Online piracy continues to grow and become an increasing problem for the film and TV industry. So it should come as little surprise that the big studios are now joining forces to collective tackle the issue.

After a weekend of press conferences from developers, publishers and hardware giants, E3’s final press event had finally arrived. Once again Sony managed to snag the last slot of the day, this time hosting press, industry and fans at the Shrine auditorium. Last year’s press conference from Sony was refreshingly simple in its execution: Minimal talking and plenty of trailers.

Thanks to the modern age E3 can be attended right from your desktop or smart device. Instead of waiting for information to come a month late via printed magazines like we did in ages past, E3 is accessible via streams and online news blasts. Here's what and when to expect content.

A couple of years back, something changed in the homeland of fantastic video games. The quality started dipping, innovation was chucked out the window and everyone wanted to make a quick Yen on the mobile market. That resulted in a period of stagnation for Japanese-developed games. An era of shoddiness that Sony wants to do away.

PlayStation fans have been wanting something a bit more concrete in terms of backwards compatibility, and while PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan has acknowledged those calls for the system to start offering some proper legacy support for games, he reckons that even if they came up with a solution it wouldn’t be used all that often.

Maybe you were lucky enough to grab a week-pass for the event, and you’re all sorted to attend E3 for the first time ever. Hooray for you! As someone who has managed to survive several E3s and has only managed to lose one eye, both my pinky fingers and an entire foot, I’m feeling properly qualified to write up a guide on how you can survive the E3 experience.

Crash Bandicoot is a mere hop and a skip away from your PlayStation 4 on June 30. For the return of Crash in the N.Sane Trilogy, Sony tapped Vicarious Visions to rebuild the original games from the ground up. No small feat, but one that was challenging in one particular department for the studio: Crash’s signature jumping skills.

The PlayStation 3 was first released in November 2006. And now, more than ten years later, Sony Japan is ceasing production.