This week's batch of downloadable titles for the Wii brings the total of WiiWare and Virtual Console games to a nice, round 500. Nintendo's celebrating with the Virtual Console debut of the original Super Smash Bros. game. Hit the jump for the rest of this week's downloadables.

Dirk the Daring leads this week's batch of DSiWare releases as Dragon's Lair hits the Nintendo DSi handheld's download service. Backing Dirk up are a bunch of cards and a notebook. Hmmm.

Codemasters is letting everyone know that a new Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising DLC pack is going live on the Marketplace today. PS3 and PC gamers will have to wait a bit. Details past the jump.

Zipper Interactive has announced that MAG has gone gold in North America, Japan, Korea, and the rest of Asia. Righ on schedule for its January release. Best of all, they also announced that the free open beta -- Beta 5 -- is kicking off soon. Real soon. Schedule details past the jump.

In Vigil Games' Darksiders , players get to wreak havoc on a blasted and ruined world as War, one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. Sounds intense, right? Too bad there won't be a demo.

No Blizzard game has appeared on a console in a decade now, but that doesn't mean the company will stick only to developing for PC. Blizzard's J. Allen Brack recently told Gamasutra that they remain open to console development. It's just a matter of pinpointing what game they want to make for consoles.

As much as its awesome title may suggest otherwise, Alien Zombie Death isn't a B-movie. It's a new PSP minis title from PomPom Games. Ht the jump for details on this retro platformer.

In a few days we'll be moving on to a new decade, and if a LittleBigPlanet ad spotted on MCV's Digital Edition is any indication, Sony may also be moving on to the next iteration of their PSP handheld.

**Update:** It's apparently just "a mistake."

A big fuss erupted when Mistwalker announced back in October that they are finishing up a new project. Initially, Hironobu Sakaguchi thought that he would be able to at least discuss this new project before 2009 ends. Unfortunately, that's not gonna happen anymore.

If you missed out on the vouchers sent out for the God of War III demo, don't feel so forlorn. You're in great luck today as you will be getting another shot at it this week.