Tonight on AMC during the broadcast of The Walking Dead Bioware will be showing off a new CG trailer for Mass Effect 3. From the teaser trailer for the real trailer, it seems the Reapers are going to be focusing their attacks on rural farmhouses, clearly because the major cities are to well fortified against their ancient alien technology.

Watch the creepy girl teaser for the trailer here.

EA had their Summer Showcase event today, and those of you with hopes of new game footage or new game announcements will be disappointed, and after today you should just be happy that EA hasn’t announced that they’re leaving the games industry all together yet.

They started off with the EA Sports stuff though not the games they said were their best EA sports games leaving SSX on the shelf while they promoted NCAA Football and some Hockey thing, they then moved on to a Sims expansion pack for a previous Sims expansion pack.

Transitioning to digital downloads EA talked up Origin’s special friends list crossover so ipad gamers, and Battlefield 3 gamers can get together like they’ve been dying to for years, then it was time for Facebook gaming, showing R.I.S.K. Factions, followed by cross-platform play for Scrabble on Android, iPad, iPhone, and Facebook.

They began to go into what looked to be a real game finally with Burnout Crash, but then declared it a Kinect game.

Funcom came out to give a little attention to The Secret World, giving us a teaser trailer, hopefully this MMO won’t be another in the trash heap considering all the development time that could have been being spent on a new Longest Journey game.

Some rep for Bioware came out to push the expansion pack for Dargon Age II which looked notably worse than Dragon Age Origins in both graphics, and of course gameplay.

They closed out the show by showing nothing of Battlefield 3, but promised a great party was waiting for the press in the room.

Duke may be making the games press cry of offense and disgust, but at least in the land of royal weddings and blood pudding, Duke still has some old school appeal.

UK top 40 for the week ending June 11, 2001 from Chart-Track

After more than a decade various levels of developement Duke Nukem Forever has come out on top, at least in the UK for it’s launch week. Beating out the other two new releases for the week Infamous 2, and Red Faction: Armageddon, Duke took the number 1 slot on a single platform alone.
Duke may be making the games press cry of offense and disgust, but at least in the land of royal weddings and blood pudding, Duke still has some old school appeal.
UK top 40 for the week ending June 11, 2001 from Chart-Track
01 360 Duke Nukem Forever02 PS3 Infamous 203 WII Zumba Fitness04 PS3 Duke Nukem Forever05 360 L.a. Noire06 PS3 L.a. Noire07 360 Dirt 308 360 Brink09 WII Wii Sports Resort10 360 Red Faction: Armageddon11 PC Duke Nukem Forever12 360 Call Of Duty: Black Ops13 PS3 Dirt 314 360 Fifa 1115 NDS Art Academy16 PC The Sims 3: Generations17 360 Portal 218 360 Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean19 PS3 Brink20 WII Just Dance 221 WII Mario Kart Wii22 WII Wii Fit Plus23 WII Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean24 NDS Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean25 360 Zumba Fitness26 360 Hunted: The Demon’s Forge27 PS3 Lego Pirates Of The Caribbean28 PS3 Portal 229 PS3 Red Faction: Armageddon30 PS3 Killzone 331 WII Wii Party32 PS3 Call Of Duty: Black Ops33 360 Kinect Sports34 PS3 Littlebigplanet 235 NDS Pokemon Black Version36 PS3 Ea Sports Mma37 NDS Pokemon White Version38 360 Crysis 239 PS3 Fifa 1140 WII Donkey Kong Country Returns

This leaves Nintendo in the clear for this year with the 3DS, Nintendo does great every Christmas, and this year they will have zero competition on the portable front.

Looks like Sony is looking to put 3DS in a corner here, though Nintendo has plenty of room to move on price, I wonder what kind of loss Sony is taking per PS Vita at that price.

This holiday will be interesting for the handheld war with Mario 3DS coming out, and we’ll see what 3DS price is by the end of the year.

Perhaps the least exciting lineup ever? Yes.

Microsoft has never been able to keep the lid on their news, and this year is no exception, via images on their site they released everything they’re announcing at their E3 conference, and it’s pretty much all Kinect stuff, except for the Halo milking.

Halo 4 is coming, surprise.
As heavily rumored, they’ll also announce a Halo: Combat Evolved remake for the Xbox 360.
Kinect Sports Season 2 is the sequel you’ve all been waiting for.
Dance Central 2 coming to the Kinect
Last.FM becomes Kinect enabled.
Kinect Fun Labs is for “crazy, cool new gadgets” presumably this is where they try to capitalize on Kinect stuff people have been making on the PC. So far this includes: Kinect Sparkler, Kinect BobbleHead, and Kinect Me
Ryse is the Codename: Kingdoms game, and it will be a Kinect thing, a “cinematic, action-packed” Kinect thing.

So this Microsoft event is going to be just as disappointing as had been expected, at least they released this early so there’s no need to sit through it.

A Forbes representative John Geudiosi spent some time with Sony’s E3 lineup, and felt free to blog about an new God of War game to be shown off at the Sony E3 press conference. He describes it as a new God of War 3D adventure, but he was probably just shown the game on a 3D TV or some such garbage, the game will likely be nothing more than what you’d expect out of a God of War 4.