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Sonic the Hedgehog is returning on Wii U and 3DS this year. Sonic Lost Worlds was unveiled at the last Nintendo Direct, although nothing about the game was revealed. That's changed now, with quite a nice trailer introducing the main badniks, as well as some new gameplay. It looks different. It's too early to tell if that's a good thing, although it seems like Sonic may actually be a little slower than he has been before.

Konami took to Twitter during the night to tease fans with the voice actor who will voice Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid 5.

The Global Hardware Charts over at VGChartz estimates that the PS3 is now ahead of the 360 in total console sales. With 77,313,472 units sold to the 360's 77,311,669 that puts Sony's console in 2nd place of this generation of home consoles after 7 years of being in 3rd place.

Saints Row IV has you take on the role of the President of the US who must defend his nation and the world from a invading race of aliens. He'll do this by using kick-ass superpowers and massive weapons in the Saints Row over-the-top style that the series is best know for. It'll be available August 20th.

At first it was a Wii U exclusive, a game that was supposed to shift consoles, but then Rayman Legends was delayed for the best part of a year so that it could become a multi-platform game. Although the Wii U version of the game had gone gold (and copies of it are sitting around in warehouses), they won't be available for purchase until the end of year. Legends is now also coming to PlayStation Vita, Ubisoft have announced, and you'll be glad to know there won't be another 9 month delay in adding another platform.

A pretty decent week this week for new releases with something for everyone across all genres and platforms.

6 beautiful new screenshots have been released for the upcoming PS4 exclusive Infamous: Second Son. This new batch of shots show new protagonist Deslin Rowe up close and personal along with some action shots of his powers.

The 6.8GB of data posted on Pastebin by a hacker going by the name of Reckz0r contains 48 million email addresses and passwords for Xbox Live accounts. As of now this is still a rumour as Microsoft have yet to confirm or deny the hack

The German branch of Amazon have a page up for Mirror's Edge 2, and are taking pre-orders. The original first person free-running game gained a pretty huge following after a lacklustre start, and both DICE and EA have hinted that a return to the series may be on the books. The fact that it's turned up at retail means this has a pretty good chance of becoming a reality.

Stock fell 5% for the worlds largest video game retailer following the announcement that the next-gen Xbox will require gamers to pay Microsoft a fee before being able to play used games. Over 60% of Gamestop's earnings comes from the used market so this is a major blow for the retailer.