I was trying to avoid the whole debate about Nintendo’s showing at E3, but then I decided what the hell why not add my 2 cent opinion to the whole debate. First off let me start by saying I don’t care for words like “core gamer”, “casual gamer” or the ever popular “hardcore gamer”.

A cinematic trailer for Dawn of War II.

Sony boss considers hard drive in portable's future, the possible death of UMDs

Did anyone else watch the Microsoft E3 Media Briefing? It was painful to watch. Numerous awkward and obvious pauses for applause that never materialized. It was just hard to watch.

Nintendo keeps on track with its vision to design easy-to-play games for mainstream consumers and unleashed its Wii MotionPlus. This highly sensitive motion controller add-on will put more depth and realism to games. With the Wii console being at the top of popularity Nintendo also announced new games at the computer game convention E3 in LA.

Play God on the go with the iPhone and iPod.

Microsoft previews their next system update featuring, avatars and more social interaction through games. Netflix partners with the Microsoft bringing access to their entire movie library to the Xbox 360. New party games, "You're in the Movies" and "Lips," are previewed, and everyone gets giddy for "Final Fantasy 13."

Horror trailers from E3 updated throughout the day

They premiered three games in the App Store at launch (Sudoku, Tetris, and Scrabble), and Boatman pointed out that they’ve tried to innovate in all three — Tetris features a unique piece-drawing system, and Spore (full name: Spore Origins, a mini version of the bacteria stage of the game, complete with a creature creator)

We're here in LA and livebloging the Microsoft presser today at 10:30 PDT. Mark and I will be covering the hell out of the hardware announcements.