At E3 today, Namco closed the development on the game, Frame City Killer which was to be made for the Xbox 360. The game would have ran on the Unreal Engine 3. But instead, they focused their dev team on Mobile Ops: The One Year War and a new RPG game for the Xbox 360.

Blizzard Entertainment, makers of WOW and Diablo, state that there are multiple games in development at BZ, but that Blizzard was also considering multiple platforms for those titles.

A spokesperson confirmed that the company was looking at both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but that was still being thought through.

Activision, which is the nation’s second-biggest third-party publisher had an extensive lineup at this year’s E3, the centerpiece of which mirrored its own corporate lineup.

And right in the middle of the booth was a massive skate ramp, which of course was for their new Tony Hawk game (this will be their 8th). Skaters performed aerial tricks on the ramp to help hype the latest wave of Tony Hawk games.

Surprisingly, Project 8 was present in the booth only as a trailer (no demo?). The only Tony Hawk game that was playable at the booth was the new Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam for the Wii, DS, and Game Boy Advance this fall, however only the DS version was playable.

Activision’s biggest announcements leading up to E3 was the revelation that it was working on Call of Duty 3 for the PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox, and Xbox 360.

However, the game was totally absent from the Activision booth (however being the most mentioned title in Activision’s speech), except as a one-sheet poster (horrible marketing idea). The only playable demos for Call of Duty were two new maps that became live on Xbox Live today.

This afternoon NCsoft, the creator of Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa, was fined $5,000 for violating certain expo regulations, according to an NCsoft rep.

This fine was because the NCSoft had been way to loud, over 5 decibles. The cause of the noise was from the musical act and the crowd, mainly. This is the second year in a row that the game company has used a musical act and stage show to promote its games.

As the band/performers finished its set with fire-swallowing and dragon dancing, the audience was implored to get as loud as it could, and the booth shook with reverberations from the music.

Once the band wrapped up, the fine was given

Thus, NCSoft learned the hard way that ESA (people who run E3) maybe a little too harsh.

The most popular video game event ever starts just next week. With about 608 games to be revealed, 2 new systems exposed, and 7 days to tell the world that gaming is the future of the economy. It will be insane. About 400 companies will be there and E3 says that about 392 new gaming products will be displayed (not counting games). And who is the company on the big screen this time? Last year it was activision…this year it is ATARI.

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Stay tuned.

The DS lite will be coming out to the US on June 11 for $129.99 and will only be featured in color of white, originally. Other colors will be released later. Currently, the system will not release with any extra game demos, games, or other gear bundled in.

Sega is ready for the future of gaming.

Here is a partial list of Sega’s E3 lineup, with release dates, is below:

Chromehounds (Xbox 360)–summer 2006
The Club (Working title, PS3, 360)–summer 2007
Full Auto 2: Battlelines (PS3)–November 2006
Medieval II: Total War (PC)–November 2006
Phantasy Star Universe (PS2, Xbox 360, PC)–fall 2006
Sega Rally Revo (PS3, Xbox 360)–spring 2007
Sonic Rivals (PSP)–fall 2006
Sonic The Hedgehog (PS3, Xbox 360)–fall 2006
Super Monkey Ball Adventure (PS2, GCN, PSP)–July 2006
Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz (Wii)–fall 2006
Virtua Tennis 3 (PS3)–spring 2007
World Pool Championship 2007 (PS2, PSP)–September 2006
Yakuza (PS2)–September 2006