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Telly-loving PlayStation 3 owners are in for a treat this week – the ITV Player and Channel 4's 4oD are set to join the BBC iPlayer as PS3 applications.

All three versions of Mass Effect 3 will launch simultaneously next Christmas, EA has confirmed.

Bulletstorm is a game about shooting other people in the nuts and being rewarded for it. It's a game about kicking people into sparking control panels and watching as their limbs twitch and their eyeballs melt.

This is the reason that Sony and Polyphony Digital will always command an ultimate level of respect amongst the technologically obsessed. The Gran Turismo makers have synchronised four PlayStation3s running GT5: Prologue and merged the video outputs to produce what must surely be the world's first videogame running at an astonishing 240FPS. No current generation display can handle this. Instead, Sony demoed its prototype 19 inch nano-Spindt FED screen capable of this supreme refresh rate.

Here's what we were picking from: Out This Week.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial, is a weekly dissection of an issue weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

Stop us if we're getting too technical... on the other hand, don't bother! When the opportunity arose to talk tech with Bungie on any topic of our choosing, let's just say that we didn't hold back. And luckily for us, neither did the studio. What we have here is a titanic 6000 word insight into the technical make-up of the Xbox 360's biggest exclusive of the year.

Horribly addictive iOS time-waster Cut the Rope has just received a free festive level pack.

Oops. Someone is about to get hauled in front of HR. The EA Store has seemingly just ended weeks of speculation and confirmed the existence of Mass Effect 3.

Ex-Codemasters man Stuart Black has let slip a little more information about the "rock and roll" WWII shooter he's now working on for Sniper: Ghost Warrior studio, City Interactive.

A new trailer for X-Men Destiny has gone live, offering a first glimpse of what to expect from Silicon Knights' forthcoming superhero tie-in.

Following last week's Queen pack and Bon Jovi before that, famed ivory-tinkler Billy Joel is the latest contemporary recording artist to scissor-kick his way onto the Rock Band Store.

Quake Arena Arcade will available on Xbox Live Arcade from 15th December, publisher Bethesda Softworks has confirmed.

Xbox 360 Kinect bundles outsold PlayStation 3 Move bundles by a factor of more than five to one in the US last month, according to a retail analyst.

The tech firm behind the Kinect's camera sensor has released open-source drivers for the Xbox 360 add-on, opening the way for modders to put their own spin on the peripheral.

A huge update for the PlayStation 3 version of Fallout: New Vegas has just gone live, with PC and Xbox 360 roll-outs expected next week.

A whopping 17 million people have walked the virtual streets of PlayStation Home, Sony has announced.

A Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker related announcement at this weekend's Spike Video Game Awards looks likely.

Irish comedian Dara O'Briain was spotted making jokes about videogames on the Live at the Apollo stand-up television show.

Cars made famous by cult movies Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Back to the Future are included in a Forza 3 downloadable pack due out next week.

Gigantic online shop Amazon will pay for your old games.

Why does Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of Gran Turismo, get special dispensation from Sony when he makes a game? Because each main Gran Turismo release has sold roughly 10 million copies - or more.

Like the heavily rumoured PSP2, the iPad 2 will have rear and front-facing cameras, multiple sources claim.

Criterion's announced Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit's first premium downloadable content pack.

Newsflash! Games are pretty good, aren't they? The fact that the BBC's Panorama has taken approximately three decades to work out what some of us sussed out the first time we clapped eyes on an arcade machine in the early eighties is investigative journalism at its most biting. In other news, food is pretty tasty, and some people eat too much of it.

Tits and arse aren't the most important thing this time around for Lara Croft. Youth and, by association, vulnerability are - Lara Croft is a battleaxe with "Amazonian proportions" no longer.

A Manchester teenager was arrested after preventing thousands of players from logging on to Call of Duty using a DDOS program.

Mass Effect 3 will be revealed at this weekend's Spike TV Video Game Awards show, Joystiq claims.

The best-selling console in North America right now is Xbox 360, and November's Kinect-powered 1.37 million haul marks six months of game-machine dominance. What's Microsoft got to say about that?

PlayStation Portable action game The 3rd Birthday will have a shower scene because fans demanded it.