Presented in glorious alphabetical order, New Media: Retail Roundup is your indispensible checklist of the home console and handheld titles arriving in stores this week. What will you be playing?

MICROSOFT Xbox 360 Nothing

NINTENDO WU Nothing 3DS Nothing

SONY PS3 Nothing PSV Nothing

VARIOUS PC Nothing

New Media: Downloadable Digest is your handy reminder of the downloadable titles released last week.

MICROSOFT Xbox 360 Assassin’s Creed III * Hulk Hogan’s Main Event * Kinect Party * Nickelodeon Dance 2 * Summer Stars 2012 * Terraria

NINTENDO WU LEGO City Undercover 3DS HarmoKnight * Harvest Moon (GBC) * Heroes of Ruin * Luigi’s Mansion 2 * Resident Evil: The Mercenaries * Resident Evil: Revelations * Splinter Cell 3D

SONY PS3 Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel * BioShock Infinite * Dead or Alive 5 * Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires * LakeMasters EX (PS2) * PSN Picks: Killzone HD + Infamous: Festival of Blood * Robot Warlords (PS2) * SEGA Fight Pack * SEGA Vintage Collection: ToeJam & Earl * Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time * Tales of Graces F * Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 PSV Dead or Alive 5 Plus * Dead or Alive 5 Plus & Dead or Alive: Paradise * Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

VALVE Steam Anodyne * BioShock Infinite * Bridge Project * Cut the Rope * Dungeon Hearts * Pressure * Uncharted Waters Online * Warframe

A new Battlefield game is in the works. We’ve known that for a while now, but this week provided us with our first opportunity to see the game in motion.

While many marquee titles are announced via brief but spectacular montages of pre-rendered action, the Battlefield 4 marketing campaign has kicked off with an extensive gameplay video. In allowing the core gameplay to do the talking, publisher EA has shown a great deal of faith in the latest chapter from series creator DICE.

The 17 minute clip demonstrates that Battlefield 4 will offer the same blend of gruesome gunplay, vehicular mayhem and environmental destruction as its predecessor. In terms of skill, the (unseen) person playing the demo appears to be a fairly average sort of gamer, the kind that most of us can identify with, rather than the typical headshot wizard seen in most YouTube videos.

Battlefield 4 is due for release on 360, PS3 and PC in spring 2013, with no word as yet on our chances of seeing it on next-gen systems.

“I never should have agreed to these KPIs.”

Not long after EA head honcho John Riccitiello fell on his sword, a second high profile industry figure has given up the fight. Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has stepped aside following the release of revised forecasts suggesting that the publisher is heading towards an “extraordinary” annual loss of AU $132m. Fellow director Yosuke Matsuda will take on the role while the Japanese publisher searches for a permanent replacement.

Square Enix has partially attributed the poor result to “weak” sales of Sleeping Dogs, Hitman: Absolution and Tomb Raider. Considering that these high quality titles shifted 1.8m, 3.6m and 3.4m copies respectively, this is an extraordinary claim, particularly in the case of Tomb Raider, which has been in stores for less than a month. In previous console generations, such figures would have seen each game hailed as a runaway bestseller. It should also be noted that these totals exclude digital sales and sales from outside Europe and North America.

Presented in glorious alphabetical order, New Media: Retail Roundup is your indispensible checklist of the home console and handheld titles arriving in stores this week. What will you be playing?

MICROSOFT Xbox 360 Arcania: The Complete Tale * Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel * BioShock Infinite * Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14

NINTENDO WU LEGO City Undercover 3DS Luigi’s Mansion 2

SONY PS3 Arcania: The Complete Tale * Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel * BioShock Infinite * Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time * Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 PSV Dead or Alive 5 Plus * Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

VARIOUS PC BioShock Infinite

New Media: Downloadable Digest is your handy reminder of the downloadable titles released last week.

MICROSOFT Xbox 360 Alien Spidy * Dance Central 3 * Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams * Risen 2: Dark Waters * Stoked: Big Air Edition * Twister Mania

NINTENDO WU Monster Hunter 3: Ultimate * Need For Speed: Most Wanted * Punch-Out (NES) 3DS Monster Hunter 3: Ultimate

SONY PS3 Dollar Dash * Quantum Theory * Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception GOTY Edition * The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct * The Warriors (PS2) * Warriors Orochi 3 PSV Atelier Totori Plus

VALVE Steam Alien Spidy * Cart Life * DLC Quest * Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition * Incredipede * Lunar Pack * Monster Loves You * Organ Trail: Director’s Cut * Resident Evil 6 * Retro/Grade * Postal * Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 * Shattered Haven * Trials: Evolution Gold Edition * The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct * Ultratron * Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space * Worms: Armageddon