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Mama said knock you out – and to wear your PlayStation Move wrist strap.

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#clips The franchise's father may have walked out, but his baby lives on, with the latest in a long line of trailers showing an Assassin working his way through a crowd, a trail of corpses in his wake. More »

#rumor According to an "industry source" speaking with games site CVG, Sony will later this year release two new PS3 bundles, both including the PlayStation Move motion controller, and one of them packing a monster hard drive. More »

#xbox360 The 2010 World Cup has hit Xbox Live Marketplace, with a range of official and unofficial team merchandise now available for your Xbox 360's avatar. More »

#starwars The best game we saw yesterday at Microsoft's Kinect launch event was a Star Wars title. Why was it the best? Why don't you take a look yourself. More »

Tonight we stood in a stadium wearing polyester ponchos (made in Canada) with LED shoulderpads. What did you do tonight? Below you'll find our account of tonight's "'Project Natal Experience,' imagined by Cirque du Soleil." As the event was a "technology free" show, we had to depend on our notes and exceptionally detailed (for a two-year-old) artistic sketches to convey the experience. If you'd actually like to see what we saw tonight in moving pictures, you'll have the chance on Tuesday, June 15, at 3:30PM on MTV and at 9PM on Nick at Nite, MTVu, MTV Hits, and Logo.

And here are our notes on the Project Natal Experience:

7:15PM - Entered into dark room, given big white poncho with pointy shoulderpads. Terror sets in. A massive amount of people adjust each others' shoulder pads. See, we're kinect-ing.

7:20PM - Standing around in waiting area. Ponchos are white 100% polyester and are made in Canada. These things are going to get hot.

7:23PM - We're escorted down a dark hall and step through a rectangular box into an African American family's living room. They smile and wave at this home invasion. We pass by them into what appears to be a rainforest.

7:24PM - The "rainforest" is a converted sports arena, roamed by dancing Cirque du Soleil performers. They are dressed like wood nymphs.

7:40PM - Still standing around. Poncho heat increasing. Almost accosted by gyrating wood nymph. If you don't look it in the eyes it won't approach.

#clips While Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II's cinematic trailer is very impressive, it also contains not a second of gameplay footage. That's what this gameplay clip is for! More »

Around this time every year, we like to allow ourselves at least one week of solid freak-out time in order to get prepared for E3. As we were fairly busy realizing the beautiful, beautiful dream that is Futurestiq for a majority of our waking hours last week, we weren't able to have our annual extended breakdown. Of course, this will have no effect on our coverage, but we know we'll forget to pack at least one important item for our journey to the west coast. You know, like our camera. Or our laptop charger. Or those pills we have to take everyday at noon in order to continue breathing regularly.

Oh well, no use crying over spilled, extremely expensive hypoallergenic medication. We're en route to E3, where we'll relate unto you all of the scoops, news and anecdotal horror stories we come across. Hopefully there'll be more of the first two, and less of the third, but we can't pretend to know how things are going to play out.

- PSP: 23,588 ↓ 1,466 (5.85%)
- PS3: 18,951 ↓ 2,036 (9.70%)
- Wii: 18,818 ↓ 1,658 (8.10%)
- DSi LL: 10,737 ↓ 5,530 (34.00%)
- DSi: 8,219 ↓ 2,105 (20.39%)
- Xbox 360: 3,258 ↓ 288 (8.12%)
- DS Lite: 1,743 ↓ 1,218 (41.13%)
- PS2: 1,316 ↓ 147 (10.05%)
- PSP Go: 1,026 ↓ 206 (16.72%)

[Source: Media Create]

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#screengrab As the maketing material says, Microsoft's Kinect will be out this November. Whether that's November for the entire world, or just the US & Europe, remains to be seen. As seen on MCV. More »

We are officially wheels down in LA, folks: E3 2010 is upon us! Next week expect tons of original content on BD as we try to maneuver through the exhibits, the circus (seriously), and the occasional celeb at the Los Angeles Convention Center. In the meantime check out what we've been up to over the past seven days:

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#clips You already knew that much of Kinect's early marketing would be targeted at a casual crowd. So when you watch this collection of game "demonstrations", try and keep that in mind. More »

Upon leaving Microsoft's Project Natal ... er Kinect event, we were presented with the plush kitties you see above. Adorable, to be sure, but they conceal a deeper purpose -- a Kinect-related purpose. The animals come with a special code that can be scanned by Kinect (note the colorful "K" in the image above). Once scanned, the cat is unlocked in Kinect's precious pet sim ("Project Natal Animal" here) for some motion-tracked cuddle time.

We've seen similar functionality in Rare's Viva Pinata with the Vision Camera. The real question is whether Microsoft will make these available for purchase in the future. The ones handed out at Kinect's unveiling event are marked as "promotional purposes only."

Get your first glimpse of Microsoft's controller-free games.

More screens here - developed by EA Sports Tiburon - new franchise mode - franchise mode has some similarities to SimCity - use the Wiimote to navigate through a city map, which features a front office building, a training facility, and a stadium - change your team’s depth chart, sign free agents, manage finances, and practice - the complex will change [...]

One of the weirdest things I've ever seen. And I've seen some weird s**t.

I get my first look at a slew of controller-free games.

These toys hold the key to extra Kinectimals content.

As you’ve seen over the past couple days, the LA convention center is filled up with all sorts of game promos. One of those promos happens to be for Epic Mickey. Various banners line the hallways, and each one of them seems to present an interesting look at the game, completely with new [...]

[My Yoga Online]
Among the acrobatics displayed at tonight's Cirque du Soleil Kinect event, a demonstration was given of a yoga game where players emulate the actions of an on-screen instructor performing various Tai Chi and Yoga moves. Rather than the occasionally frantic actions of Wii Fit or EA Sports Active, the actions in this games seemed much more tranquil.

The player replicates the stance of the on-screen instructor, effectively following an exercise routine. Considering an Xbox Live Avatar wasn't anywhere to be found, it would seem this is an entirely separate game from the already revealed Kinetic Sports. We'll find out more as the week goes on.