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Microsoft may be the only platform holder to not have any new hardware on show at this year’s events, but you’d be wrong to not expect any surprises from its E3 2011 press briefing. For all the news the very moment it happens head down to our liveblog below from …

E3 2011: BioWare RPG to boast voice recognition tech via 360 camera

Ubisoft promises Kinect support for the next wave of Tom Clancy games

A remake of the original Leisure Suit Larry is on the way from its creator, Al Lowe, and Replay Games. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards will be coming to desktop, tablet and mobile devices this summer. This new release improves the 1991 remake’s 16-color EGA …

Sony’s troubles with online security are from over, if a new claim by hackers is to be believed. LulzSec, the group behind some recent profile web hacks, has just posted the following on Twitter: "Just hit 50,000 followers. Thank you, twitter! In celebration, Sony hack 16 & 17 coming up …

Three staple franchises, and one mystery game, to support Xbox motion control

Lulz Security claims to have compiled SCE's Developer Network source code

Cloud-gaming demo service bolstered with key hire

Mind Candy has announced that its social networking title for children, Moshi Monsters, now boasts over 50m users worldwide. The ubiquitous Moshi Monsters brand has grown rapidly over the course of its three-year life span, and Mind Candy has said that it expects to generate 60m from total gross Moshi …

The successor to the Wii, currently known as Project Cafe, Wii 2 or Wii HD, may in fact be called ‘Nintendo’, that’s according to Game Informer. The US specialist publication speculates that a philosophy in simplifying naming conventions is the reason Nintendo’s next console will simply be called ‘Nintendo’ or …