Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 (e3) Rumors, News, Announcments and Chatter!

Sony has over 20 first party studios so you would expect a lot of work is currently underway on exclusive titles for the PlayStation 3.

With E3 just around the corner now is the time for Sony to start revealing some of those titles to the world, question is what could they possibly reveal?

Let's start with Guerrilla Games, last year Herman Hulst confirmed that the studio had started work on a new IP not related to the Killzone franchise and it would be running on the Killzone 3 engine.

Sony Santa Monica has been hiring for several Key positions with many believing that they are working on a new God of War title, the chances are good that this game will be making an appearance in some form or another.

David Cage has revealed that he is working on two new projects and due to his undying love to Sony you can expect these to only be appearing on PS3. Could be a possible Heavy Rain sequel, or a new IP entirely.

Finally Sucker Punch's Brian Fleming has previously said that the return of Sly is likely to happen and with the remastered Sly Collection coming the chances are that the announcement of Sly Cooper 4 isn't to far away.

There may not be a Rock Band 4 in 2011, but there will be a new Harmonix game announced at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. The Boston-based developer today sent out invitations to its annual party at the event, which it will use to "celebrate the announcement of our latest title." No further details were given.

What is Harmonix announcing at E3 2011?

Harmonix's revelation comes two weeks after its vice president of strategy and business development, Chris Rigopulos, said that Rock Band 4 would not come out this year. "Rock Band 3 is a big game with lots of available music content and lots of new goals and challenges. We want to give our fans the time to explore that fully," he told Game Informer.

However, Rigopulos also hinted at new projects during the interview, saying, "Rest assured that Harmonix is still developing new ideas and concepts to advance the Rock Band franchise, and we look forward to sharing those when the time is right."

One possibility is that the game that will be announced at E3 will be another band-specific title in the vein of The Beatles: Rock Band or the AC/DC Live: Rock Band Track Pack. The last such offering, Green Day: Rock Band, was released last June. Another possibility is a sequel to the popular Kinect game Dance Central, which has sold more than 2.5 million units.

On Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. PDT, Nintendo will wrap up the major 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo game-company press conferences with its own media briefing. The company has already confirmed that the centerpiece of its presentation will be its new console--reportedly code-named Project Cafe--which will see release sometime next year.

A touch-screen controller is now all but confirmed for Nintendo's E3 press conference.

Today, the Nikkei news service (registration required) has confirmed one of the bigger rumors surrounding the console. As speculated, the console will have a controller with a six-inch touch screen at its center, allowing players to play games as they would on a tablet computer in conjunction with traditional game buttons.

Furthermore, the controller can be used as a "portable game device." Though earlier speculation had the controller streaming games onto its screen from the Wii 2, Nikkei reports that "Nintendo aims to attract more users by offering a console that doubles as a portable game system," implicating the controller can be used independently.

Nikkei also confirmed that the controller will have a camera that will allow players to create characters based on pictures they snap. It also said the Wii's successor console could launch as early as mid-2012.

E3 is just a matter of hours away now and the rumours have been building about the show for months but how many of these could come true?

Below you will find the top 10 rumours flying around the Internet that have a least a chance of coming true at this years show.

- New Legend Of Zelda Title

The announcement of a new Nintendo console just wouldn't be right without at least one new Zelda game to accompany it, whether this is a hole new title or that Skyward Sword is set for Nintendo's new console is yet to be seen.

- New Xbox Console

Microsoft will not let Nintendo steal the show and it's getting to the point where the Xbox 360 is reaching its technical limits so could this be the time to announce the next generation? There have been job adverts from Microsoft looking for people to work on the next generation.

- Fable 4

Well it's become part and parcel of E3 the great Fable promises and no doubt Molyneux will be trying once again to achieve his dream but will it be on the Xbox 360 or the next generation of console?

- Halo 4/ Halo: CE HD

This is one of the more heavily rumoured items, we all know that 343 Industries has been working on the Halo franchise for a while now since it took over from Bungie but will it be Halo 4 or a remake of Halo: Combat Evolved?

- Kinect Support for Mass Effect & Other titles

The rumours have started that some major titles from Microsoft could contain native Kinect support such as Mass Effect 3. This looks the most likely rumour to come true after the box art for Mass Effect 3 was put up on EA's Store featuring the "better with Kinect" banner it was shortly take back down.

- Zone of Enders 3

Konami announced earlier this week that they will be remaking the first two Zone of Enders for Xbox 360 and PS3. It was announced that there are no future plans for the Metal Gear Solid series to be announced at this years E3 leaving Konami with very few things to do at the show this year, this could lead to an announcement of Zone of Enders 3 on the back of the HD remakes.

- Gears of War: Exile

Epic has already announced it plans to carry on the Gears of War franchise after the trilogy and a recent leak of the Official Xbox Magazine E3 special shows that Gears of War: Exile will be at this years show, will we see the next game in the franchise revealed?

- God of War IV

Well numerous job adverts have been spotted we know Sony are working on a new title in the franchise. The original trilogy may be over but I wouldn't expect them to let this money bank sleep just yet.

- Grand Theft Auto V

There have been more and more rumours the closer we get to E3 with possible locations, voice acting casting calls and linkedIn profiles. If this isn't a new GTA title then it's pretty damn close to one.

- New Bungie Title

Bungie have been hard at work with their new partners Activision developing a multiplatform AAA title. It's been more than long enough now for a developer as large as Bungie with the money behind them to have developed their title to a showable state.