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Sony has released the PlayStation 3 2.01 firmware.

Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed has shot to the top of the UK all-formats charts and become the second fastest-selling new IP on an individual format behind 2002's The Getaway, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Microsoft's Robbie Bach has dismissed Sony's PlayStation Network, saying he doesn't believe the console rival offers an online gaming service comparable to Xbox Live, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Direct your gaze Eurogamer TV-wards now for an exclusive Assassin's Creed video triple-bill, sneaking out ahead of this Friday's Euro release.

Interviewing Mark Rein is kind of like riding a runaway train. He's bursting at the seams with enthusiasm and energy, so the second you ask him a question he'll never stop talking, leaving you to try and interrupt and steer him from one topic to the next. Fail at this and you face the death-like situation of telling Kristan you only got 15 minutes of him saying how much he loves EDGE magazine or something.

To suggest that Philip and Andrew Oliver created a mythology with their most well known and best loved character adds a weight of obligation around Dizzy's neck that he simply doesn't need. The Yolkfolk are better remembered as a modern day fairy tale told in a new and exciting way - independent stories of achievement and overcoming adversity that will be told and retold by the kids who sat at their 8-bit keyboards in awe and wonder all those years ago.

Australian private college Qantm is to open the doors to its first UK facility in Islington, London, on 22nd November, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Having gotten ourselves excited about Half-Life 2: Episode Two PC stats earlier, it'd be remiss of us not to remark on the stats fed to the world by Bungie on Friday about how people have been doing with Halo 3.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has dominated European charts this week, taking the top three spots in Germany and third, fourth and seventh in Spain.

French developer Cyanide has said it will be making additional Xbox 360, PSP and DS versions of Blood Bowl for release next year.

Sony has said that firmware version 2.01 will go live in the near future, and that it is "a minor update that will improve the stability of PlayStation 3".

US publisher Atlus has shaken hands with Microsoft to become an official third-party publisher for the Xbox 360.

We all had fun pouring ourselves over the new Steam hardware survey results last week, but accompanying those were also some Steam stats for Half-Life 2: Episode Two.

Sony has slashed the price of its PS3 development kit and promised further reductions as more studios adopt the technology, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

SEGA has rummaged around its arcade catalogue and decided to bring House of the Dead II and III to Wii.

It's been announced that a videogame tie-in for PC, consoles and mobiles is set to launch alongside the next Terminator film in 2009.

Infinity Ward is planning to patch Call of Duty 4 for Xbox 360 in the relatively near future to take care of various online issues.

The Zune and Xbox product brands are ultimately meant to connect to the same network, says Microsoft's J Allard.

Hudson has whipped a new title update for Bomberman onto Live, fixing lots of niggling bits and pieces.

There was once a time when many teens would have given anything to have Lara in the palms of their hands. If the PSP had been around 11 years ago it would have been hard to get most teenage boys (and some girls) out of the toilet, at least without having to book the porcelain into therapy.

Baby-faced Microsoft charmer J Allard has resurfaced to reminisce on the history of Xbox Live - coinciding rather well with the launch of iPod rival Zune this week.

Nothing divides Xbox 360 owners as much as Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service. Constantly derided for its lack of original output and for lazy ports of old arcade games that no-one liked that much when they were released five hundred years ago. And last, but not least, the fact that many of these titles are available for free on the PC.

Being both relatively cheap to develop for and a market leader with over 50 million sales makes the DS a less risky and incredibly enticing piece of hardware to make exclusives for. Publishers can take a bit of a chance so we can see something a little different.

Something happened to me last night that hasn't happened for around 25 years. No, not that. (It's only been 138 days since that last happened.) No, last night I was shot down in Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells has just completed a live interview with you about Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and a host of other things - including confirmation that he would like to do a Jak game for PS3 and his views on next-gen console development and the recent Manhunt 2 fiasco.

When they bring you out retirement for just one more job, you don't expect it to be the same job they retired you from. The last time I wrote for Eurogamer, I wrote about HOMMV, praising the new developers Nival Interactive for recreating almost exactly all the hallmarks of the franchise and recognising what the hardcore wanted. Since then Nival have released an expansion pack called the Anvil Chorus or the Hammered Fete or something, which your friend and mine the award-winning Kieron Gillen reviewed last December. (Bloody hell, this history lesson is turning into hypertext overload.)

We love violence around here. In the summer, we name all the ants crawling around the kitchen, marry them off and then squash them with a rolling pin called genocide. When cats get stuck in trees we send dogs up to retrieve them. We're not very nice people. But this time last year, even we found it hard not to fall in love with Rare's silly little game about building a garden home for cute little animals and then playing with them. The news that PC gamers can now share in our fun is jolly exciting, and even a week that saw Super Mario Galaxy, Mass Effect, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and Crysis land on our desks found its evenings dominated by the soothing routine of coaxing and caring for things called Squazzils, Cocoadiles and Quackberries.

According to the press blurb, EA Playground "captures the exuberance and nostalgia of your neighborhood playground". The clue is in the spelling of the word "neighborhood", as it indicates the author of that sentence grew up in a nice clean North American suburb. They've clearly never been to our neighbourhood playground, where "exuberance" translates as 12 year-old drug dealers throwing dried-up dog eggs at each other.

Capcom has told us it is mulling over the idea of including a Resident Evil 5 demo on the European Resident Evil: Extinction Blu-ray disc.

Talk about great expectations. Bioware's titanic RPG Mass Effect has already scooped over 50 awards before it's even out. It's left journalists slack-jawed in amazement during carefully-controlled presentations. And the studio's pedigree speaks for itself.