Engadget has Creative Zen Vision about Microsoft "breaking some new ground" with a… Battlebot (?!) walking around with Sony Ericsson's new W600 Walkman Phone and chatting up how the Nintendo Revolution won't support HD.

AdJab covers AutoTrader's attacks, on Heinz one-liners, marooned on Gilligan's Island and then

A couple of weeks ago Engadget interviewed Bill Gates, today Joystiq interview Steve Ballmer about the XBOX 360. I stayed up late last night helping the guys transcribe the tape. Steve Ballmer is still the loud, laughing maniac I remember interviewing for Silicon Alley Reporter/Digital Coast Reporter back in 99—and he is still sharp as a samurai sword. He goes from screaming in excitement to introspective in 7 seconds. I'd love to see him and Jeff Bezos watch Chappelle Show sometime—these guys are both huge laughers.

Great interview… I wish you could hear the tape (not sure if there is a podcast of this one happening… there should be!). Everyone in the room was laughing so hard at one point it sounds like a drunken frat party.

I'm watching the G4 network, which is dedicated to video game, right now and I'm actually impressed.

Anytime I've watched a show about video games before I've been board out of my mind, but they have taken a very insider approach. For example, they are featuring an Alias video game and talking to the writers and directors of the TV show about the games they like and the integration of the story lines in the game and the TV show. It's pretty slick and I'm getting the urge to go play Command and Conquer.

Sony and IBM are working on a Cell-based workstation for content creators, according to this Gamesindustry.biz story.

Cell is the parallel processing chip (a "supercomputer on a chip" according to this CNET story from 2002) that is being produced by Sony, IBM and Toshiba that was annouced back in 2001. It is going power not only the Playstation 3, but other consumer devices. The companies earmarked $400 million for Cell's development.

From the Gamesindustry story:

"Microsoft should be really worried by this," one developer told us today. "They've been touting Xbox 2 to their partners and talking about the kind of content they want to see created on the platform - more polygons, higher resolutions, more effects - and our response has been that the tools to create this stuff for games don't really exist yet. Now Sony has effectively created those tools."

Ferrago.com is reporting from E3 and has some news on the Sony Platstation Portable Unit, including a bunch of photos.

David Smith at 1UP has coverage of Sony's E3 press conference as well.

1UP reports that they spotted games in a video Sony played "like Death Jr., Hot Shots Golf, Frogger, an unidentified beachball game, a Tales game from Namco, Ape Escape, Armored Core, Syphon Filter, Spider-Man, MediEvil, Dynasty Warriors, Gran Turismo, Ridge Racer, Tony Hawk, Darkstalkers, Wild Arms, and Metal Gear Solid."

Nintendo has released information on their portable gaming platform, the Nintendo DS (below). Again, Ferrago has details and photos. UP1.COM has a list of games for the DS.

Gamespot has a hands on review of the DS. 

Our own Peter Rojas has some thoughts on the PSP.

Our sister publication Engadget.com has some info on the PS3 today:

Engadget: We already knew that Sony's PlayStation Portable is supposed to have built-in WiFi for wireless gaming, but now they've revealed that the PlayStation 3 is going to come with WiFi as well, and that you'll be able to use the PSP to access movies and music stored on the PS3's hard drive. Read ›

Our brother Peter over at Engadget.com points us to this story on the PSP (Playstation Portable):

Over at FirstAdopter, Robert Keenan is a little skeptical of the PlayStation Portable, Sony's new mobile gaming console which should be out in a year or so. Besides the fact that it'll sport an optical drive (which are easily damaged) and they've been a little vague about the actual gaming part of it, he also isn't sure they'll be able to deliver it at a retail price of under $150, at least not with all the features they're promising it'll have. MORE

Peter Rojas at our sister publication has some details on XNA:

It's mainly meant as a way for publishers to build new video games more quickly, but XNA, Microsoft's new set of developer tools for Xbox 2 and PC games, will also have the nice side-effect of making it possible for owners of an Xbox 2 console to plug their controllers into the back of a PC and use it with PC games. There's also talk of extending the Xbox Live service so that PC and Xbox gamers can play head-to-head against each other. More from CNN.

Slashdot reports on a BBC story that claims PS3 has already won the next gen battle. Lots of Slashdot comments as expected.

As you can see we've added two new blogs to WIN (the Weblogs, Inc. Network): The Playstation 3 Weblog and The Xbox 2 Weblog.

Now, these two products are not coming out for months, if not years, so news will be very slow to trickle in. Don't expect all that much from these blogs, perhaps a couple of posts a week.

To be honest we can't find much news about these two new gaming consoles out there, however we thought that instead of being the 129th Playstation weblog we would just be the first Platstation 3 one.

If you have news, you know what to do: send it to us in the form on the right.

Oh yeah, we've got a really great blogger working with us on these sites, David Touve. David also works on our P2P blog. Hey David, how about introducing yourself?

From the theinquirer.net:

WE'VE JUST got word that the Software Development Kit (SDK) for Microsoft's forthcoming Xbox 2 has now been released to Developers. As we reported earlier, IBM processors are indeed the Xbox 2 development platform of choice. The big news to us is that the XBOX 2 SDK has been seeded to developers on dual Apple Power Mac G5 systems running a custom Windows NT Kernel.