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Japanese game company Square Enix has made massively multiplayer online role-playing games Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XIV unavailable to play worldwide in an effort to conserve energy following last week's earthquake and tsunami.

After the disappointing console versions of Dragon Age: Origins, BioWare has plenty to prove with the sequel and based on our experiences with the game over the last few days, the studio has delivered. The enormous gulf between the PC and PS3/360 versions has been bridged, and despite the computer version's support for cutting edge DirectX 11 rendering tech, plus a downloadable artwork upgrade, the console SKUs are still very competitive from a visual perspective.

All killer, no filler - there are five top-rated titles in this instalment of our ongoing Xbox 360 vs. PlayStation 3 comparison comparison, covering off the cream of the crop from the latest cross-platform releases.

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

Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes HD, a home console revamp of the DS puzzle RPG gem of the same name, launches on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade next month.

For this week's download roundup we're going back to the future, as four-fifths of these games debuted on other formats ages ago.

It seems that the upcoming 3DS revamp of N64 classic Zelda: Ocarina of Time will be more than just a scene-for-scene remake – Nintendo is adding exclusive new content too.

Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play smartphone arrives in UK stores on 31st March with six games pre-installed.

The iPad 2, which launches in the US today, is "a game-changer", according to Infinity Blade developer Chair Entertainment.

The Xbox 360 is about to outsell the Wii over a 12 month period in America for the first time in the platform's history, according to new sales research.

Free Realms, the PlayStation 3's "very first casual, free-to-play MMO", hits PlayStation Network on 29th March, Sony Online Entertainment has announced.

Arena-filling indie rock sulkers The National have written a song exclusively for Portal 2, publisher Valve has announced.

Acclaimed XBLA platformer Shadow Complex will get a sequel, developer Chair Entertainment has pledged.

Firstly, apologies for failing to pick a Game of the Week last week. A dangerous cocktail of jetlag and trade show comedown after last week's Game Developers Conference put paid to it. Fortunately we rewarded two games in one week last month, so if I pick one game from the last two weeks, balance will be restored to the universe (my spreadsheet).

Xbox 360 Kinect bundles outsold PlayStation 3 Move bundles by a ratio of five to one in the US last month.

Forthcoming mutant shooter Rage is to get a three-issue comic book series, publisher Bethesda Softworks has announced.

Global Agenda maker Hi-Rez Studios has announced a new Tribes game, called Ascend.

Eden Games has released a patch for Test Drive Unlimited 2.

PlayStation 2 games will launch on Android devices, according to NVIDIA.

The Nintendo 3DS price war ramped up this morning after supermarket Morrisons listed the handheld for an eye-catching £187.

PC gamers love Team Fortress 2. Yes you do. And SEGA wants PC gamers to love Total War: Shogun 2.

Move-enabled PlayStation 3 exclusive SOCOM Special Forces launches in the UK and Ireland on 22nd April, Sony has announced.

Korean Consumer electronics giant Samsung reckons it'll be "difficult" to release glasses-free 3D tellys within the next 10 years.

A member of the BioWare Social Network has had his account suspended for 72 hours for referring to EA as the devil.

When PC strategy sequel Total War: Shogun 2 launches next week it will not support DirectX 11.

BioWare has more Dragon Age II downloadable content besides Exiled Prince and Black Emporium "in the works" - and we're promised "beefier" experiences than were offered for Dragon Age: Origins.

Forget Dragon Age II, what about Dragon Age 3 - has BioWare started work on that?

No more hype: Dragon Age II has landed and the reviews are in. "An enduring classic?" asked Eurogamer's Dragon Age II reviewer Dan Whitehead. "Not quite." He might as well have said, "An enduring classic like Mass Effect 2?" It's BioWare's own fault; if Mass Effect 2 hadn't been such a thunderous realisation of what Mass Effect started, perhaps we wouldn't have expected the same from Dragon Age II. And then there are the people miffed because they really liked Dragon Age: Origins and why did BioWare have to go and change it? I want Baldur's Gate II, stamp stamp.

UPDATE: Speedball 2 Evolution's issue with iOS 4.3 has now been resolved, Jon Hare has told Eurogamer.

It is possible that Epic's impressive Samaritan Unreal Engine 3 tech demo, showcased at the Game Developers Conference last week and designed to offer a glimpse at what next-generation visuals may look like, will spawn an actual game.