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Ruthless indie platformer Super Meat Boy gets a thick, juicy slab of new PC content this week, developer Team Meat has announced.

The return of the Monkey Island series after a nine-year absence has provoked almost as much hand-wringing worry as it has celebration. With so much love for LucasArts' long-dormant series among adventure enthusiasts, the pressure for Telltale Games to get it right is, to say the least, intense.

Even the most optimistic Monkey Island fan couldn't have expected Telltale to nail the feel of the series as well as it managed with last month's comeback release, Launch of the Screaming Narwhal. With some excellent writing, generally spot-on delivery and a faithful degree of puzzle nonsense to contend with, it almost felt ungrateful to nitpick at some of the less gratifying elements.

When the credits roll on Chapter 5 of the newly revitalised Monkey Island, fans will probably breathe a sigh of relief. Though the road to get there has had a few ups and downs, Telltale has pulled it off. Fear not - I'm not going to spoil one precious pixel of how the story is wrapped up, but suffice to say that the ending feels earned, the characters feel like they've developed (at least as much as Monkey Island's wacky sensibilities will allow) and you, the player, should feel satisfied and invigorated by the season-long experience.

In case you hadn't noticed, Telltale's Tales of Monkey Island PC adventure series is being put on disc this spring.

Telltale Game's formerly download-only Tales of Monkey Island series is to get a full PC retail release in Europe, publisher Lace Mamba Global has announced.

The launch of UFC Personal Trainer: The Ultimate Fitness System has been pushed back to June.

Hacktivist collective Anonymous has "temporarily suspended" the war on PlayStation Network - the beef is with Sony, not Sony's customers.

The PlayStation Store has been redesigned. A bit.

Reports that the Japanese earthquake and tsunami will delay the Next Generation Portable launch were "wrong", Sony Japan has said.

EA has toned down the gritty appearance of new SSX game Deadly Descents by dropping the subtitle.

It may be a novel thing for the world of sports entertainment, but THQ San Diego's decision to pit the legends of wrestling against the new class in WWE All Stars is nothing innovative when considered in the broader context of sports video games – as anyone who has suffered a beating at the hands of my World XI in FIFA will grumpily attest.

For the survival horror hardcore, a new Parasite Eve game has been a long time coming – 11 years, if you haven't been keeping up. Well, you can keep waiting, because The 3rd Birthday bears very little relation to the series that provides the game's sighing, whimpering lead character, Aya Brea. No wonder Square Enix has positioned it as a spin-off.

It's the best of times and the worst of times for tower defence games. While it's a fine thing to have no shortage of choice, the App Store, Kongregate et al being flooded with clones of clones of clones of clones risks diluting the raw appeal of building a bunch of big guns and watching them automatically decimate a marching army of morons.

The Game Developers Conference is perhaps where PlayStation Home's heart is. After all it was there, in 2007, that Phil Harrison unveiled Sony's vision of a networked virtual world for PlayStation 3.

The creator of indie phenomenon Minecraft has revealed how much cash the world-building game has netted his tiny development studio Mojang.

Three of the four official StarCraft II custom mods announced by Blizzard last year are now done, dusted and ready to download.

A set of photos of concept art pinned up at Valve HQ has set tongues wagging that the Half Life developer has a new IP in the works.

The Japanese Capcom producer supervising Slant Six's Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City has admitted to believing Western developers are workshy – a preconception that the SOCOM team has happily debunked.

Rugby World Cup 2011 is on its way to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, publisher 505 Games has announced.

PlayStation 3 users are getting two exclusive Virtua Tennis 4 demos, publisher SEGA has announced.

Former Bizarre Creations senior staff have revealed how the now-defunct studio changed for the worse while under Activision ownership.

Unreal-powered iOS hit Infinity Blade won't be appearing on Android devices any time soon, publisher Epic has confirmed.

Concept art for a planned sequel to Rare's Xbox 360 action adventure Kameo: Elements of Power has found its way onto the web, offering a tantalising glimpse at what might have been.

505 Games and British developer Rebellion have announced Sniper Elite V2, due for release next year.

Sony is billing April as its "biggest" PlayStation Plus month yet.

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Through Issue 20 - out now and free - original superhero MMO City of Heroes has finally welcomed raids to its spandex mix of action.

It is really a year since the first Download Games Roundup? Already? If I'd known you were coming, I'd have baked you a cake.

Beefy downloadable multiplayer shooter Section 8: Prejudice will be released first on Xbox Live Arcade on 20th April.