This console generation's second Need for Speed: Most Wanted was shown off at EA's E3 press conference in Los Angeles this afternoon. Ports of the game for iPad, iPhone, and Android were confirmed after the event via press release.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted, on consoles at least, is being developed by Criterion. It will feature an open world, licensed vehicles, and of course, races, chases and dramatic crashes. We've included its debut trailer below.

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E3 press conferences aren't the best venues for mobile, but EA did manage to sneak a few upcoming iPhone and iPad apps into its presentation this afternoon in Los Angeles.

After a long tour of Madden 13's career mode and progression systems, EA announced a new social take on the franchise called Madden NFL Social. It didn't dive into details, but it did mention that Madden NFL Social will be playable across Facebook and iOS. Also, if you start a game on Facebook, you'll be able to finish it on your iPhone.

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Fable and Populous creator Peter Molyneux's new studio, 22 Cans, has unveiled Curiosity, its first experimental release in an upcoming line of one-word "games" designed around pure concepts and ideas. This one focuses on a user's desire to poke around inside a mysterious black cube, which is presented in a flat, white room.

On this episode of GTTV, Molyneux explains why his studio isn't making traditional games and shows off an early version of Curiosity while detailing its hook.

"You're presented with this white room. In the middle of the white room is a black cube," he says. "If you touch on that black cube, you'll zoom into it. This black cube is made up of millions of tiny little cubes. You can tap away at that cube."

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New Tourin-based studio Mixed Bag is creating an "old-school action adventure" game that will embrace the fundamentals: art, real estate, bosses, powers, and mystery. It looks a little like Metroid, except with probes.

Forma.8, as its called, takes place on an alien planet where you, as the titular probe, will be tasked with finding something after an accident separates you from your pal. As you progress, you'll discover ancient civilizations and even "dystopian visions," rendered in some of the coolest art this side of Another World. Check it out:

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Microsoft's "Smart Glass" project is indeed a real thing, and with it you'll be able to access additional Xbox 360 content with "any" device, including iPad and iPhone.

At its E3 briefing in Los Angeles this morning, Microsoft showed off how Smart Glass will let users interact with Xbox movies and music with tablets and phones, but more interestingly, it unveiled how games will use the technology moving forward. In EA Sports' Madden 13, for example, players will be able to pick plays, create plays, and fiddle with rosters on their tablets or phones while simultaneously playing the actual game on their big-screen TV.

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During a pre-E3 briefing the other afternoon, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata unveiled Mii-verse for Wii U. And he also mentioned something we didn't expect: interaction with the service through web-enabled devices. You know, like smart phones or tablets.

In a nutshell, Mii-verse is a key component in the upcoming console's online offering, as it'll connect players to each other via a reinvigorated Mii Plaza and messaging. In an awful promotional video shown at the event, you can see how it all works together, and also how someone with a smart phone or tablet can browse Mii-verse's message board and respond to console players in what appears to be real time.

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Do you like zombie games? We sure hope so. It's clear that studios aren't going to be giving the undead a break despite how clotted the market is with their moans and groans and brainless wanderings. On the other hand, we're still finding interesting things in the latest crop of zombie games. Dead Trigger, for example, is tickling us because its production values appear to be off the chain. We guess we're not over the whole zombie thing quite yet, either.

Dead Trigger is the latest title from Madfinger Games, the visual gurus behind Shadowgun and the Samurai franchise. It was announced late last week, and will be appearing on the usual Madfinger platforms -- iPad, iPhone and Android devices with beefy NVIDIA hardware -- at some point in the near future. And it looks like it'll definitely require some hardcore innards. Seriously, check it out:

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Microsoft might have something really hip coming down the pipes for Xbox Live users with iOS devices. Various tech outlets have been reporting on a project called "Smart Glass," a supposed Xbox 360 companion app that will, essentially, give the console the ability to stream content to phones of all kinds and tablets. Spicing this up rumor up, Kotaku is reporting that Smart Glass is an internal name for a project that'll ultimately be called Xbox Live Companion, and its streaming feature will extend to games after you download the app on your device of choice.

Here's an example of how Xbox Live Companion will work with games from the Kotaku post:

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With how fast this year is racing by I can't believe I'm about to post this, but E3 in Los Angeles is next week, and then WWDC in San Francisco is the week after that. We're going to be at both events, and we should be in store for two weeks of non-stop iOS gaming news. Or, that's the plan, anyway.

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E3 always has surprises, but most big publishers announce what they're taking or showing off in advance of the Los Angeles based event. Square Enix just did this, and revealed a new, or at the very least upcoming, 2D Final Fantasy game in the process. Yay!

Final Fantasy Dimensions as its called will draw from Final Fantasy both old and new, delivering "the best of Final Fantasy, retro and fresh alike." What this means is that it'll include (a) a Job system and (b) one of those silly 'dark versus light' stories, which we're sure will keep you on the edge of your seat.

New might not be the best word for Dimensions. Joystiq thinks this might just be a port of Final Fantasy Legends, which was a series of games released episodically on Japanese cellphones in 2010. We'll see if this is the case, but we're guessing Joystiq is right.

Dimensions is due out on iPhone and iPad this "summer." An Android version is hitting alongside this release, too.