Nintendo’s Wii console has become an ongoing story point in an unexpected comic book from Marvel — The Irredeemable Ant-Man.

At last, it’s been said. Great games have evolved from summer blockbuster movies, and they’re great on all the major gaming consoles. Which left one lonely voice on Amazon asking that last unspoken question.

29-year-old Julio Bonis is usually writing serious medical research papers like “Bioinformatics as support for the new pharmacogenetic strategies.” But this week he had a new message.

“The Wii hurts my arm.”

There was big news from Sony today about the PlayStation 3. They almost didn’t not announce a major price break. Hooray?

You’ve run a lot of mazes, and eaten a lot of dots — but you made it. You’re in today’s Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championship, Presented by Quiznos. Now what?

Are PS3 price cuts on the horizon? At least one site reported no — that Sony nixed the possibility. But a careful read of Sony’s comments reveals a slightly different response: they just didn’t say ‘yes’. And there’s a big difference…

Extremely high failure rates are being suggested for the XBox 360. Last week 360 Gamer reported over 4,469 XBox owners responded to their online survey — and over 62.5% of them have now reported a defective XBox. Over 22% even reported that they’d had more than one console fail on them.

“We didn’t anticipate the popularity of the Wii…” admits a spokesman for Electronic Arts.

A Silicon Valley newspaper created a buzz when its Sunday edition reported on the sagging fortunes of the game developer — and attributed them to the surprise popularity of Nintendo’s Wii.

Last week 10-year-old Ezra Chatterton helped design a new quest in World of Warcraft. The Make-a-Wish Foundation had arranged a day-long session with Blizzard Entertainment for Ezra, who is fighting metastatic brain cancer. Since then gamers worldwide have emailed their support — and yesterday an online fund was created to help him with his fight.