Play Double Agent today

The arch-nemesis of CVG's social life has arrived on Xbox Live Marketplace; a demo of Sam Fisher's latest terrorist-busting, Splinter Cell: Double Agent, which has had us sitting in the dark shouting obscenities at the telly for most of the weekend.

The demo ways in at a hefty 702MB and lets you sample the excellent multiplayer section of Double Agent, which in case you missed previous Clancy stealth offerings, has you playing as either a spy or mercenary in a game of hide a seek - with guns.

This time around teams are expanded to three a piece, and spies have fancy new hacking gadgets that they can use to break glass and steal computer data.

As for the full game, according to Ubisoft's release schedule you can find that in shops on October 27.

I remember seeing an advertisement for this game in Best Buy saying that it will come out this thursday, I guess it's released later elsewhere.