The week in gaming: the Xbox Experience, Fallout 3, and Guitar Hero (oh, and did we mention the Beatles?)

This week in gaming saw the launch and subsequent review of Fallout 3, Wii Music, LittleBigPlanet, and Guitar Hero: World Tour, as well as an in-depth look at the "New Xbox Experience."Read More...

WiiWare: downloadable indie games come to the Nintendo Wii

WiiWare is Nintendo's answer to Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade and Sony's PlayStation Network. Ars goes hands on with the service to offer reviews of the launch titles and impressions of the service overall.Read More...

Microsoft turns to users for new wave of Xbox games (Reuters)

Reuters - Microsoft Corp will turn to users of its Xbox 360 to create new video games and broaden the types of games available on its console, taking a page out of the strategy books of Facebook and YouTube.

Keeping Up Nintendo's Momentum

After overseeing several years of rapid growth at Nintendo, President Satoru Iwata faces new challenges: how to keep players of the company's videogames interested, and how to cultivate a new wave of customers.

At E3, video games shift their aim to casual players (USATODAY.com)

USATODAY.com - This year's downscaled E3 video game expo drew about 4,500 gamemakers, analysts, retailers and journalists to L.A. last week - less than a tenth of E3's size two years ago - even as the industry grew from $10.5 billion in 2005 to $18 billion in 2007.

Videogames getting more social (AFP)

AFP - Videogame makers are riding the social-networking wave with a flood of soon-to-be-released titles that let friends play online as teams and even create their own characters.