Finally, for all their talk of HD gaming, we get to see some. In 720p HD. Direct feed. About time. Shame there’s no PGR 3 yet.

Most amusing. I love WoW. Not to play, just to watch all the comedy and drama that it produces for the internet at large to enjoy.

The Tony Hawk games seem to have on and off years. The first one quite simply broke new ground. On year. THPS 2 added the manual, but not much else. Off year. Three added the revert so suddenly the tricks flowed into each other almost endlessly. On year. Four was more of the same and mostly just nicked ideas from Aggressive Inline. Off year. THUG added a fun story and even more customisation. On year. THUG 2 was just more of the same with a jackass-inspired story. Off year.

Now, American Wasteland adds a massive free roaming city (LA), BMX bikes (sweet!) Xbox Live play and looks good too. This, my friends, will undoubtedly be another on year for the game. Despite occasional disappointments, Neversoft are to be commended for continuing this series for so long and still coming up with new ideas and crazy amounts of content too.

Warren Spector can’t help but give an interesting interview, even if the interviewer is plainly on crack. His talk of creating huge and detailed open worlds to explore has me grinning already.

While it doesn’t quite stick to plain English terms as promised (occlusion what?) , the [H]ardOCP look at the Xbox 360 GPU is one very interesting read. The Xbox 360 GPU sounds very impressive indeed, and it may even have a few tricks up its sleeve yet from the sounds of things. It’s a shame ATi seems to have no immediate plans to bring Smart 3D Memory (free AA!) to PC cards though.

Remember Too Human? First due on PS1, then GameCube and now Xbox 360. As a trilogy. Despite being around for years the average punter still knows sod all about this other than it’s ambitious and looked great on PS1. Still, Eternal Darkness was good stuff, as was MGS Twin Snakes, so this may be worth watching if it ever comes out.

An impressive feat that apparently took 500 hours, BUT WHY?! Good effort and all, but it’s somewhere on par with art from the old Broken Sword adventure games, if that. Madness. (via Waxy)

Seriously though, I’m really glad for them. Even if it is an old franchise, specifically Lemmings (this time for the PSP),  it sounds like they’ve been typecast by publishers as "the Worms guys" so it’s nice they’re finally getting a chance to break out of that mold and do something new. Of course, Lemmings would be far better with the DS stylus, but then Sony apparently owns the Lemmings brand, thus scuppering that one.

Somehow the third Prince of Persia (of this generation anyway) is already sounding promising, somewhat of a return to form, or more specifically a balancing of form. I adored the first one, but the generic "dark" edge to the second felt like completely the wrong direction for a sequel. Looking at this video and reading the interview at EuroGamer it already sounds like they’ve taken criticisms on board and are retaining the good bits of both games for the third title, while of course building on that foundation. Jolly good.

The Japanese have officially taken gaming insanity to a new level. Yes, it’s Street Fighter meets Les Miserables. Really, what on earth possessed these people? Just where exactly does even the seed of this unfathomable concept come from? Madness.

The Revolution looks really nice. Tiny, shiny piano black, glowing blue slot load tray. Very nice. Nintendo are being refreshingly honest on the spec too saying it’s only going to be two or three times more powerful than the GameCube. No untextured polygons here. Of course their killer tech is meant to be the controller - we’ll see if they reveal that at the  Nintendo E3 press event.

Update: The Nintendo conference just ended, sadly I had to watch it streaming rather than in person. The Revolution will let you download Nintendo back catalogue games - very smart move on their part. No Revolution footage though but then it is still a way off. The new Zelda also looks nice (lucky attendees got the trailer on a DS cart) and the newly announced GBA Micro is… well, tiny. Think I’m happy with my SP though, especially if the screen on the Micro is smaller. Sadly, no new Metroid footage, by far my favourite Nintendo franchise. Sad panda.

Anyone lucky enough to attend the E3 press show for the Xbox 360 got a limited edition fascia. Guess what - already on eBay. (via RLLMUK)