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Here's an interesting stat for you: almost as many people around the world play World of Warcraft as bought the Xbox 360 in the first year of its life. Or indeed just about any other console in the first year of its life. And they all pay a subscription fee. Putting it another way, there are more people playing WoW than the entire population of Greater London. Or, if you want it in cold, hard cash, conservative estimates peg the income from WoW subscriptions at about 100 million dollars per month.

Assault Heroes and Doom will be offered for half-price on Live Arcade this Wednesday.

D3Publisher has promised a ginormous expansion for Puzzle Quest on Live Arcade this spring.

The sequel to Elixir Studios' political strategy experiment Republic will be a massively multiplayer game developed as a joint venture with Time of Defiance scribes Nicely Crafted Entertainment, the two companies announced this week, and it sounds just as ambitious as its predecessor.

Released at the end of last year, "Asheron's Call" remains one of the few successful massively multiplayer role-playing games, allowing literally thousands of players to co-exist in a huge sprawling fantasy world known as Dereth, a world which constantly evolves, with new monsters and locations being added and an on-going storyline to keep players hooked. But as designer Scott Herrington admits, designing massively multiplayer games is "still a fledgling industry" with a lot to learn.

Activision has decided that it's about time a Game of the Year Edition of Call of Duty 4 was available for Xbox 360.

Turn 10 will add a baker's dozen of fresh cars to Forza Motorsport 2 this Wednesday.

BioWare has told Eurogamer that its upcoming role-playing game Dragon Age will be what fans have been "wanting forever".

The first thing to establish about Mass Effect on PC is that it's not a port. "This is a conversion," explained BioWare demonstrator Chris Priestly. "BioWare hates ports." Considerable effort has been expended on adapting the science-fiction role-playing game from console to desktop. Not only does it have the well-documented control, inventory, and hot-key changes, but it also has gameplay improvements informed by community feedback on the 360 original. There are shorter loading times and faster elevators, and there's less texture-popping. Mass Effect PC also supports higher resolutions; Priestly illustrated this by focusing on Liara, whose freckles were apparently more visible (we were also shown the infamous sex scene so we could see for ourselves how ludicrous The Allegations were, which we found a little bizarre).

Lord of the Rings Online executive producer Jeffrey Steefel, speaking to Eurogamer just after announcing this year's Mines of Moria expansion, said that being in Moria would be "very different from anything people have experienced before".

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue is set to weigh in at 1870MB on PlayStation Network when it goes on sale next Thursday, 27th March.

The BBFC has been given "no alternative" but to issue Manhunt 2 with an 18 certificate.

Doing things in high definition takes longer. We all know that. The average car in Gran Turismo 4 was made up of over 4,000 polygons. The figure for GT5 Prologue is meant to be higher than 200,000. Being pretty goes a long way, but with 71 cars and just six tracks (High Speed Ring, Daytona, Fuji Speedway, Eiger Nordwand from Gran Turismo HD Concept, Suzuka Circuit and a section of central London), it will have to go a very long way, right? That's not a lot of content, even when you factor in a second variation of each track. GT4 had 721 cars. GT5 Prologue launches in Europe with 71. We may be 11 million polygons ahead, but we're 650 cars behind.

The Spanish edition of PSM3 magazine is reporting there are 15 multiplayer modes in Grand Theft Auto IV.

Capcom has given us a run down of what fresh characters Crimson Viper and Abel will have to offer in Street Fighter IV.

SEGA is planning to release a new demo for Condemned 2: Bloodshot on Xbox Live.

It's been confirmed you won't be able to snake to earn speed boosts in Mario Kart Wii - but there's a new stunt system to make up for it.

Capcom has explained that it would be too costly and take too long to get a SSFII Turbo HD Remix beta running on PS3.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has promised big things from the company at this year's E3 whilst declining to offer any proper information at all.

The government has said it has no plans to intervene on the planned release of Manhunt 2 in the UK.

Lord of the Rings Online developer Turbine unveiled the second volume of the Tolkein-licensed massively multiplayer RPG at Connect 08 in Birmingham today.

FlatOut for PSP is an exciting prospect. We liked FlatOut Ultimate Carnage on Xbox 360, because it drove without a licence, drank too much, and encouraged reckless behaviour. Its arrival on powerful hardware allowed four extra cars per race, thousands of added objects to smash, crisper and more detailed visuals, and more realistic physics. FlatOut: Head On, inevitably, strips out the extra cars, halves the object count, dips in visual quality and loses the performance grunt, but even at that it should have enough left to power through to your wallet. Should.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial offers analysis 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 GamesIndustry.biz newsletter subscribers.

Did you read parts one and two? Shame on you! Whatever your answer. In our final selection of Cult Classics for GameCube, Keza touches on all the most influential genres: real-time pinball strategy, asymmetrical team-based '80s arcade games, rhythm shooters, and duck-based top-down aviation puzzling.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 game designer Phil Therien reckons Ubisoft will steer clear of "really hardcore only shooters" because "the market was too narrow for it to be a viable business choice".

Hello and welcome to Eurogamer's LiveText Interview with Philippe Therien, Game Designer on Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2. You're a bit late for the actual interview, but you can catch up on what happened by reading through the dialogue below. Vegas 2 is due out on 20th March for PS3 and 360 and on 17th April for PC, and you can check out our review early next week.

Today we want to tell you about thermal vision. Note, this is not to be confused with thermal scanning that we told you about yesterday. Or to be confused with thermal underpants. We see thermal vision rather a lot in war games, where your enemies show up as heat signals so you can see them in low visibility areas. Watch our skilled Rainbow Six Vegas 2 killer demonstrate this in an exclusive Thermal Vision Trailer on Eurogamer TV.

Eurogamer and Ubisoft are happy to announce that Philippe Therien, lead designer on Rainbow Six Vegas 2, will be the next developer to face your questions in a LiveText Interview.

Square Enix will be offering a Special Edition of Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII in the UK. European offers may vary a little.

It's ancient history now, but it's amusing to recall the sheer excitement that greeted the announcement that Square was working on a Final Fantasy game for the GameCube. At last, the fans rejoiced, the prodigal was returning - the local boy made good coming home, and surely, surely, signalling a new golden age for Nintendo in the process? Well...