Hey, we’ve got a little while before this starts.

I’m basically expecting to see a lot of games, a lot of expansion on the currently available products, like Home, and some surprises as well.

• That’s it! See you later.
• LIVE God of War III demo! The ingame graphics are amazing. Like the other game, it started on Kratos’s face, but this time, it looked pre-rendered. It wasn’t. Release coming March 2010.
• GT5 Tease! Not much is shown, but it’s clear there’s car damage. WRC and NASCAR are both mentioned in the trailer, by name, so it seems that Polyphony Digital is embracing the total “car lifestyle” direction.
• The Last Guardian. This is “TRICO” Trailer. It looks like the one that’s been online already, though not as rough around the edges. We see many scenes of a boy and a giant, yet cute, beast. There’s running, there’s jumping, there’s throwing barrels at evil looking guards. Looks very stylish.
• Mod Nation Racers Announced. The next game for the Play, Create, Share movement.
  It’s cartoony looking characters in a “Cars” looking, very detailed environment. It’s a kart racer, with weapons and powerups.
  Beyond character creation and car creation, car tracks are created by users as well. Making the tracks is as easy as driving over terrain. It seems far simpler than LBP. Not less powerful, just easier to make something quickly to play. Nice.
  It’s coming in 2010.
• Disney Interactive Studios Teams with LBP. Jack Sparrow, Mr. Incredible, and more costumes coming to LittleBigPlanet.
• PSEye Motion Controller. They’re showing a wand with a colored ball on the top. The Eye can track the wand and the color of the light in the ball. Tech demos here. We see some typical casual stuff, hitting balls in 3D space, etc.
  Clearly, this is a hit back at Natal, showing how accurate the wand tracking is and emphasizing that often one still needs something to hold, rather than Natal’s “nothing to hold” approach.”
  How’s it look? Pretty nice actually. Capable enough. It’s to be seen what software releases to support this in Spring 2010.
• FFXIV Only on PS3! Looks like Square Enix’s new MMO. Wow.
• FFXIII Trailer. Game Coming in the Spring! It looks amazing, as you can imagine. New environments are shown. It’s in English and it’s a story trailer. The voice acting sounds alright. You’ll need to see it yourself.
• Assassin’s Creed 2 Gameplay Demo! It’s looking much more interesting than Assassin’s Creed 1. We see some new tools such as the flying machine, double assassin blades, smoke bombs. There are 30 weapons to use. 6 exclusive weapons are unlocked through connecting Assassin’s Creed 2 to Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines on the PSP.
• Rockstar North’s Exclusive for PS3: Agent. No info.
• Upcoming PS3 Titles Trailer: Uncharted 2, inFAMOUS, White Knight Chronicles, Batman, Madden, Brutal Legends, FFXIII, Dirt 2, Ghostbusters, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, Wet, Mafia II, new Buzz, Saw, King of Fighters, Tekken 6, Ice Age, Overlord II, Red Faction Guerilla, Heavy Rain, Battlefield 1943, Pixel Junk Shooter, Trash Panic, Critter Cruncher, Katamari Forever, Fat Princess, Zombie Apocalypse, DC Online, LBP, The Saboteur, Bioshock 2, Ratchet & Clank, Fight Night Round 4, God of War III, and many many more that I missed.
• Talking PSN. Home. 100,000 units of Street Fighter IV products downloaded from Home. More spaces coming. Trailer.
• PSP Titles Trailer. LittleBigPlanet, Jak & Daxter, MotorStorm Arctic Edge, Dissidia: Final Fantasy, SOCOM, Monster Hunter, Soul Calibur (a new character!), Persona, Eye of Judgement, echochrome, Tiger Woods, Madden, Hot Shots Tennis, Fat Princess!, Star Wars Battlefront, something that looks like the Petz series, Rock Band, too much to tell. Plus, there are no titles, so there are some games I don’t even recognize. There were at least two RPG’s I’ve never seen before. A fighter too.
• A New Resident Evil Coming to PSP. Next year.
• Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. For PSP, being made by the MGS4 team, it’s a true Metal Gear sequel. Takes place 15 years after the events of MGS3. Kojima intends to utilize the PSP’s full feature suite. Here’s a trailer!
  We start with some stock footage of the Cold War, followed my Big Boss running through various wooded environments. These events lead to the rise of Outer Heaven.
  In a typical Kojima twist, there’s some weirdness. We see 4 Big Bosses or Snakes(?) Two get in a box together.
  Looks pretty good for the PSP. Coming 2010.
• All future PSP releases with both be digital and UMD released.
• GT on PSP! 800 cars, 35 tracks, full 60 FPS, basically, a full sized Gran Turismo experience on the PSP. 4 player adhoc. Trading and sharing of cars is also supported through adhoc. It’s supposed to make gathering all the cars in the game that much easier.
  Meeting with friends to do this adhoc trading and racing is part of the experience, so it’s all but confirmed that this won’t have infrastructure mode. A trailer for the games plays. It’s difficult to tell if that’s in game or not.
  Gran Turismo PSP is coming October 1st to launch with PSP Go!
• New Partners for Video Content: G4, Showtime, and More!
• PS Video Store is now natively supported on the PSP. Starting today.
• PSP Go is $249.99 in the Fall. October 1st, to be Exact.
• Development tools will be 80% cheaper for PSP.
• SenseMe. New music analyzer for PSP’s of both types. It’ll look at your music collection and select music for you. Hm.
• Media Go Replacing Media Manage for PSP. That’s great! It’s supposed to be much easier to use.
• This is heading toward the PSP Go. Officially Announced. It’s got no UMD drive. It’s not going to replace the PSP-3000. We’ve heard this. It’s 50% smaller, 40% lighter.
• Kaz Hirai!
• Dissidia Final Fantasy Coming, Followed by Assassin’s Creed on PSP.
• MAG. They’re doing a LIVE 256 player battle demonstration. 8 people are there at E3, the rest are testers at the various studio locations.
  The squad commander is using various skills, marking targets, calling in a UAV.
  They’re taking a bunker. There is a Call of Duty style XP counter for each kill. To destroy objective, they need to place charges and then guard them. Kinda like Killzone 2.
  Taking out an anti aircraft turret has allowed them to bring in mobile spawn points (choppers).
  Full 256 player battles will be on the show floor. Why aren’t we there?
• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. “Sets the new bar for goal pushing.” Beta starts tonight! Now, we’re getting a single player demo. Here we go.
  We join Drake, looking at a palm tree. The colors are extremely vibrant. Looking down over the city looks incredible. We see some cinematic camera work as Drake traverses the upper parts of the city.
  Helicopter! Intense firefights break out. Some “shoot even while hanging and climbing” is shown. Also, creating cover with overturned tables. Grenade throwing is much faster now.
  Okay! The whole environment was moving as a building collapses with Drake and Chloe inside of it! Very impressive physics simulations going on there.
• inFAMOUS got great reviews. One of 35 exclusive titles coming to PlayStation.
• Latin America sales are doing well.
• Starting off with PS2. Good sales after the price drops. Outsold next gen systems in April.
• Jack Tretton takes the stage. He seems… funnier.
• It has begun. Dramatic trailer of PS3 games. There’s a lot of them.

Let’s recap.

Microsoft showed off pretty much the games we expected, Splinter Cell Conviction, Alan Wake, Forza 3 along with third party games MW2, Tony Hawk, The Beatles Rock Band, Halo 3: ODST. There were a few surprises, such as Epic Games’ Shadow Complex, a Castlvania / Contra feeling game, and the announcement of Halo: Reach (beta to be bundled with ODST).

Then we got the stuff that should appeal to current 360 owners, Facebook integration, last.fm, Twitter, better Netflix, and a pretty bold promise of Full 1080p HD video streamed instantly over XBOX Live.

Finally, it came time for the motion camera reveal. We expected it to be a pretty gimmicky, half-hearted Mii too type deal.

I don’t know if it was the mini games using full motion capture (no, it wasn’t) or the Milo interactive AI "doll" or the controller-less control of the console that Project Natal promised, but something about all of the camera stuff really hit people. We "walked out of there," just as Microsoft had predicted, with our minds blown. It was going to be an uphill battle for Nintendo and Sony.

Nintendo, it seems, likes the bottom of the hill. They talked shop, sales, casual games, games that’ll appeal to other audiences. All in all, a new Mario was introduced, but that was pretty much it.

Until the revealation that they’d been working with Team Ninja to bring to market the next Metroid, Metroid: Other M had the flair of Ninja Gaiden, the graphics of a next-gen game, everything you could want from a union of those two parties.

How does it play? No one knows yet, but we’re sure to see more before it comes out in 2010.

Will Sony have the good to take the E309 crown as so many have predicted? The ball is in their court.

Hey, good morning, sleep well? Ready for another day of non stop announcements and trailers? I’m not too sure about it myself, but I’m ready to go. Nintendo kicks the day off at 9am PT, so in about 30 minutes, we’ll finally get to see that new Mario game people are talking about.

Here we go!

• Off to Sony!
• Metroid: Other M!!!! A Metroid game from Team Ninja!! It looks like a 3D action game. Very exciting. The graphics in the cutscenes look amazing. Not sure what parts are in game, what parts are not. Coming 2010!
• Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles, Dead Space Extraction Trailers Shown.
• The Conduit. We’re moving on to third parties. High Voltage’s The Conduit’s trailer is showing. It’s almost out.
• Super Mario Galaxy 2. Wow, a sequel.
• New Mario Galaxy. It’s more Mario Galaxy, but with Yoshi, as you’d expect him.
• Come on. We need something here.
• Wii Vitality Sensor. Stick your finger it it, it measures your pulse (in the Chinese sense, not just your heart rate). Makes it possible to “see” what is “unseeable". They feel that this can be used to help people live more relaxing lifestyles.
• Satoru Iwata. He’s talking about market expansion. We get some numbers. Apparently, only 2/3 of potential gamers actually play games, so Nintendo sees a large opportunity for expansion.
• Zelda Spirit Tracks. Just a mention. Nothing shown.
• DSi Facebook Integration. Photos taken and manipulated with the DSi camera can now be uploaded to Facebook.
• Warioware DIY. More Warioware, but you make the mini games and share them.
• Mario vs Donkey Kong: Minis March Again. DSi only, downloadable title. User generated levels is the highlight. Otherwise, it’s classic Mario vs Donkey Kong gameplay.
• Flipbook Studio Coming to DSi this Summer. It’s a flipbook you can make cartoons with.
• DSi. It’s selling well. 1 million have sold in the two months since launch.
• Style Savvy for DS. A style game. Moving on.
• C.O.P. The Recruit. A cop needs to find out who framed his partner. Doesn’t look very good. A 3D, third person shooter on DS from Ubisoft.
• James Patterson’s Women’s Murder Club: Games of Passion. More mystery games coming to DS. Investigate and solve the crime. You know how it goes. This one’s coming from THQ.
• Golden Sun DS Marks Return of Golden Sun Series.
• RPGs! Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Crystal Bearers for Wii, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 on DS (coming out Sept 22), Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story on DS (coming out this Fall).
• EA Grand Slam Tennis, EA Tiger Woods PGA Tour, Virtua Tennis, Red Steel 2 all on Wii MotionPlus.
• Wii Sports Resort Basketball. It’s a three point contest. Plays like the real thing. Nothing to see here.
• Wii Sports Resort Archery. The Wii MotionPlus is held as the bow, the nunchuck as the arrow. It basically works just like a real bow. Looks decently fun.
• Wii Sports Resort starts with a skydive out of a plane, down onto the island. The Wiimote is your Mii. Kinda fun. It’s supposed to demonstrate to the player first starting the game just how different Wii MotionPlus is.
• Table Tennis, Basketball, Kendo, Archery, Golf, Water Skiing Part of Wii Sports Resort. It looks like Wii Sports, but precision control with WiiMotion Plus, it should play differently.
• Wii Motion Plus. “Doesn’t make games look more real. Makes them feel and play more real.” Trailer plays.
• Reggie!
• Wii Fit Plus makes the workouts with Wii Fit that much more streamlined. Not as stop and go as the original. That’s nice.
• Wii Fit Plus. Helping to create a workout regime tailored to each individual. Arriving this Fall in both bundle and standalone with the Wii Balance Board.
• Moving on to Wii Fit Balance Board. They’re looking to make it easier for people to integrate it into their lives.
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii Release Date: Holiday 2009
• It’s 3D in 2D, 4-player co-op. It looks a lot like the New Super Mario Bros. on DS, but it’s multiplayer, simultaneously, co-op. Drop in drop out. A propeller suit is show that you can use to float around by shaking the Wiimote. Control is Wiimote only, no nunchuck required.
• New Super Mario Bros. for Wii announced. 4D? Intriguing…
• It appears she’s hinting at MotionPlus stuff. Oooooh, and Mario!
• Cammie Dunaway back to talk about sales.
• Starting off with a really standard, all inclusive video on Nintendo and its games.