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Damn it, people. Will you stop releasing so many good downloadable games so I can revert to being miserable about the state of gaming? Every week I think we're due a fallow period, up pop another clutch of outstanding titles that embarrass most of the games lining up on high street shelves.

Hello and welcome to this lovely bonus edition of the Eurogamer.net Podcast! This week our home town of Brighton has played host to the Develop Conference, and to celebrate we got together with Revolution Software boss Charles Cecil to chat about the headlines from the best sessions.

NCsoft has stamped a 10th September date on Aion free expansion Assault on Balaurea.

Owners of the Steam version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 have been granted access to the Medal of Honor beta test.

Activision will charge gamers to play first-person shooter behemoth Call of Duty online by the end of the year, analyst Michael Pachter has predicted.

Nintendo UK general manager David Yarnton has admitted that demand for the Wii and DS has "declined".

Blizzard published the recommended system requirements for StarCraft II, and the good news is they're not astronomical.

GAME has seen "amazing demand" for the new Xbox 360 250GB.

Downloadable Tomb Raider game Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will be exclusively available on the Xbox 360 for at least four weeks.

Sony might have been bottom of the pile for US sales throughout June - and forced to praise monthly year-on-year sales growth again - but that hasn't dampened the company's expectations of the "big impact" PlayStation 3 will have this holiday.

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will be available to download from Xbox Live Arcade on 18th August and from the PlayStation Store and Steam a month later. To celebrate Larry's return, we have for your viewing pleasure an exclusive new trailer, lovingly displayed below.

We furnish you with five mini-reviews of downloadable titles every Friday, but it's never enough. The world of downloadable gaming never sleeps. Not content pounding out a couple of dozen new titles every week, publishers and developers are always looking for ways to make money out of their bulging back catalogues. As Barry Norman used to say rather charmingly, "and why not?"

Sony Online Entertainment has laid off 41 employees.

British developer Just Add Water has revealed that it is collaborating with Oddworld Inhabitants on "multiple projects across multiple platforms".

The PEGI 18 rating will not be legally enforceable until 1st April 2011, the Video Standards Council said.

The launch of the new "whisper quiet" Xbox 360 has propelled Microsoft's console into first place in the US for sales throughout June.

Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard has called Sony's free-to-play MMO Free Realms "insipid".

Activision has announced Apache: Air Assault, a helicopter combat simulator for PS3 and Xbox 360.

Microsoft exclusive RPG Fable II was "terribly messy", "rushed" and suffered from "huge design flaws", creator Peter Molyneux has admitted.

Double Fine has four games in development and they all have publishers, Tim Schafer told Develop today.

Activision has announced that DJ Hero 2 features music from over 100 artists.

Microsoft has announced that 1 vs. 100 will not be returning for a third season.

BioWare co-founder and boss-man Dr. Greg Zeschuk has told Eurogamer that he was "blown away" by the Nintendo 3DS at E3.

Yesterday, BioWare co-founder Dr. Greg Zeschuk delivered a keynote presentation to the Develop Conference in Brighton entitled Creative Game Development: How we do it at BioWare. In it, he discussed BioWare's rise from being two men in a Canadian garage to the triple-A developer it is today.

Double Fine's Tim Schafer has described his outburst about Activision CEO Bobby Kotick as "an accident".

Bearded BioWare boss Greg Zeschuk has insisted he's not "gouging" money from fans for multiple chunks of premium DLC.

The RPG-ification of mainstream videogame genres has been the defining design trend of the past three years, with experience points and levelling a key feature of everything from Modern Warfare to Borderlands. Everybody's Tennis is no different, doling out experience points on a per shot basis, rewarding you in endorphin micropayments for every ace served and on-the-baseline lob successfully landed.

City Interactive has released a patch for Sniper: Ghost Warrior on PC to "address complaints made in reviews and add more balance to the gameplay".

SEGA has said that forthcoming patches for the console versions of Aliens vs. Predator have been "scrapped".

Rockstar has confirmed that it has reduced headcount at its San Diego studio following the release of Red Dead Redemption.