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This week’s games news

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D | Fast & Furious: Showdown | Call Of Juarez: Gunslinger | IL-2 Sturmovik: The Ultimate Edition | Worms Collection

This week’s new DVD & Blu-ray

The Unbelievable Truth | Blow Out | Doctor Who And The Daleks & Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 AD | Lore | Theorem

This week’s new film events

Picnic Cinema | Selected III | The Stone Roses: Made Of Stone + Q&A | Tyneside Cinema Anniversary

The Hangover Part III, Something In The Air, Epic 3D: this week’s new films

The Hangover Part III | Something In The Air | Epic 3D | Benjamin Britten – Peace And Conflict | The Moth Diaries | My Neighbour Totoro/Grave Of The Fireflies | The King Of Marvin Gardens

Mario & Donkey Kong: Minis On The Move – review

3DS; Nintendo; £8.99

Resident Evil: Revelations – review

Xbox 360, PS3, PC & Wii U; Capcom; £32.99-£34.53

Metro: Last Light – review

PC, PS3 & Xbox 360; Koch Media; £34.99-£39.50

Steve Forrest obituary

Hollywood actor best known for his starring role as Lieutenant Dan 'Hondo' Harrelson in the 70s cop series S.W.A.T

Cannes 2013: Only Lovers Left Alive – first look review

Peter Bradshaw: Jim Jarmusch's vampire film puts an original spin on a well-worn genre, but there's something unavoidably studenty about its fascination with muso philosophising and retro cool

Yahoo ‘makes offer’ for Hulu as bidding war escalates

Reports link tech giant to online video service which is also coveted by Time Warner, William Morris and more

Google advertising under investigation in US

US federal trade commission looking into allegations that company's DoubleClick has illegally promoted Google products

BBC suspends technology officer after Digital Media Initiative failure

Almost £100m written off by BBC as digital archive project is scrapped to avoid 'throwing good money after bad'

Cult punk film revives hunt for Ulster arsonist

Discoverer of Undertones calls for fresh inquiry into 2004 blaze that destroyed huge collection of Northern Irish punk