Last week, the big three of the video game world - Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony - announced their plans for the coming year at the E3 Convention in the United States.
There were a couple of surprises in the list of game and hardware announcements, as well as a few hints of what's going to happen in the months to come.
Nintendo unveiled a highly-sensitive motion controller add-on for the Wii.
The Wii MotionPlus plugs into the existing Wiimote controller and will "Render every light shift of the wrist or arm into the gameplay".
A sequel to WiiSports, WiiSports Resort, was announced as the first title to takes advantage of this new add-on.
Nintendo also announced upcoming games including Guitar Hero: On Tour - Decades and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, a spin off of the controversial series, both for the hand-held DS console as well as Shaun White Snowboarding, Wii Music, Animal Crossing and Star Wars: The Clone Wars for the Wii.
As well as a new, 60Gb Xbox 360, Microsoft's big news was an impressive upcoming games list including Fallout 3, Fable 2, Resident Evil 5, Gears of War 2, Guitar Hero World Tour, Rock Band 2, and Lips - basically Singstar for the Xbox 360.
Possibly their biggest announcement was that Final Fantasy XIII, until now a Sony title, would appear on the 360 at the same time as the PS3 version.
Sony started with news that it would be phasing out the current 40Gb PS3 in August and replacing it with an 80Gb model, complete with Dualshock 3 controller, for the same price - good news for the consumer, unless you've just bought one . . .
They also confirmed their Playstation video store.
Offering roughly 300 movie titles and 1200 television episodes at its launch, the service will enable PS3 owners to download rented or purchased movies to the hard drive of the console.
The service will start in the US and spread worldwide over the next year.
Gamewise, Resistance 2 and Little Big Planet were the big PS3 exclusives along with God of War III, DC Universe Online and Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty.
Disappointingly, at time of writing, there was no news of the revolutionary virtual world, Home.
