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• More than 60,000 people are expected at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), at the Los Angeles Convention Center. It's the video-game industry's biggest annual event . Some 1,000 never-before-seen products will share the spotlight with Sony's Playstation 3, Microsoft's XBox 360 and Nintendo's Revolution. Here's the Conference at a Glance , Calendar , Speakers , Fact Sheet , Exhibitor's list , and E3 Insider . Last week , Microsoft unveiled its the XBox 360 , and more details are expected this week. Sony and Nintendo are expected to reveal details of their own next-generation consoles Monday and Tuesday. IBM processors are at the heart of all three consoles . On Tuesday Nintendo holds its official press conference for their next-generation console, code-named Revolution . The console will be released sometime in 2006, said Perrin Kaplan, Redmond-based Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing. It will be powered by a chip developed by IBM code-named Broadway and a graphics processor from ATI. Wireless online capabilities are built in and DVD game discs will load through a slot in the front. Games made for the current console, the GameCube will play on the new console. It will be less than 2 inches thick, and let users watch DVD movies and listen to music from CDs, but the main focus of the machine is video games. Sony's PlayStation 3 will also be shown this week. IBM and Toshiba developed the much lauded 'Cell' processor said to have 10 times the power of the latest PC processors. It has nine cores. Nvidia's custom GeForce chip will be fabbed by Sony itself. The multicore design will allow software developers to run multiple operating systems on the same chip and experiment with variations on grid computing . Based on the power of the Cell and its multipurpose capabilities, the PS3 has the potential to become a multimedia powerhouse. Imagine a next-generation game system that can also decode multiple HD streams, function as a PVR, record HDTV to Blu-ray, and also record video to a Memory Stick for PSP playback. PS2 has contributed 40% to 60% of Sony's operating profits over the past several years. The XBox 360 , by contrast, uses three custom 3.2 GHz PowerPC cores , each handling two threads. Each core includes a 128-bit vector graphics unit sporting a full 128 registers and 1-Mbyte cache. Last year was the battle of the hand-helds . Nintendo unveiled the Nintendo DS dual-screen portable machine and Sony showed the PlayStation Portable . Both are now on the market and doing well. Video games are now a 10 billion dollar industry, beating out Hollywood box office. Games expected to be shown at this years show include: Industry leader Electronic Arts with "Need For Speed," "The Sims," "Battlefield" and "Burnout" and will show "SPORE," the next project from The Sims creator Will Wright's studio. Take-Two, the company behind the smash-hit "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" has been quiet about its plans for a next-generation version of the title, though they announced it will have a new version for the PSP. THQ's original 2005 titles include driving-game "Juiced," and the sequels to role-playing game "Destroy All Humans!" and action title "Full Spectrum Warrior." Other titles on display will include "Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War -- Winter Assault," "MotoGP 3," "Tak: The Great Juju Challenge," and licensed adaptations from Pixar including "SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, PANTS!" and "The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer." Activision is expected to preview title like "Fantastic Four" and "Madagascar" as well as sequels to "Ultimate Spider-Man," "Shrek Superslam," "Call of Duty 2,"and "True Crime 2." They are developing 3 titles for Xbox 360, including "Call of Duty," "Tony Hawk's American Wasteland," and a yet-to-be announced title from the Neversoft Entertainment Studio. Majesco Entertainment, creating titles "Taxi Driver" and "Jaws Unleashed", is also showcasing "Aeon Flux." Ubisoft Entertainment, 20% owned by Electronic Arts, is expected to show a title based on the "King Kong" remake due out in theatres this holiday. The first Xbox was released in 2001 and has been trying to catch up with the market leader, Sony's PlayStation 2 which has sold some 80 million units, world-wide. Microsoft has sold 13.2 million Xboxes in the US and about 20 million worldwide. Nintendo is in third place with about 20 million GameCubes worldwide, about 10 million in North America. In 2004, Sony's older PlayStation 2 led the U.S. console wars with 43 percent of the market , according to Jupiter Research. The original Xbox was a distant No. 2 with 19 percent, followed by Nintendo's GameCube at 14 percent. The remainder included handheld game systems. But by 2010, Jupiter Research forecasts the Xbox 360 will grab the lead with 38 percent of the market, followed by Sony with 32 percent and Nintendo with 22 percent. C/Net , Engadget , Gizmodo , Kotaku , GameSpot , GameDev.net , Games Industry Biz , IGN , Game Revolution , Arstechnica , Wired , E3 Blogs like Todd Bishop's blog , and Google News have additional coverage.
  
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