Just about the only piece of news to come out of Shigeru Miyamoto's keynote at GDC yesterday was confirmation that Super Mario Galaxy will be out by the end of the year. Well, the Nintendo luminary was hardly likely to say something like that without a spot of new footage and some new screens, was he?

Since SPOnG's toes have been twitching for this game for longer than is healthy we've brought you the video below. Simply put: it looks spiffing. It's going to be interesting to see how the latest instalment will play, however. Leaping from mini-planetoid to mini-planetoid doesn't leave much surface area for the traditional running and jumping formula that has characterises the series.

Anyway, cast your eyes down the screen and look at the pretty footage and screens! And if you need more Mario in space then head over to SPOnG's dedicated Mario Galaxy game page.