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Software developed by a group from Keio University lets you control your avatar in real time! Using little more than a standard PC and a PlayStation Eye, it actually does a pretty good job once you get over the lol-guy-doing-stuff-with-Miku thing.

While the Kinect has been getting most of the love from the hack-minded gaming community -- and Microsoft, smartly, is encouraging innovation by working on a Kinect SDK -- it's neat to see that Sony's PlayStation Move hasn't been totally left behind. pabr.org has used the Move to build what it calls a Copernitron, which plays on a keen understanding of physics to measure the Earth's rotation.

Adding fuel to the coming fire between Sony's PlayStation Move and Microsoft's Kinect, Sony launched an amusing satirical website, Yaybuttons.com, in support of buttons, something Kinect doesn't have.

The site is actually quite funny, complete with an appearance by Kevin Butler, a fictional character Sony has been using as the PlayStation brand's mascot for a while now, most notably in the "It Only Does Everything" ad campaign.

Floating Head (ben dickinson) Karl Urban is Judge Dredd (blastr) Pokémon Black and White Battle Footage (Joystiq) Movie-Con Day 2 Wrap Up (Bleeding Cool) Google Wants to Save the World (Fortune) How to Use the PlayStation Move (Kotaku) Jabba the Pair of Sneakers (Fashionably Geek) (Playmobile Geisha via toycutter)

The E3 festivities continued today in full force, and I got to do and see a lot more. The knowledge I gained in this process is now passed on to you, the lucky reader! Let’s waste no time and get straight to the gaming goodness I discovered in this middle day of the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

You know the drill: hot on the heels of Microsoft's and Nintendo's big E3 announcements, it's Sony's turn as of 3:00pm EDT. They've got a tough act to follow after Nintendo's barn-burner of a 3DS presentation, but don't count Sony out just yet: They're expected to talk about PlayStation Move, 3D support for the PS3, and -- this could be the big one -- roll out some new hardware.

Tune in to live, streaming video of Sony's announcement below, thanks to G4:

Microsoft has announced that their showstopping pre-E-3 Project Natal-related event will be "a spectacular live performance imagined by Cirque du Soleil." Uh, okay. It's also said that this pre-show is a "technology free" event, which is the most homey word for "seriously, no pictures, videos, leaks, texting, twittering, or - you know what? We're just setting off an EMP five minutes before curtain up," I've heard in a while. We fully understand if you know what Natal is, but don't know what Cirque du Soleil is, or vice versa, or if you have no idea what either of them are. Allow us to explain why this is weird.

This week, after months of anticipation, Sony revealed its new motion sensitive controller, the Move, at the Game Developer's Conference. the Move walks a path already trodden by Nintendo's Wiimote, the primary controller for the Wii, and so, one might ask, how does Nintendo feel about this long awaited foray into their territory?

Predictably, they're pretty calm about it. Motion sensitivity has been the Wii's claim to fame, while other consoles have focused on HD graphics and processing power, but now Sony is rolling out the Move, and Microsoft is hard at work on its own motion sensing Project Natal. Kotaku asked Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, if this might mean that Nintendo should be looking to move into HD.

"For us high definition by itself is not the next frontier," Reggie Fils-Aime... told Kotaku. "For us we need to provide a whole new compelling experience in our next generation."

Sony has finally revealed the name and form of its new motion controller for the PlayStation, the PlayStation Move.  Like Nintendo's Wiimote and Nun-chuck, it also has an off-hand peripheral with a joystick.  Unlike the Nun-chuck, there is no cord, and, unlike the Wiimote, the Move has... Please pay attention, Nintendo. Rechargeable batteries.