First of all, for those of you that dig giveaways, we've got two running right now. We're giving away one signed copy of Soul Bubbles right here, and we're gifting one lucky person with a copy of MLB Power Pros 2008 right over here. Today is the last day to enter, so get to it!

After that, check out the best of the Nintendo Fanboys below. Each link has been seasoned and deep-fried in deliciousness for your pleasure. Enjoy.

What's hot on the DS side:

• Point/Counterpoint: Time for a price cut?
  One issue, two bloggers
• Bury the Shovelware: Myst DS
  We play it so you don't have to
• Preview: Putting on our thinking caps with Mushroom Men
  We play a preview build
• Gaming to Go: Geometry Wars Galaxies
  The column for the pick-up-and-play gamer
• Items of Import: RPG - more words to learn
  Our bi-weekly column helps those that want to import

The best of the Wii:

• Mod that: 5 of our favorite Wiimotes
  Who doesn't love mods?
• Born for Wii: Jet Set Radio
  The classic Dreamcast game gets reimagined for Wii
• Top 5: Where do they go now?
  A look at the future for 5 of Nintendo's elite
• It's-a Mario World: Koopa Kids
  Our weekly feature follows Bowser's lineage of siblings
• VC Monday Madness: Cho Aniki and Final Soldier
  Video recap of this week's Virtual Console releases
• Wii Fanboy Review: Mario Super Sluggers
  Homerun or strike out?
• Virtually Overlooked: Excitebike variants
  We look at the oddball Excitebikes out there

Considering that the DS browser isn't the most practical choice for surfing the web from a handheld device, we're proud to unveil i.dsfanboy.com. There, you'll find a version of the site formatted specifically for your expensive, yet incredibly sexy, iPhone. It's the first time we've been able to offer the site formatted for a mobile device, so we're very happy to be doing that just now.

iPhones are a large part of mobile page views (check past the break for some pie chart action), so for those of you who enjoy navigating the vast series of tubes that is the internet in that way, have at it! Let us know what you think in the comments below and we'd also like to take this opportunity to thank you for visiting us here at DS Fanboy as often as you do.

Have a lot of games and nowhere to keep them? Six lucky readers are about to have all their problems solved, as we've got six of the awesome Penguin United cases (currently valued at $14.99) that can hold up to twenty-four DS carts. Also, they've got a penguin on 'em. That's unbeatable.

What do you need to do to win? Just leave a comment on this post and let us know how many DS games you have. If you can't fill up the pouch, it won't hurt you (you'll just be shamed), so don't worry! You may enter once per day and the contest will run through Sunday, August 3rd; that night, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern, entries will close, and we'll choose six winners in a random drawing. To enter, you must be 18 or older, and a current legal resident of the United States or Canada (excluding Quebec). Have questions? Check the official rules.

In its second year as a diminished behemoth, E3 still manages to be packed full with news, media, and more. While there wasn't much from Nintendo themselves for the DS this year, third parties are still incredibly strong and we're faced with more games than we can possibly handle. We're also pretty sure we saw almost all of them at E3 this year. Relive the entire experience right from the convenience of this post!

Check out our choices for show highlights right here, or hit the break for the full rundown of our E3 coverage. Of course, we're still adding things, and will be over the next few days; keep up by clicking the E3 graphic in the sidebar.

GTA: Chinatown Wars shooting up the DS in winter!		Transfer data from Animal Crossing: Wild World to new Wii game
Highlights from Nintendo's keynote		Rhythm Heaven bumped by Cammie Dunaway's wrist
Konami booth tour		DS Fanboy reacts to the Nintendo keynote
Three DS news items you may have missed		Chrono Trigger's controls explained (and hands-on)
DS Fanboy enters the Retro Game Challenge		Rhythm Heaven is the best musical microgame collection at the show

First of all, thanks to everyone that managed to make it out to the party! There were a ridiculous amount of attendees, all of whom enjoyed some Call of Duty 4 on the PS3, Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the Wii and copious amounts of Rock Band and Rock Band 2. It was a blast and, unsurprisingly, the massive piles of swag went fairly quick. It was a wonderful experience and it was a pleasure meeting all of you. Hopefully, we can do this again next year!

For those of you who couldn't make it out there, check out the gallery below. Within, you'll even find a picture of our very own Mike Sylvester (of Revolutionary fame!). He's a local, so thanks to him, but mostly to all of you, for making it out!

While there will be news spilling over for a day or so yet, E3 has wrapped and things are winding down. Later on, we'll have the full event rundown for you, but for now, here's the haps on day four.

News

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• Namco Bandai's Panda game dated for U.S.
• Final Fantasy IV speaks our language -- probably yours, also

Hands-On

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• DS Fanboy hands-on with Away: Shuffle Dungeon
• DS Fanboy hands-on with Elebits: The Adventures of Kai and Zero
• DS Fanboy enters the Retro Game Challenge
• Not the right place to try Bangai-O Sound Load
• The Jamie Oliver game is ... really cool?
• DS Fanboy hands-on with MillionHeir

Screens

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• Infected with Puchi Puchi Virus
• Fresh Viva Piñata screens hunted down

Video

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• Dinosaur King unearths a trailer
• Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals (insert cake joke here)
• Korg DS-10 makes cool people cooler
• What an awful, awful Duke Nukem trailer

Hey, did you know that today is the last day of E3? That means we're going to be cutting loose this evening and having a good time. Won't you join us? You should join us. There'll be tons of free swag up for grabs! If that isn't reason enough for you to get over here, then we're concerned for you and your sense of value. Check out the deets below.

When: 6-10:00PM pacific on Thursday, July 17th
Where: Mahalo HQ, 902 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (map it!)
Who: Every man, women and child of every age. Yes, even YOU can attend!
Why: Because it's "good times".
RSVP: Facebook

We're back and forth on this E3. We keep waiting for some big announcement for the DS, some bone that might get thrown ... but when we look at some of the things that have been announced, or are being played, we can't say anything but "wow." Yeah, we said it. We said wow. So what the hell is wrong?

Well, we've figured it out. It's simple -- we're just too used to great DS games. We look at all these announcements and just shrug. Yep, Retro Game Challenge and Rhythm Heaven. Uh huh. Chrono Trigger and Castlevania screens. Yep. The problem is that our DS cup runneth over and doth flood ye olde table. We're jaded. Maybe we need to go spend five minutes with shovelware and get our priorities straight.

News

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• EA Tiburon's quirky 2D platformer/puzzler reappears
• Transfer data from Animal Crossing: Wild World to new Wii game
• Atari and irritating celebrity chef combine for cooking game
• Miyamoto explains fusion of Wii and DS Zelda teams

Hands-On

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• A sneaky visit to Ninjatown
• SouthPeak's puzzle pair
• Chrono Trigger's controls explained

Screens

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• N+ media leaps deftly into our grasp
• Clone Wars: Small screens, long title
• Pop Cutie does a little turn on the catwalk
• More Bangai-O shots fired off
• New screens, new art, New International Track & Field
• Hamtaro tries extra hard to scare off older gamers
• A smattering of Natsume simulation screens
• Get intimate with the Order of Ecclesia
• Luminous Arc 2 screens add a dose of hilarity
• Three DS news items you might have missed

Video

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• Age of Empires trailer, now with less developer
• Take your turn and view this Dragon Quest IV trailer

Misc

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• Highlights from Nintendo's private conference
• Rhythm Heaven bumped by Cammie Dunaway's wrist
• Konami booth tour in photos
• Nintendo keynote photo tour

The big event -- Nintendo's media briefing -- finally arrived, and there was much rejoicing. Not quite as much as there could have been, though. A few counted-on announcements were suspiciously absent. Guess we'll be waiting a little longer for some things after all, so it's a good thing that you can still get your instant gratification somewhere ... like in this post recapping today's E3 news.

News

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• E308: Nintendo dates dozens of debuting games
• E308: Rhythm Tengoku brings heaven to the U.S.
• E308: Highlights from Nintendo's keynote
• E308: Cooking Guided headed to US
• E308: Guitar Hero back On Tour soon
• E308: GTA: Chinatown Wars shooting up the DS in winter!

Hands-On

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• E308: Mushroom Men puts the 'fun' in 'fungus'
• E308: A mini hands-on with Big Bang mini

Screens

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• E308: From mop-tops to monsters, Avalon Code looks the part
• E308: Dragon Quest IV screens, release date scare
• E308: Screens of the Monster Lair
• E308: EA releases old screens and new screens
• E308: A little more from the Dark Brotherhood

Video

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• E308: MillionHeir inherits new media
• E308: Pokemon Rangers 2 gets localized, offers footage
• E308: Kirby loves super stardom
• E308: U.S. to gobble Prey the Stars this October
• E308: Apartment Pets shining on the tiny screen

Misc

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• E308: DS Fanboy reacts to the Nintendo keynote
• E308: Live reactions from the Nintendo conference

Though you got our live reactions as the Nintendo conference was actually happening, now that we've had a few moments to jump around, fume, and generally compose our thoughts, we present you with the formal reactions of the DS Fanboy staff to today's Nintendo briefing from E3.

Alisha Karabinus: I'm having a really hard time seeing past Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. That could be just beyond awesome... and, of course, it could be crap. I guess we'll find out. It's surprisingly missing from the media round-ups I've seen so far. I think I'm surprised by the lack of a redesign, even though I have been against the possibility of it for so long. By now, I just assumed it was going to happen. Of course, it still could!

I'm excited about the Cooking Guide, even though I just got a copy from the UK (thanks, Chris!), and I don't think it's as good as it could be. Still, it's interesting and novel ... but speaking of novel, I'd have rather seen DS Novel. All I can really say about Guitar Hero is that I'm not surprised at all that we'd see another version already.

All you really need to know about this morning's Nintendo press briefing is that Joystiq is liveblogging it, and we're live-chatting it, but if you're dying for the kind of information you can put into a list about the big show, we've got everything you need.

Event location
Kodak Theatre
Hollywood, California

Starting time
9:00 AM PT (Tuesday, July 15)

Live streams (free)

• G4
• GameSpot
• IGN
• Nintendo (also features a countdown)

Songs to get you pumped up

• "You're the Best Around" -- Joe Esposito (Phil & Candace)
• "Let's Get Ready to Rhumble" -- PJ & Duncan AKA (Chris)
• "Come Baby Come" -- K7 (Eric)
• "The Question Is, What is the Question" -- Scooter (Eric)
• "Black Math" -- The White Stripes (Alisha)
• "Eye of the Tiger" -- Survivor (Should be everyone!)

Don't forget your bingo card!

Technically, E3 is supposed to fit neatly into the space of a few days, but even the revamped show and everything relating to it has spilled over and taken control of the entire week. Missed anything? Here's a quick rundown of what we talked about today from the show.

News

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• E308: New DS rumors abound
• E308: We fit into Natsume's niche

Screens

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• E308: Princess Debut shots dance the night away
• E308: EA announces SimAnimals

Video

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• E308: Bushels of excitement sprout as Harvest Moon trailer is revealed

At Joystiq

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• Speakers for tomorrow's Nintendo press conference revealed
• Ultimate Band getting charity concert venue, Linkin Park love
• Joystiq live at Electronic Arts E3 2008 press conference

Hey, do you live in the Santa Monica area? Like free stuff? Well, clear your calendar for the night of Thursday, July 17th. Joystiq is hosting a meetup. There, over 200 pounds of swag will be given out, and there'll be games and refreshments for all to enjoy. It's totally going to crush last year's meetup! Plus, you could meet me. That's got to be worth ... uh, something?

It's all going to be hosted by the good folks at Mahalo.com. Just, do us a favor: RSVP if you plan on attending. Hope to see you there!

When: 6-10:00PM pacific on Thursday, July 17th
Where: Mahalo HQ, 902 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (map it!)
Who: Every man, women and child of every age. Yes, even YOU can attend!
Why: Because it's "good times".
RSVP: Facebook

Don't forget -- you've got a shot at picking up the following very excellent prize pack, courtesy of DS Fanboy:

• Space Invaders Extreme
• Arkanoid DS
• Paddle controller

All you've got to do is head over to the original post and drop your comments. Since you can enter once per day, you might want to throw another entry in! And we fixed the ending date, which was off by a month. We're not just invading space ... we're busting through time as well.