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After the break. Just for ease. The Rage signing‘s the biggest thing in there, without doubt. Read all the rest of our coverage from the EA conference here.

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Update: You can get exhaustive news from the Sony and Nintendo conferences here.

In case you’re some kind of oddball that doesn’t like spending evenings immersing yourself in the glory of videogaming news on the internet, he’s absolutely everything that happened in the Microsoft and EA press conferences at E3 last night. Don’t say we don’t do anything for you.

News from the Microsoft E3 press conference

• New in-game Fable 2 screens released
• Shane Kim explains 360 push into casual space
• Banjo Nuts & Bolts E3 trailer posted
• Gears of War 2 site gets overhaul
• Two Gears of War 2 hands-ons
• Gears 2 MS E3 press conference movies posted
• FFXIII teaser site now live
• Watch the FFXIII Xbox 360 movie in good quality
• See the new Xbox 360 dashboard in video
• Microsoft E3 presentation – full audio
• Final Fantasy XIII not available on 360 in Japan, Versus XIII still PS3-exclusive
• Hands-on with Resident Evil 5, two new movies
• Fallout 3 gameplay movie posted
• Microsoft’s E3 press release: all the games in one place
• Uno Rush confirmed for XBLA
• NBC and Universal adds names to Live movie list
• Xbox Experience photos posted
• Microsoft details Xbox Experience, confirms full hard drive installs
• No new Halo game shown in MS E3 conference
• Square Enix confirms FFXIII for 360
• Star Ocean gets tentative release date
• Rockband 2 is an Xbox 360 exclusive, 84 tracks listed in full
• Lips to be the first game to let sing along to your own music collection
• Lips confirmed for 360
• Metallica album to release on Guitar Hero at same time as retail
• You’re in the Movies announced for 360
• Original Banjo for XBLA, says Kim
• Over 1,000 games available for 360 before 2009
• Netflix 360 partnerhsip confirmed
• Portal: Still Alive 360 exclusive
• Geometry Wars 2 announced
• Microsoft’s Lips supports motion-sensitive wireless mics
• Mattrick: We will sell more consoles this generation than Sony
• Avatars confirmed for 360 at E3
• New Xbox 360 dashboard shown at E3
• Gears of War 2 to include five-player co-op “Horde” mode
• Gears of War 2 releases on November 7
• Fable II is finished, out October, says Molyneux
• Resi 5 release date Friday 13 March 2009
• Resi 5 online co-op featured for first time at E3
• Xbox 360 to get exclusive Fallout 3 DLC
• Fallout 3 played live for first time in E3 press conference

News from the EA E3 press conference

• First Sims 3 in-game footage published
• New Crysis Warhead shots posted
• In-game Mirror’s Edge trailer looks awesome
• New Left 4 Dead screens posted
• Dead Space boss fight movie posted
• Wright: “Spore fans 38% God”
• Pictures from the EA E3 press conference
• Left 4 Dead confirmed for November 4 release
• Dragon Age confirmed for consoles
• New Rage movie shown, looks amazing
• EA to publish Rage for consoles, PC and Mac

EA’s put out the first in-game footage of the Sims 3, as part of its E3 press conference last night. It’s on Shacknews. No other Sims 3 info doing the rounds this morning from what we can see, so this will have to do for now.

On GamersHell. The screens were released as part of the EA E3 press conference lats night. Lots of shooting there. And a helicopter. What more could you want?

After the break. This footage is all in-game and was released as part of EA’s E3 press conference yesterday. Go see.

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More from the EA E3 press conference last night, this time in the form of new Left 4 Dead shots. The Valve zombie shooter is now confirmed for a November 4 release. On GamersHell.

As part of its E3 press conference, EA’s put out a new Dead Space trailer, showing a boss fight with some kind of mighty beastie, and millions of smaller beasties. Still high on our most-wanted.

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Speaking at the EA E3 press conference in LA yesterday, Will Wright came to the conclusion that Spore fans are “38% God.”

As you can see from this Joystiq report, he has the figures to back it up. From the site:

His basic argument goes like this: In the span of 18 days, Spore Creature Creator users were able to top 1,589,000 species in about 18 days, a feat that took God 7 days to accomplish. So, by his math, users of Spore at operating at 38 percent of God’s capacity, or .38G.

More through the link.

Kotaku’s put up a photo gallery from the EA press conference yesterday at E3. Shots there of Carmack, Rage, Will Wright, and so on. Take a look.

EA confirmed that Valve zombie shooter Left 4 Dead will release on November 4 this year, speaking at its E3 press conference last night.

The game was previously tagged as a “November” game. Left 4 Dead and Gears of War 2 in the same week, eh?

EA confirmed that BioWare RPG Dragon Age: Origins will be released on consoles at its E3 press conference last night, according to this Shacknews report.

No other details were given in terms of platforms and release date, although 360 and PS3 next year is probably a safe bet.

After the break. The id shooter was shown in the EA press conference at E3 yesterday. The movie’s off-screen but it’s good quality. Take a look.

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EA announced in its E3 press conference yesterday that it’s to publish id Software’s Rage.

Further, the firm said the game was to release on Xbox 360 and PS3 as well as PC and Mac.

“Rage represents a new direction for our games,” said Todd Hollenshead, CEO of id Software. “Rage is a shooter unlike any other, developed on our cutting edge new technology, and built to the exacting standards id is famous for. We’re excited to have the support of EA Partners to launch Rage on the world.”

Press release after the link.

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