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I've noticed a subtle but undeniable change in the Virtual Console over the last few months. Look back to when the service launched, and the games on offer were generally colourful, cheerful efforts, clearly aimed at capturing the sort of family market targeted by those plug-in TV games and Press The Red Button fare on Sky.

Microsoft has popped its Santa hat on and revealed a new deal to get people buying its HD-DVD player, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Auran and Sierra Online's Battlestar Galactica game has finally popped up on DRADIS and should be within purchasing range by the middle of next week.

Nintendo has ushered three more oldies onto the Virtual Console, lead by NeoGeo fighter World Heroes.

It ended with a bang. At the first Capcom Gamers' Day to be held in Europe - our own fair capital of London, to be precise - it looked for ten excruciating seconds like the big reveal of an extremely lengthy press conference really was going to be the announcement of a PS3 version of Lost Planet. But we should have known better.

Capcom eagerly shuffled press into the smoggy streets of London this week to show off its upcoming catalogue of games.

I'm assuming you've seen Aliens. No, not the small grey men with engorged craniums that suck you up into their ships, prod your erogenous zones then spit you back to earth like a globule of hacked up phlegm. No, I'm talking about the James Cameron sci-fi masterpiece in which large black monsters with engorged craniums chop up an elite marine taskforce in about two hours. I'm also going to assume you've seen Aliens: Special Edition (AKA Director's Cut). If not, go watch them, then come back when you're done and we'll pick things up from there.

The NPD Group has released its report for US September software sales showing Halo 3 at number one, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Capcom has taken the wraps off a new action game called Dark Void, which will be released sometime next winter.

Sony Japan has said it will be releasing a free demo for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue on its regional Store this Saturday, 20th October.

Here's something you don't see very often: a game's producer telling retailers it's okay to sell something ahead of its official release date since they already have it in stock.

The ability to play PS2 games is not a primary driver for the PS3's business, Peter Dille has told our sister site GamesIndustry.biz.

First of all: worst pun ever. Come on Radical. Come on Sierra. You can do better than that.

SEGA has whisked the cover off its new Superstars Tennis game for PS3, 360, PS2, Wii and DS.

What's immediately noticeable (to anyone who isn't a well-to-do public schoolboy with a gob full of silver plums, at least) is the wonderfully accurate pastiche Skool Daze makes of genuine British school life. The lumbering, disenchanted masses shuffling between classes; the tediousness of lessons given by disinterested, broken willed teachers; the stereotypical characters that populate every school and the desperate attempts to celebrate mediocrity by way of cut-price tarnished trophies are all present in full monochromatic splendour. But, unlike most schools, Eric's has a far more conspiratorial use for its economical awards paraphernalia.

Between 1983 and 1987, Durell Software produced a handful of games which could compete with the best their fellow 8-bit publishers had to offer. Largely remembered for the big-selling Falklands tie-in, Harrier Attack, Durell also tried their hand at more outlandish projects - such as the superbly named Fat Worm Blows A Sparky. In the middle of this mainstream weirdness was Saboteur's early stab at the stealth genre; though one which relied heavily on traditional arcade elements.

Sony has unloaded more cardboard boxes full of content onto the PlayStation Store.

Update: EA has waded in and said it will be exclusively available on Game Daily from 17:00 BST today, and available everywhere else 24 hours later.

Snuck in around the edges of Capcom's fancy Gamers Day in London this week was news of Commando 3 for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network.

Capcom has finally confirmed persistent rumours that Okami is coming to Nintendo Wii, telling a London audience this week that the game will arrive on our screens in spring 2008.

Late and much missed actor John Spencer's character on The West Wing, Leo McGarry, used to gather his staff together once a year and make them listen to people who would never otherwise get an audience with anyone senior.

505 Games has proudly revealed that it will be bringing Guilty Gear XX Accent Core to the Wii in February.

Cribbed from the 'How to Play' section is possibly the most succinct description of The Bitmap Brothers' 1991 classic ever written, so it bears repeating here: "Speedball 2 is a brutally fast-paced game of two 90 second halves, where points can scored in an instant. You'll need to wrench the ball from the opposition at every opportunity and viciously smash in the scores if you want to emerge victorious."

Appropriately enough for a game that introduces motorbikes, PGR4 restores balance to a series that was beginning to wobble. PGR3 wasn't sure whether to be a fast racer or a game of technical driving. With PGR4, Bizarre Creations was sure it could do both, and so it proves.

Ubisoft will be air-lifting new co-operative content for Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 onto Xbox Live next month.

Llamasoft will be tinkering with Space Giraffe later this week, and the results will be free to download.

The Settlers has always been a curious beast. It first arrived in 1993, slap bang in the middle of the whole God Game/Real Time Strategy upheaval. Populous and Sim City had set the stage, Dune II had arrived just one year before and Command & Conquer was only a few years away. With two distinct strategy camps emerging, was The Settlers a city-builder or a real-time wargame? To begin with, it was very clearly a city builder with a rather sweet emphasis on the nerdy intricacies of trade routes. But as the years and sequels went by the game became more and more muddled, with more and more RTS trimmings, until it was pretty apparent that even Blue Byte didn't know what The Settlers was supposed to be any more.

Sony has finally admitted that it will be releasing a 40GB PS3 in the US, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting, and it will sit on shop shelves on 2nd November and cost USD 400.

The big announcement Capcom has been counting down to was none other than the unveiling of Street Fighter IV.

Government Communications Headquarters, a branch of the British Intelligence services (you know, "GCHQ" off Spooks), will be advertising its careers in videogames, GamesIndustry.biz reports.