We gave you a bit of an early look with today’s edition of DaddyGotGame’s Trailer Park, here’s a little more info on the EA’s plans to bring The Godfather to the PS3 and Wii this March as well as some screen shots.

Gamers can now taking on the roles as of either Enforcer or Operator on the to becoming Don of New York, each with their unique skill sets to develop over the course of a game. There are also new compounds for the rival families, contract hits and the ability to call in larger hit squads for tougher battles.

As seen in the trailer, The Nintendo Wii’s iteration, The Godfather Blackhand Edition, utilizes the Wii Remote and Nunchuk for what EA calls its “hyper-intuitive Blackhand control.” Essentially what this mean is the Wii Remote can be used for pinpoint accuracy when shooting and with the Nunchuck one can make body movements that control punches, grabs, headbutts, shoves, and attacks with mêlée weapons.

The PS3 will see The Godfather The Don’s Edition which will include The Corleone expansion pack which includes new gameplay and missions. New locals include a shipyard and rail yard and the SIXAXIS utilizes it’s sensors as you can shake it to shake up and push around your victims.

Both The Don’s Edition and Blackhand Edition are set to ship in March 2007.

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IGN.com has release the results of their Overall Game of the Year winners as well as the recipients of the Readers’ Choice polling. Here’s a rundown of the winners:

Game of Year Overall Winners - (Readers Choice Winners)

Overall Game of the Year: Okami - (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
Best Action Game: Gears of War - Gears of War - (Gears of War)

Best Adventure Game: Okami - (The Legend of Zelda: Twlight Princess)

Best Fighting Game: Tekken: Dark Ressurection - (Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2)

Best First-Person Shooter: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas - (Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas)

Best Music Game - Guitar Hero II - (Guitar Hero II)

Best Platform Game - New Super Mario Bros - (New Super Mario Bros)

Best Puzzle Game - Tetris DS - (Tetris DS)

Best Racing/Driving Game - Burnout Revenge - (Burnout Revenge)

Best RPG - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion)

Best Sports Game: Wii Sports - (Wii Sports)

Best Strategy Game: Company of Heroes - (The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II)

Best Graphics Technology: Gears of War - (Gears of War)

Best Artistic Design: Okami - (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)

Best Original Score: LocoRoco - (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)

Best Licensed Soundtrack: Guitar Hero II - (Guitar Hero II)

Best Use of Sound: Black - (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)

Best Story: Okami - (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)

Best Offline Multiplatform Game: Wii Sports - (Wii Sports)

Best Online Game: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas - (Gears of War)

Most Innovative Design: Okami - (Gears of War)

Best Game No One Played: Viva Piñata - (Viva Piñata)

Biggest Surprise: E3 Restructured - (E3 Restructured)

Best Developer: Nintendo - (Nintendo)

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PC World reports that Digital Entertainment Group, designed to promote forms of digital entertainment, awarded the Playstation 3 with an Digital Innovation award for content source at an annual awards ceremony Monday “for its vision of transforming home entertainment into a single, connected box that encompasses online, digital, gaming, and Blu-ray Disc-based entertainment.

“The choice was an intriguing one-although indirectly it seems to give the nod to Blu-ray Disc, in fact, it was one of the most neutral options on the table short of overtly weighing in on the ugly next-gen format war by picking either one of Toshiba’s HD DVD players of one of the early Blu-ray Disc home theater players. (The DEG’s biggest acknowledgment of the format wars was its observation in opening remarks that ‘we’re no longer in a single-format environment.’)

“The Playstation 3 is so encompassing that it embraces more than just Blu-ray Disc-although it does that part quite well, and indeed it was those reasons the group cited as to why the PS3 claimed this award.”

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Richardson, Texas based Fenner Investments is suing Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft for patent violations concerning a “Low-Voltage Joystick Port Interface” reports Newsfactor.com
Fenner claims to hold the patent number 6,297,751 for the interface, however records show the design was developed by Lucent Technologies in 1998. Newsfactor’s attempts to call Fenner to explain how the company obtained rights to the patent were reportedly unanswered. Executives from Alcatel-Lucent were unavailable for comment as well.

The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, demands compensation for damages Fenner claims have incurred as a result of the violation, as punitive damages, attorney fees, and court costs.

Last year, Fenner lost a lawsuit in another patent case against wireless companies Alcatel, Nokia, and Cisco.

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USA Today.com reports record breaking sales performance industry-wide for video game makers. According to The NPD Group, 2006 ended with total revenues of $12.5 billion spent on games, new console systems, handhelds and accessories. Those numbers are a 19% increase over 2005’s $10.5 billion record setting sales.

“‘Everyone was fairly negative about the industry at the end of last year,’ says NPD analyst Anita Frazier. ‘And it started out rocky this year, but within a few months everything started to fall into place. It kind of breaks the conventional wisdom of what a console transition year is like in the industry.’”

The new console launches helped propel console sales to $2.9 billion, an 87.5 percent jump from the year before. However the biggest contributer to the records sales came in software which generated $6.5 billion in revenue.

In spite of the new system launches or maybe because of them and their supply shortages, Sony’s Playstation 2 and Nintendo’s DS sold the most units of all consoles, 4.7 million and 5.3 million respectively. Though, the PS3 and Nintendo Wii were not available until the holiday season, this still outsold Mircosoft’s Xbox 360’s 3.9 million units sold despite its year-long availability.

“‘Not only did consumers drive records for PlayStation 3, they also validated the excellent value represented by PlayStation 2 and the entertainment versatility of PSP (PlayStation Portable, which reached an installed base of 6.7 million ),’ Sony’s Jack Tretton said.

Nintendo’s Perrin Kaplan also expressed an feeling of justification for the company from the reactions of fans who’ve played the DS and Wii.

“‘As a risk-taking, innovative company we thought long and hard about bringing these kids of products out. We watched very closely what looked to be happening with players. The glimmer in their eye was not quite as bright (as in the past) and the excitement level was starting to tap out,” she says.

‘Once the Wii and DS were finalized, we all felt like we really shouldn’t be doing what we were doing if this didn’t have success. It just felt really right.’”

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Gametrailers.com has finally announced it’s Game of Year winner to close out the Gametrailers.com Game of the Year Awards 2006 and the honor belongs to Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Game of Year Nominees:

Gears of War (Microsoft Game Studios)

Guitar Hero II (RedOctane)

Rainbow Six: Vegas (Ubisoft)

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo)

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