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In the introduction to our very first Game of the Week, I wrote this: "If there's nothing at all we can recommend that week - hey, it might happen - we'll take the opportunity to highlight something from previous weeks that you (or we) might have missed."

It's a curious contradiction about game reviewers that we tend to wish games would move backwards just as much as we yearn for them to move forwards; they don't make 'em like they used to, they don't make 'em like they could do. They just make 'em like they do. Boring.

Were you to describe the entire spectrum of gaming using a graph or chart of some description - and that is the sort of thing the internet tends to do, so I'm not ruling this out for the future - you would probably struggle to place our Game of the Week further away from the other thing I've been playing over the last few days, however you chose to label the axes.

Game reviewers are, for the most part, pretty phlegmatic when it comes to each other's opinions. While everyone in the comments threads is going nuts over a controversially low score, our peers roll their eyes in sympathy, even if they disagree. We've all been there, right?

We were supposed to be bringing you two reviews of indie roguelikes this week. Yes, things really are the quiet - Fruit Ninja Kinect, though I'm sure it has its charms, was never likely to sustain Summer of Arcade's unbroken run of Games of the Week.

With each passing year, the Gamescom convention in Cologne in August provides a more fascinating contrast with E3's marketing blowout in Los Angeles two months earlier. This week has been no exception.

And we're off to the races. From now until Christmas, barely a week should elapse without at least a couple of huge games going head to head in the battle for what's left of our pocket money and paycheques. (I don't really still get pocket money, incidentally, although given that my mum and stepdad only got hitched when I was 21 maybe I should be hitting that guy up for back taxes?)

It has begun - and what better way to celebrate the fact it's not silly season any more than the sight of Zumba Fitness descending the Top 10 rather than bouncing around the summit?

I went away for a couple of weeks and somebody turned the games industry back on.

As far as reviews go, we spend an increasing amount of our time playing old games here at Eurogamer. Some companies, like Nintendo, have always been keen on repackaging their classics for new audiences. But the current fad for high definition (or portable) "remasters" is rapidly turning what was an occasional, indulgent cash-in into an important subsector of the industry, complete with its own development specialists and standards.

This week, you get your third chance to experience one of the most thrilling and absorbing templates for a single-player campaign this generation. Yep - Capybara's wonderful Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes has been released on PC!

I've often said that I will always prefer a new game over a remake when it comes to naming our game of the week, but this is the week I lay that rule to rest. The choice between two of today's releases made a nonsense of it.

There's a brilliant tension that runs through much of this industry's output, as an endless thirst for the new is met with a desire to return to some magical - and quite possibly imagined - past.

'Something for everyone' is an overused term, but in a bulging, eclectic and hugely enjoyable sack of new releases this week, it really does apply: from sports fan to toddler, retro enthusiast to party girl. And all without a single first-person shooter in sight. Well done, games industry.

This week, gaming's famous characters - you know, Lara Croft, Mario, that chick who died in Final Fantasy and Soldier Pointing a Gun - make way for two of the 20th century's greatest literary heroes on our screens.

And that's your first week on the new Eurogamer. Eventful, wasn't it? We hope you're settling in OK.

A new friend and fellow games writer paid me a great compliment recently: he said that he liked this column because Game of the Week marked the point at which we could stop talking about the reviews, and start talking about the actual games.

There are big games, there are massive games, and then there are this week's two banner releases.

Some retail maven somewhere must have calculated that you need a minimum of five weeks on store shelves before Christmas to make the most of the seasonal spending boom. Whatever the reason for the sudden deadline, this week's release schedule - following last week's clash of the titans - is an unseemly stampede of games of every stripe: big sequels, slick kids' games, remastered classics, motion control novelties, branded tie-ins, hardcore updates, indie hopefuls, not to mention new entries in two of the most storied video game series ever.

"You haven't strayed into some atrocious Dan Brown paperback," comments the recruiter for the Templars, one of the three secret societies you can join in The Secret World, Funcom's modern-day MMO. Well no, that much is clear - from that self-same gag, if nothing else. Dan Brown was never especially self-aware or prone to post-modern irony.

10/10-scoring classic RPG Chrono Trigger releases for iPhone and iPod Touch next month, developer Square Enix has confirmed.

The new Tomb Raider movie is a "very different" origin story, its producer has revealed.

The video game rental market may be about to take off.

Infinity Ward has banned hundreds of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 cheaters.

Nintendo is developing a range of mass market software for the 3DS to recreate the successes of DS casual games such as Brain Training.

In the merry little avalanche of free-to-play titles that tumble into our inboxes these days, there are several stages of grief I associate with being offered a review. First of all, there's practicality - is there the time? Second, do my pencils need organising? Thirdly, there's acceptance as I'm told that this one is meant to actually be quite good. I'll then assume this look.

Blizzard has never committed to a console project as it is, now, with Diablo 3 - the days of out-sourced and eventually scrapped last-gen project StarCraft Ghost should be forgotten.

A "significant" Battlefield 3 update launches this week.

World of Warcraft is seven years old on 23rd November.

Square Enix wants to launch a new Final Fantasy once every year or two.