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The redesigned PlayStation Network Store is now open for business, complete with some brand new downloads.

Freshly formed developer Star Vault has whipped the wrappers off its PC MMO, Mortal Online.

Sony has confirmed to Eurogamer that it plans to moderate user-generated content in forthcoming PS3 exclusive LittleBigPlanet.

Empire has plans to bring back Pipe Mania this summer on Wii, PS2, DS and PSP.

Atari has decided to promote its Sun Crossword Challenge game by getting some Page 3 girls to hang around Victoria Station in London.

Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi has said that a PC instalment in the hit racing series is something he'd consider doing in the future.

As some of you may have spotted, a wily YouTuber is circulating what claims to be the Grand Theft Auto IV introduction movie, but Eurogamer can confirm that it's a fake.

Motley Crue have decided to release their upcoming single as a downloadable track for Rock Band.

A new Metal Gear Solid-branded bluetooth headset is being released at the same time as the fourth instalment in the series.

Rising Star has announced plans to release Rune Factory: A Fantasy Harvest Moon this September in Europe.

Mario Kart has raced past Gran Turismo 5: Prologue to take the number one spot in the UK all-formats chart. Brrroom.

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue has held onto the top spot in the UK All Formats Chart for the second week running.

CD Projekt has released a free downloadable adventure add-on, a game editor and a patch for The Witcher on PC, all available from www.thewitcher.com.

Konami has released a few more details about the Metal Gear Online beta, which is due to kick off on Monday 21st April.

Konami has said the European Metal Gear Online beta will run from 21st April to 6th May.

Button-mashing is a familiar part of the gaming landscape. Who hasn't, at some time or other, fluked their way through a bastard-hard hackandslash battle by jumping around like a Tartrazine freakoid and hammering random attack buttons until something comes off? This kind of combo trickery can be pulled off in a way that - to the untrained eye - looks calculated, skillful and deliberate. But don't be fooled. Even the most hardcore games tend to kneel to the all-conquering might of the persistent, determined button-masher.

Microsoft has said that Rocky & Bullwinkle and Battlezone will be your Live Arcade treats this Wednesday.

Sony has explained to Eurogamer that Lair will only be getting one downloadable content pack this Thursday.

JoWooD plans to release a Gothic 3 expansion in Q4 this year.

Hello and welcome to the new Editor's blog! Let's begin with some good news: this is not a platform for me to write about what I had for tea, or how many times I've touched famous people. Although it is a lot, obviously. But before I explain what the Editor's blog actually is, let's talk about the far more eye-catching Eurogamer in blog format page, which is also going live today.

Welcome to the Developers' blog. You're probably surprised we're allowed to write things on Eurogamer, but we are. So there.

We have a gang. Well, a team. A RedLynx Trials 2: Second Edition team. We're not bad, either. Our Eurogamer staff squad is 21st in the whole wide world. We have our key players like Tom who proudly announced he'd beaten all our scores over the weekend. And we have other people who need to pull their socks up, Mark. It isn't the sort of gang we'd envisaged being a part of as a kid, but working in computers has you lower your expectations of being cool. We're not about to start a pop career, for instance, although Ellie is currently wearing a radio mic, leotard, aviators and a blonde wig for an upcoming EGTV special.

Kazunori Yamauchi is a man living the boy racer dream - or rather, he would be, if boy racers even dared to have this kind of dream. As the creator of what is arguably the world's most authentic, most comprehensive simulation of race driving, he lives and breathes cars and motorsport.

Let's suppose you know nothing about Ikaruga. Let's assume that developer Treasure, forbear Radiant Silvergun, director Hiroshi Iuchi and No Refuge are all names and phrases that carry no weight or significance to you. This is a good place to start because, as with the re-release of any classic game, it's easy to get caught up in the context, the history and the memories and lose sight of the fact that all videogames live or die in the now.

Of all the MMOs in all the world, there's no happier moment for me than logging into City of Heroes after a few months away. Not into the game world - just the character selection screen. Laid out for me there is my curious history with the game, a half-dozen angelic, demonic, mutated, comical creations all of my own. No-one else in the world sees the same screen, and that never fails to excite me.

Mercury Records has said it plans to release the upcoming Def Leppard single "Nine Lives" as downloadable content for Guitar Hero III.

Microsoft has yet to announce European plans for the company's iPod competitor, Zune, but XNA boss Chris Satchell has told Eurogamer that proof-of-concept game development for the handheld media device is progressing very nicely.

SEGA has popped a demo for Universe at War: Earth Assault on Xbox Live.

Eurogamer knows a thing or two about making monsters. For example, we give money to rogue states to fund nuclear proliferation, and murder the fathers of impressionable lion cubs. However, Monster Lab has a more entertaining alternative: turn-based strategy battles, interspersed with agreeable Wiimote mini-games and backed up by Edward Scissorhands graphics, a Count Duckula sense of humour and Creep Show sound effects. Do you like the noise of scrunching cartilage? Squidge this way.

Blizzard has opened registration for the World of Warcraft 2008 Arena Tournament.