Take a look at who will be competing for the annual E3 Awards!

The official E3 Awards nominees have been announced. Every year the ISDA holds awards for the many games presented at E3. This year there are a total of 15 categories to be won. Here they are.

Best of Show

Full Spectrum Warrior (Pandemic/THQ for Xbox)

Gran Turismo 4 (Polyphony Digital/Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 2)

This week's bidder is Electronic Arts. Why doesn't Sega just give up and get bought out already?

Well, this time it's not quite a straight buyout that EA is interested in. Instead, Sega is reportly looking for a "sales alliance" with the publishing giant, in hopes to boost sales of its North American games.

"We will consider forming a sales joint venture in the United States if necessary,"... Read more...

He's the fastest thing alive, so Sonic Team wants to use the gaming tools that can keep up with him.

SEGA CHOOSES RENDERWARE FOR THE CREATION OF SONIC HEROES

RenderWare Used By SEGA's SONICTEAM in creation of "Sonic HeroesTM" for PlayStation®2, XboxTM and Nintendo GameCubeTM

May 27th, 2003 - Criterion Software®, the world's leading provider of game development solutions, announces that... Read more...

We've found a silly little secret on Nintendo's Preview Disc that adds just a bit more gameplay ...

Just when you think it's safe to put that Preview Disc away, those wacky guys at Sega manage to give you another reason to dust it off. (That is, if you've bothered putting it away instead of playing Viewtiful Joe!)

There is an extra playable "level" hidden in the Billy Hatcher demo, accessible... Read more...

The Super Mario Bros. film makes its way onto DVD just in time for its tenth anniversary

On May 28th, 1993, Walt Disney-owned Buena Vista Pictures released a film loosely based on the Super Mario Bros. video games. With a then sizable 42 million dollar budget, the movie was created to be a tent-pole picture for the studios. Due to poor reviews from critics and bad word of mouth from fans upset that the film wasn't faithful to the Mario Bros. saga, the movie quickly left theaters -- earning less than half its budget.

It's still early, but he plans to have it playable at E3 2004.

Computer & Videogames, a European gaming site, interviewed Zelda director Eiji Aonuma at last week's E3 Expo in Los Angeles. In the interview, Aonuma confirms that he is already working on a follow-up to The Wind Waker, much like Majora's Mask was a follow-up to Ocarina of Time.

Aonuma: I am... Read more...

Get all the morbid details on exactly what the Wachowski Bros. (and Warner Bros.) are getting paid.

It's scary, the kinds of information that you can get on the Internet. "The Smoking Gun" website specializes in publishing information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and it has published documents relating to the impending divorce of Larry Wachowski. The documents have some interesting... Read more...

The PS2 is still cutting into Nintendo's console business pretty sharply, while the GBA carries the company.

Nintendo's goal of 10 million GameCube systems sold through its fiscal year ending in March wasn't met, as today it was announced that 9.55 million systems have been shipped out.

As a result of this, Nintendo's total sales for its last fiscal year have taken a 9% hit, down to ¥504 billion ($4.3... Read more...

Sam Fisher returns with new missions...and online multiplayer?

Ubi Soft Entertainment confirmed today the next Splinter Cell installment, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, will be released in Q1 2004.

This sequel is being developed as a multiplatform title and will bring back more of the single-player intrigue that made the original game a bestseller. With exciting new action scenes and a strong cinematic feel, the player will experience new and even more realistic surroundings.

And it's not just the usual dismissal, either.

In a Los Angeles Times article supplied by Reuters, Nintendo Co. Ltd. president Satoru Iwata has offered a bit of insight into Nintendo's online plans.

The article focuses on whether consumers are willing to pay for online features, and how much they are willing to pay. Of course, this has been a major issue for Nintendo all along, as their main concern is how consumers will pay for and how Nintendo can profit from online games.

As previously announced, the Game Boy Player will be released in Europe on the 20th June and will also be bundled with the GameCube.

GAME BOY PLAYER COMING TO EUROPE

Play Game Boy Games on your TV!

Nintendo of Europe announces the release of the Game Boy Player, coming to Europe for the 20th June 2003. Game Boy, the most successful video game system ever, is about to get even bigger!

Over 1000 Nintendo... Read more...

Looks like Joe will be a little late getting out of his dressing room.

According to GameSpot, Capcom has announced that their stylish beat-em-up action title, Viewtiful Joe, is going to see a slight delay. The game's release date in Japan of June 16th has been pushed back a week and a half to June 26th. According to the game's producer, Atsushi Inaba, the game was delayed... Read more...

The creators of the Afterburner have revealed their next big project.

With the release of the GBA SP, the Afterburner internal light has become somewhat obsolete. Triton Labs has dropped its price to only $25, but you still have to install it yourself or pay someone to do it for you.

We reported earlier this year that Triton Labs would be announcing new, non-light... Read more...

Check out the E3 coverage, reviews, and sales rankings from the newest issue of Famitsu Weekly.

The main feature of the latest issue of Famitsu is E3 coverage. There are plenty of screen shots of Mario Golf: Family Tour (Toadstool Tour outside of Japan), Star Fox, F-Zero GX, Mario Kart GC, Pikmin 2, and more.

Nintendo console game releases were minimal this month. Rune II (Lost Kingdoms... Read more...

Even more Megaman for your GBA as Zero 4 makes it to PAL territories.

MENACING CHALLENGES AWAIT THE BLUE BOMBER AS CAPCOM ANNOUNCES MEGA MAN ZERO 4 FOR THE GAME BOY ADVANCE

- New Gameplay System and Intense Action Enhances Latest Entry in ‘Zero’ Series -

E3, LOS ANGELES, May 18, 2005— Capcom(C), a leading worldwide developer and publisher

of video games, today announced Megaman Zero 4 for the Game Boy® Advance video game

Our European Correspondent Karlie Yeung turns 18 today! Hit the Forums and thank her for her hard work with our E3 coverage!

While many of the PGC Staff are out working hard at E3, we have a few staff members we call our "Home Team" that are helping clean up the things we can't get to from LA. And one of those Superstars is celebrating a birthday. Karlie Yeung, our gal in Europe, turns 18 today!

Karlie is the one... Read more...

Our European Correspondent Karlie Yeung turns 18 today! Hit the Forums and thank her for her hard work with our E3 coverage!

While many of the PGC Staff are out working hard at E3, we have a few staff members we call our "Home Team" that are helping clean up the things we can't get to from LA. And one of those Superstars is celebrating a birthday. Karlie Yeung, our gal in Europe, turns 18 today!

Karlie is the one... Read more...

We've had people pestering us about where they can order these great items, and Video Game Depot has 'em!

Our good friends at Video Game Depot have alerted us that the Metroid Soundtrack and the Zelda Box set that people have been clammoring for every since we ran our news stories are available for purchase at Video Game Depot.

We hope to have our hands on both soon, so we can tell you all about... Read more...

A video of the mysterious new GBA game reveals lots of interesting new details.

Metroid: Zero Mission, the newest GBA title in the series, was just announced yesterday in Nintendo's E3 press materials. Although it is not playable on the show floor, there is a lengthy gameplay movie revealing quite a bit about this surprise sequel.

Zero Mission is clearly either a remake... Read more...

After a week of release, all units shipped at launch have been sold.

Today, Nintendo of Europe had the following to say.

We are delighted to announce that:

"The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has sold out across Europe after only 7

days on sale. 500,000 units of the game were shipped in to Europe for launch

and gamers have eagerly snapped up this highly acclaimed GameCube title.