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Microsoft has shut down Aces Studio, the developer behind the highly successful Flight Simulator series.

Bethesda has no plans to let PS3 owners play Fallout 3 past the conclusion of the main quest.

Videogames are officially outselling DVD and Blu-ray in the shops, according to fact crunchers Media Control GfK International.

Bungie has revealed that there are no Elites in Halo 3: ODST because the new villain doesn't like them.

Indie game artist Edmund McMillen is recreating his Flash platformer Meat Boy for WiiWare.

Braid developer Jonathan Blow has said he's currently working on a 2D RPG, although he freely admits he might end up doing something else instead.

New figures from US data trackers NPD have revealed Guitar Hero World Tour is winning the battle of the band games.

Rockstar has released a second patch for Grand Theft Auto IV, which is 32MB and can be downloaded from the publisher's website.

Oh my God! It's totally incredible. It's the best shooter I've played in ages. Dangerously compelling, beautifully executed, sonically vicious, mechanistically inspired, scarily polished. I can't get enough of it. It's not only one of the best games on the Xbox 360, but one of the best games of the decade.

Today Eurogamer Retro has a special treat for fans of the late, great Sensible Software: the chance to download the first half of the 52-minute Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll concept album.

(Update #2: And they're all gone! Congratulations to everyone who got one, and remember that if you missed out you can take part when the beta goes live to all on the 28th, or if you already own the Dawn of War expansion Soulstorm.)

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection 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 GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

Microsoft has detailed the contents of the 5th February demo for Halo Wars, and said it will be available from 9am GMT.

Konami plans to add a new Bomb Mission to Metal Gear Online next Tuesday. This will be free and applied automatically upon sign-in.

Sony has stuffed the PlayStation Store with a F.E.A.R. 2 demo and plenty of other bits and bobs.

Some images have emerged of the new Café area in PlayStation Home.

Hands up if you've seen much of the old military hospital comedy, M*A*S*H. You're probably around my age. Being as old as we are has its disadvantages. Forgetfulness and incontinence, for two - and it's terrible walking around having forgotten you've wet yourself - but we're slightly more likely to get the reference behind Section 8's bland title. One of M*A*S*H's long-standing characters was Corporal Maxwell Klinger. This hairy gentleman would constantly try to get discharged from the US Army under Section 8 - a provision which allowed mentally ill soldiers to be sent home. He'd demonstrate his insanity, mainly, by wearing a dress. Anyone in their thirties might be crushingly disappointed this isn't the world's first commercial cross-dressing shooter.

Despite the hipster soundtrack, the subculture-savvy dialogue, the pavement-level camera that distorts your view with fisheye cool and the 'edgy' protagonist who just got out of prison, Skate 2 is essentially a game about cold, hard physics. This much is obvious within minutes, when you're told to stop posing in your new Levi's and gold aviators, get off your skateboard and, by hand, rearrange some ramps to solve a puzzle. The challenge is to 'get some air' over two dumpster bins, the game leaving you to figure out whether your arrangement of triangles will provide enough momentum and height to clear both objects lengthways, or whether you need to rethink the problem.

In theory, Capcom owes D3Publisher a pint. What buzz there is for Neopets Puzzle Adventure is largely down to Infinite Interactive's last game, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, which brought a merry cast of rigid fantasy characters and RPG elements together with Bejeweled's match-3 puzzle gameplay to great effect. Despite the introduction of the kids-centric Neopets webgame IP, the expectation was that Neopets Puzzle Adventure would recreate, if not improve the experience with different components, most notably by replacing match-3 with the Othello/Reversi boardgame, and that was enough to catch a few people's attention.

Eidos has decided to close its Manchester studio and focus on creating big game-brands that will make money for years to come.

Got Skate 2, but can't be bothered to play it? Now you can unlock everything instantly - providing you're willing to pay for the privilege.

Nintendo has added Mario Golf and Wonder Boy in Monster Land to the Virtual Console.

New releases Fallout 3 and Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm have helped the PS3 narrow the sales gap with Wii across Japan.

Funcom's Ragnar Tornquist, the writer-director of its in-development MMO The Secret World, has revealed that the game's design is currently undergoing sweeping changes.

A new downloadable content pack for Meteos Wars is now available via Xbox Live.

On the scale of release delays it's not exactly Duke Nukem Forever, but Football Manager Live's extra year of development since its planned launch in 2008 is an unusual setback for Sports Interactive, a developer used to hitting regular annual targets for grateful boss-monster SEGA. But it's been worth the wait, transposing a lot of what makes Football Manager so gloriously antisocial into a decidedly social format. Or rather, a format in which you come into contact with other people. Whether any actual socialising occurs is another matter.

Majesco has picked up the publishing rights to Dawn of Heroes, a tactical RPG for Nintendo DS.

Sony Computer Entertainment has told GamesIndustry.biz that the cost-cutting measures announced by Sony Corporation yesterday are least likely to affect the games departments.

Ubisoft has said that it expects a new generation of home consoles to be on the market by 2012, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Ubisoft has delayed the release of I Am Alive until its next financial year, which runs from the start of April until the end of March 2010.