Gaming news round up: June 4

Yes, there's so much gaming news on Saturday (thanks in part to E3) that we had to break out a special Saturday edition of the gaming news round-up:

• Looks like Metal Gear Solid Rising will in fact be a no-show at E3 2011 for publisher Konami. However there's big news for the game planned for "winter".
• Insomniac Games will officially reveal its first multiplatform game with publisher Electronic Arts at EA's pre-E3 press conference.
• CCP Games has launched a countdown clock on the Dust514.com web site indicating something is being announced on Monday.
• Xbox 360 and PS3 players can get the Batarang console game controllers (no this is not a joke) later this fall.
• Blizzard is looking to hire a PS3-based senior software engineer for Diablo III.
• Is Sony's upcoming NGP portable console going to support Flash?
• The Battlefield 3 team will be showing off a never-before-seen multiplayer map, Operation Metro, during its E3 2011 presentation.
• THQ will bring its uDraw tablet, previously released for the Wii, to the PS3 and Xbox 360 game consoles this fall.
• Darksiders II, officially announced earlier this week, will also be an E3 2011 no show. But you can still check out the game's first screenshots.
• The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim will have over 60,000 lines of dialogue. Oh, and lots of dragons.
• Trion Worlds, makers of the MMO Rift, will finally show off their MMO collaboration with the SyFy Channel, Defiance, at E3 2011.
• The next big update for DC Universe Online will add Superman's Fortress of Solitude to the MMO game.