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"The biggest obstacle I think APB faces, period, is the difference between what people have put in their heads already and what APB is - because it's so simple and it's so easy to make a comparison to what's out there, to say, oh, it's a GTA MMO."

Fabled Lands game-book creators Dave Morris and Jamie Thompson have explained why their MMO adaptation never got off the ground at Eidos during the early 2000s.

For a dashboard upgrade supposedly aimed at attracting the 'casual' audience, New Xbox Experience actually has a lot of love for the core 360 enthusiast gamer. The Party mode craved by Live users has been incorporated, tweaks long asked for have been made to the VGA/HDMI video outputs, but perhaps most surprisingly of all, Microsoft has allowed gamers to optionally install their games to hard disk. This is - potentially - a very good thing.

Konami's working with a new developer on a new Silent Hill game for "next-gen consoles", aka PS3 and Xbox 360.

This week the Eurogamer.net Podcast reaches dizzying new depths, having been recorded just four days after the last one. But have no fear! Somehow we still managed to find things to talk about, from Shigeru Miyamoto's BAFTA award to David Reeves' stunning comeback to our fondest memories of popular turn-of-the-century Dutch dance music acts.

Hello and welcome to the 12th instalment of the Eurogamer.net Podcast, this week featuring two Toms, two girls and a level of insight and wit best described as "consistent with the quality of our previous output".

Epic Games will release Gears of War 3 in April 2011.

Last year, I went to Frankfurt to see a man who could make water flow from a rock. He could do it with a couple of clicks, actually, and then all it took was a couple more to turn the rock into a pile of rocks, and then a small mountain. Finally, he set the mountain on fire. After that, I probably asked if he had a "spawn helicopters" dropdown handy because, y'know, that's just how I roll.

The Halo: Reach multiplayer starts on 3rd May and Bungie's opened up about what we can expect from it.

Warhammer Online players are complaining they've been massively overcharged for their monthly subscription fee - in many cases to the tune of hundreds of dollars.

In this week's roundup, intrepid digital warrior Kristan Reed presents us with a more diverse range of downloadable delights than ever.

GamesIndustry.biz, the trade arm of the Eurogamer Network, recently completed the next step in its evolution toward greater support for the videogames business with the implementation of a full registration system.

The game may not have been officially announced yet, but the first details of Gears of War 3 appeared to have popped up on the internet.

Quantic Dreams boss David Cage says a million copies of Heavy Rain have already been shifted - and he reckons that figure will rise by half as much again before the year is out.

Spacetime Studios has released an MMO for the iPhone and iPod Touch called Pocket Legends. The game is already available for the iPad. It's free to download and play, with Spacetime charging for additional expansion campaigns.

Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter has been announced for PC and Xbox 360.

A PS3 owner is claiming to have recovered part of the cost of his console back from Amazon, having complained that the removal of the 'Other OS' feature means it no longer operates as advertised.

Infinity Ward mouthpiece Robert Bowling has announced the release dates for the Modern Wafare 2 Stimulus Package downloadable content on PC and PlayStation 3.

Blizzard has announced that it will release a lavish Collector's Edition of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty when the hotly anticipated real-time strategy sequel launches later this year.

Pokemon Black and White has been revealed by the Pokemon Company.

Blizzard's closed beta for the new World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm may begin soon.

Apple has announced plans to launch an Xbox Live-style gaming network for iPhone and iPod Touch, and later, iPad. The network, called Game Center, will be "previewed" with iPhone OS 4.0 this summer.

2K's acclaimed and stylish platformer The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom is heading to Steam, where it'll be available to buy from 20th April.

It's starts, appropriately enough, with a Mexican standoff. Six sun-baked outlaws, standing motionlessly in a circle, hands frozen above holsters, while six white-washed gamers perch on the edges of their seats, fingers poised on the triggers of Xbox controllers.

EA's 2010 FIFA World Cup demo is today's star attraction on the PS3 Store.

Sony's announced that online battles between friends will be coming to SingStar in June. That's right, they weren't already there.

Nintendo's wheeled out the European Q2 2010 calendar and confirmed the spring line-up for Wii and DS.

We've seen some great games released already this year. It's been a great start. But that momentum's dropped this week and there's barely a scrap to recommend.

What the hell kind of a name is Cave Story, anyway? Come on, sex it up a little, leverage the IP against your core demographics. At least stick a subtitle in there, and let everyone know that you're building an international franchise. Try this on for size: "Tunnel Assassin HD: The First Descent." It's like I'm printing money over here.

A first generation game on Xbox 360, Avalanche Studios' 2006 vintage Just Cause exhibited impressive open world technology let down by somewhat repetitive gameplay. Fast forward three-and-a-half years and the sequel is with us, improved in all areas, bursting with "content" and simply joyous to play. On top of that, it's no longer console exclusive on Xbox 360. There's a PlayStation 3 rendition too, complete with its own unique features.