Big news in the next-gen console wars this week: Nintendo’s Wii has come out from a late start and overtaken the Xbox 360, becoming the highest selling next-gen console out there with some 9 million units sold, compared with Xbox 360’s 8.9 million and the Sony PS3’s 3.7 million…

Bungie/Microsoft will have two User Generated Content components included in next weeks highly anticipated Halo 3 release: Saved Films and Forge.

Saved Films will allow players to replay all in game action from first person, orbiting and flying cam views. Users can review…

Weird news out of the gaming community today. MediaPost is reporting that more women own gaming consoles than men. According to the recent (somewhat unfortunately named) Denizens of Digitivity survey, some 44 percent of women own gaming consoles, compared with only 39 percent of men.

The folks at NewTeeVee.com continue to crank out thought provoking coverage of the online video world. Chris Albrecht began a thread seeking to benchmark how many views constitues a “hit” online video. He interviewed numerours players and reports the following range in hit…