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Gamers have a strange, and in ways very English, attitude to success - a cautious, suspicious response that says that it's okay to be successful, as long as you pretend you're not and keep your mouth shut. Talk about how you made your game, what you learned from it or why you think it did well, and the internet will rise up swiftly to accuse you of having a God complex and believing that the sun shines out of your own backside like a perverse, fleshy torch.

Soul Nomad starts off with one of those long, drawn-out introductions that seem to afflict every uninspired, shamelessly derivative RPG. It's full of scrolling text, barely moving images, and a verbose mixture of cliché and piffle - what's a "clarion vesper", for example, and what's it doing in a videogame? But then, just as you're expecting to be unceremoniously dumped into the usual blend of boring stereotypes and po-faced solemnity, it changes tack. As the game introduces its sardonic and offensive anti-hero, it dawns on you that the whole thing has just been another one of Nippon Ichi's excellent jokes.

Sony believes LittleBigPlanet "is going to be a hardware seller" when it's released exclusively on PS3 this October.

The next Dragon Quest title will be heading to Europe on September 12th, Square-Enix has confirmed. That's four days before the US, import fans.

Microsoft marketeer Albert Pennello has claimed Xbox 360 sales were the pivotal factor in bringing Final Fantasy XIII to the console - not any funny goings-on behind the scenes.

EA has finally officially revealed The Godfather II, which will be released on PC, 360, and PS3 in February 2009.

Silicon Knights boss Denis Dyack said hitting the level 50 limit in Too Human may take anywhere between 50 to 80 hours.

Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchford has agreed to be interviewed live by Eurogamer readers on Monday, 11th August.

The art director for Diablo III has packed his bags and gone off to start his own company.

InvenSense, the company that makes the MotionPlus accessory, has told Eurogamer the relationship with Nintendo is "not an exclusive" one.

BioWare is considering doing DS versions of Mass Effect, Jade Empire, and Dragon Age, plus a couple of others.

BioWare is is "looking into" making games for Wii and PSP in order to offer a wider array of titles.

Realtime Worlds boss Colin MacDonald has offered a glimmer of hope for a sequel to Crackdown, the fantastic Xbox 360 openworld romp from 2007.

WWE man-mountain Randy Orton last night became an unlikely defender of the industry's creative freedoms, urging developers to fight back against critics with a rallying cry for "more violence" in videogames.

EA plans to make a whole series of PC and DS games based on the For Dummies pile of books, teaching us to play poker, sudoku, solitaire and more.

Sony has launched a new website for forthcoming PS3 exclusive LittleBigPlanet.

Capcom has stuck a "TBC" note on the PlayStation 3 version of Bionic Commando Rearmed, which we had hoped to see on 14th August.

Sony has announced that European gamers who have been "most active" will be invited to join the PlayStation Home beta shortly.

Microsoft marketing exec David Gosen has warned against producing peripherals that end up gathering dust - taking a pop at Wii Fit in the process.

Nintendo has walloped four new old games onto the Virtual Console this week. And they all end in a two, too.

Capcom has patched the Super Street Fighter II HD Remix beta for Xbox Live users and admitted it would love to add more playable fighters but can't do anything else with this build.

Microsoft has announced that Fable 2 will be released in Europe on 24th October exclusively for Xbox 360.

Id Software and Raven may be returning to Wolfenstein to blow up a legion of new Nazis on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, but Adolf Hitler won't be among them.

Sony has updated the PlayStation Store with a Wonders & Artefacts pack for Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution, which costs GBP 0.69.

The European version of PS3 exclusive SOCOM: Confrontation is still lost in the bushes.

Ubisoft will re-release the original Driver on the PlayStation Store next Thursday.

I hate PixelJunk Eden. It's confusing and frustrating and pretentious and overpriced and dull. I also hate it because I should have started this review two hours ago and I haven't been able to put the Sixaxis down. And now I'm going to be late to meet my Mum. "Why are you late?" my Mum will say. "Because I have been playing a videogame I hate," I will reply. "And yet I find myself compelled to keep playing, like a rat in a laboratory who continues to step on the switch even though 99 times out of a hundred it receives an electric shock instead of a peanut."

Ubisoft has had to fend off anti-war protesters up in arms about the America's Army series of games.

Like the ugly one in a pop group, budget and download releases continue to sing best in an otherwise sexually acrobatic but rancid August. Good work Braid and PixelJunk Eden. And Virtua Tennis 3 on PS3 Platinum doesn't hurt either.

In light of every developer ever's recent decision to set their game in the aftermath of a fictional apocalypse, it's easy to assume Borderlands is much the same. It's got barren, desolate plains, the locals are dressed up in rags and desert goggles, and all the jibber-jabber's about settlements and bandits.