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After the break. See people dancing and shaking in time to music you can’t really hear properly.

It’s late, OK?

By Mike Bowden

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Gamespot managed to get some one-on-one time with Wario Land: Shake it at E3 yesterday.

“Overall, the game played quite smoothly, and should please those hankering for some classic platforming action,” says the piece.

Full thing through the link.

By Mike Bowden

Gamespot is reporting that Animal Crossing: City Folk will be released on November 16, and that the WiiSpeak microphone peripheral will retail at $29.99.

More about Wii Speak here and Animal Crossing: City Folk here.

By Mike Bowden

The official site for GTA: Chinatown Wars has launched, and although there isn’t much to look at right now, there is the inclusion of the light blue Wi-Fi connection badge. Logically, this probably means you’re going to be able to play online.

Thanks DSFanboy.

By Mike Bowden

We think Shaun White Snowboarding at E3 looks much, much better than it did earlier this year, and IGN’s new shots prove we’re right.

Shaun White Snowboarding will be a Wii exclusive for 2008.

By Mike Bowden

Speaking with IGN, Shigeru Miyamoto told of how he thought Mii’s and Avatars were two different things, but was flattered by Microsoft’s new venture.

“I don’t really use the term ‘avatar’ to refer to what we’ve done with the Miis,” he said.

“We created the Miis with the idea that the people you live with in your house or family, you also live together with inside the TV, and you can use those characters interchangeably in the games you play.

“To see that a company like Microsoft has taken something we’ve done and kind of looked at it in a way and brought it out on their platform to kind of show that we’ve done has become the standard, I find quite flattering. But on the other hand, I think probably the basic ideas behind perhaps those two different systems are different and because of that I think they will probably develop in different ways.”

By Mike Bowden

Nintendo and Sony both put on there E3 press conferences last night, and while the fireworks we saw at the Microsoft event on Monday were lacking, there was still plenty of news for you not to miss. Some of you have lives, and we understand that, and therefore don’t want to spend your spare time following videogaming news on the internet. While we think you’re a bit odd, we respect your decision. Every story from both conferences is listed below.

News from Sony’s E3 conference

• Four new E3 LittleBigPlanet videos published
• Five new PlayStation Home screenshots released
• Ratchet & Clank: Future Quest for Booty, IGN hands-on
• God of War III teaser trailer posted
• Killzone 2 – hands-on video
  
• Sony announces LEGO Batman PS2 bundle
• inFAMOUS shots and trailer back up our “good” conference verdict
• Rumour: Killzone 2 to copy Halo movie features
• Killzone 2 beta “definitely” in plans
• New Resistance 2 screens show prettiness
• Resistance 2 Sony conference movie posted
• Resistance Retribution – hands-on and movie
• MGS4 “impossible” on 360, says Tretton
• New PSN games announced in E3 conference
• Massive Action Game announced for PS3
• Infamous for spring 2009
• God of War III shown in LA
• SCEA to dump 40Gb PS3 pack
• DC Universe Online demoed on PS3
• Super Stardust Portable announced
• Resistance Retribution announced for PSP
• SCEA fails to provide date for Home beta
• 5 million pieces of PlayStation hardware sold in the US so far this year
• LBP to release in October
• Resistance 2 demo knocks out E3 crowd, but date goes begging
• Tretton: “PS3 drove the Blu-ray format to victory and now the Blu-ray format is poised to return the favour”

News from Nintendo’s E3 press conference

• Hands-on with Animal Crossing: City Folk
• Miyamoto talks “Wii version” of upcoming Zelda
• Wii Music – hands-ons, movies
• Wario Land: The Shake Dimension shots released
• Animal Crossing: City Folk gets shots and movie
• Miyamoto: WiiSpeak is to “connect living rooms to each other”
• Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades for DS in September
• Wii Music shown in Nintendo press conference
• Wii Sports Resort will launch globally next Spring
• Wii Sports Resort announced
• Nintendo announces Spore Creatures DS
• Spore DS movie taken from Nintendo conference
• WiiSpeak and Animal Crossing: City Folk will be out on Wii in 2008
• Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars for DS
• CoD: World at War, Raving Rabbids and Star Wars The Clone Wars lead third-parties at Nintendo conf
• Nintendo expects DS to reach over 100 million sales by March 09

Gamespot got to go hands-on with Animal Crossing: City Folk yesterday, following the game’s announcement in the Nintendo E3 press conference. Snip:

We performed some of the usual activities, including fossil digging and weeding. We also joined Hannah in some fishing, though surprisingly, none of these controls involve waggling the remote in any way. To cast your line into the water, you hit the A button; ditto for reeling it in. Sadly, we didn’t get to leave the town and head for the city. According to Nintendo, however, the city opens up new innovations within the franchise. The most intriguing of these may be the auction house, where you and your friends can put items up for bid. You can also visit Gracie’s store, where you can buy seasonal items unavailable at other times of the year. Happily, though, she won’t be replacing the entrepreneurial Tom Nook, who will still set up shop in your town.

Shots and a movie here.

Shigeru Miyamoto has outlined his vision for WiiSpeak, the Wii microphone peripheral announced in the Nintendo E3 press conference last night.

“Basically, our idea with WiiSpeak is rather than to just provide a voice-chat function, we want to really connect living rooms to each other,” he said, talking to IGN.

“In that sense, the microphone in WiiSpeak is really designed to be able to clearly capture many different voices being spoken in a room at the same time and convey that over the Internet. It’s a very capable microphone and it’s designed with that intent. And so that’s why WiiSpeak has taken on the form that it has.”

More through the link.

Speaking to IGN, Shigeru Miyamoto has fleshed out a brief announcement in the Nintendo press conference last night that there are new Zelda games in the works.

“The Zelda team in particular always works on Zelda titles,” he said, shockingly. “The core members of the Zelda team have for a very long time now been focused on Zelda games, and continue to focus on Zelda games, so they are hard at work and working away.

“And then, of course, we have the DS Zelda team as well, so even there we’re having some switching of people in and out where the DS team is mixing in with the Wii team and working on the Wii version.”

More through the link.

You can get hands-on impressions of Wii Music – the big “thing” from Nintendo’s E3 conference last night – on IGN and Gamespot

There are three movies of the game here, chopped up from IGN’s feed of the event.

Playing a virtual saxophone never looked so… um…

After the break. The footage is from the IGN feed of last night’s Nintendo conference, and shows the handheld version of Maxis’s opus nice and clearly. Take a look.

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Nintendo announced a sequel to Guitar Hero: On Tour for DS this evening. According to PocketGamer, Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades will be released in September.

More through the link.

By Mike Bowden

After the break. Being an evil fat man with odd teeth never looked so jolly. We’re starting to see triple now.

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After the break. The game was announced in the Nintendo press conference at E3 tonight. It’s Animal Crossing. On Wii. You can get your hair cut, and everything.

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Wii Music has just been shown for the first time in the Nintendo E3 conference.

Miyamoto demoed the game by playing the sax on a Wiimote.

Another guy played the drums. A virtual piano, guitar and violin were also shown.

The drummer guy used the Balance Board as drum pedals.

A band of Nintendo execs played the Mario music at the end of the showing. It wasn’t the best thing in the world, if we’re being honest.

[UPDATE]: Official Press Release says:

“Create a musical masterpiece with up to four players. Anyone can play the huge selection of instruments in Wii Music with simple motions—like strumming and drumming.

“Wii Music includes many other modes besides the main band jams, including several musical games and an enhanced video playback mode for recorded jams.”

Full release oafter the break.

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Speaking at Nintendo’s E3 press conference at that Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, big boss Reggie announced that Wii Sports Resort will launch globally next spring.

The game utilises the company’s new MotionPlus technology. We saw sword fighting, jet-skiing and Cammie and Reggie having lots of fun in the meantime.

Nintendo has announced the follow-up to Wii Sports called Wii Sports Resort during its E3 conference in Los Angeles, California.

The game will use the new Wii MotionPlus device.

It’s said to be “literally a day at the beach.” A frisbee mini game, a sword-fighting game and some Mii-based jet ski thing were shown.

More to follow.

Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars for DS has just been announced in LA.

Nothing was said about the game.

The announcement came in Nintendo’s E3 press conference, which is ongoing.

Update: It’s been formally announced. Press release after the break.

“This is a game that will deliver a rich, fast-paced and intense ‘Grand Theft Auto’ experience that will be truly unique to Nintendo’s handheld platform,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “Rockstar Leeds, along with the team at Rockstar North, has built upon a decade of progressive design on Grand Theft Auto, and has created something fundamentally fresh and immersive.”

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Reggie Fils-Aime’s just shown a movie of CoD: World at War, Raving Rabbids and Star Wars The Clone Wars as an example of “mushrooming” Wii creativity among third-party Wii developers.

The showing was part of Nintendo’s E3 press conference, which is still ongoing.

No real detail. Just movies.