Microsoft beefs up Xbox 360's entertainment offerings with 1080p HD streaming

It hasn’t beat out the Wii, but Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is doing fine in second place in sales of the current generation of videogame consoles. It helps that it costs quite a bit less than the PlayStation 3, though a lot of that price difference comes in the form of the PS3’s Blu-ray drive. Today, Microsoft is answering its competitor’s 1080p video playback in the form of “instant-on” streaming of films and TV shows via the Xbox Live service.
While Xbox Live supports Netflix’s video-streaming service, the 5.1 channel, 1080p HD titles, available starting in the fall, will come from Microsoft’s Zune Store, which presumably will usurp many of the functions of the video section of the Xbox Live Marketplace. You can use the Xbox Live Parties feature with video streams, allowing you to watch the same movie with up to seven friends who are online Xbox Live subscribers and take turns talking back to the screen using voice chat.
The catch, of course, is that you need to be an Xbox Live Gold subscriber to get many of these enhancements—a $49.99 annual expense. No details were announced about how much additional cost the 1080p streaming titles would require to watch. Both the Wii and PS3 have the same connectivity as the Xbox 360, but haven’t offered as robust a set of entertainment features to date. As the E3 expo continues, we’ll see if Sony and Nintendo have a response to Microsoft’s latest developments.

Sony unveils PSP Go, motion-sensing

At E3 no big surprise was Sony's unveiling of an updated portable gaming controller, the PSP Go. Big surprise was the unveiling of a motion-sensing device to combat the Ninetendo Wii and Microsoft's new Project Natal.
Kaz Hirai (CEO of Sony's Networked Products and Services Group) introduced the much-anticipated the PSP Go, also known, he joked, "as the worst-kept secret" in the video game business.

The PSP Go, Hirai says, will feature 16 gigabytes of internal Flash memory; built-in Wi-Fi; integrated Bluetooth and a new system, Media Go, which will be the application used on the PSP Go to access the PlayStation Store. It is expected to be available on October 1 in the U.S.

PSP Go has slideout controls.

The PSP Go will also come in lavender.

Resident Evil comes to PSP with the Go.

The Sony motion-sensing system is still in the deveopment stage and won't be available until the spring of 2010. The controller has a real one-to-one relationship between the person wielding it and what is seen on-screen. And it also offers tension-based control, such as pulling back the string on a bow to shoot an arrow.
Here. Sony shows off motion-sensor controls where a real person controls the avatar of a knight.

Assassin's Creed demo.

Square Enix would be releasing "Final Fantasy XIV" exclusively for the PS3 in 2010.

A scene from Final Fantasy XIII.

God of War III gets introduced at E3

Sony Consumer Electronics of America President and CEO Jack Tretton introduced an upcoming game, "MAG," which can support 256 simultaneous players, including people playing remotely.