Los Angeles - At E3 on Wednesday, Nintendo introduced three new controllers for its Wii game console, including a "balance board" peripheral that gamers will use with a new fitness title called "Wii Fit." [more..]

Los Angeles - Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it plans to release a special edition of its Xbox 360 video game console in conjunction with the release of its "Halo 3" game in September. [more..]

New York - The Orchard, a digital distributor and marketer of independent music, announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to a reverse merger agreement with fellow digital music and video distributor Digital Music Group, Inc. [more..]

Santa Monica, Calif. - Movie studio Lionsgate announced on Wednesday that it has invested an undisclosed sum in video entertainment site Break.com. [more..]

Los Angeles - Disney announced on Wednesday an agreement with Microsoft to make its films available for purchase and download through the Xbox Live Marketplace online service for the Xbox 360 game console. [more..]

Los Angeles - 60Frames Entertainment, a company that will provide financing, ad sales and syndication of professionally-produced online content, on Wednesday announced its official launch and a first round of $3.5 million in financing. [more..]

Los Angeles - Elevation Partners, the private equity firm whose partners include U2 singer Bono, announced on Wednesday its acquisition of SDI Media Group, a provider of foreign language subtitling and dubbing services for the entertainment industry, from Warburg Pincus. [more..]

Seattle - Cozi, a provider of social networking software for families, has raised $4 million in new financing from a group of angel investors, the Seattle-PI reported. [more..]

Santa Monica, Calif. - Ned Sherman provides coverage of Digital Media Wire's first annual Mobile Games Insider, a half-day invite-only event for 150 top games and mobile executives held yesterday at a private beach club in Santa Monica, California.
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Jay Baage blogs about GSN's future prospects after the exit of President and CEO Rich Cronin.
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Jay Baage blogs about a new software which enable users to type in words and melody and have a robot vocalist sing back the input. [more..]

New York - News aggregation site Congoo plans to add user recommendations for stories along with its software-powered selection of items from 25,000 news sources, the Associated Press reported. [more..]

Dulles, Va. - AOL has launched a test version of myAOL, which allows users to personalize their homepage, find customized search results and manage and import user feeds. [more..]

Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced on Wednesday that the Skype Internet-based telephone service is now available on its Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, allowing users to make voice calls over the Internet via a Wi-Fi connection with the device. [more..]

Bedford, Mass. - Groove Mobile, a provider of mobile music download services, said on Wednesday that it will begin reporting global sales of mobile music downloads to Nielsen SoundScan, which provides data for the Billboard music charts. [more..]

Cambridge, Mass. - Maven Networks, a provider of Internet TV delivery technology, said on Wednesday that Gemstar-TV Guide will use its services to power its online video channels. [more..]

Los Angeles - Electronic Arts on Wednesday announced the roster of new games it will preview at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles this week. [more..]

Chicago - Midway Games on Wednesday provided a list of the forthcoming titles it will show at the E3 event this week. [more..]

Santa Monica, Calif. - Japanese developer Konami Digital Entertainment on Wednesday listed the nine upcoming titles it will have on display at this week's E3 conference in Los Angeles. [more..]

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Los Angeles - MTV Networks' AddictingGames online game channel has partnered with Finland-based teen online virtual community Habbo, and will be the exclusive North American online game distributor for the site. [more..]