Meteos Wars and PowerUp Forever will be this week's new additions to the Xbox Live Arcade lineup, Microsoft has announced. Both games will sell for 800 Microsoft Points ($10), and both will be downloadable via the Xbox 360's Marketplace come Wednesday.

Continuing in the footsteps of the franchise's previous Nintendo DS and PC releases, Q Entertainment's Meteos Wars tasks players with matching up more blocks of the same color block, though those blocks can only be moved up and down, not left and right.

As for PowerUp Forever, the Blitz Arcade-developed, Namco Bandai-published shooter is a cross between Geometry Wars and Katamari Damacy, with players facing off against a constant wave of foes as their ship grows in size and the world shrinks.

Namco has yet to reveal when the PlayStation 3 version of PowerUp Forever will arrive, but don't be surprised it it arrives with the PlayStation Store update on Thursday.

Following up on yesterday's revelation that Q's block-matching rocket-launching DS puzzler Meteos is heading to Xbox 360, the studio has announced that Meteos Wars will hit North America in October carrying the price of 800 Microsoft Points ($10). The first screenshots of the downloadable Xbox Live Arcade game were released as well, showcasing the title's head-to-head multiplayer and character customization.

Q Entertainment, the studio behind the addictive puzzlers Lumines and Every Extend Extra, has announced that it will bring its rocket-launching stacking puzzle game Meteos to the Xbox 360 as a downloadable Xbox Live Arcade release.

Originally a Nintendo DS game, Meteos has players grouping together stones of the same color on the bottom of the screen and launching those groups off into space.

The Xbox Live Arcade version, now called Meteos Wars, adds head-to-head multiplayer and characters that can be decorated as the player unlocks achievements, according to 1UP.

Meteos Wars does not have an announced price or release date, but it will launch on Xbox Live Arcade Japan in October.