Games out this week include arcade-style flying game, Ace Combat Assault Horizon: Enhanced Edition (below) (PC) in which you take to the skies of Miami, Dubai and Russia among others; Brain Training 3D (3DS) brings a scarcely relevant third dimension to the now largely discredited act of exercising your flabby grey matter; and Power Rangers: Super Samurai (Xbox) uses nightmarishly poor motion control to advance through its brief, turgid levels …

Although Sony is remaining very quiet on the subject, there are plenty of rumours about a successor to PlayStation 3 which may finally do away with the Dual Shock, the joypad that has survived more or less unchanged since its launch in 1997. If reports are accurate, Sony is planning a controller with touchscreen and biometric feedback, which measures your heart rate and skin temperature – PS4 might be able to smell your fear.