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Sony's said footage from Qore of PS3 games running in 3D was filmed for "demonstration purposes" and was not confirmation of feature support.

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that its free-to-play kids' MMO, Free Realms, has surpassed 10 million registered players.

Hot on the heels of Nintendo's announcement of a glasses-free 3D implementation for its new 3DS, Sharp has revealed technical details on the screen technology that many believe features in the new handheld.

Bizarre Creation's Gareth Wilson has told Kotaku that the beta test of the studio's arcade racer Blur will be opened up to all Xbox Live users this week.

Microsoft is rewarding those who bought the Stimulus Package for Modern Warfare 2 with a week-long Xbox Live Gold subscription.

Apple's iPad has sold over 300,000 units during opening weekend in the US.

British publisher Codemasters is planning to "leapfrog" into the big league after a 50 per cent acquisition by Indian giant Reliance Big Entertainment.

Bungie has posted a detailed preview of multiplayer game mechanics in Halo: Reach, ahead of the game's beta test on 3rd May.

Two more key staff members have said goodbye to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 developer Infinity Ward.

Heavy Rain creator David Cage has revealed he's skeptical about Project Natal, particularly with regard to last year's E3 demo of the new tech.

The aesthetic may be one of anime warmth: bold androgynous characters with wide eyes and over-pronounced gasps, reams of childlike dialogue and an atmosphere that's more sentimental than melancholic. But with its young, semi-amnesiac protagonist, stumbling lost and confused around a deserted town, raw with the grief of bereavement, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Wii adventure Fragile Dreams is Silent Hill: Pre-Teen Edition.

You can imagine the scene. A high-powered SEGA meeting, somewhere in a Tokyo high-rise. The brass is gathered, and PR and marketing representatives for each territory shuffle notes and try not to look each other in the eye. They're here for the internal announcement of a new Sonic title. Hopes are not particularly high.

Friday 26th March

Let me tell you about the digital Vietnam this free-to-play MMORPG put me through. Let me tell you about XAES.

It begins. After spending much of the last year in "stealth mode", Microsoft is starting its campaign to ramp up awareness for its revolutionary Project Natal motion-sensing hardware. On Wednesday, the platform holder revealed that its key partner in the creation of its new controller-less controller is little-known Israeli company PrimeSense, who designed the core 3D capture system at the heart of Natal.

Every week on Eurogamer, Kristan Reed hunts down the best in everything digitally-distributed and bite-sized across every format: iPhone and iPod Touch, DSiWare and WiiWare, Xbox Live Indie Games, Xbox Live Arcade and PSN, Steam and other independent PC distribution channels. We'll still bring you standalone reviews of the best and most interesting download games, but the idea is that by going multiformat with the roundups on a weekly schedule we can bring you a broader range of reviews of more exciting games more quickly. Win!

The first batch of Heavy Rain downloadable content arrives today. It's called The Taxidermist and stars main character Madison Paige. As her, you'll nose around the house of a taxidermist who also happens to be a suspect in the Origami Killer killings.

What's in a name? Infinity Ward's choice of title for Modern Warfare 2's first map pack is telling. It implies an injection of content designed to revitalise an ailing economy of players, stirring up dulling passions and reversing waning success. Despite what community manager Rob Bowling may say, Activision must be concerned by the speed at which rival Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has been closing the gap between the two games in recent weeks, both in terms of sales and online engagement. So is this a stimulus package to overwhelm the competition? Perhaps it wasn't originally planned that way, but today, the hope must be there.

Ubisoft has explained to Eurogamer that Splinter Cell Conviction was not held up on PC because of DRM issues.

SEGA's officially revealed The Conduit 2 and given it a release date of autumn 2010.

Last week's release of the Game of the Year edition of Batman: Arkham Asylum saw the debut of the brand new TriOviz for Games 3D system.

Classic racer Super Mario Kart is now available to download from the Virtual Console.

Funcom has released the seventh update to its fantasy MMO Age of Conan. Called Shrines of Bori, the patch its focused on new player-versus-player content, rewards and features.

2K Sports is to support the new motion controllers for the Xbox 360 and PS3 in its games, according to an interview with marketing boss Jason Argent.

It may well be International Venga Boys Day in the Eurogamer office, but apparently the spirit of the season has not permeated the rest of the games industry, because tomorrow's shop shelf prospects are about as stimulating as a valium smoothie.

Sony Online Entertainment's espionage MMO, The Agency, is set to return to the public eye in some kind of playable form "within weeks", according to SOE president John Smedley in a GDC interview with GameTrailers (via VG247).

505 Games has announced plans to release Naval Assault: The Killing Tide exclusively for Xbox 360 on 11th June in Europe.

Bizarre Creations' Gareth Wilson has revealed that the studio doesn't plan to continue its classic Xbox Live Arcade series, Geometry Wars.

Swedish racing game studio SimBin has announced that work is underway on a new game in its GTR series.

Activision has used a press release to reveal the first details of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, the web-slinger's next game, due for release in September this year. It's being developer by Quebec City studio Beenox.