Why play as Indiana Jones if you can go racing through jungles and ruins as rogue pilot Han Solo himself? Yes, LucasArts has revealed that Han Solo - or, at least, a costume/skin for Indy - will be crossing over to Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings as a playable character. Looks weird seeing the Star Wars space man swing about with a whip, but hey, at least it's not a Lego Han Solo. Check out the trailer in the full article. Sorry, furry friends, no Chewbacca. *gwwwaarrrggglle*

So apparently the Kojima FPS and DMC-style Strider game weren't the only rumors in EGM's latest issue. NeoGAF member SuperSonic1305 let us in on a few more rumors, including one that could have quite an effect on PSP gaming.

Dungeon crawling just got even more intense in the latest build of the rogue-like homebrew game for the PSP and DS, Powder. The latest version clocks itself as release 107 and adds a lot of new features taken directly from the users' feedback. Check out the hefty list of changes since our previous coverage of Powder in our full article.

Download: Powder release 107 for PSP
Download: Powder release 107 for DS

  

Ah, the Nibelheim incident. One of the more powerful scenes in the original Final Fantasy VII, it delved into Cloud's real past - and what really happened the day Sephiroth, legendary SOLDIER of Shinra, turned rogue and became the silver-haired antagonist that would make every PSOne player despise his name, and fanfic-writing girls to hopelessly daydream about him.

We see all that and more in this scan update of Square Enix's Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation Portable. Looking at the scans, we see the characters in a simpler time - back when Cloud and Tifa were still the young, ambitious youths they once were, with no crazed, megalomaniac Sephiroth following their every move and no looming threat of a giant meteor crashing into the planet and ending all life as they knew it.

The graphics are striking, and very sharp - it seems that Squeenix is definitely pushing for a next-gen look, and by the Lifestream they've done it. It's certainly very striking to see the old characters we once knew in the original game, to be revived in such a way that they look more real and appealing to the younger generation, yet still have the elements we fell in love with back then so the older, more experienced role playing game enthusiasts feel right at home.

Ah, E3. The legendary convention where all the big boys of this industry show their hands and reveal just what they have in store for the video game community and pretty much the entire world in general. The first to do so was Microsoft, with a quick follow-up by Nintendo - and now, it's Sony's turn.

Sony's press conference began with Jack Tretton's Home avatar chatting some virtual ladies up at Home Square, before finally getting onto the stage himself. We're then treated to news bits we've already covered - the big price drop for the 60GB PlayStation 3, 80GB with MotorStorm.

He then promised to show a total of 50 PS3, PS2, and PSN games during the presentation, with some of them being playable after the show.

The big news and the rest of the details after the jump!