Well, it's that time of year again where gamers the world over, look to L.A. to see what publishers and platform holders have in store for them over the next 12 months or so.

This year promises to be the biggest in five years. Nintendo are going to be showing their vision on home console gaming. Sony will be showing off their vision of portable gaming with the PSP follow up, strongly rumoured to be called PlayStation Vita. Whilst Microsoft will no doubt be showing us their second generation of Kinect titles, Mass Effect 3 is very likely to support the motion sensor.

So don't forget to watch the big three's conferences at the following links:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Community/E3 Microsoft kick off Monday 6th June at 5:30pm

http://blog.us.playstation.com/ Sony will be keeping us up into the early hours Tuesday 7th June at 1am

http://e3.nintendo.com/ Nintendo will close the big three out Tuesday 7th June at 5pm