Reports have arrived straight from Cannes, France, where they're currently having their little Interactive & Digital Entertainment Festival (IDEF) party. Sony's part of the event, and in it, they supposedly (enter stage left: the ubiquitous Rumor label) announced that God of War III will be jumping onto this year's E3 bandwagon.

While we can't find any more confirmation other than the French website that first broke the news, Sony's already announced their lineup of games they'll be taking to the event (with Killzone 2, LittleBigPlanet, and Resistance 2 in tow, baby!). Of course, in their announced line up, GoW3 was excluded from the list. Was it meant to be a surprise for everyone at E3?

If this new development about Kratos arriving in E3 does hold out to be true, then by the gods titans!, it's going to be one hot event. Chances are, the game will just be presented - like maybe in the form of a teaser trailer, perhaps? - but we can still hope that there'd actually be a developer walkthrough; maybe even a playable demo of God of War 3 itself.

Well, despite all the bad press that ESA seems to be getting after all those other developers leaving the association (with some of them even pulling out of the E3 event), it looks like Sony's putting up quite a show this year.

Picture credit goes out to Jocchan from NeoGAF.