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.

Joystiq is breaking out with well over 100,000 page views a day… the guys over there are really kicking butt with their coverage of E3. Yesterday they did live coverage of the XBOX 360 and Playstation 3 events and they are coving the Nintendo Revolution event live right now!

Live Ninetendo Revolution coverage: http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000760043637/

XBOX 360 Live: http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000913043569/

Playstation 3 live: http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000050043558/

Joystiq is covering the Platstation 3 launch live… http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000050043558/

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."

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

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?