EA Sports Active seems to be quite the hit! So much so that, like the resistance bands that ship with the disc, the game is due for expansion. Even though the game just came out May 19, EA has already announced the first expansion pack. It's coming "this holiday, just in time to help you with your New Year's resolutions." If you resolve to buy more fitness games this year, EA wants to help! Peter Moore did say EA Sports Active was a "platform."Permalink | Email this | Comments

We may have known it was coming, but now we have a nice, official press release announcing Cooking Mama 3 for DS. 505 Games said that it will release the latest in Cooking Mama Ltd.'s surprisingly popular culinary minigame series "in time for Christmas."The new game will feature "over 80 recipes, 200 mini-games, four player multiplayer," and "two totally new game modes." "What Dish Can You Make" mode lets you and Mama create a new recipe from two recipes you choose. "Let's Go Shopping" gives you a shopping list to buy, with confusing signs and irritating store employees trying to hinder you! Majesco hasn't officially announced a US release date for Cooking Mama 3, but we expect a fall or holiday release here as well. It's basically Majesco's biggest title of the year!Permalink | Email this | Comments

A Twitter account that claims to be from Retro Studios is teasing at something big. "We think you guys will be pleasantly surprised in just a few hours :)," the latest tweet (out of a grand total of two) reads. Of course, it could be a fake, but the possibility of Retro-related excitement is too wonderful to ignore.Despite the departure of Retro senior staff to form Armature Studio, Retro is still in operation, as a Nintendo-owned developer. Which means that if there is some Retro news (beyond Metroid Prime Trilogy, which we know is Nintendo-related), it'll probably be related to Nintendo, as well. Odd, then, that the pleasant surprise is supposed to happen today, when Nintendo's keynote doesn't happen until tomorrow.[Thanks, Mr. Khan!]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony are the three companies who collectively steer the flagship known as the U.S.S. E3 Keynote. We'll be liveblogging those (and a slew of others) over the next few days ... but what about the promises from the Big Three that have never appeared? They're all guilty of it, and we're calling out three big ones.We're willing to cut some slack to announced projects that are just taking awhile to (supposedly) appear, like Alan Wake and Peter Jackson's Halo project, but there are some things we just can't let slide. Promises were broken, people. Covenants were entered into. All that has been left behind in the wake of these smashed hopes are tears and dreams of what could have been. We'll be finding out what happened to those promises, and they have just a few hours left to make right on them.Read on.

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