Needs a herb

After a stellar performance landing at number six in the UK charts in its first week, Resident Evil Revelations drops to number 19 in its second week on sale.

Capcom's survival horror shooter sits a few places below Mario Kart 7 in 17th and Super Mario 3D Land at 16, the highest-placed 3DS-exclusive game on the chart.

Revelations is out this week in North America so it'll be interesting to see how it fares on the other side of the pond.

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Demos, burgers and VC returns

This week Europe's got one of the best-looking download slates in a long time — though no, there's no VVVVVV or Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword — with strong titles left, right and centre. Let's get to it.

Wii Virtual Console

The King of Fighters '97 (Neo Geo, D4 Enterprise, 900pts) — The legendary fighting series returns to Virtual Console. The first Neo Geo game to hit the service in over a year, this three-on-three scrapper is well-regarded in the fighting game community; we'll bring you our verdict very soon.

3DS Virtual Console

Kirby's Block Ball (Game Boy, Nintendo, £2.70/€3) — Kirby stars in a Breakout-like game, with paddles on all four sides and Kirby's special abilities all changing things up. We'll have an in-depth review for you soon.

WiiWare

BurgerTime World Tour (Monkeypaw Games, 1000pts) — After launching on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network last year, WiiWare users get a chance to build burgers in this revisiting of the classic concept. 3DS owners can already try out BurgerTime Deluxe of course, but we'll see if this WiiWare version is just as tasty in our upcoming review. Until then, check out our Monkeypaw Games interview and BurgerTime World Tour preview.

3DS Demo

CRUSH3D (SEGA, free) — Try out a little bit of SEGA's mind-bending puzzler, then read our CRUSH3D review and see if the full game's for you.

DSiWare

Crazy Cheebo: Puzzle Party (Cypronia, 200pts) — A match-three game with a particularly unique-looking lead character, our Crazy Cheebo: Puzzle Party review tells you all you need to know.

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In your dreams

We mean it: this week sees a demo of SEGA puzzler CRUSH3D hit the 3DS eShop in Europe.

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Nearly 4 million served

Nintendo's Christmas trio of top titles continues to sell in Japan into January, with Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land and Monster Hunter 3 G still topping the country's sales charts.

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Moment of SEN

Kiss goodbye to your friendly neighbourhood PlayStation Network account: it's getting a name change tomorrow.

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Coming along nicely

Now that Metal gear Solid HD Collection has finally reached Europe it's time to start getting excited about the upcoming Vita version, with series mastermind Hideo Kojima recently tweeting a photo of the game up and running on Sony's new portable.

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Great weekend with my new @pushsquare team. Highlight for me? San Francisco Rush 2049 on Dreamcast, of course.

Things I have learnt today: I am not as good at fighting games as I thought. Have also learnt @_get2sammyb is not that good at tennis games.

I can't be the only person to have read the Met Office's "YELLOW WARNING of SNOW" as something rather different...

In an act of extraordinary foresight, BioWare has advised Mass Effect 3 players not to delete their save game — over a month before the game's release.

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