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Looked at from one angle, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is a game with everything going for it. It has a licence perfectly suited to a massively multiplayer RPG with the kind of classical high fantasy setting that has been the basis of virtually every successful MMO to date, from Ultima to Lord of the Rings. It has an experienced developer in the form of Mythic, creators of Dark Age of Camelot, and the bottomless resources of Mythic's new owners EA (although GOA will publish and operate the game in Europe). It has another few months in development to ensure it's as good as it can be. It has a wide-open path to the mainstream, conveniently bulldozed by genre phenomenon World of Warcraft. It has simple, familiar basics backed up by a truckload of big and rather brilliant ideas.

By now, the wives of the assorted Command and Conquer head honchos have got to be getting a little suspicious. "So, who have you hired for that new job in the office?" they'll ask. "Oh, no-one special. Just the best candidate," says the commander. "Her references were impeccable." An eyebow twitches. He glances out the window. "Oooh, isn't the Tiberium lovely at this time of year." "Is she attractive?" "Well... if you like that kind of thing. Could do with a few square meals, of course." "She better not be another sex symbol, Mr Commander!" "Is that the time? I need to get to bed." "I'm going to Tank Rush all over your Tesla Coils, mister."

NCsoft has announced that it is to launch a collector's edition of its Korean massively multiplayer RPG, Lineage II, in Europe.

Epic Games has teamed up with Intel to run another Make Something Unreal competition.

NCsoft and Birmingham's Omega Sektor gaming centre have revealed that 1300 people attended their City of Heroes event over the Easter weekend, and raised GBP 3000 for charity.

Hideo Kojima has said Metal Gear Solid 4 might not necessarily be the last instalment in the series.

Opening up gaming to the masses is one hell of a double-edged sword. Sure, make games more approachable, with intuitive controls and a steady learning curve. By all means introduce rechargeable health systems and automatically save progress as you go along. Hell, respawn the player into the action if it's feasible in the context of the storyline. Some of our favourite games of recent times have managed all of the above without making us cry. But Viking? It makes us want to swing sharp implements of death around with scant regard.

The official World of Warcraft website has a remarkable interview with a group of German blacksmiths called BattleHeat today; and an even more remarkable set of photographs.

EA Mythic's general manager Mark Jacobs has said that he's confident the beta for forthcoming MMORPG Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning could surpass one million users once the title is opened up to Asian markets, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Ratchet & Clank: a Western platformer so good that even the Japanese loved it - and for good reason. While the 16-bit old school have continually pined for Sonic or Mario to come up with the platforming goods, Sony has basically sewn up the genre over the past six years, with four superb Ratchet games right at the centre of this unexpected world domination, with Sly Raccoon and Jak & Daxter ramming the point home in some style.

Like many desirable things in life, it's not the size, it's what you do with it that counts. After so many years in development, we all expected the new Zelda to be an absolute monster of a game. Sure enough, Nintendo proudly proclaims on the back of the box that Twilight Princess is "the biggest Zelda adventure of all time".

March snuck up on us like a second Christmas this year, with a barrage of new and exciting games across all formats. We must confess though that much of our excitement was centred on Retro Studios GameCube debut. Having spent several months labouring over a US version, we were excited to finally get our hands on the closely guarded PAL release this week.

Nintendo was way out on top in the Japanese hardware and software markets last year, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Barry: Hello, good evening, and welcome to the inaugural Eurogamer Sports Day in conjunction with Sega; and haven't we got an action-packed evening's entertainment lined up for the viewers at home? It's not all Association Football, Rugger and Cricket around these parts, you know. Sometimes we like to slip on a baseball cap, quite literally the wrong way around, hop into a Tommy Hilfiger jumper and cruise to the "US of Stateside", and see what our American cousins are whooping and hollering to in their "World" of "Sport". This week, we knocked on the doors of Sega Enterprises, and with a cheery, cheeky, but professional grin, asked these "Sonic Boom Boys" to wow us with their latest sporting trio; NHL, NFL and NBA - or to us clueless limeys, Ice Hockey, American Football, and Basketball, eh Banal?

Two reviews? What's the point of that? Well, Space Giraffe is not a normal game, y'see, and is probably the most hotly debated game this year, or any other year. Some people think it's an unfathomable load of tosh, others seem to think it's really rather splendid. So rather than provide you with one viewpoint, we looked at two contrasting opinions of Jeff Minter's Xbox Live Arcade shooter. We're good to you like that.

Few game creators could ever or would ever get away with conceiving a game that pushes its stylistic vision to the forefront of the experience, but that's exactly what Capcom and co-conspirators Grasshopper have done with Killer 7.

THQ has officially lifted the lid on Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II.

EA Sports bossman Peter Moore has spoken out on the decision not to release the new Madden game on PC.

You can either berate SEGA for blatantly cashing in on its tired old light-gun back catalogue, or continue to celebrate the fact that the Wii is the new spiritual home for all these old classics, with a control system that lends itself perfectly to the genre. It's little wonder we're currently experiencing a flood of old and new point-and-shoot blasters. Recently, SEGA got the ball rolling by belatedly treating us to a port of 2004 arcade title Ghost Squad, so it's only logical to service this peculiar niche by re-issuing something more renowned and familiar - in this case House of the Dead 2 and 3 in the same package. If you care enough about the genre, the chances are you'll already own one or the other (probably both), and will simply relish the chance to play them again using the Wii controllers - either the Wii Zapper or the similarly adept Wii Remote.

There is nothing quite like the marriage of your common-or-garden zombie and a sturdy crowbar. Once dead, a body starts decomposing just a few minutes after breathing its last breath – so the zombies of Land of the Dead, who've been reanimated for long enough to take over the world, are understandably pretty ripe. Laying into them with a crowbar is like hitting over-ripe fruit with, well, a crowbar.

It's a good week for those who enjoy taking care of Alien Scum. Unless you've been living under an especially soundproof rock, you can't fail to have noticed that the Master Chief has returned to Earth this week to splatter some Covenant types all over the ruins of East Africa - but it's not just Xbox 360 owners who will be finishing the fight this weekend.

Epic boss Mark Rein has suggested that those going to the New York Comic Con later this month will not see Gears of War 2 after all.

Atari has told Eurogamer that it is pushing the release of Alone in the Dark back from May to June.

Mercenaries developer Pandemic is rumoured to be working on a Batman game to tie-in with the upcoming film.

A new report by stat-trackers NPD claims that 72 per cent of US residents played a videogame in 2007, an increase of 8 per cent over the 2006 figure.

Infinity Ward has said the Xbox 360 Call of Duty 4 Variety Map Pack will arrive probably late tonight or early tomorrow morning, and suggests preparing your sick day excuses in advance.

Penny Arcade has launched the beta version of its digital distribution service, Greenhouse.

A scientific study has found that people who play loads of games show some of the same personality traits as people with Aspergers syndrome.

Space-based PC strategy title Sins of a Solar Empire is to get an expansion pack in the near future, according to Stardock boss Brad Wardell.

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