Xbox 360's new games: South Park, Portal: Still Alive, Lips and more

The first news from today's Microsoft press conference at E3 is the new game announcements. More posts coming very (very) soon on the new features in Xbox Live, new video partners, and the long awaited Netflix partnership:

Since all of the biggest console titles ("Gears 2," "Fable 2," "Rock Band 2," "Resident Evil 5" <wow that's a lot of sequels>) have been previously reported, I thought the most exciting announcements were actually on the downloadable side, so let's start with the new titles for Xbox Live Arcade:

-A new "South Park" game. Literally no details besides an announcement that it's coming in 2009, but given how popular "South Park" episodes are on Xbox Live Video Marketplace and how often I hear random players on Xbox Live quoting episodes, this seems like almost a no brainer hit. Especially if they manage to capture teh show's humor at least as well as "The Simpsons Game" did.

-"Portal: Still Alive." A sequel to the best videogame of 2007 (I don't know if I've ever said that on this blog, but that's my call) coming later this year as a download. According to Glados, whose voice showed up at the press conference, there will be new levels and achievements. I do hope that in addition to new challenges, it will also expand the original game's awesome story.

-Sequels to "Geometry Wars" and "Galaga Legions," both coming this year as well.

And the new console games:

-"Lips." As I reported (with a lot of help from Kotaku) last week, there's a new music game exclusively for 360. It's a karaoke title made by "Elite Beat Agents" developers iNiS and lets players import music from an iPod or Zune into the game. Not sure exactly how that'll work, but if it can really make any song work, that'll be amazing. Or maybe it's only songs that have been pre-cleared for "Lips?"

-"You're in the Movies." Players use the Xbox Live camera to move around in mini-games where they do things like run, swat away bugs, dance, etc. Then the game puts those video clips in a trailer for a B movie with totally different context. The resulting videos can be shared online. Could be an amusing party game. Was certainly amusing to watch Microsoft execs like Don Mattrick and Shane Kim play.

-"Scene It: Box Office Smash." A new "Scene It" trivia game focused on movies that uses those little remotes that Microsoft introduced at E3 last year.