Nintendo’s own marketing celebrity, Reggie Fils-Aime, the Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales says that they will be revealing a driving game at E3 and how the controller is used to steer the cars (we assume they are “cars”). Quoting Reggie:

“I’m going to give one little secret,” Fils-Aime said. “Only one little secret, and hopefully I won’t lose my job. We’re going to show a racing game at E3 where you use the core controller in a very different way. That will answer all the questions to how you’ll play a racing game.”

Via RevolutionReport

Still got that Super Nintendo hidden somewhere? If you’re bored with your other consoles, you can try and overclock the Super NES. This site guides you through overclocking your console a whole 5.1 MHz. Continue here (via Slashdot).

IGN has got their hands on actual gamplay footage of Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway for the PlayStation 3. The video looks impressive (as all PS3 videos do) and reminds me of the Killzone 2 video from last years E3. You can find it here.

According to a new report from research and consultancy firm Niko Partners the Chinese gaming market will surpas 2 Billion in 2010, mostly due to huge increase in the MMO sector. That explains why Blizzard is so eager to get the WoW franchise to China.

“Chinese gamers’ passion for massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) has extended to the casual and premium casual segments,” said Lisa Cosmas Hanson, managing partner of Niko Partners. “Premium casual games provide new gamers greater access to the online game market and open up an alternate source of entertainment for hardcore gamers.”

Read on here. (from BusinessWeek)

Washington Post has an interesting article about Nintendos latest console and what they plan to do with the “Wii”. Nintendo has always said that it’s about the games, not the hardware mumbo jumbo and the media centers. And analysts agree that Nintendo has the right (business) strategy. Read on here

Epic Games has launched the official Gears of War site with impressive screenshots. Mmmm. Gears of War

Japanese Hardware chart as of 4/23

Nintendo DS Lite: 168, 809 (Annual: 996,546)

PlayStation Portable: 32,323 (Annual: 641,722)

PlayStation 2: 25,763 (Annual: 529,979)

Game Boy Micro: 18,390 (Annual: 80,467)

Game Boy Advance SP: 11,044 (Annual: 111,858)

Nintendo DS: 8,051 (Annual: 775,824)

Xbox 360: 3,990 (Annual: 41,279)

GameCube: 1,106 (Annual: 44,754)

Game Boy Advance: 58 (Annual: 2,452)

Xbox: 16 (Annual: 1,343)

For the first time since the launch Xbox360 sold more than the GameCube in a month. Quite a suprise.

A last minute suprise, Rockstar will not be revelaing anything at this years E3, no interviews, no booth tour, not announcements, and definetly no next gen GTA. The only thing Rockstar will have at E3 is a minor presence at the Xbox360 booth showing off Table Tennis.

Gamepost reportedly got a tip from EB Games that Nintendo will lower its already low $99 GameCube pricetag, in response to the PS2 price drop to $129. Read more here

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An English version of the Yakuza trailer is avalible. A beat-em up style action adventure game set in Tokyo. The game will be out on PS2 in September.