• New iPhone 3G Puts Apple in the Game

  
  Apple's iPhone 3G and App Store is set to put the company into another lucrative market: gaming.

• Summer Movies Star in Video Games

  
  Upcoming video games include titles based on "Wall-E," "Hellboy," and other summer blockbusters.
• Software for Webmasters, Wordsmiths, and Whodunnit Fans
• Casual Friday: Top 10 Free Games
• EA Announces 'Best Ever' E3 Lineup
• Sony Has No Plans to Cut PlayStation 3 Price
• Game Industry Braces for Activision-Vivendi Merger
• Mobile Gaming Makes Gains, Gartner Says
• Game Sales Beat DVDs, Box Office in 2007
• Casual Friday: Virtual Vacationing

Latest from E3

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  Microsoft Unveils 60GB Xbox 360, Obsoletes 20GB for $300 We knew a price cut for Microsoft's mid-grade Xbox 360 was imminent, but who knew it'd be such a tempest in a teapot.
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  Is This Really the Xbox 360 'Wii-mote'? British games market media site MCV claims it's found official footage of the Xbox 360 'Wii-mote', even though the tabloids broke the news about the two-piece, six-degrees-of-freedom, motion-sensing Motus "Darwin" months ago.
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  Pre-E3 Price Rumble: PS3 versus Xbox 360 We already know the Wii's flying off shelves like half-price Oreos, but how are things shaping up in the feature-value scrimmaging between Sony and Microsoft.
• Today @ PC World
  Sony Fixes PS3 Firmware Fiasco: We Test the Fix As reported last week, Sony's highly anticipated 2.
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  PC Gaming Set to Spin You Right Round You can say anything for free, it doesn't cost you a single penny.
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  PlayStation 3 System Update 2.4 Impressions Now there's a surprise: Everyone says Sony's servers are getting hammered, but I just sucked the entire update down through a high latency one-point-five Mbps satellite straw in all of 15 minutes.
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  Rock Band 2 Exclusive to Xbox 360 this September Score one, or two, or maybe even ten for Microsoft, as Harmonix and MTV just announced that Rock Band 2 will debut exclusively on the Xbox 360 this September.
• Today @ PC World
  Talk Nerdy To Me: Does 'Guitar Hero: On Tour' Jump the Shark? It's been a big week for fake rockers. 'Guitar Hero: On Tour,' the Nintendo DS version of Activison's popular Guitar Hero series of games, hit stores last weekend.
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  16 Games For Windows Coming to a PC Near You I'm torn. Do I gallop around the room like a madman making wacky clucking cries of support for my favorite platform.

Gaming News

• Summer Movies Star in Video Games Upcoming video games include titles based on "Wall-E," "Hellboy," and other summer blockbusters.
• EA Announces 'Best Ever' E3 Lineup Electronic Arts plans to announce two dozen games at E3 this year, including a new installment in the Harry Potter series.
• Sony Has No Plans to Cut PlayStation 3 Price Although Microsoft is dropping the price of the Xbox 360 this weekend, Sony says it has no plans to follow suit.
• New iPhone 3G Puts Apple in the Game Apple's iPhone 3G and App Store is set to put the company into another lucrative market: gaming.
• Game Industry Braces for Activision-Vivendi Merger Activision shareholders will today vote on a $18.9 billion deal establishing Activision Blizzard as a market leader. .

Gaming Playing in PCW Video

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  Golf Simulation: Take Real Golf Swings at Tokyo Bar A new bar in Tokyo lets golfers swing clubs at real balls after work in a software simulation area.
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  2008 Independent Games Festival Winners Senior Editor Darren Gladstone takes a look at some of the winners of the 2008 Independent Games Awards.
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  Sid Meier Brings Civilization to Consoles The famous franchise comes to Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and DS.

Gaming Slideshows

• The 15 Hottest Games of Summer From the much-anticipated Spore to the newest Guitar Hero to shoot-'em-ups galore, here are our recommendations for the games you've got to play this summer.
• Grand Theft Auto IV: Exceeds Every Expectation Grand Theft Auto IV hurtles onto the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with the force of a supernova, making good on nearly all its promises.

Gaming Reviews

• Casual Friday: Top 10 Free Games This week, we list a bunch of fantastic free games (and then link you to hundreds of other time-killers). You're welcome.
• Software for Webmasters, Wordsmiths, and Whodunnit Fans Learn about your Web site's visitors, find the right word, and unearth clues to a puzzling crime.
• Casual Friday: The Guitar Hero Rock Band This week, we pretend we're Aerosmith, complain about having too many plastic guitars, and show you how to make some sweet music with what you already have.
• Casual Friday: Virtual Vacationing Can't see the world? We've got some cheap ways for you to explore the great indoors this summer.
• Casual Friday: Stream Crysis on an Eee PC You can play your PCs games wherever and whenever you want--even on an underpowered mini-laptop--thanks to streaming (and one day, cloud computing).