Considering they’re breaking their NDA to tell us anything about the game our source must remain confidential, but thanks to them for their review anyway! Here’s what they thought:

Alright first off I’ll take you through the character creation fine
points of the game, some is a little disappointing but for the most
part I’d put it more then City of Heroes, less then champions online.
I’ll explain, first step is your server, we have a choice between two
PvE servers and a PVP. After this step you get the cinematic trailer
they release a while ago, after the battle is over and it cuts to Lex
talking to sups, bats, and wonder woman. He releases the “exobytes” he
stole from Braniac that he had gathered from all the fallen heroes in
the future. Now on to the character creation portion of our story lol.
Male or female, for this i’m going to go male, no differences except
in looks of course. From here we get Large, Medium, and Small, body
type. Large would be normal Bane before Juicing up, still huge and
bulky but not outrageous, medium is every Joe shmo super hero and
villain, and small is Robin size. After you pick your size you get a
choice, Custom designed, or Inspired by, if you pick inspired by you
get a choice of Batman, Superman, Catwoman, Lex Luthor, The Joker, The
Flash, Wonder Woman, Deathstroke, Bane, Circe,Beast Boy, Mister
Freeze, Green Arrow, Steel, or Martian Manhunter. This is your costume
design, and your allegiance step if you don’t change it in your
character sheet before you finish. For fun i’ll list off the the
custom steps

Step 1
Hero or Villain

Step 2
Personality;
Comical
Flirty
Powerful
Primal
Serious

Step 3
Mentor(the guy giving you alot of your orders and steering the
direction of your gameplay.
Hero Side
Batman
Superman
Wonder Woman
Villain Side
The Joker
Lex Luthor
Circe

Step 4
You select your Power
Fire
Gadgets
Ice
Mental
Nature
Sorcery

Step 5
Movement Type
Flight
Acrobatics
Super-Speed

Step 6
Pick your Weapon
Bow
Brawling
Dual Pistols
Dual Wield
Hand Blast
Martial Arts
One-Handed
Rifle
Staff
Two Handed

After this your brought to your summary step(Final Character sheet
where can change anything,including you costume design, I won’t list
everything about the costumes because there is a lot to choose from,
I’ll say the categories you can change, Helmet, Face, Emblem, Shirt,
Back Slot, Hands,Waist,Pants, Feet. Once you are Happy click next on
your character sheet and put your name in and hit Start.
You start out disoriented on a Braniac Hive ship, if your a
Hero, Oracle will begin talking you through who has to happen to get
you off the ship, if your a villain, its Calculator. I won’t ruin
anything more about this part, other then tell you its basically your
training area where you learn basic controls.
Once off the hive ship, once again if a Hero, you end up in a
police station, and if your a Villain, a night club. You get your
missions from your mentor busting in over your coms, or from
Oracle/Calculator, or any other random hero or villain that decides
they need you and some point. You’ll either pick some up like quests
in any other MMO, exclamation point over a head, or the mission will
come in over the coms.
As you level you get Power Points, or you will get Skill
Points. Power points go toward that power you picked, so I’ll give you
the break down of the Sorcery tree because its what I have in front of
me at the moment, I’m not going to describe every little power, I’ll
just say think Diablo 2 still tree, or World of Warcraft, or basically
any RPG with a tree system. For Sorcery there is a Destiny Tree and a
summoning tree, and the destiny tree is more spells oriented, where
the summoning three is more geared toward a few pets that follow you
around, one that is a damage dealer and one you can tell to heal you,
but both you have to tell what to do all the time, as far as I can
tell there is no automatic. At level 9 or 10, can’t remember you get
your upgrade to your movement type, I’ve only tried Flight and
Super-speed, not sure on the Acrobatics, basically for your movement
speed you push F on the keyboard for it to be turned on, and then when
you want your locked “supermovment” you hold number lock,(all keys can
be remapped). its basically just your main movement power only you
triple the speed. My favorite thing to do with super speed, and
unfortunetly might be a bug, is to run up a large building and just as
im about to crest the top, jump, and all the forward upward momentum
gets channeled into the jump and you end up jumping what feels like a
2 or 3 blocks. Also at level 9 or 10 you get access to the Iconic
Powers tree, Heat Vision, and “Non-Venom growth”, and batterang, to
name a few.
On to skill points, these get put into your Weapon tree or your
Movement tree. Your weapons tree are basically the combos you can
preform through combinations of mouse clicks and mouse button holds.
Your movement tree consists of things like tornado if your a
speedster, where you pull your enemies to you grounding them
temporarily.
On to the Gear gathered in game. You will get equipment it will
be better but look ridiculous on you, unlike other games this is not a
problem because of two things, one you can say no I don’t want this to
change the way I look and two because you have the ability to go back
over all the different styles of looks on everything and mix and match
how ever you please. This in my opinion is awesome.
PvP, in open world is just like free pvp in any other game. If
you are on a PvP server, and you see somebody this opposite you, Hero
vs Villain you can hit him and he can hit you, and if you are level 8
and he is level 30 it is going to hurt…
The arenas are a blast, I’ve done a 5 man on Gorilla Island, it
was a blast. I haven’t been able to do to many of the PVP things
because there is never anyone on when I am on.

These are the basics I can think of got any questions that might make
it easier for me then writing a book like I just did, and sorry for
grammer/spelling slash horrible writing, just got off a 9 hour shift
and about to crash.
All and all my verdict on the game is I’m having a blast, I’ve played
through to level 20 on a hero and now I’m at level 18 on my villain.
It is way more fun then Champions Online was to me.

DC Universe Online will be released in 2011.

In addition to revealing the anticipated sequel’s name and release window, the September issue of Game Informer features two different stylized covers featuring Batman: Arkham City. Seeing as how Catwoman appears on both, it is probably safe to assume that the character will have an important role in the game. Two-Face also appears on a poster in the background of one of the covers. Rocksteady Studios did a great job with the original game, and the announced release window implies that they are taking enough time to put the same amount of polish and detail into the sequel.

Gone are the down on the streets chasing the bad guys as in Batman Begins and Rise of Sin Tzu. Gone are the frustrating controls of Dark Tomorrow. Instead Rocksteady has created a stealthy action game out of Arkham Asylum.

The story is simple: Batman is escorting The Joker into Arkham for what seems to be the last time. As they descend into the gloomy atmosphere, there is an explosion. The Joker breaks free and begins to release all of Batman’s previously captured foes. With no exit and countless enemies against him, Batman must enter the belly of Arkham to capture once and for all those who would destroy him.

The following is the gameplay footage of Arkham that shows off the new Splinter Cell-like gameplay.

The game is slated for release in June.

Source: Gamespot.com

Final Fantasy XIII is released in 2009 for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360

Tuesday (Nov. 11)
Call of Duty: World at War (DS, PC, PS3, Wii, 360)
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (360)
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (360)
Mirror’s Edge (PS3, 360)

Thursday (Nov. 13)
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Mac, PC)

Saturday (Nov. 16)
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (PS3, 360)
Shaun White Snowboarding (DS, PS2, PS3, 360, PSP)
Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip (Wii)
AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack (Wii)
Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii)
Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades (DS)

Alright, I have to apologize up front. The evil podcast faeries came along and stole 2 hours of this episode from my computer. I went into the living room, and came back to an 11 minute episode. I don’t know what happened. One minute it was there, the next it was not.

So, what you are about to hear is the live version of the show. For the most part, it is decent quality. There are some sections where it has bad echos though. My apologies. Again, I have no idea what happened to the good version. If the echoing gets too bad, it fixes itself after a little bit. Hope you enjoy!

2:36 – Congerence is FINALLY getting started. Cool intro with floating X’s, O’s, Traingles and Squares.

2:38 – This Sony guy is the most personable host of the coferences so far. That isn’t saying much. But still.

2:43 – He is talking about the history of the franchise, and the 10 year life cycle of their consoles. Making points about how some of their franchises always start late in the life cycle of their consoles. It’s a  "You should be getting excited for the future" speech.

2:47 – Luckily we finally get to see some content I think. He was starting to drone on and get wordy. Got enough of that from Nintendo.

2:48 – Resistence 2 gameplay being shown. With their 500 foot boss. Looks nice. Very Cloverfield-esque.

2:53 – 8 player online co-op, 60 player competition mode online. Going to show a new trailer with game footage. VERY nice looking trailer. Very moving. San Francisco is getting pounded by tons of of Motherships.

2:56 – Little Big planet being talked about now.

2:58 – The game is all about creating content. They’ve used the game to create a level to present the sales figures for Sony. A unique and more interesting way than it is usually presented. Very cute. :)

3:02 – That wasn’t painful at all. Thank God for showing some innovation with their presentation of sales numbers.

3:03 – Little Big Planet releases October 2008.

3:04 – Talking about PS2. Why? Yes, it sells better, but focus on the future, not the past. Do people still buy new PS2 games? Stop it.

3:07 – Now talking about Singstar and Buzz, their singing and trivia games. Buzz comes to PS3 in September.

3:08 – $149 bundle for PS2 with Lego Batman game and Justice League: New Frontiers movie included. WTF?

3:09 – Playstation Network. Let’s see if they can meet Xbox Live’s challenge. They are going to a single user sign in for all games. They didn’t have that before? Suck. Anyway, across PS3, PSP, and PC it will be the same user.

3:10 – Ratchet and Clank Future: Quest for Booty. Playstation Network game. Shorter game, online download. $15 this summer.

3:14 – First shot at the competition I’ve caught this E3: "We’re not interested in filling up our stores with titles no one wants to play just so we can say we have the most". I doubt they’ve ever turned down a game for their network from a game studio.

3:17 – Gran Turismo TV Pay Per View coming to Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Apparently you can watch pay per view on actual real life racing and crap. I wonder how many people care about that crap. Starting August 1st.

3:19 – Talking about Trophies now, their version of Achievements.

3:20 – Talking about Home now. They said the wait will be paid off when Public Beta launches. They are going to create stuff from game developers and non-gaming companies like Nike in game. New Video. Sorry, I don’t get the "Social Gaming". Not for me.

3:24 – Talking about their upcoming movies store. Naming their content providers, etc. You can put your content on the PSP, and take it with you.

3:27 – Showing off the video store now. Maybe they should have brought back Little big Planet. That got a bit dull. The new content goes live tonight.

3:30 – Moving on to PSP now. New Ratchet and Clank entertainment pack. New Resistance Retribution PSP game.

3:35 – PSP Gameplay Montage. Lots of games.

3:40 – Life with Playstation. News, sports, weather. Blah, Blah. Welcome to Wii a year ago.

3:41 – Talking about DC Universe Online. They are trying to claim that SOE is good. Don’t buy that. Worst MMOs on the market. :P

3:42 – Jim Lee comes out to talk to DC Universe Online. He is "Literally Pumped" to be here. Sounds painful.

3:44 – First DC trailer….They are making it look like you actually play as the established characters. And those animations look horrible. Typical bad SOE animations. Reminds me of Star Wars Galaxies and its jerkiness.

3:47 – Starting in September you can get the 80 gig pack for the price of the current 40 gig pack at $399.

3:49 – Developers talking about how the Playstation 3 is powerful for making games.

3:53 – Another reel of random games.

3:56 – God of War 3 trailer. Short. Completely CG. Obviously doesn’t look too far along.

3:57 – Time for inFamous. Free Running + Super Powers + Choice of Good or Evil. Looks sweet.

4:00 – One final title that pushes "even the PS3 architecure to the extreme". It "can’t be done on any other system". MAG: Massive Action Game. Up to 256 player battles. Teams will be broken down into 8-player teams with people that have shown themselves to be good leaders leading the teams. Character growth. Trailer time.

4:03 – Looks like another CGI trailer. Reminds me of Frontlines: Fuel of War with more players. Eh. Looks ok. Not earth shaking. Looks like chaos and lag, to me.

4:05 – And they are done. A well organized presentation without many big announcements.

A majority of the week’s events will happen on Monday and Tuesday, as the biggest surprises of the convention generally happen amongst the formal stage presentations (And even then, the majority of the news will likely come from the console makers’ shows).

As such, in order to allow for a majority of the news from the show to take place before we record (You know, so we can actually discuss it), we are going to have to hold off on the E3 Discussion episode. We apoligize to anyone that would’ve been available on the original day, but will now miss the show. However, it’s just about the only way of doing it properly.

The E3 Discussion episode of GeekiNput will take place on Wednesday, July 16th at 8pm EST/5pm PST. The remaining GeekiNput shows will not be effected by this change of schedule, and will continue to record on Mondays.

We hope everyone understands and can still make it.

Rock Band 2 has just been made official. Releasing in September on the Xbox 360, with the other consoles recieving the game "later this year". In addition, IGN has an excellent interview up with harmonix over at their site. Check it out. Some of my favorite bits from the article:

The most important question. Will Rock Band 1 DLC be playable in Rock Band 2?

Dan Teasdale: Yes. We’ve been developing Rock Band as a music platform from the start. All of the songs that you’ve purchased so far (and will be able to purchase in the future) are instantly playable and fully supported in Rock Band 2. We’ve even added some cool new features that let you play your DLC in different ways, which I think people will be very excited to get their hands on.

…

"Rock Band 2’s instruments will not disappoint. Like I mentioned before, our philosophy here is to innovate, then perfect. Along those lines, we’ve been able to take all of the feedback we’ve received to make quieter, more realistic, and more reliable instruments."

…

"Rock Band 2 has the strongest playlist we’ve ever assembled, and I think fans will be blown away not just at the spread, but also at the caliber of acts we’ve attracted."

…

"We’ve taken almost everything people have asked for in Rock Band and added it to Rock Band 2, as well as including some "first time ever" features."

More details will be released at E3 this year. Join us July 15th for GeekiNput’s live discussion of all the E3 events, including Rock Band 2!

Discussion:

Tune in for Buffcast Season 2 this Saturday
Another season of Television Begins
Recieved Darling Violettas CDs
Awsome Donations
A Trip to LA

Video Games:

Revolutionary Controller?
Xbox 360 is Dated
Perfect Dark Teaser Website
102 Playstation 3 Games
Day of Defeat for Pre-load

Television:

Star Wars television hiring
Amy Acker on Supernatural
Joss Whedon on Veronica Mars
Buffy to be reborn on Television?

Movies:

George Clooney not Optimus Prime
Jurassic Park 4