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Resident Evil 5 topped the UK All-Formats Top 40 in its first week of release, selling more units than all the other top-ten titles combined.

So confident is US developer Volition in Red Faction: Guerrilla, that lead designer James Hague reckons: "We're ahead of everybody by five to ten years in terms of destruction."

EA plans to release Need for Speed: SHIFT across Europe on 18th September, and in the US on 22nd September.

You're pretty smart. You know stuff. So you probably know that the annual Game Developers Conference kicks off today, and runs all week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Well, Eurogamer is out in force as usual, and we'll be bringing you live text coverage of two of the big keynotes.

Metallica founder Lars Ulrich is embarrassed that his children can recreate his drum parts in Guitar Hero: Metallica better than he can.

Take-Two has announced that Max Payne 3 is in development at Rockstar Vancouver and will be released for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC this winter.

Kodu lead programmer Matt MacLaurin reckons we all have "fifteen minutes of sheer brilliant genius", and that by unlocking game development for the masses our industry will begin its important big next step.

One of the bewildering things about the explosion of App Store gaming is the sheer variety of successful approaches to it: traditional mobile puzzlers and arcade games, indie experiments, full 3D ports, and games like Metal Gear Solid Touch that take the well-travelled road of licensed mobile gaming, cutting grand concepts down to bite-size.

Square Enix and Valve have fixed the Steam activation problem preventing The Last Remnant from being installed and played. Even our copy now works - hooray!

Nintendo has revealed that Wii Play has sold over 10 million copies across the US alone.

Popular young-persons' Unreal Tournament 2004 modification Killing Floor is to be beefed up into a full game and released on Steam, Tripwire Interactive has announced.

2K Games has told Eurogamer that BioShock 2 will still be subtitled Sea of Dreams, despite contrary reports late last week. Someone has been telling porky-pies.

LittleBigPlanet has nearly two million online users, Sony America said on Friday, and between them they have uploaded nearly 650,000 levels.

It's telling that both Activision and EA are now saying much the same thing: Wii games can't just be PS3 and 360 ports with madcap control schemes stretched over downgraded visuals. EA is making greater strides - Boom Blox and Tiger Woods 09 are particular standouts - while Activision boss Bobby Kotick said recently: "I think we can do a better job of creating original content for the Wii, and I think you'll see more of that this year." What must be galling for both is that Konami blithely did it the wrong way with Pro Evolution Soccer last year, constructing an absurdly complicated set of controls that used every button and gesture the Wiimote and nunchuk can conjure, and won almost nothing but plaudits.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

Hmm. We're going to see a lot more of this kind of thing, aren't we? Standalone expansions that don't even have a retail version at all. Nothing but online content. Uprising is a pure download beast, just on PC, and it's pretty cheap to boot. It's about a third, perhaps even a half, of the length of Red Alert 3, with four short campaigns, and it's all single-player. So that includes a gaggle of further missions all delivered by the same colourful cast of actors, models, plasma-ejecting mecha-troops, transforming robots, and psychic-death schoolgirls. That seems like reasonably good value, after all, why wouldn't we want to play another stretch of the Command & Conquer series' wackiest RTS offshoot?

Sony America marketeer Peter Dille believes the credit crunch "plays right into" the strengths of the PS3, because, economically, the console represents "great value" and will be the "centrepiece of your entertainment for the next 10 years".

The PC version of The Last Remnant, which launches today in Europe, cannot be played nor installed as far as we - and a Eurogamer reader with the same problem (and an entire Steam forum with the same problem) - can ascertain.

Volition is one of the main employers, and the only games developer, in Champaign, Illinois. Studio life is local life. So when 86 of the external QA team are made redundant a couple of days before I arrive in smalltown America, it's big news, splashed all over the local TV and print media. The first cab driver I speak to knows a guy who works there. Ask any local, it seems, and they'll have something to say about Volition.

If you're familiar with Persona, all you need to know about the latest instalment is a brief checklist of changes and improvements: direct control over team-mates in battle, a range of themed dungeons replacing Tartarus, Persona 3's single tower, and a welcome shift in setting from the city to the countryside.

Activision has popped a Guitar Hero: Metallica demo on Xbox Live Marketplace.

"Great fun and easy to play for all the family!" shouts the back of the box. Well, no. Like altogether too many third-party Wii games, the only way in which Ready 2 Rumble Revolution is accessible is that everyone - no matter their age, gaming aptitude, IQ or marketing profile - will find it equally unwieldy, complex, unpredictable and annoying to use.

PC players of Far Cry 2 can now grab the Fortunes Pack DLC from Steam.

Valve has added multicore support to Team Fortress 2, as well as various other nips and tucks that will improve performance in the multiplayer shooter.

Rockstar is working to fix the South Central downloadable content for Xbox 360 owners of Midnight Club: Los Angeles.

Nintendo wants DSi developers to turn some of their attention to creating applications for the handheld's camera and music player.

One of the joys of a great multiplayer shooter is the equilibrium you find once you know the maps inside out; the confidence that comes from knowing all the angles, and knowing that your opponents know them as well. It's then that the strategic elements of even the most meatheaded fragfest come to the fore, as balanced teams move and counter-move like chess players. Only, you know, chess players with automatic weapons and foul-mouthed headset banter.

2K Games has snipped the subtitle Sea of Dreams from BioShock 2.

Crytpic Studios has admitted to contacting players of NCsoft's City of Heroes through that game's official forums and in-game messaging system, inviting them to the beta test of its own game, Champions Online.

Idol Minds has released a patch enabling PAIN players to battle against each other online.