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Like the callous husband who ignores his wife for weeks, but then comes home early on her birthday with a bouquet of roses and tickets to Paris, so this week's Virtual Console update reminds us why we married the bastard in the first place. Three new games in one day - something that hasn't happened since last year, shockingly - and a whole new platform to play with as well!

As you maybe, just maybe have heard, Tanya Byron of televisual psychology fame was commissioned by the Prime Minister to look into the effects of violence in videogames and on the Internet on children.

In 1998, my best friend and I spent hours playing Worms 2. We played it in a basement flat in Catford, him sitting on a broken office chair, me on a rickety piano stool, taking it in turns to shove each the other out the way and grab the mouse. We watched the action unfold on a 14-inch CRT monitor, while a CD drive made of whalebone and powered by steam whirred away under the desk. For hours.

Epic has released the first official map pack for Unreal Tournament 3 on PS3.

Belgian magazine PCGameplay is reporting a sequel to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is on the way, according to IGN.

Rockstar has lifted the lid on its Social Club website for Grand Theft Auto IV, which will record your in-game statistics and allow you to download songs from the sountrack.

Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has offered the first hint at what Jade Raymond's plans are now Assassin's Creed is out of the way.

Nintendo has launched the promised Commodore 64 channel for Virtual Console with two initial games, and has also released a new N64 title via the Wii's suddenly exciting shop.

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue appears to have missed its March 27th PlayStation Network launch date, with the game unavailable from Sony's PAL store at the time of writing.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Not our words, but the words of Ferris Bueller. Now, Ferris may have been a smug embryonic yuppie with a grossly inflated sense of self-entitlement and a penchant for butchering Beatles songs, but in this case he had a point. There's a lot going on, and nowhere is this more true than Eurogamer TV - the shiny copper video spout whose motto might as well be "there's a lot going on". Sometimes, in fact, there's so much going on that you may miss some good stuff. That's why this is happening - the first of our monthly recaps, the edited highlights if you will, compiling the best of Eurogamer's magic moving picture output into one click-friendly article. Slip off your shoes, loosen the pants and look with your eyes.

Rockstar is releasing the final pre-release trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV tonight.

Whether it's driving or fighting you like about gaming (and it's got to be one of those, realistically), this week punches above its weight with a bumper crop of new releases. It's, er, bumper to bumper out there in the area where people fight each other of gaming.

Alias actor Carl Lumbly believes games are far more beneficial to children than many give them credit for.

If you're planning to go outside this summer then Square Enix has a few ideas for games you could take with you, like Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift for DS, Space Invaders Extreme for PSP/DS, and Arkanoid DS, all of which are due out in sunny season.

Following on from yesterday's PC demo, EA has thrown a UEFA Euro 2008 demo up onto Xbox Live Marketplace, and a PlayStation Network demo will also go live today.

Deep Silver and GSC World Publishing will be releasing S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky around the world on 29th August.

Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi has said we should expect vehicle deformation in his games "very, very soon".

Unlike most other games, MMOs change over time. Audiences grow or shrink, features are changed, interfaces are overhauled, game balance is adjusted, new content and play styles are added, communities thrive or die. A review of an MMO can't be set in stone. So, on Eurogamer's new MMO channel, we'll be regularly re-reviewing the games to let you know the current state of play, and to help you decide whether it's time to jump in - or time to leave. Here's the first of these, about the biggest game: World of Warcraft.

Oh look, it's another compilation of mini-games for the Wii. Well knock me down with a lead feather, where do they get their ideas from, is it perhaps a cardboard box labelled REALLY OBVIOUS IDEAS FOR WII SOFTWARE containing a single piece of paper which reads WHY NOT DO A MINI-GAME COMPILATION.

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has said MMOGs based on Civilization and BioShock are "potential opportunities".

PS3 shooter SOCOM Confrontation will launch in the US on September 16th, according to 1UP.

2K Games bigwig Strauss Zelnick has said that the two-year release cycle employed for the Grand Theft Auto series could be used for future BioShock titles, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Take Two has announced that BioShock 2 will be released in fiscal Q4 2009. The publisher's financial year is two months ahead of the calendar year, so that means we'll see the game somewhere in the August-October 2009 period.

Tecmo has revealed that a playable demo for Ninja Gaiden 2 will be available in May.

Propaganda Games has promised to hang five fresh maps out for Turok on PSN and Xbox Live today, although we've just had a quick look and found nothing.

So much for Sony's assertion yesterday that Killzone 2 will be out in September. It ain't necessarily so, says developer Guerrilla Games.

Following all sorts of speculation, the sequel to 50 Cent: Bulletproof has officially been announced.

The long-awaited Byron Review has recommended that a single, clearly outlined age rating system be introduced for videogames in the UK, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Poor old Atari may be delisted from the NASDAQ stock exchange for failing to be worth enough money.

Electronic Arts has released a new demo for the PC version of UEFA Euro 2008.