If the video game industry hasn’t taken enough of your money already, there are PLENTLY of things to download for your system of choice to fix that for you. Take a look here and see if anything catches your eye before you start searching the couch for quarters.

Nintendo Wii (Tuesday Release):

• Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers (SNES – 800 points)
• Adventures of LOLO 2 (NES – 500 points)

Xbox 360 (Tuesday Release):

• Undertow (XBLA – Free, see below) **Edit: Undertow is simply free this week, it’s been out for a while**
• Rock Band DLC: Oasis Pack (440 points)

Playstation 3 (Thursday Release):

• PixelJunk Monster ($10)
• Rockband DLC: Oasis Pack ($4.49)

This weeks releases on the Nintendo Wii are nothing special. I wouldn’t doubt that you might even own the originals of these games, assuming that you not only purchased your own Wii, but also drove to get it yourself. Unless your parents raised you solely on Mortal Kombat, you’re at least aware of what Super Street Fighter 2 is. This game is a more limited than the Xbox 360 version as you can’t play any Wii downloadable content on Nintendo Wi-Fi, so call your buddies up and get back to some of the best 2d fighting action around. With Adventures of LOLO 2, nobody really cares about the first one, and I doubt many could tell you the difference. This was the game I would play at my friends house if his mom was the one buying video games. Your not missing anything if you haven’t played this. It’s like Bomberman…..without the bombs…..and slower.

To make up for the instability of Xbox Live in December, Undertow will be free to download between Wednesday January 23rd to Sunday January 27th. Apparently if you already paid for the game they want you to call customer service and they will see what they can do for you. I haven’t had a chance to play this game yet, but be assured that I’ll download it and fully enjoy all zero dollars it cost me. From what I gather, this game involves you scuba diving with some form of underwater rocket launcher. You can do single player missions or race/compete with player online. They say that the graphics are great, but the pictures I’ve pulled up don’t seem to be anything spectacular, even for a free XBLA game.

PixelJunk Monster for Playstation 3 is yet another “tower defense” type game. This time around they’ve decided to hand draw 2D images and put it in 1080p HD to make you forget that you’ve been playing this style of game for the past several months. Like all the others of this rapidly growing game-style, your character is placed in the middle of an area to prevent things from getting off the screen. Replace character with monster, area with forest, and things with monsters. If there is really more depth to this game than that it clearly has to be in the fact that its 1080p HD. PSN downloads may be nothing special, but they are Nothing Special 1080HD (copyright coming soon).

I left Rockband for last as this is by far my most often visited game since it’s launch. Each week they offer 3 new songs and I usually download at least 1. This week I’ll be downloading the whole pack. Oasis, the washed up British band of my MTV youth, is releasing 3 songs into the Rockband Library: “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” “Live Forever,” and “Wonderwall”. If you don’t at least remember “Wonder Wall” I’m going to assume that your playing Bass on easy, unplugged in the corner, as your parents don’t think your old enough to play the game. Why are you reading this? Oasis has a few fun songs, and these are some of them. There really isn’t any British bands in the Library and I’m more partial to rock/alternative/punk than the metal side. If you like the real song’s you’ll like playing them on Rockband, so if you download them send me a message through Xbox Live (GreenxxLantern) and we can jam out to a song or two. Just remember, I play drums.