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Midway has reached an agreement that should prevent the company from going bust - at least for a bit.

Chances are you didn't wake up this morning thinking, "Nothing says fun like the words, 'Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer'! I may not know what any of that means, but I definitely want in!" That's probably why developer SideQuest Studios has laid it on a bit thick with the sales pitch. Söldner-X's teaser trailer variously asks you to Defend Gota IV, Stop the Virus, Master the Storms of Conceyta - who hasn't got that pencilled in for 2009? - and, inevitably, Unlock the Gates to Another World.

Microsoft exec Aaron Greenberg has predicted that Sony will cut the price of PlayStation 3 very soon.

Bulgarian developer Masthead Studios has opened registration for the beta test of its science-fiction MMO, Earthrise.

The premise is magical. The screen is a yellowed, unfolded piece of paper, and your mouse cursor is a crayon. What you draw on the paper comes to life. Draw a circle and it will roll down a slope. Draw a line between two points and it becomes string. Attach a hurriedly drawn square to one end, and something you want to lift to the other, and you've made a primitive rope and pulley system. Draw a box with two wheels and there's a little vehicle. The miracle of Crayon Physics Deluxe is that all this works. Like some kind of amazing wizard, you get to draw objects and then immediately see them animated in front of you. What a treat.

Epic boss Mark Rein has posted on the Gears of War forums detailing the next patch for Gears of War 2, which we can expect this month.

Amazingly, there are bigger problems with reviewing this than the fact that all the AC/DC-related gags have been worn thin by pieces on other rhythm-action games. That's just what happens when about half your song output is about hailing the wonder that is ROCK. (The other half being about hailing the wonder that is sexual congress).

Sony has told Eurogamer that it will release a European demo of Killzone 2 through PlayStation Network, but cannot confirm exactly when, or what will be included in the demo.

MMO developer Turbine is to move from its traditional subscriptions to a micro-transaction-based business model on a future game.

Sony has updated the PlayStation Network shops with several new downloadable games, including Crash Commando for PS3 and Football Manager Handheld 2009 for the PSP.

A Sony Computer Entertainment America exec has said sales of PS3 were up by more than 130 per cent during the festive period.

Sony's top executives have been speaking to PlayStation.com about what they're looking forward to in 2009.

Microsoft has announced that sales of Xbox 360 have now reached 28 million.

The Mega Drive is 20 years old today! SEGA's 16-bit behemoth launched in Japan on 29th October, 1988, and we'll be toasting its anniversary on Eurogamer over the next week, kicking off with this look back at the console itself. It's only right that we celebrate this milestone, since no-one was blowing up balloons or sticking up banners when the poor thing first arrived. There was no gap in the games market in 1988, and no room for new hardware.

UK publisher Oxygen Games is seeking a buyer for its London studio as it pulls out of internal games development, according to gamesindustry.biz.

Treasure CEO Masato Maegawa has reiterated that the developer would like to release cult Saturn and arcade shooter Radiant Silvergun on Xbox Live Arcade, but isn't sure whether it will actually happen.

EVE Online developer CCP has announced that its space MMO EVE Online has just broken its peak concurrent user record. The number of players online at once now stands at 45,186.

Acquire's PS3 action-adventure Way of the Samurai 3 is on its way to Xbox 360 in Japan.

EA and Activision continue to trade places at the peak of the UK All-Formats Top 40, with FIFA 09 ahead of Call of Duty: World at War for the first recorded week of 2009, which ended on 3rd January.

Microsoft has unveiled this week's Xbox Live Arcade offering, titled Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos.

Call of Duty: World at War reclaimed the UK Charts summit in the last Top 40 of 2008, after losing out to FIFA 09 in the last week before Christmas.

All the way back in 2005, the Game Boy Advance benefited from a range of seven games under the Bit Generations banner. Simple and affordable, they delivered ingenious nuggets of gaming using basic controls and concepts. Or at least, they did in Japan. The rest of the world never got an official taste of these dinky delights.

This was one of the stranger stories to emerge over Christmas and the New Year: NCsoft, the Korea-based MMO publisher, is being sued for patent infringement by Worlds.com, a virtual world platform.

Microsoft has said that Xbox 360 has sold over 8 million units across Europe, the Middle-East and Africa (EMEA), and claimed this gives it a lead of "more than one million" over its rival, the PlayStation 3.

Flying Lab's seafaring MMO, Pirates of the Burnings Sea, has finally found its land-legs. Last week saw the release of a patch that completely overhauls the game's on-foot sword-fighting.

Capcom has announced a few definitive dates for early 2009 releases, putting seven titles on the horological map for the start of the year.

The heads of Red 5 Studios - a developer formed three years ago around a kernel of ex-Blizzard, ex-World of Warcraft staff - have given told Gamasutra a little about what to expect about their mysterious first project.

In a fit of festive good cheer, in no way inspired by self-promotion, Microsoft has released figures for the most played Live and Live Arcade titles of 2008.

A senior source working close to Traveller's Tales has told us that LEGO Harry Potter is off the menu for at least 12 months.

Happy New Year! However, I am sorry to say that it was not a happy occasion for our old friend, correct-football-team-supporting EA Sports president Peter Moore, who has expressed his public disappointment at the absence of FIFA 09 and Tiger Woods 09 from Eurogamer's Top 50 Games of 2008.