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Nintendo has finally shredded the wraps around Shigeru Miyamoto's new Mario game. It's called Super Mario Galaxy and it uses the Wii's freestyle controller to allow Mario to run, jump, catch hold of shooting stars using the pointer, and flick objects at enemies on rotating worlds.

Ubisoft Montreal's creative director has spoken of his disappointment with Sony's next-gen offering, claiming the Japanese giant is adopting a "me too" approach by duplicating ideas from other consoles.

Time for another snippet from our old friend Internet Reports, for whom E3 is like a thousand Christmases rolled into one.

It's hard to tell what was the main highlight of Konami's E3 conference, held earlier today in Los Angeles - there was a wide range of games on show, and arguably a little something for everyone.

Phoenix Wright is heading back to court on the Nintendo DS at the beginning of next year, according to Capcom, in a game which will feature four new cases, new characters and a few new additions to the gameplay too.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima took to the stage at Konami's E3 press conference to reveal that he's currently working on no less than four new projects.

Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007 will be out on PC, PS2, PSP, Xbox 360 and DS in January, publisher Konami confirmed at a pre-E3 conference in LA today.

Sega has announced Sonic Wild Fire, a brand new solo adventure for the little blue roadkill and a Wii exclusive that promises to make full use of the new motion-sensing controller.

Sega is bringing arcade and Megadrive classic Golden Axe to next-gen platforms, promising a "complete re-imagining of the story" for PS3 and Xbox 360.

Game controllers aren't just about pressing buttons any more, oh no - unless you can play games by waving the things around, you might as well give up, get on your penny farthing, go down the local workhouse and get lockjaw from making matches instead.

Sports Interactive MD Miles Jacobson has revealed that the latest instalment in the Football Manager series will be coming to Xbox 360 and an unspecified handheld (i.e., the PSP, most likely) as well as Mac and PC.

It's official - Halo 3 is on the way and will be hitting the shelves some time next year. But you can see it in action right now, because the trailer shown at Microsoft's press conference is available for viewing on Eurogamer TV.

Bill Gates has stated that the company expects to have a 10 million unit head start by the time any other next generation console reaches market, giving him about seven months to shift over six million consoles.

Three times a lady! Microsoft's press conference - the third and final of this year's E3 before the show itself begins - starts on Tuesday May 9th at 12:00pm PDT (8:00pm UK/9:00pm CEST).

Microsoft showed the peripheral Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive for the first time tonight, and confirmed its Christmas 2006 release date.

Speaking at Microsoft's pre-E3 press conference in Los Angeles, Xbox executive Peter Moore has revealed what's in the pipeline for the Xbox 360 service, unveiling a raft of games for Live Arcade.

Nintendo has given itself a hearty pat on the back in recognition of its success with the DS handheld, quoting sales of 16 million units and claiming that it's shifted "millions" more than Sony's PSP.

Nintendo DS owners can look forward to a handful of potential blockbuster first party titles over the coming year, with the Japanese company revealing the likes of Diddy Kong Racing, Yoshi's Island 2 and Starfox during the latter stages of its pre-E3 conference this morning, with more on Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, recently shown during GDC.

Last night in LA, Sony took the pre-E3 stage to outline PlayStation's future, and this morning released screenshots to illustrate its vision. While PS2 and PSP featured heavily in the presentation, all eyes and ears were focused on PlayStation 3: all these shots are from the next gen console. Phil Harrison, Ken Kutaragi and Kaz Hiari showed off a regiment of titles expected to make PS3 stand apart from its competitors, so take a good look and get ready for the Nintendo and Microsoft press conferences later on today.

As part of its pre-E3 conference in Hollywood, Nintendo has revealed a further hardware feature of the Wii console - WiiConnect24, a system which will allow the machine to continue to perform network functions even when in standby mode.

No change at the top this week, as the nation's love of football overrides all else and keeps FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 in first position, while Tomb Raider: Legend manages to hang on in second.

Live from LA again! Nintendo's E3 press conference begins on Tuesday May 9th at 9:30am PDT (5:30pm UK/6:30pm CEST). Eurogamer will bring you live updates from the event to this page, including Wii, DS, Mario, Zelda and everything else Reggie, Miyamoto and the rest of Nintendo's blazing squad have to shout about this year.

"If all you want is next-generation, you're in the wrong place."

Speaking at Nintendo's pre-E3 press conference, Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime has confirmed that two versions of long awaited Zelda game Twilight Princess are in development - one for GameCube and one for Wii, which will of course make use of the remote controller.

Sony has finally announced a price and launch date for the PlayStation 3, with the console set to arrive on November 17th, starting from 499 Euro - and sporting a redesigned wireless Dual Shock pad with motion sensing functions.

Live from LA! Sony's E3 press conference begins tonight, Monday May 8th at 4:00pm PDT (12.00am UK/1am CEST) - so bookmark this page now! Eurogamer will bring you live updates from the event right here: PS3, PSP, PS2, all the announcements, all the games, all the action. And seriously, we mean live! Little lines of text will pop up on the page as our troops on the ground smash them into their long suffering laptops (assuming your web browser can handle that sort of event-cone defying magic).

Sony has announced that the 'ceramic white' PSP, previously only available in Japan, will hit European stores on Monday, and that a new cut-price Platinum range will be launched this summer.

Activision has acquired RedOctane, the publisher best known for bringing recently released and completely brilliant (as Kristan and Tom would agree) Guitar Hero to PS2.

It just makes sense. Like Phil Harrison loading a special boss card into Sony's wacky card-battle EyeToy game and it turning into a fire-breathing duck, manoeuvring your WarHawk by tilting the pad is natural. With Sony's new PS3 pad, featuring tilt motion sensors, playing a flight action game like WarHawk is as instinctive as reaching out to prevent a fall.

Sony's pre-E3 press conference didn't half go on a bit, as all those who tuned into our live text coverage will know. So for those who don't have time to sift through the mountains of information, or can't read, here's the answer - a specially put together selection of conference highlights that's now being shown on Eurogamer TV.