Heavy on the hardware

The annual E3 games extravaganza blew into LA last week to give us a sneak preview of the hottest games and hardware for the year to come. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft all vied to make the biggest splash. Like last year, new hardware dominated. Read the details in today's paper.

In games, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (PC) is an old-school adventure game of the kind "they" don't make any more. Although gameplay is relegated to little more than spectator status, watching the story unfold is its own reward.

Exit (PSP) succeeds as much because it's not a tired retread of some PS2 pap as because it's a clever puzzler with class.