Xbox Live Arcade is a bit of a mixed bag this week with Ticket To Ride providing some solid Carcassone-esque board game larks, albeit with a fairly confusing screen layout, and Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm offering absolutely rubbish puzzle/platform-based gameplay which sees you pressing switches and moving obstacles in order to clear a path for your character.  Both games are 800 M$P (£6.80) each.  Ticket To Ride might be worth a shot but if you’ve got Catan, Carcassone and Lost Cities, I doubt it’ll offer anything extra for you.

Happy Tree Friends: Stopped being funny about 6 years ago.

Anyone daft enough to not run a mile from the awful trial of Commando 3: Turd on the Battlefield will now have access to the beta Super Street Fighter 2 Hi-Def Remix.  Early indicators say that intolerable lag and plenty of freeze-ups are rendering this completely worthless.  Capcom have said they won’t be patching the beta either.  Unlucky!

Super Street Fighter 2 Hi-Def Remix. Mmm... Fight.

The last thing in this week’s informative and entertaining update is the rather welcome news that Microsoft have finally released the DRM Transfer Tool.  This handy utility allows you to transfer licenses for all your downloaded content.  This is particularly useful if your 360 has died recently as until now you would not have been able to play your XBLA games and DLC offline.

The DRM Tool can only be used once a year though, so if you’ve got any plans to upgrade to an Elite or something, be careful that you don’t blow your DRM load so to speak. 

Of course, the biggest benefit of this is that you won’t have to phone Xbox Customer Support to get the licenses transferred which will save you at least two months and a dozen phone calls to the unbelievably inept people that work there.  Bonus!

Richie Harkness – www.peoww.co.uk