• Major games released this week were: Metal Slug for the Wii VC, Mass Effect for the PC, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars for the PS3 and 360, and Death Jr.: Root of Evil for the Wii.

• Funcom’s newest MMORPG Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures hit their first milestone a week after their launch. According to Funcom, more than 400,000 players have entered their world in the first week, and while the Collector’s Edition is sold out indefinitely, they expect more to continue to join as retailers restock with more copies of their game.

• After it’s huge success on the Xbox 360 and PC, Take-Two and 2K Games’ sci-fi FPS BioShock is finally coming to the PlayStation 3. Announced for October, Take-Two said that it would be adding new features and content in order to make up for the wait that PlayStation 3 owners have had. 2K Marin is currently at work on BioShock 2, which is expected to be released in 2009.

• While it may be Hideo Kojima’s last game in the series, he’s gone on record saying that this may not be the end for the franchise. While Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, releasing on June 12, will close all open plot lines from the previous games, Kojima has said that “Metal Gear will always be around.” No news has been released on if another MGS game is to be made yet.

• Steam, the widely used PC digital download, update, and overall game system made by Valve, is expecting to get a face-lift of it’s own soon. One new program announced was Steam Cloud, which will take all game saves, profiles, preferences, settings, etc. and save them all server side instead. The games that will begin to use this first will be Half-Life, Team Fortress 2, and Counter-Strike. Valve also released details on some upcoming updates for Steam, including an automatic downloading driver updater, an automatic system requirements check, and more. According to rumor, this will all begin being released by the end of this year.