This week's wallet threat level deserves an exclamation point for two games that put about eighty of your dollars in dire peril. The first is Ratchet & Clank: Crack in Time for the Playstation 3 and the second is Torchlight for the PC. Based on my first few hours with Crack in Time, it may very well be the finest Ratchet & Clank yet. But even if it isn't, it's perhaps the best looking game I've ever seen on the Playstation 3. Yeah, you read that right. And, no, it's not just hyperbole. And Torchlight is the closest you can get to a new Diablo without it actually being called Diablo. Both of these wonderful games are severe wallet threats. You have been warned.

Then there's Forza 3, the utterly whelming third entry in Microsoft's racing game series that I would have enjoyed a lot more if I'd never played Need for Speed: Shift. But if you're a racing game completionist, you won't want to miss this one. One that you probably will want to miss is Fairytale Fights, a gory tongue-in-cheek hatchet-in-hand decapitated-head-on-the-floor "what-were-they-thinking?" take on fairy tales in the form of an awkward combat platformer that happens to come out the same week as Ratchet & Clank: Crack in Time. What were they thinking indeed?

And that's the extent of my first-hand knowledge of this week's potential wallet threats. I'm afraid I have no intel yet about Tekken 6, DJ Hero, and the "Ballad of Gay Tony" add-on for Grand Theft Auto IV.