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...

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.

Nintendo rolls out Wii games, Sony takes to video (Reuters)

Reuters - Riding the success of its popular Wii video game console, Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS) on Tuesday unveiled fresh titles for gamers to throw frisbees and rock on, while rival Sony Corp (6758.T) turned to Hollywood with a new video service.

Nintendo wins over outside game publishers with Wii (Reuters)

Reuters - In the video game industry, the spoils of the console wars come in the form of support from third-party software publishers selling games to run on your machine.

Microsoft, Sony Copy Nintendo's Playbook (Investor's Business Daily)

Investor's Business Daily - Nintendo raised the bar for casual, easy-to-play video games again Tuesday, as rivals Microsoft and Sony scrambled to imitate the family-friendly appeal of Nintendo's Wii game console with their own product announcements this week.

Japan: PS3 Catches Up to Wii, Xbox 360 on Life Support

In Japan, the Wii's lead over the PS3 shrank from six-to-one in May to just one-point-seven-to-one in June, according to Japanese magazine publisher Enterbrain. According to the publisher, Nintendo sold 235,990 Wii in a five week period ending June...