E3 2009

Even if you're not big on racing games, you have to admit that the gameplay for Split/Second looks pretty amazing. And if you're still not convinced, then...well...I don't know how to help you.

Take a look the E3 2009 trailer for Split/Second.

In A Boy and his Blob a young boy goes on an adventure to save the blob world from the nefarious black blobs. The game is beautifully animated in a classic style, and returns to the puzzle-solving elements of the original game. Here's the thrilling trailer. 

Alison Haislip hits up the EA booth and tells us what's new with the granddaddy of all football video games, Madden 10, including gang tackling, improved animations, and more.

Activision, as it threatened, has dropped a lawsuit on Double Fine Productions over Brütal Legend. According to the publisher, Tim Schafer and his team failed to deliver the game on time and asked for an extension. The development was funded largely by Activision, if the publisher is to be believed.

Brütal Legend, which was not picked up by Activision during the Activision and Vivendi merger, eventually ended up over at Electronic Arts. As bitter corporate rivals, Activision breaks out its lawsuit game.

It seemed pretty clear that Activision dropped the game during the merger, but the company believes they still retain the right to publish the game.

What does developer Tim Schafer say about this? "Hey, if Activision liked it, then they should have put a ring on it. Oh great, now Beyoncé is going to sue me, too." Zing! Tim is awesome.

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Sam Lake, Lead Writer at Remedy, shows off an Alan Wake game preview, telling us about the spooky, long-awaited game, where it's been all this time, and how this horror/thriller plans to scare you into playing it.

It still strikes me as almost unfathomably weird to see a bunch of characters from the Mario Bros. series and a bunch of characters from the Sonic series in the same game. The fact that the game they're in is yet another officially licensed Olympic product just heightens the weirdness. But there it is: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, due in October on Wii and DS.

In the brief demo of gameplay Sega offered, our small group first got a look at the DS version. Most interesting here is the fact that this version features an exclusive Adventure Tours mode, which is sort of a light RPG in which all the main protagonists of the Mario and Sonic universes join together to defeat Bowser and Eggman. Seems this unholy alliance has set out to melt all the snow in Olympic Village and kidnap all the snow spirits. Using a combination of minigames and light puzzles, players explore the snowy world in what the developers believe is the first time Mario and Sonic characters have ever worked together in this sort of game.

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You can shoot your enemies all you want, but there's nothing like fighting opponents with your bare hands. Okay, so playing Tekken 6 is more like fighting through your controller buttons, but we were still excited for the Tekken 6 game preview. Adam Sessler sat down with Katsuhiro Harada from Namco Bandai and game designer Michael Murray for a sneak peek at the game characters and more!

Watch it all unfold from E3 '09 Live here.

It's finally here: the much-rumored-about video game, DJ Hero, where deejay fans can finally put their record-scratching skills to use in the comfort of their console. Alison Haislip caught up with DJ Z-Trip, one of the actual DJs featured on DJ Hero, to learn how the technology works and maybe if mixing music will be her new career.

Check out the interview from E3 '09 Live below!

So maybe you're not convinced about this new skateboard controller for the Tony Hawk: Ride video game. We sat down with Josh Tsui, President of Robomodo, for a hands-on preview of the peripheral (helmet not included).

Watch our segment below from E3 '09 Live.

Everyone's favorite cybernetic ninja from the Metal Gear series, Raiden makes an appearance in this teaser for Metal Gear Solid: Rising. 

Marvel at this exclusive trailer for Global Agenda, an impressively deep RPG, which will allow players to create and develop covert agents who can join player-created agencies and work solo or cooperatively to eradicate enemies and best them in a race for technological supremacy.

The Gran Turismo franchise continues with Gran Turismo 5 only for the Playstation 3. Experience the thrills of racing in the premiere driving game with the trailer from E3 2009. For the first time, fans can race others online and try out a whole new cockpit view.

Check out the Gran Turismo 5 trailer! 

Nope, this game isn't about a sandwich, as I originally hoped. The Grinder is an upcoming first-person shooter game from The Conduit developers High Voltage for the Nintendo Wii, where players are responsible for keeping the zombie and monster population under control.

Check out this trailer for The Grinder and see if it grinds your gears...in a good way.

Since its rise to prominence on the PS2, the Dynasty Warriors series has made its name by throwing players into the midst of historically-themed battles, where they would then proceed to hack-and-slash their way through massive hordes of enemies. This "one versus many" gameplay has served the series well through six numbered releases, as well as the major side series Samurai Warriors, which replaces the Three Kingdoms-era China setting with feudal Japan.

Now Koei is branching off in yet another direction, taking on the theme of the Trojan War as told by The Iliad and other epic works. But unlike most other stories told of the Trojan War, which focus on only the final year of the war as told by The Iliad, Warriors: Legends of Troy aims to tell the complete story. And it aims to do so with more realism than in some of the previous games in Koei's flagship franchise; I'm told this will be the first Warriors title to feature blood, and that it will feature more "brutal, aggressive, and gritty" combat.

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If you feel like there can never be enough Final Fantasy games out there, then you're probably very excited about the upcoming Final Fantasy XIII coming for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Too bad you'll have to wait for the release, but in the meantime, satiate your gaming needs with the incredible graphics in the Final Fantasy XIII trailer from E3 2009.