E3 fever is hitting its stride and we've got Sega announcing the games that you'll find right in their booth at E3. The lineup really doesn't come as a surprise, but any solid confirmation amidst all the rumors going around is darn welcome. Check the complete list after the jump.

E3's still a month away, but the hype's building up and game industry bigwigs are already starting to give gamers a quick taste of what to expect at E3. Today, it was Sega's turn to reveal some of the titles they'll be showing off at the expo via their Twitter account.

You know that the recession is really pouring down hard when you have listings for offers like this. A Craiglist poster in Vancouver is offering Tetris lessons for an "affordable price." Apparently, Tetris is so complex that you actually need to pay for lessons, which include playing Tetris while drunk. Get a load of the program in the full article.

They were sold out last year, now they're gearing up for more. The Vancouver Film School is bringing the industry's biggest names together to showcase their latest work, as well as talk about their finest achievements.

It looks like layoffs are the "in" thing these days. While NCSoft lost less people than rumors previously said, Radical Entertainment was not so lucky. According to the Vancouver Sun, the studio's staff has been cut roughly in half. More in the full article.

 

While "Canuck" sounds like a cross between a cough and a hiccup (now don't hurt yourself trying to reproduce it), the second Annual Canuck Awards is more affectionately known as the Elan Awards. This new awards event held in Canada annually will honor the best artistic productions in electronics: anything and everything in games.

While being just another awards ceremony to add to the countless ones coming out each year, the Elans is slated to honor any and all platform titles, including casual, arcade and mobile games. It will also honor story and concept writing in games, a dedicated Hall of Fame for games that make the cut, and even animation and voice-over productions. Everything art, they've got just the fart part (pardon our French).

The awards categories will each have their own panel of five judges (no judge sits on more than one panel) to decide on the criteria for choosing the winner among qualifying nominees. Judges only qualify in the panel if they are respected minds in the industry. Other strict procedures are as follows:

• All Companies/Institutions providing Jurors may provide more than one.
• No two representatives from one Company/Institution will be selected to sit on the same Panel.
• Every Juror must sign a non-conflict contract to be approved by the CAEAA.
• Each CAEAA Category is judged by Panels from outside of Canada.
• Each International Category is judged by Panels from within Canada.
• All Nomination and Winning Ballots will be handled directly by the Elans Auditing Firm, Buckley Dodds.

Click on Full Article to view the complete listing of categories plus a few more details.

Backbone Entertainment Vancouver was recently awarded at the Canadian Awards for Electronic and Entertainment Arts for the company's work on Age of Empires: The Age of Kings for the Nintendo DS. The game won Best Game Design of the Year.

As if that isn't enough, the game also picked up a nomination from the BAFTA game awards for best strategy game.

If you do a quick search on the game, you'll see that Age of Empires: Age of Kings got a lot of love from game-reviewers. It's well deserved since the turn-based game delivered hours and hours of deep and involving strategic fun. Five campaigns, unique technologies, dozens of unit types that are both useful and not that redundant, good music, decent presentation, what more could you want?

Well yeah, the game isn't that popular, but design-wise, it's a winner. Congratulations, Backbone. You guys deserve it.

Buy: [Age of Empires: Age of Kings]

Need For Speed Carbon is definitely making sure you'd get the paramount street-racing experience as it gets ready to invade the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, Nintendo DS, GBA, PSP, PC and mobile.

Whew! Those sure are a lot of grounds to cover!

No worries, though: EA earlier revealed more cars from the handsome list of wheels featured in the game. From the vintage to the newest models, the cars in NFS Carbon will definitely make your heads spin with its cool collections.

The 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, together with the 1967 Shelby GT500, makes an appearance side by side the 2005 Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG and the 2006 Corvette Z06. The 2005 Monaro Vauxhall VXR is also available for you to let rip across the treacherous canyon roads. And those are but a few of what NFS Carbon has stashed in its garage.

Check out these screens to pick your ride.