This past weekend was huge, with Sony and Microsoft already kicking off E3, and Apple announcing their next iOS update. iOS is inching closer to being as useful as Android with each main release, it seems.

As you might expect, in this day and age, the best way to keep track of all the announcements made at the pre-E3 press conferences is to go to one of the big blogs, like Joystiq (if you can manage to sift out the horrible “comedy” and bad puns). Here’s a list of all the major announcements made by Microsoft:

• Halo 4
• Kinect Sports Season Two
• Dance Central 2
• Kinect Fun Labs
• Kinect Disneyland Adventures
• Forza Motorsports 4 coming out October 11
• Minecraft coming to Xbox 360
• Fable: The Journey
• Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
• UFC Fights
• Ryse
• Xbox Live to add streaming television
• New Kinect-based dashboard
• Ghost Recon, EA Sports titles and Mass Effect 3 getting Kinect support

And Sony’s announcements:

• Jack Tretton apologizes
• Uncharted 3 trailer
• PS Vita officially named, priced and dated
• PlayStation Vita developers and publishers listed
• BioShock Infinite trailer
• ModNation Racers coming to PS Vita
• Street Fighter X Tekken to include Cole MacGrath on Vita
• Ruin announced for Vita
• AT&T named as wireless carrier for Vita
• PS Vita to include voice chat as part of “Party”
• Star Trek title to have PSN-exclusive prequel
• Saints Row: The Third to feature Move-compatible minigame
• EA titles get PS3 exclusive bonuses
• BioShock Infinite to include Move functionality
• BioShock title coming to PS Vita
• Dust 514 to be a PS3 exclusive
• Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time announced
• Medieval Moves: Deadmund’s Quest revealed
• LittleBigPlanet 2 getting Move support this September
• NBA 2K12 getting Move functionality
• CinemaNow platform coming to PSN
• Sony releasing its own PlayStation-branded 3D display
• Resistance 3 getting a Sharpshooter Move bundle
• God of War: Origins Collection bringing the PSP titles to PS3
• ICO and Shadow of the Colossus collections coming in September
• Unlock multiplayer Uncharted 3 access at Subway

The big news for me was the announcement of the PS Vita’s price (and silly name). $249 for the WiFi version is much lower than I would have ever anticipated. There is a 3G version (exclusive to AT&T in the US) for $300. This will have the effect of getting one into as many gamers’ hands as possible, encouraging developer support. Although I haven’t touched my PSP or DS in ages, this actually (probably foolishly) makes me excited for a dedicated mobile gaming device for the first time in a long time.

Here are this weekend’s hardware reviews – there are quite a few, so let’s go through them quickly:

• Ttesports Challenger Ultimate Keyboard at Rbmods
• Silicon Power V20 Series 120GB SSD at OCAU
• Silverstonetek Raven 3 System Enclosure at Metku.net
• Sapphire Radeon 6770 Vapor-X at PureOverclock
• Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 1050W Power Supply Review at OCIA.net
• Logitech Z506 5.1 Speakers Review at Techgage
• Gigabyte GTX 560 SuperOverclock at PureOverclock
• Antec Six Hundred Gaming Mid-Tower Computer Case at Tweaknews
• G.Skill Sniper 8GB CL7 DDR3 memory review at Guru3d
• Thecus N3200XXX Network Attached Storage Server at Bigbruin.com
• RASURBO Real & Power 550 W at techPowerUp
• Thermaltake eSports Armor A30 mATX LAN Case at Legit Reviews
• Antec High Current Gamer 620W Power Supply at Real World Labs
• Patriot Memory Supersonic 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive at PCStats (read our review here for comparison)
• ASUS WL-330N3G 6-in-1 Wireless-N Mobile Router at ThinkComputers.org

Phew! That’s it for today. Now I go back to moving, along with as much benchmarking as I can fit in during that time.