Though not really a surprise, Microsoft Entertainment and Devices President Robbie Bach confirmed that the little box that’s going to change gaming forever is headed our way during the holiday season this year. Natal is part of a new MS buzz word NUI (Natural Human Interface), which Bach describes as speech, touch, and gesture interfaces. Confirming the word that’s been circulating around the release, Project Natal will debut officially (and with its actual name) during the 2010 holiday season.

Hit the jump for a brief vid of Robbie Bach talking about how Natal will change gaming.

First up in the main course we take a closer look at some of the sleeper hits of E3 2009 and go over a few games that got lost in the shuffle last week (cough Last Guardian cough). Next, we review Natal’s appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and wonder why the E3 demo wasn’t as impressive.

The Battle Cry of the Week goes to Metroid: Other M for fixing what isn’t broke, the Assassin’s Creed 2 Black Edition, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and calls for a game worthy of the Last Son of Krypton.

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First up this week, we take a look at upcoming console peripherals including the Wii Motion Plus, the Tony Hawk Ride board, and Microsoft’s 3D camera. Next we check out the PS3 Slimline photos making the rounds this week and ponder how this impacts a potential PS3 price drop.

The Battle Cry of the Week goes to Punch Out and the excellent new short from Experience Wii, Splinter Cell Conviction, the classic Wolfenstein 3D coming to XBLA, and laying off the wise cracks for JRPG characters.

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First up on the main course, we chew through Sony’s announced price-drop on the venerable PlayStation 2 and ask Captain Obvious’ first question: why the hell wasn’t this announcement for the PS3? Next up we take a look at the Nintendo DSi as it hits shelves today and ponder what Nintendo’s latest handheld-wonder can bring to the table.

The Battle Cry of the Week goes to the Nintendo Gameboy which celebrates its 20th anniversary this month, the GI Joe film-tie-in game for sucking (and the upcoming GI Joe Resolute animated series for way not sucking), calls on fanboys to chill with the cynicism over the Mass Effect 2 combat demo, and asks why in the hell Sony ever removed backwards-compatibility from the PlayStation 3.

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The main course this week takes a look at the Grand Theft Auto franchise with the release of Chinatown Wars and recent comments from Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg concerning how well The Lost and Damned is selling; the number is a secret, but its more that Killzone 2…for sure. We also examine Capcom exec Christian Svenson’s recent comments (hint: it rhymes with pull-sit) in reaction to fan criticism of Capcom’s DLC release schedule.

The Battle Cry of the Week goes to Stan Bush’s pop-metal classic The Touch making its way to Guitar Hero, the ludicrous $100 sticker price on the Batman: Arkham Asylum CE, calls for an axe-to-the-face for all the cheating worms on Xbox Live, and World of Warcraft for using Achievements to turn player’s OCD into cash.

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With the release of Resident Evil 5 this week, we take stock of where the franchise is at this point in its life cycle and ponder whether or not the series that put survival horror on the map has strayed from its roots. We round out the main course with a look at GamePro’s recent decision to form a game publishing arm dedicated to working with developers on the Microsoft XNA and Apple iPhone platforms.

The Battle Cry of the week goes to Capcom (again) for charging for DLC that could have been included with the core game, Dark Void for looking awesome, Microsoft for the rumors they will be discontinuing the only Xbox worth owning, and Achievements for turning us all from gamers into trophy whores.

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