George RR Martin, console-less games and a Final Fantasy fail: the biggest news from E3 2021

This year's online-only E3 video game expo was hardly the usual explosion of blockbuster games, but there were still some standout stories

We all wanted to see Metroid Prime 4, the long-anticipated first-person science-fiction shooter-adventure that has been in development at Nintendo for an absolute age. But instead we got a whole new Metroid - a 2D one in the vein of the SNES and Game Boy Advance classics, the first game in the series in this style for about 19 years. Metroid Dread features Samus Aran being chased by distressing, transforming drone-robots who appear to be largely impervious to her ever-expanding array of weapons, and it looks genuinely scary. It'll be out on 8 October on Nintendo Switch.