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Yesterday at E3, the world was introduced to a new trailer for Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition Star Wars, adding to Disney's collection of Marvel, Disney and Pixar toys that can be used in video game form.

"Together new heroes can join forces with characters from previous editions and embark on adventures as big as your imagination in the 3.0 Toy Box! Disney Infinity encourages you to play your way, whether you explore open-world creation in the Toy Box or story-driven gameplay inside Play Sets!" reads the bio.

In addition, there will be a couple of bundles for sale, including a Clone Wars TV series and one based on the original trilogy.

The Star Wars Saga Starter Pack featuring Boba Fett is coming exclusively to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3, announced Sony, giving PlayStation gamers a leg up on rivals.

Today during Sony's E3 keynote, the company announced that the upcoming Street Fighter V beta will launch exclusively on the PlayStation 4 next month.

PS4 pre-order customers will get access on July 23rd.

There still aren't too many details set in stone, but catch the small yet informative video below:

Microsoft has announced a new wireless controller for the Xbox One and Windows 10 aimed at the hardcore gamer.

The new Elite wireless controller costs $150 and the controller has swappable components meaning you can switch the D-pad for a joystick, and more.

Among the new features are four interchangeable paddles on the back side, Hair Trigger Locks for precise control in shooters and a textured rolling pad. The four paddles are customizable allowing you to remap as you choose

Microsoft will also release a new app to help gamers remap their controllers.

Password manager LastPass has sent out a security notice to all users confirming that some user data was stolen but most data should be secure.

Here is the full statement from LastPass, which includes the recommendation to change your master pass:

We want to notify our community that on Friday, our team discovered and blocked suspicious activity on our network. In our investigation, we have found no evidence that encrypted user vault data was taken, nor that LastPass user accounts were accessed. The investigation has shown, however, that LastPass account email addresses, password reminders, server per user salts, and authentication hashes were compromised.

We are confident that our encryption measures are sufficient to protect the vast majority of users. LastPass strengthens the authentication hash with a random salt and 100,000 rounds of server-side PBKDF2-SHA256, in addition to the rounds performed client-side. This additional strengthening makes it difficult to attack the stolen hashes with any significant speed.

Nonetheless, we are taking additional measures to ensure that your data remains secure. We are requiring that all users who are logging in from a new device or IP address first verify their account by email, unless you have multifactor authentication enabled. As an added precaution, we will also be prompting users to update their master password.

Bethesda got E3 off to a roaring start with a nearly 8-minute long gameplay video of the upcoming DOOM sequel.

The gameplay trailer showed off a lot of weapons you can use to kill some demons, including the Shotgun, Super Shotgun, a Plasma Rifle, a Heavy Assault Rifle, a Chainsaw and finally a Rocket Launcher. There's also a lot of arms getting torn out of their sockets and brutal finishing moves.

Bethesda also confirmed the game is coming to Xbox One, PS4 and PC in Spring of next year.

Don't wait, watch the video (and make sure to watch in 720p/60fps):

Alibaba will launch a Netflix clone for China in the coming two months, as the online video streaming industry begins to pickup significantly in the world's most populous nation.

The service will be called Tmall Box Office (TBO), and will include original programming as well as content from China and other nations.

Alibaba will compete against Tencent, Baidu, iQiyi, Sohu and Leshia, each of which has been investing millions to bring content to their respective platforms.

"Our mission, the mission of all of Alibaba, is to redefine home entertainment," said head of digital entertainment Patrick Liu. "Our goal is to become like HBO in the United States, to become like Netflix in the United States."

Most of the streaming services in China offer most of their content for free but TBO will be different. Liu says 90 percent of the content will be paid for, either by subscriptions or on a "show-by-show basis."

Earlier this week, after weeks of rumors, Microsoft unveiled an updated Xbox One console that has a 1TB hard drive.

Additionally, the company also unveiled a new wireless controller with a 3.5mm headphone jack, as expected.

The console goes on sale starting this Tuesday in the U.S. for $399 bundled with Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

Microsoft also announced that the standard 500GB model will have its price cut to $349, even though it has been selling at that price point for over 6 months.

Google has quietly launched a new "Free App of the Week" program, and the first app is available now in the Family section.

The first title is Daniel Tiger Grr-ific Feelings from PBS Kids, normally priced at $2.99 but now free.

It is unclear whether the free apps will always come from the Family section or will be extended to the rest of Google Play, but we will know next week.

Get the app here: Google Play Family

Earlier this week, Valve took the wrapping off their latest summer sale, dubbed the "Monster Summer Sale" for 2015.

The sale runs through June 21st, and includes hundreds of top titles discounted up to 95 percent.

In addition, there is a community game that everyone can play that helps unlock more sales and as of writing 5/9 of the unlockable milestones have been hit.

Check out the Monster Sale here: Steam

Good Old Games (GOG) started their annual DRM-free summer sale earlier this week, and it is by far their biggest (and best) ever.

The company promises to have over 600 games over the summer and new deals daily including bundles that have up to 8 games together at an even bigger discount than they would be individually.

Of note, GOG is offering The Witcher III: Wild Hunt for 10 percent off, and the new Game of Thrones games, as well. Otherwise, most of the titles are much older titles that you likely grew up with and had great times with and can now get for practically pennies.

Additionally, if you spend $1 you will get SimCity 2000 for free, $20 gets you S.T.A.L.K.E.R Clear Sky, and $50 will get you Xenonauts for free.

Check out the games sale now: GOG

Google has announced a new section for YouTube called YouTube Gaming. YouTube Gaming is – as the name suggests – designed for gaming content in mind.

YouTube Gaming aims to be the social platform for gamers and game streamers much like Twitch.tv already is. YouTube says it offers over 25 000 individual games' pages that feature videos and/or streams.

The news didn't come totally out of blue since Google has been rumored to have a game streaming focused YouTube section in the works. It was also reported to be interested in buying Twitch but Amazon was the one to close the deal last year.

According to the website YouTube Gaming will debut in the US and UK this summer.

An acclaimed music critic and analyst Bob Lefsetz has published his (strong) opinions about Apple's new music service. The former record label consultant and now a blogging analyst Lefsetz says the service doesn't bring anything new to table.

"It's toast," starts the rant and continues to describe how the new Apple Music is as good as dead before it has even been released to the public. In his Lefsetz Letter blog he says Jimmy Iovine, the former record label mogul recruited by Apple, is not the innovator Apple needs to revolutionize music business.

He believes it's the likes of Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek do the innovating and revolutionizing. "Daniel Ek's story is more interesting than Iovine's. Ek slayed piracy, Iovine sold crappy headphones as fashion items," says Lefsetz. According to the critic in modern era the "faceless techies" are the winners, not the corporate bullies.

The 24/7 radio station Beats 1 isn't what people want, if it were the original Beats would have succeeded. All in all Apple hasn't realized what people want. He acknowledges that Apple Music probably won't completely fail though, but says it won't kill YouTube or even dominate the streaming space.

Every company in the mobile space seems to now have it, a smartwatch. You have the Motorola 360, the Samsung Galaxy Gear, the LG Watch Urbane, and of course the Apple Watch. There was also in the works a device that could have been called the Nokia Watch – or even the Microsoft Watch.

New information leaked by a Microsoft employee suggests that Nokia had been working on a smartwatch resembling Lumia smartphones before the Microsoft acquisition. Codenamed Moonraker, the smartwatch was destined to launch alongside Lumia 930, which was released in last year's April.

We never saw Moonraker but Microsoft did release a wearable they call Microsoft Band.

According to The Verge the leaked pictures are not concept pictures but actual marketing material that was never used. As the pictures show the watch was able to make calls, show emails and play music.

In its golden days RIM was a force to be reckoned with. Since it has changed its name to reflect their line of smartphones, BlackBerry. It went all in with BlackBerry 10, the operating system released in 2013 – delayed time after time.

Now it seems that soon there might be one less reason to call the company BlackBerry. According to sources cited by Reuters

BlackBerry might be switching to Android. It is not revealed whether the company would abandon BlackBerry operating system though. Reuters says that the four sources are close to the matter and need to stay anonymous.

The company's BlackBerry brand became synonymous with messaging oriented and QWERTY keyboard equipped smartphones. BlackBerry 10 was meant to fight for the touchscreen interested masses but flopped and was never a contender against Apple and Google.

Rovio has teamed up with Sega to try to revive two series, mashing up Angry Birds and Sonic for 'Angry Birds Sonic Dash Epic.'

Characters from the game Angry Birds Epic will now appear in the mobile game Sonic Dash and Sonic Dash players will earn coins that will allow them to unlock the characters Red, Chuck and Bomb from Angry Birds Epic.

The promotion is for a limited time, but whatever characters you unlock will stay in your games forever.

Sonic Dash has ben available for two years, but had generally mediocre reviews while Angry Birds Epic has been one of the least played games from the Angry Birds series.

It will be interesting to see if the promotion gives both games the boost they need.