Whoa! This week no less than three official game announcements were made, the development of at least two major game franchises was cancelled, a release date for a highly anticipated PlayStation Network game was revealed, and we posted up a collection of excellent PlayStation 3-exclusive previews! If we do say so ourselves!

And we got the usual assortment of jaw-dropping screenshots and trailers?!

What an exciting week for games!

In case you missed out on any of the biggest videogame news and media from the past week, we’ve rounded up the best of it for your leisurely perusal:

Lisa’s PlayStation Experience Previews!

• Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One Hands-on

• MotorStorm Apocalypse Hands-on

• Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Impressions

• Resistance 3 Hands-on

• Journey

The El33tonline Podcast!

• The El33tonline Podcast for February 7th: Experience the PlayStation Experience for yourself!

Announcements!

• Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures

  • Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures officially unveiled, screenshots and details released
  • Spyro the Dragon returns with ‘smart’ augmented reality action figures

• Duke Nukem Forever special edition officially announced, includes hardcover book, bust and more

• Activision reveals free-to-play Call of Duty for China, two movie tie-in titles announced

• Activision cancels Guitar Hero 2011 and True Crime: Hong Kong

• The Darkness II announced for 2011, Digital Extremes handling development

• Call of Juarez: The Cartel brings the ‘Old West’ to the ‘New West’

Release Dates!

• PixelJunk Shooter 2 dated for PlayStation Network!

• CoD: Black Ops map pack sells 1.4 million in 24 hours, content dated for PS3

• THQ’s uDraw GameTablet dated for March in the UK

Miscellaneous!

• Take Lionhead’s Fable survey, shape future Fable games

• Winners of 14th annual Interactive Achievement Awards announced, Red Dead Redemption cleans up

• Nintendo Wii and DS first quarter line-up announced for the UK

• DC Universe Online to get new monthly content, more servers coming soon

• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood trumps GoW III and Fallout: New Vegas to win Writers Guild Award

• Legendary DC Universe Online subscription prices announced

• Report: LG looking to block sales of PlayStation 3 in the US

• LittleBigPlanet series used as educational tool

• UK Software Charts: Dead Space 2 makes it two in a row for week of February 5th

• Dark Souls’ difficulty “spicy but edible” reassures director

Trailers!

• Homefront:

  • Extraordinary singleplayer Homefront trailer may remind you of Half-Life
  • Inspiring Homefront trailer signals a call to arms, explosions are mighty

• Epic co-op trailer for Hunted: The Demon’s Forge unleashed!

• Liu Kang’s backstory detailed in latest Mortal Kombat trailer

• Crysis 2 multiplayer progression trailer tells us how to get ahead

• Hugely impressive LA Noire in-game trailer glimpses the ‘Orientation’ of a detective

• Dragon Age 2 trailer and dev interviews elicit unruly excitement

• Test Drive Unlimited 2 out today in the US, accompanied by fantastic dev diaries and launch trailer

• Knights Contract gets massive gameplay footage blowout!

• Brand new Dungeon Siege 3 story trailer reveals in-game action

• Celebrate the release of Stacking with a classic stop-motion film

• Brutal Anarchy Reigns gameplay trailer makes green bottles fall!

Screenshots!

• Dark Souls’ concept art is suitably intriguing

• Explosive Duke Nukem Forever screenshots remind us why Duke’s great

• Latest Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim screenshots are all kinds of spectacular

• Picturesque (and bloody) Bulletstorm screenshots explode on the scene

• Galactus fully revealed in Marvel VS Capcom 3 video and screenshots!

• Anya takes the fight to the Locust in latest Gears of War 3 screens

Reviews!

• Heavy Rain Move Edition Review (PS3)

• Despicable Me Review (PS2)

• LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3)

See ya’ll tomorrow, and be sure to check back for El33tonline’s review of Killzone 3’s singleplayer campaign, as well as the announcement of our Dead Space 2 competition winners!