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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.

Square Enix will be offering a pile of downloadable extras for Last Remnant in December, and most of them will be free.

Eiji Aonuma has said he won't stop making Zelda games until he's done one that surpasses the renowned Ocarina of Time. He's obsessed. But in a good way.

There's trouble brewing in the Warhammer Online community. The Mythic MMO is facing criticism from players that its "contribution" system, which is supposed to reward players according to the contribution they make to large-scale battles, is in fact purely random.

Sony and Harmonix have kick-started the UK's National Videogame Archive by donating cherished early prototypes of their work.

There just aren't enough cooking games these days. Yes, all right, there's Cooking Mama, Cake Mania, Cooking Guide, Happy Cooking, Grand Theft Cooking, Gears of Cooking, Call of Duty: World of Cooking, Strictly Come Cooking, Dude Where's My Cooking, Help I Can't Stop Cooking and Rococo McSpuffers' Easter Cake Meltdown. And yet, here come two more. Both are for DS, both feature celebrity chefs and neither are as appalling as you might imagine.

Eidos is investigating a glitch that stops players making progress in the Wii version of Tomb Raider: Underworld.

Rockstar has released a video showing how you use the editing feature included in the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV, which is due out on 3rd December.

Screenwriter and director Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) has said playing Grand Theft Auto IV was one of his highlights of 2008.

Konami has altered a number of things in Metal Gear Online to coincide with the arrival of the MEME Expansion.

EA Sports boss and correct football team supporter Peter Moore has said that his Wii games struggle because people are happy with Wii Sports - and that licensed sports games for Wii will lag behind other formats for some time.

Valve has published public Achievement statistics for its latest zombie shooter, Left 4 Dead, on the Steam website.

The forthcoming expansion pack for Halo 3 has been given a new name.

Good news this morning for those dismayed at console gaming's steady slide into the patch-and-install quagmire of playing on PCs. Sony's flagship PS3 shooter, Killzone 2, will not install to the machine's hard drive.

Sony's PS3 firmware update site claims that full-screen Flash playback for the internet browser is "coming soon".

The sequel to EA's Hawkbusting skateboarding game has been given a January release date.

Nothing has any right to run at 60 frames-per-second on the Nintendo DS, let alone a racing game, and even more let alone a racing game that puts as much emphasis on speed and scale as TrackMania, so it should be no surprise to learn that Firebrand's DS conversion only rarely does. What is surprising is that it gets so close to a constant 60fps, and remains thoroughly playable throughout.

Correction: Contrary to earlier reports, Ubisoft has not pushed Tom Clancy's HAWX back further into 2009. The game remains on track for a first-quarter release.

Guerrilla Games has told Eurogamer that the semi-public beta for Killzone 2 will draw to a close this Sunday.

Nintendo has cleared up confusion over second-hand sales of the new Wii Speak peripheral.

Sony's EyeToy team has told GamesIndustry.biz that Microsoft and Nintendo will run into problems with their entirely distinct and not at all rippy-offy camera games.

Killzone 2 developer Guerrilla Games has spent an entire hour answering your questions about the multiplayer beta test.

Techland has told Eurogamer that Warhound has been pushed back to an unspecified point in the future.

It's very hard to build the momentum of a storyline within an MMO these days, mostly because it's very hard to convince several thousand people to follow a straight line, let alone a cogent narrative. The Lord of the Rings Online solved this with solo instances and an almost unavoidable series of quests, and first expansion Mines of Moria continues this trend, insisting you follow the intricate narratives of Turbine's Tolkien interpretation.

On the journey to Glasgow to visit TrackMania DS's development team, Firebrand, I couldn't see how it was going to work. TrackMania - until now an exclusively PC game - is reliant on a couple of key features: speed and immediacy. The DS just didn't seem like it could be a natural home for this.

Released to capitalise on the recent release of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, the Xbox Live Arcade version of this 1998 Nintendo 64 favourite serves as a timely reminder of how far gaming has come over the past decade. At the time, Rare's star had never been brighter, flush as it was from the phenomenal success of GoldenEye. Gamers were desperate for what was seen as the Britsoft studio's answer to Super Mario 64, and blanket acclaim followed, with spectacular worldwide sales. But like so many early 3D games of the late 1990s, time hasn't been particularly kind to this colourful platform romp.

Sony plans to pop out a Festive Fun SongPack for SingStar this Thursday, 27th November.

Bizarre Creations has said over 1 million Geometry Wars high scores have been submitted to Xbox Live.

Gamer's University has made an April Fool real with the release of a simulated version of World of Warcraft's Molten Core raid for a primitive 8-bit console.