Kristin Holt checks out SEGA's booth to see what's going on with Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise straight from the E3 floor. But she doesn't seem to be in trouble as she is paradise (zing!). The game is due out this September for the Xbox 360.

Don't hit that eject button yet as Adam Sessler soars the skies with an exclusive hands on demo of Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's HAWX with designer Thomas Simon. The game is due out this September for the Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo Wii and PC.

Alison Haislip checks in with Eidos Interactive to see the latest brew in their monster conjuring title, Monster Lab, straight from the E3 floor. The game is due out this October for the Nintendo Wii, DS and PS2.

Grab onto something and prepare for the ride as Adam Sessler gets an exclusive hands on demo of EA's promising first-person action/platforming title, Mirror's Edge with producer Nick Shannon. The game is due out this November for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.

Creative Director Ken Lobb guides our very own Olivia Munn in an exclusive hands on demo of Microsoft's upcoming platformer Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts. The game is due out this November for the Xbox 360.

Rare's sequel to their N64 platformer is shaping up to be one of the platformer's to play this fall. With all new moves, levels and more zany antics from the duo, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts will be another great adventure to be experienced.

Zack Selwyn is hanging out with WWE Tag Team champs "The Miz" and John Morrisson to bring you the latest on THQ's WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009. This multiplatform title is due out this November.

Last fall we featured an exclusive web series inspired by the graphic novels 30 Days of Night presented by FEARnet.  The recently released Dust to Dust is a direct sequel to Blood Trails and goes even deeper into that terrifying vampire-infested world.  Now is the perfect time to take a short break from all the E3 hype and get a jump start on Comic-Con by checking out this bloodthirsty horror series.

Never fear for Adam Sessler is here with an exclusive hands on demo of Warner Bros. Interactive's Project Origin. This sequel to F.E.A.R. is due out this October for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

The force is strong within Blair Herter as he checks in with LucasArts's project manager Gavin Leung to see the latest on Star Wars: Clone Wars, straight from the E3 floor. The game is due out this November for the Nintendo Wii.

Chris Hardwicke drops by Codemasters's booth to see the latest on their upcoming action title, Rise of the Argonauts, straight from the floors of E3. The game is due out this September for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.

Chris Hardwick was on the floor at E3 for us, and he got a look at some of the most interesting (and bizarre) titles from indie developers.

First up, Chris took a look at Jo Jo's Fashion Show for the PC. Lead designer Greg Trefry showed off the game's variety of models and outfits in which you can dress them.

Next was lead designer Matt Korba talking about The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, and platform PC title about time travel and pie theft - clearly the best of both worlds.

And finally, Chris moved on the mysterious Dark Room Sex game, which contrary to popular opinion, is not a Tijuana public restroom simulator. Instead, the game focuses on recreating the sounds of "happy coupling" with a good waggle of your Wii wand. It looks like the Wii has its first harcore title.

Blair Herter was on the floor for the final day of E3, talking with Chris Corry from Electronic Arts about the upcoming RTS title, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3.

Corry described the game's increased importance on naval presence and the new abiiity to build bases on the water. The increased roles of both naval and aerial units will change a great deal about the game's strategy while maintaining the classic Red Alert feel. The game is scheduled for release on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC this Fall.

On today's E3 '08 Live, Ubisoft's Editorial Content Director Julian Gerighty stopped by to offer Morgan Webb an exclusive hands on demo with their upcoming real-time strategy title, Tom Clancy's EndWar.

Julian showed off the games unique control scheme, which is run almost entirely by voice commands. The new voice control scheme allows for a much wider array of options than are normally available in a RTS title on console. Tom Clancy's EndWar is going to be available from Ubisoft for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, and Nintendo DS this October.

That's a sign of gratitude from him, as fans have made Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots the top selling video game in the month of June, according to NPD reports. Snake's last mission sold over 770,000 copies last month and that doesn't even count the special edition PS3 bundles. Here are the top five selling games in June:

1. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
2. Guitar Hero: On Tour
3. Ninja Gaiden 2
4. Wii Fit
5. Wii Play

Of course, MGS4's release boosted PS3 sales, but evidently, not enough to catch up with the Nintendo Wii.

Learn all about a deadly new enemy you'll face in Project Origin, the upcoming FPS sequel to F.E.A.R. from Monolith. This is the "Remnant", a dangerous enemy converted by the evil of Alma, the games villain. Look for the game in the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.

According to game blog Joystiq, the space levels of universe simulator Spore will take between 15 and 20 hours to complete and has an ending, a definite change from previous Maxis open-universe games. That's right, no matter what kind of society you build, your trip to the center of the Universe will end in one way. Hopefully not a title screen reading "The princess is in another castle."

Spore comes out on September 7th for the PC, Mac and iPhone.

Joystiq: 'Spore' Space Phase Details

Check out two new videos from Capcom's new puzzle game, Flock, which was recently announced for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

Here's the game's trailer:

Hit the break for some extra gameplay footage.

Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime predicted it at Nintendo's E3 08 press conference, and today it's come to pass: The Wii is officially the top-selling current-gen console in America, according to industry research group NPD.  Nintendo says the Wii in June surpassed the Xbox 360 to take the title.

More than 666,000 (SATAN!) Wii consoles sold for the month of June, and nearly 10.9 million Wii consoles have been sold in the United States in the 20 months following its November 2006 launch, making it the top of the top in the US.

 "Wii was created with the goal of expanding the gaming universe through its intuitive motion-sensing controller," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "As we have demonstrated this week during the E3 Media & Business Summit, Wii continues to pioneer new ways for people to interact with their video games and with one another."

You're not just going to say "Hello" to your buddies playing Animal Crossing: City Folk with WiiSpeak but "Goodbye" as well after you cap their sorry ass in The Conduit multiplayer. High-Voltage's exclusive Wii FPS title will take advantage of Nintendo's new voice peripheral in the game's multiplayer mode, where up to 16 players can join in.

No details yet on The Conduit's several multiplayer modes but it's good to see other developers are already using Nintendo's new device.

VideoGaming247: The Conduit to support 16-player multiplayer, uses WiiSpeak

According to reports on the internets, the public areas of PlayStation Home will be region locked, so we won't be able to meet the French girl of our dreams bowling in Home. You will be able to invite foreign friends into your home, but you won't share the same public spaces and games.

Sony says this is to ensure that everyone gets an "experience most suited to their tastes." But it probably also has to do with region-specific advertising, marketing and media rights as well.

PS3Fanboy: Home will be region locked

Check out this trailer for the handheld action title NinjaTown for the Nintendo DS.  Fun Fact:  Former editor of EGM, Shawn Smith created the inspirational toys that this unique ninja-DS title is based on, and you can see his work on your DS later this year in October.

According to game-blog Joystiq, the main plot of Fable 2 will only be around 12 hours long--not quite the epic length many people expected.

Although, that seems to fit in with the overall vibe of the game, in which self-direction and exploration are prized above a linear story progression. Long or not, all the early reactions to the game that we've heard have been raves.

Joystiq.com: Fable 2 main quest will be around 12 hours long

Nintendo big boss Satoru Iwata had something to say to say when BBC referred to Sony's ten year console plan: "Nonsense."

According to Iwata, innovation in hardware should only start when it ceases with software. He said that Nintendo constantly pursues new software ideas for their current hardware and when his developers have used the hardware to its full potential, only then will Nintendo introduce a new system.

Sony did mention that they have already spent so much on the PS3's hardware that it's difficult for the company now to purchase exclusives. Do you think that Iwata-san is right, or are they just continuing to milk money from the many soccer moms and "casual" gamers dying to play Wii Music?

EuroGamer: Satoru Iwata says predicting console lifespan is "nonsense"

GSC Game World shows off the new technology in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky engine. The FPS is set to release on August 29, 2008.

Blackhole entertainment wants you to ditch the base and resource management in Warhammer: Battle March, a real-time tactics game for the Xbox 360.

Here's how Gravity lets you manipulate elements and utilize gravity to solve puzzles for the Nintendo DS, Wii.

Check out some gameplay footage from Speed Racer for the Nintendo DS, Wii, and now the PS2.

Check out the E3 trailer for Activsion's Guitar Hero World Tour for the PS2, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360.

If you’ve been watching Freestyle 101 over the last year, you’ve noticed that virtually every MC we ask to name the all-time best freestyler says the same thing: Supernatural.

Hailing from Indiana, Supernatural moved to New York and made a name for himself on the scene as a master freestyler via legendary battles with the likes of Juice and Craig G. He can be seen doing his thang in dozens of battle DVDs, including the film Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme. He cut a studio album in 2005 called S.P.I.T. (Spiritual Poetry Ignites Thought) and teamed with Freestyle 101 vet Phoenix Orion in the group Alien Nation for the collaboration album Earth Defenders. Soon after, Supernat’ cut an entire album of off-the-top rhymes with fellow wordsmith P.E.A.C.E. of Freestyle Fellowship called Camp Freestyle.

All of this culminated in 2006, when Supernatural set the new Guinness Book of World Records world record for the longest freestyle whilst hosting the Rock The Bells festival in San Bernardino, CA. He freestyled for over nine hours, breaking the original record of 8 hours 45 minutes. His specialty is letting members of the crowd pass up stuff out of their pockets, which he incorporates into his rhymes. It’s an incredible feat to witness, no doubt.

What many hip hop fans do not know about Supernatural is that he’s an avid gamer, having served as the MC of Midway's NBA Ballers and lending his track “Internationally Known” to the soundtrack of Tony Hawk's Underground. He’s a huge Grand Theft Auto fan, way into Resident Evil and a big Gun guy. Go figure!

So we here at G4 could think of no better man of Earth to join us at E3 to kick a live freestyle in front of the videogaming crowd. As you’ll see, Supernat’ went hard, incorporating the games on display, the objects people passed up to him, and everything and anything in the room. It was beyond impressive and we were honored to have him.

Take a new age swing on a classic franchise with Capcom's remake of Bionic Commando for the PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.

Adam Sessler gets a one-on-one with BioWare President Dr. Greg Zeschuk to talk about their latest RPG title for the PC, Dragon Age: Origins. The game is due out sometime next year.

Kevin Pereira gets an exclusive hands on demo of Midway's Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe with creator and one of coin-op's kings, Ed Boon. The game is due out this November for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

Final Fantasy is a world of hope, drama and yes, definitely romance. Jot down a couple of dating advices from this guy.

Stay tuned for more E3 2008 coverage.

In case you missed it in the glurge of E3 news, Apogee recently announced a Duke Nukem Trilogy for Nintendo DS and PSP--and the games will end in World War II, perhaps giving a clue to the setting of the console/PC version of Duke Nukem?

"We plan on making Duke the Forest Gump of World War II," Apogee COO Terry Nagy revealed to Shacknews, referring to the fictional insertion of the Tom Hanks-played film character into major historical events.

"It was really Duke that sunk the Bismarck," he explained. "It wasn't the British." The Battle of Iwo Jima marks another historical Duke victory. "[Founder] Scott [Miller] absolutely loved the storyline, claiming that it was 'absolutely Duke.'"

A trailer will be out in October, if you believe the makers of Duke Nukem when it comes to schedules.

ShackNews: Duke Nukem Trilogy Preview: Duke Heads to WW2, Apogee Talks Possible PC Release & DS Censorship

Here it is folks. The man Adam Sessler brings us an exclusive hands on demo of Capcom's latest survival horror masterpiece Resident Evil 5. The game is due out Friday, March 13, 2009 for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

Stay tuned for more E3 2008 coverage.

No need to look anywhere else as Morgan Webb gets an exclusive hands on demo with Sucker Punch's open world action adventure title, inFamous. The game is set for a 2009 release for the Playstation 3.

Stay tuned for more E3 2008 coverage.

Alison Haislip swings by the Eidos Interactive booth to check out the latest on their World War 2 action simulator, Battlestations Pacific. The game is being released for the Xbox 360 and PC.

Stay tuned for more E3 2008 coverage.

EA thrashes the Nintendo Wii with their latest skateboarding title, Skate It, and Chris Hardwicke checks in from the E3 floor to see what's the latest. Skate it is due out this December.

Stay tuned for more E3 2008 coverage.

Zack Selwyn's just chillin'...oh wait, look who dropped by. Pro boarder Shaun White takes a seat and talks about his upcoming snowboarding title, Shaun White Snowbaording, from Ubisoft available on all platforms this October.

Stay tuned for more E3 2008 coverage.

There will be a sequel for Red Dead Revolver in the offing if the Take-Two Press Conference is any indication, where a short teaser trailer aired. For those of you not in the know, Red Dead Revolver was a Western game that involved a bounty hunter trying to get vengeance for the death of his family as a child.

Now, the original came out quite a while ago, and, since then, the Western genre has had titles like Gun and Call of Juarez to keep it afloat, but Red Dead Revolver was one of the originals in the space, and it will be amazing if they can make the game larger and more next-gen.

Gamezine.co.uk: Take-Two avoids GTA DS talk

Olivia Munn creates her own character with "ninja" moves as she gets an exclusive hands on demo of EA's Facebreaker with producer Tom Batty. The game is due out this September for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

Stay tuned for more E3 2008 coverage.

Once again, the brave Adam Sessler steps forward to slay some zombies with Valve's Lead Designer Mike Booth in EA's terrific Left 4 Dead due out this November for the Xbox 360 and PC.

Stay tuned for more E3 2008 coverage.

Ubisoft's open-world FPS masterpiece, Far Cry 2, is looking more beautiful than ever. In fact, it even plays better as our own Kevin Pereira is given an exclusive hands-on demo from Ubisoft's Clint Hocking.

Far Cry 2 due out this October for the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. Stay tuned for more E3 2008 coverage.

The "Wrath of the Lich King" World of Warcraft expansion will have an achievement system. According to Blizzard:

"These self-contained goals will offer new challenges, satisfy goal-oriented players, allow others to see your accomplishments in World of Warcraft -- and are just plain fun."

The system will launch with more than 500 achievements for things like world exploration, PVP, PVE, professions and character development. Some will be "epic," others will be "whimsical." Some achievements come with purely cosmetic rewards, too.

Here's a ton of information, right from the source.

This might be the biggest news to come out of E3 08: Knights of the Old Republic MMO has reportedly been confirmed.

Portfolio.com published a short excerpt of an interview with EA boss John Riccitiello where he talked about the MMOs EA has in development: "the one that people are dying for us to talk to them about -- in partnership with Lucas, coming out of BioWare."  Not new info--previously, everyone assumed this meant a KOTOR MMO--but here's the new news:

N. Evan Van Zelfden, the writer of the report, said Riccitiello was asked specifically if he was talking about "KOTOR Online," and Riccitiello responded unequivocally, "Yes."

So, it's a little he-said-she-said, but moving toward official.

Joystiq: EA: LucasArts and BioWare building KOTOR MMO

Check out some more xbox live futuristic dodgeball fun with Double D Dodgeball.

I got a chance to put my sweaty mitts all over EA Sports' flagship franchise, Madden NFL 09, and got a taste of what the 20th Anniversary version of the game is going to be like on its release in August. First off, the big man himself is back, as John Madden runs you through a training sequence to see what you're good at. There's rushing offense and defense, and passing offense and defense. This, I'm told, is to show your tendencies, so that the game can adjust and make it harder for you to just go with what you're good at all the time. It's a good idea.

The animation is spectacular in Madden 09. Seriously, it's one of those things that catches your eye from all the way across the floor at E3, which is filled with games that have great animation, so you know it's special. It's not all that different, but it's somehow...rounder, if that makes sense. The grass is prettier, snowfall is ridiculously accurate, the stadiums look better, and the players are just about perfect. Madden fans will be delighted, since this will help them feel more a part of the game than ever.

We have a hands-on of the new Harmonix/MTV rock rhythm game Rock Band 2, but, since this game is so big, we're going to look at it from two points-of-view, mine, and Feed Meister Steve Johnson, because we both got to play the game, separately and together.

Steve:

It's just like Rock Band 1, but that's the best thing I can say about it. When you're making a sequel to one of the best games ever made, you don't want it to be very different, you just want the very small problems with the first game to be corrected. And they have been...all of them. The menus are easier to work, the store is more intuitive, the no-fail mode is great for spazzes and feebs, the instruments have been tuned up and tightened, and I wouldn't have thought it was possible, but the song selection is better than the first game.

As long-time readers of G4tv.com know, I’ve been calling for the inclusion of Elvis Costello in a music game since the launch announcement of Guitar Hero 2… or even earlier, so this week, when the official announcement was made that Elvis Costello’s "Pump It Up" would be included in Rock Band 2, I naturally assumed that Harmonix and MTV Games had listened to me, and included the real king of Rock and Roll in the game, because they were afraid of my mighty wrath.

So I went to MTV's suite to investigate. “Yes,” I was told by an MTV Games P.R. rep, “We included that track specifically because you asked for it.” Was she being sarcastic? Who cares. She said it.

Then, knowing that you might not believe me, and keeping in mind the internet motto of “Picture or it didn’t happen,” please enjoy the photographic proof of my massive influence on the videogame industry:

You might call me crazy, but I'm ready to call Major Minor's Majestic March the sleeper hit of E3 08. It's not hardcore or anything, but, at least for the 10 minutes I played it, it's very, very fun.

This unassuming Wii title from Majesco (of all people) was made by rhythm game pioneers Masaya Matsuura and Rodney Greenblatt, the team behind Parappa The Rapper, and the game definitely looks like it. It updates the colorful, 2-D cartoonish feel of PaRappa and Um Jammy Lammer and adds a unique, simple use of the Wiimote.

I am the luckiest person I know. I have to level with you. Sometimes, this job isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's long hours, lots of work, creative problem solving, whatnot. However, sometimes you get to realize that you do something truly great for a living, and that you wouldn't trade it for the world. Last night was one of those experiences. Harmonix and MTV threw a party called 'The Rock Band Bash', and they got one of the greatest bands of all time to be the entertainment. THE F*N WHO!!!

At 7:00PM, we were led into the Orpheum here in Los Angeles, and there was a Rock Band 2 stage set up, where people could form bands and play in front of hundreds of people, using the new guitars and amped-up drums, as well as the new setlist. There were open bars everywhere, and something was being set up in the main theater, but they wouldn't let us in...

Remember how Bungie was going to announce something at E3 this year and then they offered an apology instead:

"For the last several months, we've been building toward a reveal of something exciting that Bungie is working on," studio President Harold Ryan wrote. "We were looking forward to sharing that with our fan community during the week of E3. However, those plans were changed by our publisher."

According to the L.A. Times, the Halo announcement was cut from Microsoft E3 press conference because it would have made the event go on too long (?).

 "We had an embarrassment of riches," Don Mattrick said. "We felt we could do this game more justice with a more dedicated event."

We guess that that long demo of You're in the Movies was pretty important. We'll let you know more about Bungie's game when we know it, of course.

LATimes: Microsoft explains Halo's no-show at E3 game conference

According to Ubisoft's executive director Alain Corre, the timing of E3 is not "appropriate."

"For E3, it's very important to be there, and to present the games, because even though it's much, much smaller than it used to be, still the American media are here, all our competitors, so you need be there, to be ready and to share product," Corre told Gamesindustry.biz. ""[But] E3 here, mid-July, in the Convention Center in downtown LA - it's not appropriate I would say."

The reason for the inappropriate-ness: Game companies live and die by Christmas sales, and they're already well into their holiday planning by July, so there are less announcements at this time.

"What we would like, and we're discussing that, is to have an E3 back in May with a bigger size," he explained. "It shouldn't be at the same level [as 2006] because it was getting too big."

GamesIndustry.biz: Ubisoft: E3 is "not appropriate" at the current date, location

One of the big announcements from Nintendo at this year's E3 was the roll-out of WiiMotion Plus, a Wiimote add-on that makes your stick read motion one-to-one, which leads to the kind of accuracy we'd need for, say, a decent light-sabre game.

But Nintendo has yet to decide if the new tech from the device will be built-in to future Wiimotes.

"As to looking at whether or not it will be an attachment or built in - we're always looking at how hardware should evolve and where we should take it," Nintendo's Katsuya Eguchi. "Unfortunately I don't have a definite direction to give you today, but it's something we'll be looking at."

At their developers roundtable last night, Nintendo dropped some details on what we can expect from upcoming Wii open-world game Animal Crossing City Folk. Here's what we know, directly from the mouth of the game's creator, Katsuya Eguchi:

  *  Seasons and Seasonal Events will remain, including Halloween, Jingle the Reindeer at Christmas time, and a "special visitor" in spring who brings eggs. Spoiler Alert: We think it's the Easter Bunny.

  * New contend (wallpaper, furniture, items etc.) will be available through WiiConnect 24.

  * A theater where you "can watch comedy shows."

We spent a little time at MTV Games suite, and brought back some photos of some Rock Band and Rock Band 2 instruments. These are second party, Mad Catz deals, but they are very impressive. Above is a Rock Band drum cover, we guess for the kick drum of the ION, deluxe drum kit pictured below:

At Nintendo's developers roundtable at E3 08, Nintendo guru and Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto showed off some of the details of Wii Music, the company's music creator/simulator, and agreed that the title is not a videogame, but is more interesting than a videogame.

A journalist asked, basically, "Wii Music doesn't have high scores, goals or anything like that, isn't it more like a toy than a videogame?"

Miyamoto responded: "Yes, that's right. That's why it's more interesting than a videogame."