be the greatest fighting game series ever.

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R is set for a location test in Japanese arcades on 2nd June. A gameplay video, below, emerged on YouTube yesterday.

Guilty Gear XX is the third game in the Arc System Works (BlazBlue) series that first launched in Japan in 2002. It's been updated a number of times with new characters and refined gameplay.

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Battlefield Premium will cost £35/$60, according to a new report.

A Battlefield Premium listing on Coolshop.co.uk (spotted by MP1st) carries a 29th June release date and a £34.96 price.

Its description: "BF3 Premium Service is 1 code in a box to give the consumers early access to the BF3 DLC expansion packs - Back to Karkand (already released), Close Quarters (releasing June), Armoured Kill (releasing Sept) and End Game (releasing December)."

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Sonic Team has given barmy Sega 2D platformer Hell Yeah! its blessing - and a few words of advice for tiny French developer Arkedo Studios.

During development Sonic Team chief Takashi Iizuka gave feedback to Arkedo boss Camille Guermonprez and, crucially, the thumbs up.

"Sega said, would you like to have a meeting with the Sonic Team? Hell yeah! F**k, why not? Let's do that. We saw the two main guys of Sonic Team, they played the game and then we asked, what makes it a very bad Gaijin game? What sucks?

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Given the sorry state that relatively modest single-player offering Skyrim launched in last year, many gamers are justifiably concerned over what sort bugs might cripple Zenimax's considerably more ambitious Elder Scrolls MMO when it launches next year.

When asked by Edge how he intends to ensure the game is stable when it goes live, director Matt Firor admitted that there are all manner of hurdles to overcome above and beyond what Bethesda was faced with during Skyrim's creation, such as account creation, servers and latency issues.

"The critical difference with MMOGs, though, is that you have a long beta test where you build up to thousands and thousands of players, and you tackle those problems as you run into them there," he added.

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A brand new Star Wars game franchise is currently in the works at LucasArts and will be unveiled next week.

Spike TV has the scoop and plans to go public with more information next Thursday in its GTTV show.

"I am blown away by both the caliber of the team on this project and their bold vision for this new 'Star Wars' title," teased Spike host Geoff Keighley.

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Demon's Souls US online support has been extended yet again by publisher Atlus.

As reported earlier this year, its servers were originally going to be shut down at the end of May but, according to a new GameInformer report, will now stay online for "the foreseeable future".

"We're incredibly excited to be able to announce that the Demon's Souls online experience will persist for a while longer," commented Atlus marketing chap Tim Pivnicny.

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Rockstar has revealed details of exactly what high-end PC owners can expect from Max Payne 3 when it arrives on desktops next month.

Speaking in an interview with PC World, lead PC designer Kevin Hoare revealed that the developer had paid special attention to ensuring those with high-spec hardware had plenty to "sink their teeth into".

"We've worked hard to make sure the game will run smoothly on a wide range of PC builds," he explained.

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Planned Kingdoms of Amalur MMO Project Copernicus is - or was, should 38 Studios close for good - shaping up to be something truly special, according to the game's author R. A. Salvatore.

Speaking in response to a post on Daily Kos, the veteran fantasy writer revealed that the game was much nearer to completion than many have speculated and was shaping up beautifully.

"This game is much further along than is being reported - I wish I could show you some if it - and the environments, the animations and the game-play would blow you away," he explained.

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Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection will be available to download from the European PlayStation Store on 27th June, publisher Capcom has announced.

The download will cost £21.99/€26.99/who knows how many New Drachma.

The collection includes twin Wii shooters Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles and The Darkside Chronicles, buffed up with HD graphics and Trophy support.

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With every Harry Potter book turned into a movie turned into a video game, publisher Warner Bros. will next use Kinect for a new Harry Potter tie-in.

The imaginatively titled Harry Potter For Kinect is due on Xbox 360 this autumn, and is being developed by Goldeneye 007: Reloaded developer Eurocom.

The game's story spans the entire Harry Potter saga, with various moments recreated for you to wave your arms and legs at. Players will be able to buy a wand, try on the sorting hat and battle Lord Voldemort.

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It had been due out in Europe on 8th June and in the US on 5th June.

Publisher Namco Bandai is yet to comment on the delay. We've checked in.

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Zone of the Enders creator Hideo Kojima has revealed artwork from a proposed sequel to the action series.

Kojima teased the as-yet untitled Enders Project at a Japanese event for the series' upcoming Zone of the Enders HD Collection.

The new Enders Project is still in an "experimental" phase, 4Gamer reported, with Kojima looking into the feasibility of making the game using the developer's Fox engine.

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Cel-shaded Dreamcast classic Jet Set Radio will be released on PlayStation Vita this summer, publisher Sega has revealed.

The new handheld edition will accompany fellow HD re-makes of the game, due for download on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Jet Set Radio's Vita version uses the touch-screen to implement the game's iconic graffiti. The system's camera will also be integrated.

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According to Sega, Anarchy Reigns will launch on 6th July in Europe and 3rd July in the US. But Japanese developer Platinum isn't so sure.

In a note on the Platinum website, the Bayonetta maker said Sega had changed Anarchy Reigns' release date to TBC - despite it being finished.

"We break the bad news about Anarchy Reigns US/EU release date - Sega has decided to change the date to TBC," reads the post.

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Fighting game Persona 4 Arena launches in Europe this year, Atlus has announced.

The spin-off of the Japanese role-playing game series hits PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on these shores courtesy of Zen Unites.

Persona 4 Arena is a collaboration between Atlus and BlazBlue developer Arc System Works, and features hand-drawn 2D artwork. Characters from Persona 3 and Persona 4 feature in a story set after Persona 4.

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Modern day MMO The Secret World has been delayed by two weeks, developer Funcom has announced.

It launches on 3rd July. It had been due out 19th June. Funcom said the delay was due to "market reasons". "The new launch date places The Secret World in a more positive launch window which will benefit the launch of the game," the Norwegian company added.

Because of the delay, the Early Access period begins on 29th June.

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The original Carmageddon PC game and Splat Pack expansion are heading to GOG.com, developer Stainless Games has announced.

They'll arrive in the "near future".

Better still, they'll be given for free to anybody who pledges $25 or above to the Carmageddon: Reincarnation Kickstarter.

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Minecraft has now surpassed nine million sales across all versions of the game.

Minecraft's PC, Android, iOS and Xbox Live Arcade editions have collectively sold 9.2 million copies, Mojang's business developer Daniel Kaplan wrote on Twitter.

Sales of the creative cube-based sandbox today hit six million for the PC version alone, creator Markus "Notch" Persson revealed.

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Spain's Alfonso Ramos has been crowned the 2012 FIFA Interactive World cup champion.

He beat 2009 champion Bruce Grannec on penalties in the final in Dubai, and is now the first to win the tournament twice. He won $20,000 and a ticket to the Ballon d'Or Gala.

"When I won in 2008 I think there were maybe 100,000 players and now it's over a million. It's become so very hard," the 21-year-old Real Madrid fan said.

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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning apparently needed to sell "in the 3 million range just to break even" - an astronomical ask of a new IP of its status.

The words came from Lincoln Chafee, governor of Rhode Island (the state that provided the loan 38 Studios was founded upon, and now can't pay back), during a press conference last night (reported by Kotaku). That's what "experts" had told Chafee.

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning managed to sell 1.22 million copies in 90 days. 38 Studios boss Curt Schilling revealed the total on Twitter, adding that the game had "outperformed [publisher] EA's expectations".

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The full track listing for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD has been revealed, offering a mix of new and returning tunes.

Seven tracks return from the first two Tony Hawk games, whose levels are re-mixed in the upcoming PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 HD remake.

Joining those themes are seven fresh songs, all appropriate for listening to in cut-offs and Element t-shirts.

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Sony has patented an application that interrupts game playing to display an advertisement.

The patent, spotted by a user on NeoGAF, was filed in July 2011 by Sony Computer Entertainment America. It's called "Advertisement Scheme for use with interactive content".

Here's how it works: interactive content is suspended, an advertisement is displayed, then interactive content is resumed. Sony's patent images go into better detail, and are below.

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You'll be able to nab it from iTunes, Steam and at IndieGameTheMovie.com, where you can also pre-order the Blu-ray and DVD.

The film follows the development of Super Meat Boy, details the protracted development and legal troubles surrounding Fez and offers personal interviews with creators.

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Hot on the heels of Vigil revealing that the Wii U version of Darksiders 2 will look "at least as good as" the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions, Gearbox Software has gone one step further, and insisted the Wii U version of Aliens: Colonial Marines will be the best-looking version.

Echoing Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford's comments made earlier this month, senior producer Brian Burleson described the Wii U is a "powerful, powerful machine".

Publishers and developers working with Wii U are under orders from Nintendo not to divulge information on the console, with technical specifications a closely guarded secret.

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Last month THQ delayed promising action game Darksiders 2 to August 2012 - a decision that disappointed some eager fans.

Developer Vigil insisted the extra time would make for a much better game. Now, it's explained how exactly.

"To be honest, it's a lot of things that aren't totally apparent," associate producer Jay Fitzloff told Eurogamer. "It's final detail."

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EA has strapped up its FIFA Euro 2012 DLC and sent it back onto the pitch following complaints of screen freezing.

As announced on the game's official forum earlier today, an update is now rolling out across all platforms.

Here's the full list of fixes:

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Mounted combat is the headline addition in Skyrim update 1.6, due out on PC and consoles soon.

As detailed on the Bethesda Blog, the patch will allow both ranged and melee combat on horseback.

Update 1.6 also brings with it a number of bug fixes and stability tweaks. PC users can try it out now in Steam beta, though a final release date has not yet been set.

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Embattled Kingdoms of Amalur developer 38 Studios is in its death throes, according to a Polygon report.

All of staff have apparently been laid off today, so say sources close to the Rhode Island-based outfit.

A separate Kotaku piece claims subsidiary Big Huge Games has also closed its doors. The Maryland studio, which co-developed EA-published RPG Amalur, was bought by former pro-baseballer Curt Schilling's 38 Studios outfit back in 2009.

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Minecraft has overtaken Call of Duty: Black Ops on the weekly Xbox Live activity chart.

It's currently the second most played game on the service, up from third last week, with only Modern Warfare 3 attracting more global unique users.

Mojang's world-building sensation is the first game to overtake Black Ops since it launched last November, aside from Modern Warfare 3.

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A new Mass Effect 3 DLC pack, titled Rebellion, is available to download free of charge next week, BioWare has announced.

The pack, which includes a batch of new multiplayer content, is available from 29th May on PC and Xbox 360, and 30th May on PlayStation 3.

First and foremost, there are two new maps. Firebase Jade overlooks a jungle reservoir surrounded by huge waterfalls, while Firebase Goddess is a circular stage set in the middle a Thessian metropolis.

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What appears to be the first piece of art from Konami's rumoured Castlevania: Lords of Shadow sequel has found its way onto the web.

The image, above, appeared on the publisher's Facebook page along with a link to a teaser site titled The Dragon Returns, promising a 31st May reveal.

A clever NeoGAF poster then spotted "CLOS Teaser Page" in the site's source code, adding further weight to speculation that a sequel to MercurySteam's 2010 adventure is indeed incoming.

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From Software's Kinect-exclusive tank combat title Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor gets an Xbox Live demo today, publisher Capcom has announced.

The taster lets you get the feel of a Vertical Tank across the game's first two levels.

The full game is then set to trundle into European stores on 22nd June.

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Browser-based strategy MMO Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances has exited beta and is now formally open for business, publisher EA has announced.

You'll pick from one of two factions - the Global Defense Initiative (GDI) or the Nod - and then set about managing your resources, building an army, fostering alliances and generally throwing your weight around.

It's free-to-play and works cross-platform. A cloud save feature will be available to make it accessible across both web browsers and mobile devices.

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Blizzard has confirmed a client side patch for Diablo 3 will be released next week.

In doing so it announced a further delay to the real money auction house beyond the end of May target release. It's also still looking into those nasty missing achievements some players have suffered.

"Since the game's launch, we've applied a number of hotfixes to address gameplay issues, made tweaks to improve our service stability, and performed occasional server maintenance when necessary to ensure that in the long term, players have the best gameplay experience possible," community manager Nethaera wrote on Battle.net.

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The studio responsible for porting Minecraft to Xbox Live Arcade has offered a little more detail on which features from the PC game are to be patched over.

Speaking in an interview with OXM, 4J Studio's Paddy Burns revealed that update 1.7.3 will be the next addition, bringing with it the piston feature that lets you heave rows of blocks around.

That's a relatively small patch compared to the game-changing 1.8.1 'adventure' update that is also in the works.

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Stainless Games' digital version of cult card game Magic the Gathering is one of the most popular titles on Xbox Live. This summer will see the developer pump out the series third incarnation, Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013.

It's the second title in just two years of what could now be an annual franchise. But it wasn't always supposed to be that way.

"What we wanted to do originally was, as we're living in the modern digital download era, make a game and just carry on releasing DLC for it, and go on forever," Ben Gunstone, the game's production director, told Eurogamer. "That proved in the real-world to be very difficult, within the constraints of Xbox, mainly."

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It seems that UK PM David Cameron has got himself hooked on ubiquitous touchscreen time-waster Fruit Ninja.

As reported by The Telegraph, a senior adviser has revealed that our benevolent leader pours "a crazy, scary amount of time" into the Halfbrick-developed title.

Cameron is apparently a big fan of his iPad and has recently commissioned a bespoke app "that will give him a management dashboard, with everything from dole figures to inflation".

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The number of players who have reported a Diablo 3 account hack is "extremely small", Blizzard has insisted.

Battle.net is awash with reports of account being hijacked and then stripped of gold and items. Earlier this week Blizzard insisted these hacks were being caused using "traditional" means. Today, it went into more detail on the issue, and insisted Battle.net and the Diablo 3 servers remain secure.

"Over the past couple of days, players have expressed concerns over the possibility of Battle.net account compromises," community manager Nethaera wrote on Battle.net.

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Aliens: Colonial Marines is a "massive" project and hundreds are working on it, developer Gearbox has said.

The studio has at least three high-profile first-person shooters in development: Aliens, Borderlands 2 and Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, but senior producer Brian Burleson insisted Colonial Marines is getting the attention it deserves.

"It's been pretty massive," he said. "We have hundreds of people working on this game."

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Screenshots of what appears to be Project Copernicus, the MMO being made by troubled Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning developer 38 Studios, have leaked online.

They depict three stylised, cartoon scenes, showcasing three of the game's races: the human-like Almain, the dwarf-like Dverga and the ogre-like Jottun.

Broadly, Copernicus resembles World of Warcraft.

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Brütal Legend and Costume Quest developer Double Fine has unveiled The Cave, a new adventure game from Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert.

Sega will publish the downloadable title on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in early 2013.

In Cave, you assemble a team of adventurers, explore a subterranean amusement park and encounter inter-continental ballistic missiles. "Rappelling", "spelunking" and dark rocky caverns also feature.

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A developer who created fake versions of Angry Birds, Assassin's Creed and Cut The Rope mobile games has been fined £50,000.

The scam apps sneakily sent three premium SMS messages to users. Each message cost £5. Customers claimed they weren't aware of the ruse until receiving their monthly phone bills.

The apps were launched on Google's Android Market (now Google Play) last November by a Latvian firm, which must must now refund £28,000 to affected mobile users.

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The Metal Gear Solid HD Collection will be released for PlayStation Vita on 29th June, Konami has announced.

Niftily, this version communicates with the PS3 version, allowing you to transfer saved games and make progress while from your living room. Kojima Productions calls this process Transfarring, which is really clever.

On Vita, the MGS HD Collection sports touch-screen and rear touchpad controls. These allow you to zoom in or out during cut-scenes, peer around corners, interrogate enemies, cycle weapons/items and stab people.

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Mobile shooter Mass Effect Infiltrator is now available to download on Android devices, BioWare has announced.

It costs £4.43 from Google Play.

The enjoyable tie-in is created by IronMonkey Studios, developer of the mobile Dead Space spin-off. iPhone and iPad versions launched alongside Mass Effect 3 earlier this year.

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Ubisoft will park a double-decker Rocksmith Tour bus at most of the world's major music festivals this summer.

In the United Kingdom, those festivals will be Isle of Wight (22nd to 24th June) Reading Festival (24th to 26th August) and Bestival (6th to 9th September).

The tour bus will also chug along to Gamescom on 17th to 19th August.

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Struggling Kingdoms of Amalur developer 38 Studios has been faced with further setbacks, including the departure of several execs.

Studio boss Jennifer MacLean publically revealed her departure via her LinkedIn profile. Her tenure ended back in March. Fellow exec John Blakely has also jumped ship; he quit the developer last month, Joystiq reported.

38 Studios has also failed to find much-needed new financial backing. Last week it was revealed that the company had been unable to pay staff wages. The company's health insurance has also now run out.

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The second Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event is being held back until ArenaNet deploys "a lot of additional hardware in our datacenters".

The developer announced the news on Facebook, quashing hopes of a beta this Memorial Day weekend.

"Our Beta Weekend Event 1 was super successful," wrote community manager Martin Kerstein, "we exceeded our expectations.

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A movie based on Team Ico's beloved PlayStation 2 adventure Shadow of the Colossus is currently in the works at Sony Pictures, according to a Deadline report.

Josh Trank, the man behind this year's solid found-footage superhero flick Chronicle, has signed on to direct the live action adaptation and is currently looking for a scriptwriter.

No indication was offered as to when the film might arrive in cinemas or who might be cast in the leading roles.

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Capcom is aiming to shorten development times for major titles from between three and four years to just two and a half years in an effort to stay competitive and maximise revenue from its key IPs, according to company CEO Kenzo Tsujimoto.

Speaking in a note to investors earlier this week, as reported by GameSpot, Tsujimoto explained that the strategy will likely raise costs but will lead to greater profits in the long run.

"Speeding up development will probably raise the cost. But creating quality content will be vital to Capcom's ability to survive by overcoming intense global competition," he said.

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You'll be matching beats to pull off various martial art moves in time with the music. They'll be no on-screen prompts as in other music games - you'll be free to create your own sequence of attacks.

The soundtrack is made up of licensed tunes from the likes of Pendulum and Marilyn Manson, alongside lesser known acts such as Taiwanese rapper Shen Yi. You'll also be able to import your own music into the game and use the built-in analyser to create your own tracks.

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Key members of the team behind Inside Xbox - the on-console video service recently scrapped by Microsoft - have set up their own production company.

As reported by MCV, co-host Dan Maher along with producers Gareth Wild and Ashley Denton are in the early stages of getting new outfit Explosive Alan Productions off the ground.

They haven't detailed exactly what their plan is but it definitely sounds video game-related - Maher Tweeted earlier today that they'll be filming at a Square Enix community event tomorrow.

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During that time you'll be unable to access the PlayStation Store on PS3, PSP and PS Vita, PlayStation Network Account management or PlayStation Network account registration.

However, Sony notes that if you log-in before 4.00pm on Thursday you may be able to continue online play.

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Something called My Little Sister Can't Possibly Be This Cute Portable Can't Possibly Continue is currently the best selling game in Japan.

It's a PSP title, it's published by Namco Bandai and it's the game that 53,175 Japanese people most wanted to play last week. We'd head to YouTube to find out more but we really don't want to wind up on a government watchlist.

In fairness, it was another slow sales week in Japan. The only other new entry worthy of note was a PSP remake of Persona 2, which debuted in third place.

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The first ever official Total War modding tool, The Editor, has been released for Shogun 2 and standalone expansion Fall of the Samurai.

TEd (as it's being affectionately shortened) is free and lets any Tom, Dick or Bushido make their own multiplayer and custom VS AI maps.

Updating your Total War Shogun 2 or Fall of the Samurai games via Steam will unlock TEd. To install TEd, go to the Steam 'Library', select 'All games', 'Tools' and then install 'Total War: Shogun 2 - TEd'.

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Capcom has just announced details of a lavish box set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its Street Fighter series.

Available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 from 18th September, it includes the following swag:

All that lot will set you back $149.99. At present it's only confirmed for the US but we're chasing up news of a Euro launch.

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Will you help fund The Thief, a short film inspired by The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim?

British enthusiast Chris Woods needs $1100 to fund his project. So far, he's got $431. He's using the crowd-funding site indiegogo to raise the amount, and not Kickstarter.

The Thief spins a tale of a peace treaty gone "awry", and a plot to pinch the Draconian Madstone. This all revolves around the ever-entertaining Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood.

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The graphics of the Wii U version of Darksiders 2 are "at least as good" as the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions', developer Vigil has said.

Game companies and developers are under strict orders not to discuss the Wii U in detail publicly, a directive that has led to speculation about the horsepower of Nintendo's Wi successor. Indeed one report from earlier this year claimed the Wii U was "not as capable" as the PS3 and Xbox 360.

But with final developer kits now with engineers, and Nintendo just two weeks away from unveiling the final version of the hardware at E3, Vigil has insisted Wii U owners will see visual parity when it comes to multiplatform games.

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From Dust, one of last year's best downloadable games, is now playable in the Google Chrome browser.

It uses the same Native Client technology that got Bastion and Mini Ninjas up and running in Google Chrome.

By way of celebration, Ubisoft has lowered the price of From Dust to £7.99 for the first week. After that, £11.59. From Dust costs £11.99 on Steam.

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The PC demo of sandy shooter Spec Ops: The Line launches on 12th June, 2K Games has announced.

The company confirmed the PC version uses Steamworks, and released the minimum and recommended specs.

They are as follows:

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Ever wondered what would happen if Capcom and Valve got together to do a fantasy Street Fighter x Portal crossover fighting game?

It probably wouldn't look anything like the video below, from talented mash up artist The Pixel Kingdom (as seen on the Capcom Europe blog).

Give Street Fighter characters a Portal gun for use in the Super Street Fighter 2 engine, though, and it probably would look like the video below. See Fei Long mess with Dhalsim's elongated arms, Guile get the better of the bonus stage car, and Chun Li bamboozle Ryu - with surprisingly gruesome results.

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PlayStation Move game Sorcery, two-player scrolling action game Dr Who: The Eternity Clock and huge new squad-based shooter Ghost Recon: Future Soldier dominate the PlayStation Store today.

Sorcery's a lovely fantasy Move game for a younger audience. You become a sorcerer's apprentice and must flourish your wand to produce spells by waving the Move controller around - a mechanic that works brilliantly. Bit thin to hold an adult's attention, mind you. Eurogamer's Sorcery review has more.

Dr Who: The Eternity Clock spearheads a new gaming push by the BBC. The game's been developed in collaboration with Supermassive Games, and Eurogamer'sDr Who: The Eternity Clock preview liked what it saw. Don't expect a world beater, but do expect big ideas and big heart. "A little like the [TV] show itself, then," Eurogamer's Martin Robinson wrote.

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Diablo 3 is the fastest-selling PC game ever, and enjoyed the biggest PC game launch in history, Blizzard has announced.

The game sold over 3.5 million copies in the first 24 hours on sale. That eye-watering number does not include the 1.2 million players who received Diablo 3 as part of the World of Warcraft Annual Pass promotion. In total, over 4.7 million were playing the action RPG day one, making it the biggest PC game launch in history.

Now we're a week in, over 6.3 million are playing. This figure does not include players in Korean Internet game rooms, where Diablo 3 is the top-played game, Blizzard said. In these game rooms, Diablo 3 has a 39 per cent share as of 22nd May.

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A full-scale, "all bells and whistles", triple-A Carmageddon game is the "ultimate goal" of series creator Stainless Games.

Whether that ever gets made depends upon the Carmageddon: Reincarnation Kickstarter project. Should it reach its funding target of $400,000 - and it looks like it comfortably will - and should the game be successful, then yes, Carmageddon could return in a very big way.

"That is absolutely what our sort of ultimate goal is - that we will be in a position to be able to get under way a real 'all bells and whistles' job," Stainless Games co-founder Neil Barnden shared with Eurogamer.

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Ubisoft has revealed the Far Cry 3: Insane Edition with a new trailer.

It comes with all the digital content for the game, including Monkey Business (an exclusive one hour single-player mission) and extra single-player and multiplayer content (three packs: the Hunter Pack, Predator Pack and Warrior Pack, and the two bonus missions that come with the already announced Lost Expeditions single-player content).

On top of that you get an essential island survival guide, exclusive survival kit packaging and the insane Vaas Wahine bobblehead.

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Blizzard has nerfed Diablo 3's monk class as part of its first round of hotfixes.

Specifically, Blizzard is "in the process of removing" the on-use benefits of the Monk's Mantra of Healing rune, Boon of Protection. The hotfix change is:

"Amount of damage absorbed is now capped at the amount of healing provided by Mantra of Healing in the first 3 seconds after activation."

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A judge has recommended that the Xbox 360 be banned in the US.

Courthouse News reports that Judge David Shaw said the International Trade Commission should use a cease and desist order to ban imports of the Xbox 360 Slim 4GB and 250GB models into the US because, in his view, they infringe on four patents owned by Motorola.

He also wants Microsoft to post a bond equal to seven per cent of the value of unsold Xbox 360s in the US.

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The five main characters are Kazuma Kiryu, Taiga Saejima, Shun Akiyama, Haruka and Tatsuo Shinada, according to Japanese magazine Famitsu (via Andriasang). All five are playable.

Shinada, a former baseball player, is the newcomer. He was slapped with a life ban for gambling, but apparently he's innocent. And in debt.

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It had been due for release in the current fiscal year. No reason was offered for the hold up. Traditional strategy effort XCOM: Enemy Unknown is still due for release in October.

The publisher's report also offered a few Max Payne 3 updates. The PC version of Rockstar's recent sequel is available from 1st June, with a beefy DLC schedule following after that:

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An undisclosed number of Star Wars: The Old Republic developers have been made redundant in a bout of restructuring at BioWare Austin, the developer has confirmed.

A post on the MMO's official forum from studio chiefs Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka announced the news, but didn't offer a concrete reason for the lay-offs.

"Sadly, we are bidding farewell to some talented, passionate and exceptionally hard-working people who helped make SWTOR a reality. Impacting people's lives this way is always very hard, but we're ensuring the affected people are treated with dignity, fairness and respect," they wrote.

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Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz launches for Vita on 23rd October, Sega has announced.

Familiar franchise faces AiAi, MeeMee, GonGon and Baby are all set to appear, across 100 levels and eight mini-games.

You can also expect tilt control functionality, and a feature that lets you snap real-world items with the Vita's camera to use in the game's level editor.

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Developed by ACONY Games, it drops you into the titular reality TV show where you'll be fighting it out to the death for fame and glory.

However, simply dispatching a foe won't bring you much reward - you'll need to do so in style too. To that end, there's a complex array of customization options to allow players to create unique looks for their characters.

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New Ubisoft god game Babel Rising launches on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade on 13th June, the publisher has announced.

It then gets an iOS and Android release on 14th June, followed by PC on 27th June. A Windows Phone 7 version will follow some time thereafter. No price tag for any platform has been confirmed.

The PS3 and Xbox 360 releases are compatible with Move and Kinect as applicable.

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Too Human developer Silicon Knights will only be eligible for $1 in damages if it wins its ongoing court case with Unreal Engine creator Epic Games.

As reported by Polygon, a North Carolina judge made the last minute ruling shortly before the trial commenced earlier this month.

Should Silicon Knights win, it will be able to appeal how the damages sum was determined, or decide to seek another recourse.

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The Dead Island Game of the Year Edition launches in Europe on 6th July 2012, and in the US and Canada on 26th June, Deep Silver has announced.

That's for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The Dead Island GOTY includes the Bloodbath Arena mode and Ryder White storyline DLC, as well as The Ripper weapon blueprint. The original game has sold "way over" three million copies worldwide, Deep Silver said.

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Everyone will be able to download all the Uncharted 2 DLC for free from today, Sony has announced.

The news comes after the DLC became free to download for free in the US only - a move that sparked complaints from European PlayStation 3 owners.

Sony said today the US offer went early, and is designed to celebrate the arrival of the first two games in the action adventure series being available to download from 26th June.

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Real-time strategy game Company of Heroes 2 will avoid the "sensitive issues" of the Eastern Front by focusing more on the soldiers on the ground than the politics of their leaders, developer Relic has said.

The Canadian developer hopes to make COH2 as authentic as possible in its treatment of the brutal battle between the Soviets and the Nazis.

In the game's campaign the player assumes control of the Soviet Red Army, under the command of Communist dictator Joseph Stalin, as it defends against Hitler's German invasion. You then lead the counter attack towards Berlin.

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Sony fighting game PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale has been confirmed for Vita.

The news comes from the online CV of a sound designer at Sony Computer Entertainment America.

Said employee lists the game for release on PlayStation 3 (announced) and PS Vita (unannounced).

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UPDATE: Diablo 3 accounts are being compromised through "traditional means", Blizzard has insisted.

In a post on Battle.net community manager Bashiok said hacks were the result of accounts being accessed using passwords.

"We've been taking the situation extremely seriously from the start, and have done everything possible to verify how and in what circumstances these compromises are occurring," he said. "Despite the claims and theories being made, we have yet to find any situations in which a person's account was not compromised through traditional means of someone else logging into their account through the use of their password."

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Strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown will be released on 12th October for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, 2K Games has announced.

In the US, that release date will be 9th October. Show offs.

Pre-ordering XCOM: Enemy Unknown from participating shops nets you and Elite Soldier Pack. This gives an extra soldier modelled on the retro XCOM game; Soldier Deco packs for aesthetic armour upgrades; and a variety of colours to decorate armour with.

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The Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita have suffered slower sales than their predecessors in the UK.

The 3DS has sold nearly 950,000 after 61 weeks on sale in the UK, according to Gfk Chart-Track data reported by PocketGamer.biz. It expects the console to pass through the one million sales mark next month.

If it does, it will have taken around three months longer than the DS did to reach one million in the UK. The DS hit one million after 51 weeks on sale. Chart-Track chief Dorian Bloch said the difference in price between the two consoles was one of the reasons behind the 3DS' slower sales.

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Nintendo will broadcast its E3 press conference on Facebook and its website. The conference is scheduled for 5pm UK time on Tuesday 5th June.

The Nintendo E3 website is optimised for smartphones, so you can watch all the action on your phone if you wish. Like the Facebook page now for updates. You can RSVP at the dedicated Facebook Nintendo @ E3 Expo app to put your name down.

Nintendo will unveil the final version of its Wii successor console, the Wii U, at E3, as well as announce a raft of new games for all its platforms.

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A former Fable: The Journey developer has unveiled motion control fighting game Kung Fu Superstar.

Kostas Zarifis, who worked at Lionhead for five years on Fable 2, Fable 3 and Fable: The Journey before leaving in May 2011 to found his own Guildford independent developer Kinesthetic Games, is in discussions with interested parties on a publishing deal for the game, which is still in the early stage of development.

Kung Fu Superstar sees players assume the role of budding martial arts fan Danny Cheng, who dreams of being the next Bruce Lee. The player learns real Kung Fu moves in Danny's local dojo before hitting Hollywood and strutting their stuff on film sets.

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Capcom will fix the high-profile Street Fighter x Tekken game breaking bug in the middle of June, it's announced.

The bug, which emerged following the release of the latest patch, causes a game freeze whenever any knife attack touches a fireball, forcing a restart.

Today Capcom apologised for the glitch and vowed to fix it.

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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 will launch on Wii U, PlayStation 3, Vita and Xbox 360, according to a new report.

Paul Gale, he who first reported on PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, also offered more information on the leaked Nintendo 3DS game Castlevania: Mirror of Fate.

Mirror of Fate is a 2D Castlevania game that has been in development for a year-and-a-half, and features two playable characters and co-op play. It uses the 3DS' forward-facing camera as a mirror and the outward facing camera for puzzle solving.

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Bungie's next game Destiny will launch in the autumn of 2013 initially on Xbox 360 and the next Xbox, according to the former Halo developer's contract with new publisher Activision.

The contract, published by the LA Times and made public as part of the lawsuit between Activision and Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella, reveals Bungie has signed up to make four "sci-fantasy, action shooter games" in the Destiny universe every other year from autumn 2013 to 2019.

On top of that, Bungie will make four downloadable expansion packs codenamed Comet every other year from autumn 2014 up to 2020.

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