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The European games press congregated in Paris this week to see EA Mythic's forthcoming massively multiplayer fantasy game, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. Mythic, respected for its work on Dark Age of Camelot, picked up the Warhammer licence from Games Workshop in 2005 (after Climax had dropped it). The studio was purchased the following year by EA, the super-publisher in search of its first MMO hit.

In an interview with Eurogamer, Jeff Hickman, senior producer of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning at EA Mythic, has explained the reasons for the fantasy MMO's recently announced delay from spring to autumn this year.

Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 director Adam Boyes thinks N+ developer Metanet was wrong to call the vast majority of games on XBLA rubbish.

Microsoft plans to release Ikaruga for the Japanese Xbox Live Arcade on 9th April.

Rare has confirmed that the first Xbox 360 instalment in the Banjo-Kazooie series is on track for a Christmas release.

Sandy Duncan, the former boss of Xbox Europe, has said he believes consoles will disappear very soon as everything gets "virtualised".

Hothead Games has announced the price for the first instalment in episodic game series Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness.

Sony has told Eurogamer that "last minute technical difficulties" are to blame for the absence of yesterday's expected PlayStation Store update.

The Onimusha film has been delayed and the death of Heath Ledger is to blame, according to a aintitcool's translation of a French source.

Like the callous husband who ignores his wife for weeks, but then comes home early on her birthday with a bouquet of roses and tickets to Paris, so this week's Virtual Console update reminds us why we married the bastard in the first place. Three new games in one day - something that hasn't happened since last year, shockingly - and a whole new platform to play with as well!

As you maybe, just maybe have heard, Tanya Byron of televisual psychology fame was commissioned by the Prime Minister to look into the effects of violence in videogames and on the Internet on children.

In 1998, my best friend and I spent hours playing Worms 2. We played it in a basement flat in Catford, him sitting on a broken office chair, me on a rickety piano stool, taking it in turns to shove each the other out the way and grab the mouse. We watched the action unfold on a 14-inch CRT monitor, while a CD drive made of whalebone and powered by steam whirred away under the desk. For hours.

Epic has released the first official map pack for Unreal Tournament 3 on PS3.

Belgian magazine PCGameplay is reporting a sequel to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War is on the way, according to IGN.

Rockstar has lifted the lid on its Social Club website for Grand Theft Auto IV, which will record your in-game statistics and allow you to download songs from the sountrack.

Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has offered the first hint at what Jade Raymond's plans are now Assassin's Creed is out of the way.

Nintendo has launched the promised Commodore 64 channel for Virtual Console with two initial games, and has also released a new N64 title via the Wii's suddenly exciting shop.

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue appears to have missed its March 27th PlayStation Network launch date, with the game unavailable from Sony's PAL store at the time of writing.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Not our words, but the words of Ferris Bueller. Now, Ferris may have been a smug embryonic yuppie with a grossly inflated sense of self-entitlement and a penchant for butchering Beatles songs, but in this case he had a point. There's a lot going on, and nowhere is this more true than Eurogamer TV - the shiny copper video spout whose motto might as well be "there's a lot going on". Sometimes, in fact, there's so much going on that you may miss some good stuff. That's why this is happening - the first of our monthly recaps, the edited highlights if you will, compiling the best of Eurogamer's magic moving picture output into one click-friendly article. Slip off your shoes, loosen the pants and look with your eyes.

Rockstar is releasing the final pre-release trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV tonight.

Whether it's driving or fighting you like about gaming (and it's got to be one of those, realistically), this week punches above its weight with a bumper crop of new releases. It's, er, bumper to bumper out there in the area where people fight each other of gaming.

Alias actor Carl Lumbly believes games are far more beneficial to children than many give them credit for.

If you're planning to go outside this summer then Square Enix has a few ideas for games you could take with you, like Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift for DS, Space Invaders Extreme for PSP/DS, and Arkanoid DS, all of which are due out in sunny season.

Following on from yesterday's PC demo, EA has thrown a UEFA Euro 2008 demo up onto Xbox Live Marketplace, and a PlayStation Network demo will also go live today.

Deep Silver and GSC World Publishing will be releasing S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky around the world on 29th August.

Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi has said we should expect vehicle deformation in his games "very, very soon".

Unlike most other games, MMOs change over time. Audiences grow or shrink, features are changed, interfaces are overhauled, game balance is adjusted, new content and play styles are added, communities thrive or die. A review of an MMO can't be set in stone. So, on Eurogamer's new MMO channel, we'll be regularly re-reviewing the games to let you know the current state of play, and to help you decide whether it's time to jump in - or time to leave. Here's the first of these, about the biggest game: World of Warcraft.

Oh look, it's another compilation of mini-games for the Wii. Well knock me down with a lead feather, where do they get their ideas from, is it perhaps a cardboard box labelled REALLY OBVIOUS IDEAS FOR WII SOFTWARE containing a single piece of paper which reads WHY NOT DO A MINI-GAME COMPILATION.

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has said MMOGs based on Civilization and BioShock are "potential opportunities".

PS3 shooter SOCOM Confrontation will launch in the US on September 16th, according to 1UP.