This week sees the release of the semi-anticipated, briefly controversial Mass Effect for the PC. In the wake of internet outcry, perhaps only encouraging people on the internet to 'outcry' more, Bioware and Electronic Arts backed down from a planned protection scheme that would require Mass Effect to "phone home" every ten days to keep the game running. But, let's put all that unpleasantness aside and simply revel in the joy of receiving yet another console port as some kind of token offering to a meager PC market. There is some kind of unpleasant hint of an insult in playing a Bioware RPG just oozing with the trappings of a console six months after the game's release, but then again I'm the kind of person who would outcry such things on the internet. Maybe I'll start a petition of some kind. Despite this, I'm give (Note: I'm leaving my embarrassing grammatical error in tact to shame me into not being so hasty next week) MEPC the nod for Game of the Week.

Also of note is the inverse of the above situation where the PS3 receives what was one of the better, if not largely adopted, PC games of last year: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. This is a game that unfortunately got lost in the shuffle of an historic October and November of 2007 releases, and which would probably have been much more widely received any other year. This story is made a little worse for the fact that Activision has just announced the closure of the PS3 ET:QW developer.

Ours is a strangely maudlin Game of the Week segement.

On DVD this week, Rambo. Create-your-own age joke. More DVDs here.

PC:
- Bus Driver
- Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition
- Mass Effect
- Stronghold Crusader Extreme

PSP:
- World Championship Cards

DS:
- Super Dodgeball Brawlers
- USA Today Crosswords Challenge

Xbox 360
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition

PS3:
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Wii:
- Death Jr. Root of Evil
- Emergency Heroes
- Kawasaki Snowmobiles
- The Monkey King: The Legend Begins