There was a bunch of fancy hardware on display at this year’s E3. Sony continued aping the Wii with the Playstation Move. Microsoft debuted the motion-capturing Kinect, and Nintendo hopped on the theatrical 3D bandwagon with the 3DS. However, none of this hardware means anything without good software to back it up. Having already hit up the portable and downloadable titles, we’ll close this E3 summary week with console and PC games. Keep in mind that this includes Kirby: Epic Yarn, but somebody already covered that elsewhere. Everything else is here.

Today brings the promised survey of E3 downloadable titles. Before we get started, it bears mentioning that Castlevania: Harmony of Despair falls under this banner. However, because It already had the run of the site’s front page last Friday, today it gets this paltry link. Take that, you self-centered but probably still awesome digital product. Pickings were actually pretty slim for interesting downloadable titles, but what was there was awesome.

E3 has an explosive information problem. Thoughtless journalists hit your RSS reader with headlines like so much shrapnel. By the end you’re lucky if you’ve only lost an eye. Fortunately, the brave staff of Pixelsocks.com has thrown themselves on that deadly overextended metaphor, and today you reap the benefits. So here’s everything worth knowing from E3; read it so that our sacrifice was not in vain.

It’s the Christmas that comes in June! In advance of the Monday E3 roundup, here’s a delectable trailer for your consumption: Nintendo came out swinging this year, abandoning franchise conventions and mixing things up. Nowhere is this more immediately visible than Kirby Epic Yarn. The Wii installation in the hoary old series (18 years! I’m…really [...]

Seeing how I spend a few hours each week prying words from my gums, it’s always a pleasure to read good copy. Valve just sent out the following press release about the cancellation of their E3 Portal 2 event. Fortunately, the cancellation will be replaced by a series of carefully scheduled surprises, so you can [...]

Ok, maybe not that bad, but Nintendo has just lost a patent suit against Anascape over their gamecube and Wii Classic controllers. The inevitable order to halt production has been put on hold while Nintendo appeals, but the console giant will be expected to put sales royalties in escrow (or post bond) while the appeal proceeds. Unlike Sony’s recent infringement loss, the Wii is still fairly early in its life-cycle, making it more difficult for Nintendo to simply stall the trial until the next console generation and abandon production of an obsolete product.

That’s right, the industry trade show is not dead! Major publishers still make interesting announcements in the summer months, even if the event isn’t quite the fracas it once was, in no small part because people like the Pixelsocks staff aren’t allowed inside. Nevertheless, Gamasutra has delivered a nice summary of all the news of consequence. Go check it out. There’ll be Pikmin, I promise.