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Empire Interactive's arcade conversion of Double Dragon is this week's new addition to Xbox Live Arcade, arriving on the service this morning at 9am UK time, with a demo version available and a full-version price of 400 Microsoft points (GBP 3.40 / EUR 4.65 / roughly the cost of Salt & Vinegar crisps on Virgin Trains 2.58 to Morecambe).

So, the first true episodic game reaches climax. Six months and as many episodes of consistent high quality. Ten to fifteen hours of fun. Untold numbers of adventure-philes happy with the return of their '90s heroes. You could say it's been a job well done for Telltale Games on several levels.

On the surface of it, Tetris Evolution is a splendid idea - classic Tetris gameplay with all manner of variations, enough unlockable achievements to incentivise even the most jilted puzzler, and a range of multiplayer modes that allow you to face off against people online, or play with or against up to three friends in the same room. From a connoisseur's point of view, the most important option is likely to be the one that toggles "lockdown" - enabling or disabling the ability to spin a block endlessly, and even walk it over the top of the others, thus giving you time to think and effectively allowing a competent player to continue indefinitely, no matter how fast the blocks descend. Sometimes you feel like enabling it and sometimes you don't, and yet even the mighty Tetris DS - probably the best recent "spin" on Alexey Pajitnov's classic puzzle formula - chose to keep it turned on rather than allowing gamers to make the choice for themselves.

Earlier this evening we were accosted by a well-known developer in a dark alley. Or possibly an email. They thrust a mysterious piece of parchment into our hands and told us that our readers held the key to deciphering it.

If Electronic Arts had a band, then Fender, BOSS, and Roland would be in it - as they've all agreed to be in the upcoming Rock Band Game, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

Blade Interactive has finally taken the wrapping off its next-generation project Hydrophobia, which is due for release sometime next year.

Nintendo's finally stamped a big European date on Metroid Prime Pinball, which should arrive here on 22nd June.

WipEout Pure was among the first games released for PSP, and remains one of the best, so naturally we were very keen to talk to the people working on the follow-up. Which is what we're doing here, obviously. In this case it's Clark Davies, introduced to us as "WipEout designer". Which probably looks nice on a business card. In light of the game's announcement just over a month ago and the first screenshots, we flung queries his way about how the game will improve on Pure, and how the new features - like the "Mag-Strip" sections - have been put to use by the development team.

Activision has revealed it's working on a new Spider-Man game to be released this autumn.

Atari was unable to confirm or deny rumours this morning that Test Drive Unlimited 2 is in development and due for release in 2008.

CellFactor: Revolution isn't your everyday deathmatch shooter. For starters, it's free. Today, as it happens. For seconds, it's essentially interactive propaganda, conceived by hardware manufacturer Ageia as an advert for its PhysX PPU (physics processing unit). We'll get to the game in a bit, but to begin with, a little background, because it's arguably much more interesting than CellFactor itself.

Square Enix has launched a website for a new PSP game called Final Fantasy Dissidia.

Xbox Live's director of programming has said not to expect the Xbox 360 spring dashboard update introducing Live Messenger support early this week after all.

Final Fight, Mighty Bomb Jack and Ordyne are the three games making up this week's US Virtual Console "roster".

Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto reckons he could make Halo games if he wanted to, but instead he prefers to look for things that gamers aren't expecting.

I do my bit for the environment. I care for the Earth. I might not throw my potato peelings on the compost heap to mulch the organic vegetable garden, or collect rainwater in a plastic tub to share a bath in, but I like to play my part. Like, for instance, not buying a new pair of shoes until I can feel the painful crunch of gravel on my socks, borrowing somebody else's newspaper when they've finished reading it, buying the heavily discounted, near-its-sell-by-date bread at the local supermarket to stop them senselessly disposing of it, or maybe just not turning the heating on unless it's really, really cold.

Here's the deal. There's this guy - fairly normal chap, goes by the name of Johnny Garland, deeply androgynous in that way which Japanese designers seem to think is hot (as distinct from merely confusing). He's on an adventure of some description; the adventure doesn't matter right now. What does matter is the people he's with.

Not like this. This isn't how the story's meant to go. No, this should be the tale of the underdog made good, of the unknown fighter hoisted high upon critical shoulders, receiving the praise and mainstream adulation that should rightfully have been his eight long years ago.

As I sit here writing this, the streets of Tel Aviv are filled with thousands - maybe hundreds of thousands - of people calling for the resignation of bungling war leader Ehud Olmert. By recent Anglo-American standards his mistakes were minor yet they still want shot of him. Demanding folk the Israelis, as you'll find out if you choose to play as their PM in this honest, harrowing, but ultimately hopeful simulation of Israeli-Palestinian hatchet-burying.

Developing a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game is a huge risk. Not only are they expensive to create and maintain, but they're entering a market that's constantly expanding, gunning for consumers who only have so much time and money to invest each month.

The Two Worlds official website has revealed that the Xbox 360 version of the game will no longer be available with the PC copy on 9th May.

Issue 9: Breakthrough is now available to download for City of Heroes and City of Villains.

An Australian technology website has suggested that a revised PlayStation 3 could be less than 18 months away, citing "a Sony insider" as its source, GamesIndustry.biz is reporting.

Popping it's zombie-head in our shotgun sight today was Virgin Play, who dodged our boomstick-blasts to tell us that Dead 'n' Furious is available to buy from its website now.

Sorry, but I'm emotionally unavailable right now. Please leave a heartfelt plea for affection after the apathetic shrug. Seriously, I'm spent. This week I've been torn into so many useless pieces that you could rejig the spelling and call me a botched summit. Why? Because I've been indulging in my favourite pastime: absorbing hours of American television while playing computer games.

First things first: some of us still have normal-person televisions. Catan is yet another game that completely ignores the fact that some people will need to play it on SDTV. Much of the text is tiny. Worse, it's tiny for no particular reason at all. Double-worse, it's actually pretty tiny on an HDTV, too.

From the creative hands that bought us the Zelda-themed Wii, comes a new handheld creation paying homage to Link's legend.

It's a bumper week for European Virtual Console followers, with no less than four new games jostling for position on the latest-releases panel, potentially commanding 3000 of your Wii points if you're the sort of rose-tinted loon who downloads everything. Surely nobody does.

Microsoft was unable to comment this morning on rumours that Halo 2 Vista has slipped a week.

An update to enable PS3 consoles to play PS1 games is still unconfirmed for Europe, Sony told Eurogamer this morning.