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LocoRoco 2 and Age of Booty headline this week's PlayStation Store update, which also includes an eight-quid Far Cry 2 add-on and the usual spray of downloadable content for Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band, both of which get stuff from The Killers.

The end is in sight. It's very visible actually, clambering over us like a poppered-up celebrity chef in the throes of alleged infidelity. To be fair, there are still one or two interesting releases destined for 28th November, like Resistance 2 and, er... Well, we did say one or two.

Gamers may be nearing the end of the annual road to where's-all-my-money-gone, but that hasn't deterred Nintendo from updating the Virtual Console with three more treasures from the retro archives this Friday. Although your treasure may vary.

I recently found myself having one of those conversations that always happen when people discover that I make my living sitting around in my pants, playing games. After the obligatory "you lucky sod" outburst, and the slight recoil at the mental image of me in my pants, sweaty joypad in hand, they asked what I was playing at the moment. "The new Sonic game," I replied. "Wow, is Sonic still going?" they asked, before adding "Oh yeah, he was in that Mario game on the Wii."

Anyone who's been fortunate enough to play the arcade Street Fighter IV, or came to our Expo for a sneaky look at the home version, would probably join us in praising Capcom for bringing its legendary fighting franchise epically into the current generation. It personifies many of the key elements that made Third Strike and the Alpha series so tight and enjoyable, but grounds it in a familiar Street Fighter II setting, hitting the nostalgia buttons even as it hurricane kicks its way into the future.

Sony has told us that SOCOM: Confrontation will not be out this Friday in Europe, as some retailers are still suggesting.

Greenpeace has questioned Nintendo's commitment to conserving our planet, saying it's found the Wii maker's response "inadequate".

PlayStation Home director Jack Buser has reassured gamers that the PS3 virtual world will be open to everybody this year.

Otomedius Gorgeous! is essentially a game about penguins and cleavage. It doesn't show us any penguins endowed with boobs of their own, because that would be hideous, but still, I reckon these two elements probably constituted 60 per cent of Otomedius G's design document. The remaining 40 per cent is a Gradius-inspired love-in at the shmup ranch.

The intriguing independent MMO Chronicles of Spellborn is released today - if you happen to live in Germany, Austria or Switzerland.

Sony has declined to comment on "rumour and speculation" that a processor has already been licensed for a successor to the PSP.

Capcom has decided to offer everybody the Street Fighter Underground Remix album for free.

We've known for a while that Sony Online Entertainment hasn't decided exactly how its PS3 and PC espionage MMO, The Agency, is going to make money.

World of Warcraft's Armory (Blizzard's spelling, not ours) has been updated to include the Achievements and statistics added to the game in last month's Echoes of Doom patch.

Hal Milton, lead designer of Sony Online Entertainment's in-development spy MMO The Agency, says we'll see how the game is progressing at next year's trade shows.

Steam has clumped THQ and Relic games together into great money-saving packs.

Capcom has said the West will have to wait longer than 5th December for a demo of Resident Evil 5.

Xbox Live Marketplace and the PlayStation Store are offering discounted goodies in celebration of Thanksgiving.

Sony has told Eurogamer that the wireless keypad for PlayStation 3 will launch here on 28th November for GBP 24.99.

Sony plans to release a 160GB PlayStation 3 on 31st October.

THQ has confirmed that the next Destroy All Humans game is coming to Xbox 360 only - and not PS3 as previously announced.

Have you heard about this new RPG where you roam around a daft fantasy world? You take on jobs, get married, undertake quests and decide whether you want to carry them out properly, betray people, amass enormous fortunes - there's a remarkable amount of freedom, and it all becomes devilishly addictive as you promise yourself that, yes, you really will switch if off as soon as you see what's over the next hill.

Films by Sony-owned Columbia Pictures are once again available from the on-demand Netflix Xbox Live service.

Rare has said the Xbox 360 avatars were a feature originally intended to launch long ago, to help spread the appeal of the console. But presumably gardening bears got in the way.

It says something about the impact of a game when downloadable content for it comes prefaced with a plot continuity disclaimer. BioShock's Challenge Rooms, which was released exclusively for the PlayStation 3 last week for GBP 6.29, does just that.

Microsoft reckons the Xbox 360 will benefit from the credit crunch this Christmas, as families opt to stay at home and share affordable, long-lasting entertainment.

The trouble with ravaged fantasy worlds locked in constant battle between man, monsters and short beardy fellows is that they don't leave a whole lot of options for socialising and sight-seeing. “Fancy meeting for a coffee? Great. I'll meet you by the torture pits. Wear something you don't mind getting splattered in ichor.”

Harmonix has patched Rock Band 2 on PS3 to support Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Revolution peripherals.

I had a harrowing experience the other day, readers. I tripped and stumbled and fell down a dark deep well and there wasn't a rope in sight. Fortunately, after hearing my cries for help from below, good old Tom came up with a solution. He'd pour all the average to terrible DS games he could find down into the well so I could swim to the top. I was out in five minutes. Hooray for DS Roundups! Here's just a few of the games I shook out of my shoe after getting to the surface.

Is BioShock on PS3 the first example of a developer showing off the downloadable content before we get to see the game? The PS3 version's Challenge Rooms - announced and demonstrated to the press at E3 in July - were our first chance to see 2K's blockbusting underwater mind-bender in action on Sony hardware. The Ferris Wheel level, where players have to rescue a Little Sister by picking through the crumbling environment for electricity to transfer to a control panel, is a neat example of what 2K hopes to do to extend the game's appeal once the credits have rolled, but, shorn of the arguably vital context of the single-player game, it's a peculiar introduction. The assumption was that everyone has played BioShock.