1. Summertime, a good time for a fair. Today, Untalkative Bunny and Squirrel head off to the fairground; will they win any prizes? Let’s find out.

   Sadly, it’s not as easy as it looks.

2. The Dreamcast was an awesome system, and about as good a way for SEGA to go out as they could have hoped for.

   Of course, a large part of what made the Dreamcast good was, as with any system, the games. But since a number of people don’t actually own a Dreamcast, they may not be as familiar with the joys the system provided.

   Fortunately, there have been games from the Dreamcast library which have been ported to other systems, and Racketboy has been so kind as to make a list.

   However, it remains quite a shame that Cannon Spike, a delightful Capcom-made title which works very much like a 3D Contra starring several of Capcom’s best, never made the jump.

3. Desperate for E3 booty, the boys at Games Radar decide to take their chances and take their shots.
4. Earlier, we had a glimpse of the new home of E3, Barker Hangar. IGN has come through with a better look around the premises.

   Eesh.

   Kojima thinks it’s a waste of time, and Chris Kohler at Game|Life doesn’t see much going on with the new layout, either.

5. Go Nintendo has acquired many “assets” from Nintendo for various games. Included are Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy, and Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.
6. Turns out Cnet’s had a neat feature running for a little while now, looking back at the history of various game genres. Platformers, beat-em-ups, and trivia all around sounds like the makings of an interesting series.
7. This looks interesting.

   “Those of you who are hoping for BDSM furry porn can just keep moving. Bound Bear is actually a game where you attempt to reunite a spherical baby bear with its spherical mother bear by throwing him at the blocks that are separating them, avoiding or bouncing off the big square bears that are floating in the way. I didn’t say it made sense, I just said it wasn’t porn.”

8. While Joystiq is pretty much covering the same stuff as everyone else, Kotaku has some more interesting pieces going on:

   Reggie discusses Wii and movies.

   Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices unit, dumped 62 million dollars worth of stock. Related to recent Red Ring problems…?

   3 big flops from the three big press conferences.

–LBD “Nytetrayn”

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