Marketplace updates and DL content thread
 

There's a plethora of information on the internet about current marketplace updates and downloadable content releases but frankly, who has time to go looking for it?

This thread is for people to post information on new releases on Xbox Live, be it game demos or what have you on market place or new DLC on Xbox games.

Please only post info on stuff that has been released already or has a confirmed date. This is not a speculation thread.

Also, any posts not contributing to the list of available stuff or making useful comments on the stuff that's been released, will be deleted.

When telling us about updates, please check first to see if anyone already posted it and please include as much info as possible.

Right, carry on.

Quick question.

Would general things like "PGR3 just got an update patch" or information on the firmware update go in here, or is this just for things that can be downloaded from the marketplace directly?

Well I thought that any major releases of dlc, firmware or major patches should go here. Basically, if you think people will want to know about it, post it up.

Ok, gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

Carrying right along: The newest content is from NHL2K6, it's a picture pack for 80 MSP. There is also a couple of Battle for Middle Earth II things. One is an Elves picture pack for 160 points and the other is a "Cinematic Painting" Theme for 150.

Except this thread will essentially just be a mirror of www.majornelson.com, since that's where most people learn about new marketplace additions before posting them in here.

But he doesn't post about patches and stuff usually, from what I've seen. It's always been annoying to download a patch and not know what it does.

Also, in my case, I can't access Major Nelson's blog 5 days out of 7. >=(

Well we'll see how this goes. If it gets redundant I'll remove it.

Other than the important firmware upgrade which everyone should have gotten by now (see the thread on it), there is something else of note that's up on the marketplace.

Perfect Dark Zero's "Map Pack 1" (So there will be more I guess) is out. 500 MSP. A little steep but at least it's 4 maps for that price. Beats CoD 2's pricing scheme if you don't count the free ones they gave out.

There is also an Oblivion patch. I assume it does what the PC patch did. Fix a few of the infinite gold tricks and other little bugs.

Lastly, there is a Rumble Roses demo. ::noonecares::

SInce last update there has been a whole bunch of crap NO ONE CARES ABOUT. Fucking picture packs for various games and so forth. WOW DOWNLOAD MOTO GP PICTURE PACKS. ::thumbsdown::

Anyway, there is also STREET FIGHTER PICTURE PACKS AND A THEME...but no game. So now you can have a theme fuill of lol RYU and various other characters to NOT PLAY YOUR DAMN ARCADE GAME ON.

Awesome.

According to IGN, before Major Nelson even the Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter Chapter 2 downloadable content is out.

It will go for 1200 marketplace points (~$15).

Full story here:
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/714/714005p1.html

I'll be playing this tonight so page me if anyone wants to slug through the new co-op campaign.

A Prey demo should be available right noooow. It should take up about 1.5 Gigs. I hope this is appropriate.

New shit.

-Simpsons Movie Trailer (crappy, about 10 seconds long)
-Halo 3: In the Beginning (Making of the Trailer)
-NCAA Football 2007 Demo ( ::noone cares:: )
-Trailer: Mass Effect: Demo Walkthrough (am also confused what that means)
-Frogger (XBLA)
-Oh yeah, more PGR3 cars and modes (nuBZ)

What new PGR style pack #2 isn't important enough along with the GAME UPDATE that adds two new modes (Cat and Mouse, Cone Capure). nubtube

Texas Hold'Em coming out August 23rd?

Best part is it is free!

Anyone know for sure how many points will score you SFII on Tuesday?

You mean on Wednesday? 800 points/10 bucks.

Damn I guess it was foolish of me to think it would be 400 minimum. :doh:

The worst part is that it's no longer free. :(

Just remind everyone that tomorrow's August 1st and the SAINT's ROW demo will be up!

After my last post, I hate to bring more bad news, but there are 31 days in July.

On the bright side of things, that means back to back Saints Row demo and Street Fighter II downloads. On the less bright side of things, I have work early on Wednesday, so no late night tuesday download for me. :(

Also, I don't see it posted here, but you people do know there's a demo of Ninty-Nine Nights on the marketplace, right?

Oops. My bad.

N3 is fun for a while, but I have to say that visually, I'm far from impressed. Fog and pop-ups aren't suppose to be present on next-gen systems.

I guess that's a side effect from having 500+ characters on the screen at any given time.

The 360 may be a powerful machine and all, but it's not like it has infinite processing power. Remember how bad similar games of this sort looked on the PS2? It's quite a leap over the likes of Dynasty Warriors.

Anyway, N3 is a riot. It went from rental to purchase for me.

No, that's just the marketing utopia that is presented with the launch of any new console. No matter how many advances in technology are made someone will either have to cut corners for the sake of some other part of the agme to be better or simply cut corners for financial reasons.

Guess I should just add to this pointless thread by saying STREET FIGHTER 2 IS OUT.

Is it just me or did they make it really difficult, my guess is this would justify the title Hyper Fighting title. :eyebrow: I hopped right into 7-star difficulty and well, I'm still a long ways to go. :doh:

It's a port of the arcade version, and the arcade was always way harder than the home version. If you doubt me, play the SNES rom, and then play the MAME rom. With both set at either standard difficulty or even one star, the arcade will kick your ass WAY more than the SNES version. It's a shame really. Between me not playing this for years, and having to fight the 360's shitty D-pad, I'd have much rather seen a port of the SNES difficulty levels rather than the arcade original. Still, online play is FAR better than I thought it would be. That and hotseat is all you really need. Screw the single player.

Just finished it this morning, took me about half an hour with the difficulty set up to maximum. I honestly couldn't see a difference between 1 star difficulty or 7, I just finished it for the first time today knocking out two birds with one stone. :)
Dhalsim has got to be the friendliest fighter of the bunch but what surprised me was how easy the 3 fighters before Bison were when compared to say...Ken, Ryu or Guile. :eyebrow: And if you're wondering, yes...Bison is still a bastard. :lolsign:

Oh shit.

That game woudln't have leaderboards or co-op, so it doesn't make sense.

It'll also be a fucking GINORMOUS download.

I like how by the time I buy a second hard drive, the first one will literally be full of 500 arcade games at this rate.

This would be much, much hotter if they remade Dracula X for the 360 arcade as well. I wanna play the game, but I don't want to go through the trouble of emulating it.

Dead Rising demo is now on the marketplace.

When I get back I'll have to download it, I do hear that the file is 1GB but exactly how many minutes of gameplay is on it or should I just wait on gamefly come August 8.

You can end it in under a minute or two if you enter the right door, or you can play for quite some time killing everything you see. This isn't like the Prey demo where you'll have to replay damn near an hour of the game once you buy/rent the full version.

I was roaming free to see how long can it go until the demo comes to a close and once the clock strikes 7PM in the game, lights out. The zombies alter to low level crimson heads I would say. That would make the game more intense if that does in fact take place. :asthanos:

Update: As of today 8/9, Pac-Man was uploaded on the XBL Marketplace. Should be an easy 200 points.

Texas Hold 'em Poker Xbox Live Arcade game thing is onine right now. Even better is it's free. Until friday at least. Get downloading, people!

More good news, tomorrow should bring a demo of Just Cause, and a second demo of Test Drive.

Just Cause demo is now available on the the marketplace, at about 630 megs.

Oh, god. Incredible Machine. I came. Twice!

On a related note; some game, a shmup, called Time Pilot has attacked the Arcade. 400 points is the price.

A bunch of updates on the XBL Marketplace most notably is a playable demo of FEAR. Zipped through it in about 5 minutes and I'll be downloading the PC version for sure.

And you would be foolish because that was the demo released a long time before E3. It has already been confirmed to have better graphics and more features. for the 360. People seriously take demos too seriously.

(I have not played the demo, but even so, I read this issue and was smart enough to not even bother wiith it).

Well playing FPS games on console has always been 2nd nature to me. I much prefer the controls of a mouse and keyboard over a controller anyday. As for visuals, well that depends on your PC setup. I plan on playing this game on max settings once this download goes through. 1280x1024 > 1280x720. :)

Just so that everyone knows Totem Ball releases tomorrow.

For more info go here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/t/to...de/default.htm

Everyone probably already knows, but the Breakdown demo was put up recently

Root Beer Tapper came out today!

It's a really crappy arcade game that goes for 400 MSP!

Don't get it!

February 14th -- today's Live Arcade title is:

Paperboy!

Still the scariest game imaginable. I still frown at the fact that many people are willing to go out of their way to keep this paperboy from delivering a newspaper. Beware the Brutish Breakdancer.

There's several new themes & Gamerpics packs released. FEAR just recently released a Dark theme, Battlestar Galactica has a theme and Gamerpic pack. A free Borat Theme and Gamerpic pack was released.

Castlevania: SOTN should be out today in Xbox Live!

TMNT out last week!

I was thinking. This thread is mighty useless in it's current iteration, and could use a recreation with a tighter focus. I'll work on it when I get back from work.

Could it get destickied?

I'm working on organizing things here. Give me some time. A fox can only handle so much at once. =p

I'll annoy you as I see fit. >=(

Ok, 360 now has .mp4 support but WMP doesn't support .mp4. Has anyone here gotten WMP to allow you to put .mp4 files into your library so that you can stream them to your 360?

I've tried this plugin here, and it doesn't seem to work.

Use TVersity instead of any of the "official" server software.

It's a much more fully featured server program, plus it can transcode on the fly for audio formats your 360 won't play at all, like FLAC. I've also not run into any problems with it for anything, unlike all the other server programs I've used, which basically don't work half the time for one reason or another.

Wrong thread, by the way.

Is anyone else excited about Mad Tracks, which is supposed to be released on XBLA today? It looks like an updated version of Micro Machines, and it's been getting great reviews. I plan to download this tonight (800 points).

I'm also happy because there's some new content for Worms today, and most of it is free. Finally, some new voices, and a free terrain; I think there are 2 other terrains that cost points.