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Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare is not Plants Vs. Zombies 2 after all. Instead, it's something quite different - a team oriented class-based third person shooter with plants and zombies. Yes, Battlefield Plants Vs. Zombies.

Microsoft showed off the first exclusive Xbox title ever developed by longtime PlayStation developer Insomniac Games, a wild third-person shooter Sunset Overdrive, which seems to be a fun, more peppy version of Brink. With mutants.

The announcement that got the biggest cheers at Electronic Arts' pre-E3 press conference was the long awaited sequel Mirror's Edge 2, the final title shown at the briefing.

Microsoft unveiled the price of the Xbox One at the pre-E3 press briefing - sort of. Don Mattrick announced that there would be a "Day One" exclusive premium Xbox One running at $499.99.

Undead Labs' State of Decay, the zombie survival sandbox for Xbox Live Arcade, has gone and "smashed all kinds of records" like its players have gone and caved in so many zombie craniums.

A quarter of a million units shifted in just 48 hours, with only Mojang's Minecraft having sold faster. The studio can't find the words to "describe the feeling," as this is their first official studio release.

The Las Vegas-based Petroglyph Games will be shutting down their MOBA Battle For Graxia June 27th after it has failed to achieve a sustainable community for the studio. They no longer accept purchases of currency.

Free currency has been given to current players with plans to make all items free after its last tournament. Petroglyph "reserve the right to bring BFG back" in the future, and it is their hope to do so.

Tick tock. High seas piracy and ceiling pipe espionage will be exposed tonight with Ubisoft's E3 2013 Media Briefing, which starts at 2.40pm PDT in the US, and 10.40pm BST/11.40pm CET in Europe. We're streaming!

All those data bits will be funnelled right here for your viewing pleasure. It starts at a totally bonkers 40 minutes past the hour, dismissing the 30 minute mark as too rational and cliche.

It's time to descend down into another E3 rabbit hole and this time to give us a push is Sony with their E3 2013 press conference. You don't have to be in LA to enjoy the madness because it's streamed right here!

Sony's E3 presser begins today at 5:30pm Pacific/8:30pm Eastern if you're Stateside, but for those across the Atlantic near that bit that looks like a boot, it begins 1.30am BST/2.30am CET.

Codemasters' virtual tyre screecher GRID 2 maintains first pole position in the UK all format chart for another week, with FIFA 13 equally holding onto 2nd. Dontnod's Remember Me enters 3rd, if memory serves.

Bethesda's Legendary bundle of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim came 4th, which is most impressive for a bunch of DLCs duck tapped together. Far Cry 3 was 5th, followed by Dead Island: Riptide.

Inquiring minds needed to know, and Infinity Ward has responded: the name of the dog heavily featured in Call of Duty: Ghosts is Riley.