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Sid Meier's social network-powered Civilization World has entered open beta.

PlayStation Plus is a year old, and in that time it has given subscribers over £700 worth of content, Sony said today.

The character Red the Hunter is an anthropomorphised dog in a hat, a kind of cross between The Fantastic Mr Fox and Biggles, who pilots a robot and chews a bone like it's a cheroot. Every ounce of his wiseass charm is needed: after all, he's in a game called Solatorobo. Come again? The spiritual sequel to Tail Concerto, a PlayStation title that sold so poorly it's taken 13 years to get this made, you wonder if the developers at CyberConnect2 are idealists, plain crazy, or just don't like selling games.

Publisher Rising Star Games has warned Xbox 360 owners not to buy Deadly Premonition from Xbox Live Games on Demand because of an issue with pricing.

Yesterday's addition of the Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception multiplayer beta still headlines what the PlayStation Store offers today.

Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be playable at the Eurogamer Expo in London this September.

Microsoft hopes to boost Kinect sales in Japan with games that are familiar to Japanese players.

Splash Damage first-person shooter Brink was "polarising," publisher Bethesda has said.

The Tour de France is a fabled race, and one that's rich with over 100 years of prestige; this year, it's 21 stages over the course of 3 weeks that take in the breadth of France's landscape, the picturesque flats of the Brittany and the punishing ascents of the Pyrenees all attacked under a hot July sun by a dedicated throng of some of the world's fittest athletes. The stamina and strength to see it through those three weeks makes it one of sport's greatest physical endeavours, and the dedication needed to see success cements its place as one of sport's great spectacles.

The multiplayer phase of massive Eve Online expansion Incarna will be added "this year", senior producer Arnar Gylfason has confirmed.

Despite reassurances made after the emergency Eve Online summit, the question of whether the space MMO will ever sell non-vanity items (those that affect gameplay) for real-world money still lingers.

Hello! Welcome to the latest instalment of the super-serious, highbrow industry natter-'em-up that is the Eurogamer.net Podcast.

Sony is "quietly testing" a design upgrade for the PlayStation Network, according to a new report.

The iPhone 5 looks set for launch in September after more rumours of the inevitable device hit the internet.

With The Mercenaries 3D, Resident Evil finally sheds the last vestiges of its horror past and gives in to the third-person shooter urges that have been tugging away at the franchise since 2005, when this game mode first appeared as an unlockable bonus in Resident Evil 4.

Tomorrow, 6th July, Sky will do away with its Sky Player and replace it with a new initiative called Sky Go.

They all look the same, so they say. Blindness to nuance and personality in the face of the unfamiliar has always been the bigot's way, and how many gamers are guilty of the same when looking to Koei's Dynasty Warriors series? "There's no real challenge," they argue, setting the difficulty to easy and switching off after an hour. "You simply mash the buttons to trigger an apocalypse of fireworks," they explain, ignoring the capacity for skill beneath the pyrotechnics.

The average UK gamer plays on 3.9 platforms, a new study has found.

Whether or not you think of BioShock Infinite as the true sequel to BioShock probably depends on your definition of the word sequel. We've already had a numerical and chronological successor set in the drowned world of Rapture, of course, echoing its pressured, clanking undersea horror and iconic art deco imagery.

Every first-time player of über-gritty World War 2 multiplayer FPS Red Orchestra must undergo as rude an awakening as you're likely to find in gaming.

At least "a dozen" alternatives were explored and "extensive research" carried out before the decision was made to carve the European League of Legends territory in half, Riot Games has told Eurogamer.

Sony remains the most valued brand in Asia despite the PlayStation Network hack.

The Uncharted 3 beta goes public today, Naughty Dog has announced.

Irresistible Final Fantasy VII costumes head to LittleBigPlanet 2 next week.

Some of the people behind Test Drive Unlimited 2 and Alone in the Dark have formed a new developer.

UPDATE: Director Hajime Tabata has blamed the game's delay on the PlayStation Network hack.

It shouldn't really be noteworthy that Earth Defense Force is a game about killing giant ants. That's because, back in the early years, all games were about killing giant ants - at least it seemed like they were. These days, games are about cinematic set-pieces and fluid dynamics. These days, games are about feelings. Who wants that, when these ants, right, have come down from outer space, and they aren't particularly friendly? You get to shoot them with assault rifles, shot guns and rocket launchers. It's brilliant.

Ofcom has told Channel 5 off for airing what it deemed "excessively noisy" PlayStation 3 ads around Five Movies.

Two former Bondi staffers, speaking to Eurogamer sister site Gamesindustry.biz under condition of anonymity, claim Rockstar's relationship with Team Bondi reached such a low point during the course of the creation of 1940s crime adventure L.A. Noire that it now has "disdain" for the Australian developer.

Evidence is building that Portal 2 maker Valve will unveil DOTA 2, the sequel to the Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients, at German show gamescom next month.