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Nvidia has released the full keynote from its recent GeForce LAN 6 event in San Francisco. Johan Andersson, visual architect at Swedish developer DICE, explains how the graphics in the Battlefield series have evolved from the release of Battlefield 1942 in 2002 to Battlefield 3, which has launched in North America today and makes its European debut on Friday. More >

The first couple of videos of GTA III running on a tablet (apparently an iPad, though it's difficult to tell from the footage) have surfaced. Virtual controls are the order of the day, with a contextual 'steal car' button popping up for convenient crime sprees. More >

A coder going by the handle Mr Sid has ported Jordan Mechner's 1989 Apple II game Prince Of Persia to Commodore 64. The project took two-and-a-half years to complete, and has realised one of Mechner's ambitions. "That's crazy!" Mechner writes in the comments on Mr Sid's developer blog. "Back in 1989, when I was making POP on the Apple II, I couldn't get anyone interested in doing a C64 port... because it was too old a system." More >

EA has released a brand new ten minute gameplay video of Starbreeze's upcoming Syndicate reboot. Narrated by the game's executive producer Jeff Gamon, the video runs through Executive Search, an early level. More >

DICE, Swedish developer of the upcoming Battlefield 3, has confirmed that PC players of the eagerly-awaited shooter's multiplayer beta will be able to play on a second map, Caspian Border, this weekend. More >

Yakuza: Of The End will be released in the west in March 2012 under the name Yakuza: Dead Souls. The game is a spin-off from the main Yakuza series, a thirdperson shooter starring protagonist Kazuma Kiryu and cohorts as they try to survive in a zombie-infested Kabukicho. More >

Kaio King Of Pirates, the 3DS action-RPG in development at Keiji Inafune's Intercept studio, was announced a few hours ago. In an unusual move, the game's debut trailer and official website have already been translated into English. More >

Sony's PSN Imports programme begins this week, with three lesser-known PlayStation games to launch on the European PlayStation Store. All three ports have been handled by MonkeyPaw games, which has been busily converting obscure Japanese PSOne games to PS3 since PSN Imports launched in the US last September. More >

Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has admitted that he misses the outspoken Dead Or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki, who left Team Ninja last year and is now working on Devil's Third, an action-adventure for publisher THQ. "In the past, Itagaki always mentioned various things about Tekken," Harada told 1UP, a reference to a feature the site ran in 2005 in which Itagaki listed his five most-loved and most-hated games, with his hate-list entirely comprised of Tekken games More >

The below video shows Life Of George, Lego's intriguing combination of traditional brick-building, augmented reality and iPhone apps, which was released last week. The £29.99 game contains 144 Lego bricks and a cardboard mat covered in black dots. Players download a free iOS app, which shows a series of pictures to be recreated using Lego bricks. When construction is finished, take a photo of your creation using the iPhone camera and the app awards you a rating based on accuracy and time taken. More >

3DS and PSP fighting game BlazBlue Continuum Shift 2 will be released on November 4, publisher Arc System Works Europe has announced. The game is the third revision of Arc's stylish anime fighter, and the handheld releases will include two new story modes, all DLC from 2010 console release Continuum Shift, and a brand new Abyss mode. More >

Japanese bullet-hell specialist Cave released a version of 2005 arcade shooter Espgaluda II for iPhone last year, but is now set to release an HD version for iPad 2. While most of Espgaluda II's graphics have been remastered in HD some, including backgrounds, remain in standard definition. More >

Nintendo Of America has released a translated version of Shigeru Miyamoto's on-stage presentation of The Legend Of Zelda: Skyward Sword from the company's pre-Tokyo Game Show 3DS conference on September 13. More >

Hot on the heels of confirmation that Swedish developer Starbreeze's Syndicate reboot will be released next February comes this, the game's first trailer. More >

Intelligent Systems, developer of the beloved strategy series Advance Wars, will release its first 3DS game, Hiku-Osu, on the Japanese eShop next week. More >

Sony has revamped its PlayStation 3 video on demand service, with a vastly improved AI and greatly simplified discoverability, and renamed it Video Unlimited. As before, Video Unlimited offers a selection of films and TV shows for rent or purchase, in both standard and high definition. Now, a bar on the right of the screen suggests related videos, linked by genre, setting, actors and more. More >

Glitch, a browser-based MMOG by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield's Tiny Speck studio, has officially launched. The game belatedly entered beta in April - Tiny Speck had originally intended to begin public testing last year but was forced to keep Glitch in alpha while numerous kinks were ironed out - and, in July, the studio enlisted the services of Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi. More >

UK broadcaster ITV last night used footage from Arma 2 in a documentary about links between deposed Lybian dictator Muammar Gaddafi and the IRA. The documentary, Exposure - Gaddafi And The IRA, used footage from a fan-made video of Bohemia's PC shooter that showed a helicopter being shot down, and passed it off as an IRA video from 1988. More >