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VOLCANO WATCH: EA and Capcom have assured Eurogamer that their imminent releases are not buried under tons of death-ash spouted from Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano.

Hello! Like a lot of concerned citizens, for the past few weeks I've been very worried about jetpacks. How worried? Well, if I was writing about it in a text, I would write, "I'm *very worried* about all these jetpacks. (LOL)."

I'm on the phone to EA Mythic's Paul Barnett. I can hear him wandering about on the other side of the world, occasionally saying something to people as he passes them in an office somewhere in the US. We're chatting because we're continuing a conversation about the MMO panel at the PAX East convention in Boston, for which he was one of the panellists. "MMO, as a phrase, is something that is becoming irrelevant," says Barnett. "It's like 'dialling' a telephone number. You don't actually dial numbers much now. And MMOs, the games that are massive and multiplayer and online, aren't really MMOs any more."

VOLCANO WATCH: Nintendo has told Eurogamer that the giant cloud of ash spewed from Iceland over Europe will not halt Wii and DS game distribution.

Microsoft may be investigating making an exclusive television channel for Xbox Live. But in order to fund the operation, Xbox Live Gold subscriptions may have to rise by one or two dollars.

Media monster News Corporation has bought developer Irata Labs, a San Franciscan studio best-known for Twitter game Spymaster.

Photographs of the Project Natal development kit have apparently leaked onto the internet along with handling and installation instructions.

Publisher True Games Interactive and developer Petroglyph have announced that their free-to-play MMO, Mytheon, will go into open beta next week, on 28th April.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has acquired Turbine Inc., the MMO developer behind Dungeon & Dragons Online and The Lord of the Rings Online.

Nintendo has announced this Friday's digital releases for its platforms, with an enhanced version of Earthworm Jim for DSi the standout.

Martha Stewart, famous in the US for her interior design skills, amazing cakes and conviction for making false statements about illegal stock trading to federal investigators, has signed a deal with Majesco.

Today, EA and DICE will release a Kit Upgrade for Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Brain training games are no better at training your brain than browsing the internet, according to research going into a new BBC programme.

The beta test for strategy super-sequel StarCraft II will extend to Apple Macs next week, Shacknews reports.

Valve's overhaul of the Steam user interface will be rolled out this Monday, 26th April. The developer hopes the service feels like "a brand new Steam".

Microsoft's Major Nelson has revealed some of the treats coming to Xbox Live in the next few weeks.

Valve has announced that Left 4 Dead 2 downloadable add-on The Passing will be released for PC and Xbox 360 this Thursday, 22nd April.

Last week Sony revealed that it is due to launch its new range of 3DTVs with a small range of stereoscopic-enabled PlayStation 3 titles. PAIN, Super Stardust HD and WipEout HD get the full treatment, while a single-level demo of MotorStorm: Pacific Rift is also in the offing. All will be downloadable from the PlayStation Store.

Capcom has lifted the lid on three titles it's got lined up for a 2011 release.

Update: The Captivate iron-embargo curtain has lifted and Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds has been revealed. The US PlayStation blog has the first trailer.

Vintage Atari games Outcast and Master of Orion 1 and 2 have been added to digital distribution site Good Old Games.

Microsoft has now sold more than 1 million Xbox 360 consoles in Australia and New Zealand. And Xbox Live now has more than 525,000 subscribers in the ANZ region, apparently.

EA's strategy MMO Lord of Ultima has shed its beta stabilisers and gone live.

Phil Harrison and David Gardner have deserted dreams of reinventing Atari as a publishing powerhouse, tidied their desks and left. (Sing)Star signing Paulina Bozek has also departed.

Timing is everything. Half the internet is busy screaming in outrage that the new XCOM is a first-person shooter rather than a turn-based strategy game, and then along comes Frozen Synapse. This is the turn-based strategy game that's going to put its arms around you, stroke your hair and say, "There, there. Mummy still loves you." You have not been abandoned.

Icelandic developer CCP is not buried under ash, and has told Eurogamer that the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano hasn't disturbed day-to-day operations or EVE game servers at all.

Remedy has responded to online claims that upcoming Xbox 360 exclusive Alan Wake runs with a sub-HD resolution, releasing a statement saying that "modern renderers don't work by rendering everything to a certain final on-screen resolution".

Publishing giant Ubisoft has taken a pioneering step towards a greener future by abolishing paper game manuals.

A trio of new add-ons have been released for free-to-play combat effort Battlefield Heroes.

The first images of the fourth-generation iPhone have appeared on the internet.