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During the infancy of the PlayStation Portable, there were a couple of games released -- Archer Maclean's Mercury and Mercury Meltdown -- that put gamers in the role of a blob of silver mercury. It sounds strange in premise, but these two games weren't platformers or action games; they were puzzle games, and controlling that liquefied mercurial ball proved to be a lot of fun for many gamers...

This week, we take a look at a new Monkey Ball-esque puzzler, Mercury Hg. We also mess around with MLB Bobblehead Battle, which is essentially a remixed version of MLB Bobblehead Pros, which came out in July.

There are new Xbox Live Arcade games released every week. We realize that our readers are busy, attractive people, and may not have time to download and examine each and every new XBLA game. You've got busy, attractive person stuff to do, after all. Not to worry though, because we've done the work for you, downloading every single trial game and giving you a taste of what to expect. Watch XBLA in Brief every week to see which games deserve a closer look. When you have the time, of course.

Mercury Hg might not sound familiar to you, but if you owned a PSP early in its lifecycle, then you're not doubt familiar with the games Mercury and Mercury Meltdown. Mercury Hg is essentially an updated version of those two games. And the title is a bit of a pun, since it's an updated HD version of a PSP game, but Mercury's chemical symbol is Hg y'know...