Now this wasn’t that much of a hard job to pick as there was only one game that keeps on making me impressed and that’s The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.

As usual you take control of our green costume wearing link on another one of his perilous adventures, however this time Nintendo has decided to go with the graphics of Wind Waker off the Gamecube and what a job they have done.
Every time i see the game my jaw drops as i can’t believe that this is a DS game and it shows you that the handheld console can do.

Now in my eyes Microsoft’s E3 press conference was the worst out of the 3 as it didn’t show anything that we didn’t know about and there was very little in the way of surprises however there were a few stand out games at there event including my choice for there best at E3 Project Gotham Racing 4.

While it’s just another racing game on the 360 PGR4 stands out for a few reason those being that it looks absolutely gorgeous, it has some fantastic weather effects that determine how you race on the tracks that are available and finally the ability to race bikes as well as cars.
The game will be out in September as Microsoft only showed games at there press conference that are going to be out this year apart from Resident Evil 5.

Again with the PS3 game the trailer for PGR4 is below so leave a comment to tell us what you think and if you also think that my choice is wrong and what you would of picked.

In my eyes Sony had the best E3 press conference and there were a few stand out games however my pick for the best Playstation 3 game of the show had to be Uncharted Drakes Fortune.

Developed by the creators of the Jak and Daxter series Naughty Dog the game sees you taking control of Nathan Drake a Lara Croft wannabe on a journey through a tropical wilderness fighting the usual bad guys and preforming the moves we normally see in Tomb Raider games.
So why is this my choice of the best PS3 game at E3 well it boils down to the fact that it looks fantastic and instead of Sony just doing a Microsoft and release there 100th FPS or Racing game they decided to go with a 3d adventure and it was one of only a handful of games at E3 that wasn’t a sequel and that says something.

So below is a trailer of the game and you can see why i think this game will be big.

Another E3 has gone by and this year was a stripped down version of what we normally expect however there still was a few big highlights of this years E3 and below is what i thought the best game was on each of the formats starting with the Playstation 3 and what i thought was the best game.

*each game will have it’s own post and it will be exclusive to that console

In another big blow for us Sony has said that there will be no price cut for the Playstation 3 in europe and that they only plan to release a bundle at the old price of 424.99.

Included in the bundle will be an extra Sixaxis controller and two games from a list of five that includes Resistance Fall of man, Motorstorm, Genji Days of the Blade, F1 Championship Edition and Ridge Racer 7.

Early this week our american counterparts got a price cut for the Playsation 3 with $100 nocked off the price and they will also be getting a 80gb version of the console unlike us as we will not be getting the 80gb version.

The new pack will be avaliable in stores from the 18th July and the 1st August in the rest of Europe.

By far in my eyes the game of E3 had to be Infinity Wards Call of Duty 4, the game itself is a big departure from the call of duty series as this time it’s set in the present time instead of being just another world war 2 first person shooter and by doing this it has added new life into the series.

As you can see from the following trailer this is going to be a hard game to top as the game of E3 and I’m mostly looking forward to this rather than Halo 3 which didn’t impress me.

Because we didn’t cover Microsoft’s E3 press conference (sorry for that) we do have a trailer that shows off some of the games that will be gracing the console this year, so enjoy

Sony had there E3 press conference last night and here are some of the highlights of that conference split into there sections.

PSP
The first main announcment for the PSP was the fact that a new PSP will be out later this year that is going to be slightly slimmer, weigh less and have better batterey life and thats all it will have unlike what most people were thinking there is going to be no new thumbstick added or the old one is’nt going to be changed.
On top of the newer version of the PSP there will be two new limited editions released, firstly theres the ice silver pack that will come with a copy of the game Daxter, a 1gb memory card and a famliy guy umd, secondly theres the very limited edition star wars psp that will be in white with darth vader on the back and will come with a copy of the new Star Wars Battlefront game that is exclusive to the PSP.

As usual alot of new games were shown of in trailer form which included Socom, Wipeout Pulse, Syphon Filter Logans Shadow, NBA 08, God of War Chains of Olympis and Silent Hill Origins, plus Sony said they plan to have a grand total of 140 PSP games out by the end of the next fisical year.

Finally on the PSP front a new feature was shown off that enables you to hook your PSP up to a TV and allow you to play your games back on a big screen.

Playstation Network
There were only two new announcements for the Playstation network, firstly 5 brand new games were shown off in the form of Echocrome which is a basic black and white platform puzzle game, Wipeout HD which looked like a high def verison of Wipeout from the PS2, Pain which is stunt style game, Warhawk which will also be avaliable to by on Blu-ray as well as been able to download it via the PSN and finally Socom Confrontation which will be the first outing for the socom games on the PS3 and like Warhawk you will also be able to buy it on Blu-ray.
Secondly more features of home were show off which included the ability to be able to send pictures and information from your mobile phone to your pad in Home and then you can send it on to a website that is designed to be able to take this information and let other people see it, also shown off is the ability to be able to launch any blu-ray game, anything off your hard drive etc while you are in home and when you are finsihed you are then taken back to the main home hub (no bt pun needed).

Playstation 3
The main things hsown off on the Playstation 3 side of the press conference was alot of new games that will be coming out soon included on the traielrs that were shown were Assassins Creed, The Simpsons Guitar Heroes 3, Kane and Lynch, Resdient Evil 5 and many more.
Mr Hideo Kojima was also n hand to show off the brand new trailer to Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and he also said that this will be a PS3 Exclusive and that this WILL be his last Meatl Gear game.

Sony also announced that NCSoft will be joining the Playstation 3 exclusively and that they will be bringing some of there big PC titles as well as some new ones out only on the Playstation 3.
Also announced as a PS3 exclusive (for now anyway) was Unreal Tournament 3 and that it will hit stores later this year.

Well thats it from Sony’s press conference and over the next week we will be bringing you more news from E3

So Nintendo has just finished there first press conference of the new E3 so what did they talk about, well below is just some of the main points that Nintendo talked about this year.

Three new peripherals were shown off, firstly there is the new Wii zapper that will play home to the Wiimote and Nunchuck and will change it into a light gun for the upcoming Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles from Capcom, Ghost Squad from SEGA, Medal of Honor from EA and many more games to come.
Secondly there was a steering wheel from Nintendo themselves that will come packaged with Mario Kart Wii and will see the light of day early next year.
Finally there was the most interesting controller in the form of a balance board that will come with the game WiiFit and will see people taking exercise to a whole new level by using pressure pads that are encased in the controller itself measuring how much weigh you put on it as well as detecting the movements that you make.

Nintendo also lined out that they plan to make more of an effort when it comes to online gaming with games like Fifa, Madden, Dragon Quest Joker, Guitar Heroes 3 and many more games have some form of online play attached to them.

Two important release dates were also announced for to of the biggest games this year, Mario Galaxy will be hitting American shores on November 12th with Super Smash Bros Brawl out on the 2nd of December again for American stores with no word on when we in the UK will see them.

Shown off for the first time was a new Wii channel that will be for your Mii’s, entitled Check Mii Out the channel will see people being able to swap there Mii’s with a lot more ease and also be able to enter them into special competitions and tournaments.

Finally Nintendo stated that they expect the gaming industry to eclipse TV, music, DVD etc across the globe with sales and the amount of time people spend with games.
Highlighted in this was Nintendo stating that the gaming industry has grow a lot in the last few years and that’s mostly down to how successful the Nintendo DS has done with it contributing 69% of the growth and it looks like this number will rise considering how well the DS is doing across the world.
Nintendo also said that they plan to have another 100 Wii games and 140 DS games out by the end of the year in America.

Overall Nintendo press conference wasn’t all about showing us just trailers of new games they wanted to tell us how gaming is affecting people and how well the DS and Wii has done to get more than just the hardcore gamer playing video games.
Yes people are going to be a little disappointed on the lack of new games announcement but Nintendo are taking a different prospective on the gaming industry and did want to just make there press conference like there two rivals.

According to rumors going around the Internet today Nintendo are going to be releasing Mario Kart for the Wii in Europe for an exclusive limited time just to make up for Super Smash Bros Brawl slipping to early 2008.

Now there is 2 things wrong with this rumor and that’s firstly Mario Kart for the Wii hasn’t even been announced yet and secondly the game is supposed to be coming out by the end of the year over here before getting released in japan and America in 2008.

Nintendo will probably announce the game at E3 this week and if they do we will let you know.