For a full recap of the announcements, check out the Nintendo E3 liveblog done by Gizmodo. Some of the highlights:

One of the first announcements had to do with some games - how does a snowboarding game using the Wii fit sound?

There's also "Animal Crossing City Folk."  A sims-like game where the world continues  even if you don't play the game.

The first accesory announcement is the Wii Speak. A mic that, when placed on top of your sensor bar, allows you to have group chats. You and your buddies can hang out in one room and chat with other groups in other places. It comes with the above mentioned Animal Crossing City Folk game.

The first accesory announcement is the Wii Speak. A mic that, when placed on top of your sensor bar, allows you to have group chats. You and your buddies can hang out in one room and chat with other groups in other places. It comes with the above mentioned Animal Crossing City Folk game.

The second notable announcement is for the Wii MotionPlus. An accessory that attaches to our Wii to make it more accurate by giving you true 1:1 motion accuracy.

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There were a bunch of announcements from Sony recently at E3.

One of the most impressive is a movie and TV show download service, however we are hearing reports that it won't be for everyone.

Sites like Edge Online and the Register are reporting that movie downloads will not be available in Europe until sometime in 2009. When? according to the Register "individual launch dates for specific European countries will be confirmed later this year."

In addition, Gizmodo has just reported that movies will be region locked

That means if you want to watch the latest Japanese horror movie, you may not be able to because it may only be available in Japan.

This is different from supposed region locked games where in the past all you needed to play non-North American games was  a non-North American account to play games from that region.

The good news?  If you live in the US you can start downloading movies now!

Are you getting tired of gaming on the DS?

Ok so maybe you aren't.  But that doesn't mean you couldn't try this hack to turn your DS into something other than a handheld game console.

It actually looks pretty cool.  All you need is a flash card, a flash card reader attached to your computer and a free program.

Once you've followed the instructions in Wired's wiki you too can create such masterpieces as this:

MTV Multiplayer recently reported thatconnectivity between the 360 and DS almost happened with Viva Pinata.

The question was posed to Justin Cook, designer of the game and he said:

"We got it to work, but it was too late in the development cycle,"

So it was too late for the latest version of the game.  But what of future version?

And could other games also use similar technology?

This would be a boon for Microsoft if more of their family games interacted with the handhelds of their competitors.

Boingboing has an excellent summary on 25 years of "exergaming."

from the Atari Joyboard released way back in 1982:

to the recently released Wii Fit:

And everything in between.

Now, we at CC remember a lot of these, from the Power Pad for the Nintendo, and the very cool Power Glove, also for the NES.

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