E3 has come and gone, and you may think all the big stuff has been said and done. MGS: Rising and FFXIV were announced, motion controls detailed, big name trailers and screenshots by the dozen. But there is a whole lot more which didn't make the headlines. Assassin Creed 2 to have multiplayer, yet another Halo in the works, Force Unleashed 2, Jak and Daxter on PS3? All this and more is reported at the source.

Natal is Portuguese for Christmas, but whether or not that indicates a release date or not is hard to say. Certainly Christmas 2009 seems too early, but then again could this be the company’s big TGS or Leipzig weapon? It seems like EA are already on board.

The Just Cause 2 team agree that the controls in Just Cause were shoddy, so rebuilt them for the ground up for the sequel.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2 is most certainly on the cards. While chatting to some of the lads from LucasArts I spoke about how spin-offs like Clone Wars and LEGO seemed to be the primary focus now. Not so. I was told that these games are completely different tangents and do not affect the team working on The Force Unleashed SKU. The original sold a mighty five million units, and when I pushed on whether they were happy with its use of DMM and Euphoria they agreed it was a 1st-generation attempt and it has really come along since then.

One of the lads at Naughty Dog told me that the developer still very much believed in Jak & Daxter and gave me the impression that their post Uncharted 2 project will be bringing the famous platforming duo to the PS3.

Miyamoto is working on The Twilight Princess 2. Not only that, but the legendary developer will be copy & pasting many of the controls used in Wii Sports: Resort into the Zelda gameplay. In particular, the archery, Frisbee (boomerang) and the duelling (sword-play), the latter of which debunks the ‘no sword’ red herring that Miyamoto recently threw out there… or at the very least suggests that you will be wielding something in a sword-like fashion. A friend at Nintendo also advised me that other hints could be found in Wii Sports Resort: perhaps this suggests some of the vehicles for the new, older Link… canoe perhaps?

Bale Fire via gameplayer.com.au »