It's Friday! It's summer! It's another disappointingly thin games release schedule! Yes, while the US gets Doom 3 we make do with Catwoman and Chaos League. Luckily Doom is out next week so, until then, here's a rundown of this week's games:

Release the Beat Arcola Theatre, London E8, until 21 August

The full download for XP2 is 256MB, but Computerworld says: "The average download for Windows XP Professional is expected to be about 100MB, according to Microsoft. The average download for customers with Windows XP Home Edition is estimated at 80MB. Customers who need SP1 can expect the download to be…

Watermill, Newbury

Old Truman Brewery, London

Roger Bennett, the head of the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association has written an open letter to David Blunkett condemning the "misleading" reporting related to last week's Leicestershire tragedy, in which the 18+ game Manhunt was implicated. It touches on the usual, including the reported absence of links between…