Not to be left out of the E3 drama, DOOM 4 – or as it’s now known, “new DOOM game” – has gone and spawned itself a frightful teaser trailer. There’s footage of an icky bio-mechanical demon, plus the sound of a shotgun being cocked. That’s all I need,

You’ll hear more at QuakeCon 2014, which takes place across 17th-20th July in Dallas, Texas. The game has experienced severe development difficulties – it’ll need to make quite the impression to win over troubled fans. That next-gen-only DOOM beta could have a part to play, here. Access is included with the purchase of Wolfenstein: The New Order, remember.

Activision and Hasbro have debuted a new video for the upcoming game Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark and this time it focuses on the Dinobot Grimlock! Check it out in the player below, courtesy of GameStop.

Serving as a follow-up to both the upcoming “Transformers” live-action film and Activision’s Transformers: War for Cybertron and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron titles, Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark jumps worlds and factions as it weaves the tale of the hunt for an ancient relic as powerful as the Matrix of Leadership – the Dark Spark. Players will be able to switch between the heroes of the noble Autobots and the nefarious Decepticons throughout the single-player campaign. Similar to High Moon Studios’ “Cybertron” entries in the highly-regarded series, gameplay features nimble, fast-paced running-and-gunning combat paired with traversal and vehicle action across open battlefields for large-scale, dynamic conflicts.

The game will feature over 40 playable characters and will launch on June 24 for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii U and PC from developer Edge of Reality. A 3DS version is also planned from WayForward.

Were/are you keen on Halo 4’s Armor Abilities? Comprising a range of active and passive buffs such as the ability to see through walls or conjure a shield, they’re among the things that most obviously set the game apart from predecessors. Many fans weren’t amused, styling this the “Call of Dutification” of Halo. Good news, detractors – according to 343’s design director Bradford Welch, there’s none of that sort of thing in Halo 5: Guardians for Xbox One.

“Arena means what you’d expect,” he said of a reference to “next generation arena multiplayer” in the below trailer for the game’s beta, which begins in December. “Competitive focus, level playing field, map control. Spartan abilities are player mechanics not loadout AAs.” These abilities are “things that every player can do inherently with their Spartan,” Welch added, when pestered by Twitter followers.

Beyond that, pretty much all we know about Halo 5’s multiplayer is that it runs at 60 frames a second on dedicated servers, and includes a number of returning weapons. Catch brief glimpses of the arsenal in the video. I’m a little saddened by the loss of Armor Abilities, personally – I quite liked how they allowed you to distinguish playstyles. Still, there are always map item and weapon drops, I suppose.