Another Gaming Blog

I'm not sure I could get used to this way of doing things as, once again, Nintendo has announced a release date for a blockbuster Mario title in amongst a heap of other trash. Where's the fanfare?

Anyway - to the point. Super Mario Galaxy on 16 November. This year. I needn't say anymore.

Other notable Wii releases include Harvest Moon: Magical Melody on 19 October, Endless Ocean on 9 November, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles on 30 November, NiGHTS: Journey Into Dreams in 'November', and finally Pokémon Battle Revolution and Zack & Wiki: Quest For Barbaros' Treasure on 7 December. Pokémon in time for Christmas being the big surprise, here.

You can hit the jump to see the Winter release list in full.

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The special Spartan-coloured 360 revealed by Peter Moore during the Microsoft E3 conference has today been fully detailed.

It will be your basic Premium package with a few differences. Obviously, you’ve got the special green and gold colours, but also in the package you’ve got a HDMI port and a Play & Charge Kit, and Halo 3 gamer pictures and themes readily downloaded on your hard drive.

It’ll launch on 26 September alongside that game, and will retail at £279.99. Whether the added bits and bobs is worth an extra £30 is, of course, yours to decide.

Harmonix chap Alex Rigopulos took to the stage at Leipzig today to announce that Rock Band has been delayed to 2008 (boo!), will now also be released for the PS2 (yay?), and that ten new tracks can be revealed to us (hurrah!).

You can see which tracks those are after ye olde jumpe.

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Sony’s second Leipzig announcement today was the PSP’s multimedia option – the new PSP Go! brand.

PSP Go! will take the form of three new services – Go! Video, Go! Messenger, and Go! Explore.

The first – Video – will be helped out by Sky and will be a downloadable service allowing punters to download the most popular shows from assorted Sky channels.

Messenger is fairly more self-explanatory, giving users the chance to IM their friends using an on-screen keyboard (to be provided in a new firmware upgrade), or voice/video-chat if the appropriate accessory is connected to the PSP. The service will also receive backing from communication giant BT.

Go! Explore will be a GPS service, available to residents of the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Scandinavia. Co-providers TeleAtlas and NavNGo will keep churning out updated 3D maps, language support and other such directional gubbins over the PlayStation Network to ensure that no PSP owner ever gets lost again. In the countries mapped out, at least, anyway.

Everyone’s least favourite monkey (or MUNKEH if you’re that fat bloke off the old PG Tips adverts) will be included in Super Smash Bros Brawl, according to the latest Dojo update.

What the hell’s a Dojo update, you ask? Well the Super Smash Bros: Dojo is the Brawl website. Check it out every day for more than character, item, stage, and game updates.

Leipzig gave Sony a chance to unveil more multimedia options for the PS3 and PSP today – the PS3’s option being PlayTV.

Think Sky+ (Or TiVO for my American friends) for your PS3, basically, which means that you’ll be able to set up various TV programmes to record from a seven-day guide. When they’re on, you can either be out enjoying a cold one or watching a completely different channel.

It’s set for release in 2008 for an as yet unannounced price.