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Borderlands 2 Game Add-on: Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt

Content: Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt
Price: 800 Microsoft points (Included in your Season Pass)
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: In Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt, the third campaign add-on for Borderlands 2, players will enter an uncharted territory deep in the swamps of Pandora where a massive Hyperion ship has crashed. The wreckage is rumored to have stockpiles of loot. But watch out, mutated creatures, and armies of savages also have an interest in the ship. As ferocious and primal as they may seem, the mysterious Professor Nakayama claims to be their diabolical leader, and he’s calling all the shots. Includes new guns, new loot, new bosses, a new location, a new vehicle and new skins & heads.

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Note: If you purchased the Borderlands 2 Season Pass, download this content from within the game at no additional cost.

You’ll need a copy of Borderlands 2 to use this game add-on

January 15th 2013 at 11:32 am | Game Add-on, Marketplace | 4 comments

Content coming soon to the Xbox LIVE Marketplace

Here is a look at some of the upcoming content scheduled for the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.*

See the blog post I’ll make for many of these for pricing and/or regional availability and follow me on Twitter for updates.

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*As with all game related releases, dates, prices and availability are subject to change and vary by region

Edit: Updating the list to remove the Rockstart offers.

January 15th 2013 at 8:00 am | Arcade, Deal, Game Add-on, Marketplace, Xbox 360 Games On Demand | 95 comments

Arcade: Retro City Rampage

Content: Retro City Rampage
Price: 800 Microsoft Points
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: YOU are THE PLAYER. Out of prison and on an mission, your open-world crime spree is ambushed by ”EVIL” GOOD GUYS. They will stop at nothing to protect the citizens of Theftropolis City from your RAMPAGE OF DOOM. Are YOU bad enough to defeat the ”EVIL” GOOD GUYS? RETRO CITY RAMPAGE invites you to steal over 40 vehicles and outrun the law while mowing down your fellow citizens! Jump on pedestrians for coins, or use them for target practice with over 25 weapons and power-ups! WHOA! This 8-bit nostalgic throwback comes loaded with over 80 story missions and arcade challenges! Challenge friends and share replays to educate them in the finer points of SUPER CRIME. Lock and load your lightgun. You’ve just entered RETRO CITY RAMPAGE

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January 2nd 2013 at 5:50 am | Arcade, Marketplace | 57 comments

Countdown to 2013 Daily Deal Day 10: Borderlands

Today’s Countdown to 2013 Daily Deals see us returning to Pandora.

December 27th 2012 at 12:00 am | Xbox 360 Games On Demand | 90 comments

Countdown to 2013 Daily Deal Day 9: Counter Strike Go

On sale today for 600 points…a 50% savings

December 26th 2012 at 12:00 am | Arcade, Deal | 60 comments

Countdown to 2013 Daily Deal Day 8: Kinect/Family games

Merry Christmas everyone. Here are the Countdown to 2013 Daily Deals for today:

December 25th 2012 at 12:01 am | Arcade, Deal | 35 comments

Countdown to 2013 Daily Deal Day 7: Trials HD, Trials Evolution and game add-ons

The following Trials content is on sale today only:

December 24th 2012 at 12:01 am | Arcade, Deal | 50 comments

Countdown to 2013 Daily Deal Day 5: Tony Hawk PS HD 50% off

Today, get Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD for 600 points.

December 22nd 2012 at 12:01 am | Arcade, Deal, Marketplace | 70 comments

Countdown to 2013 Daily Deal Day 4: Rockstar Games On Demand

Today only: The following Rockstar Games area available for direct download from Xbox LIVE for 33% off:

*Similar discounts in other countries where content is available

December 21st 2012 at 12:01 am | Deal, Xbox 360 Games On Demand | 84 comments

Demo: Cabela’s DH 2013

Content: Cabela’s DH 2013 Demo
Price: Free
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: In Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2013 you get Deadlier Predators, Deadlier Hunts: Smarter and Deadlier Predators: – The new Prowler animal AI engine simulates pack social hierarchies, coordinates complex group tactics and takes advantage of the surroundings to set up deadly ambushes. New Maneater Co-op Mode: – Two players can join together to take on wave after wave of increasingly deadly beasts in the all-new split screen Maneater mode. Master Your Fear: – Armed with the new Top Shot Fearmaster controller, control your heart rate to increase your accuracy, deal more damage, or slow down time to line up the perfect kill shot. Can you hold your own against the most vicious beasts the animal kingdom has to offer? Find out in Cabela’s Dangerous Hunts 2013!

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December 19th 2012 at 6:32 am | Demo, Marketplace | 6 comments

Countdown to 2013 Daily Deal Day 2: LEGO GonD Games

Today the collection of LEGO Games On Demand titles are on sale.

These titles are available for direct download from Xbox LIVE for 50% off today only:

December 19th 2012 at 1:23 am | Deal, Marketplace | 38 comments

Arcade: Black Knight Sword

Content: Black Knight Sword
Price: 800 Microsoft Points
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: From the twisted and brilliant mind of Suda 51 comes Black Knight Sword, a platforming adventure with an unprecedented visual style. In this fresh take on the classic fairy tale, The Black Knight treks through a dark and mysterious world filled with whimsical creatures to kill the dark princess and ending her reign of terror. A throwback to classic platformers, Black Knight Sword evokes simple yet addictive and challenging gameplay with an overall aesthetic unlike anything released to date.

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December 12th 2012 at 6:27 am | Arcade, Marketplace | 9 comments

Arcade: American Mensa Academy

Content: American Mensa Academy
Price: 800 Microsoft Points
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: Get ready to stretch your grey matter as you put yourself through more than 100 interesting and challenging puzzles designed to stretch and train your brain in key areas including logic, language, visual and more. Mensa Academy is the only brain training game backed by Mensa, the high IQ society, so for the first time you’ll be able to put all that practice into action by taking on real Mensa-style questions, like the ones you see in the Mensa IQ tests. What will your Mensa Academy score be?

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December 12th 2012 at 6:16 am | Arcade, Marketplace | 13 comments

Demo: Carrier Command: Gaea Mission

Content: Carrier Command: Gaea Mission – Demo
Price: Free 
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: Seize command of a futuristic military carrier and explore a large open world of a distant planet. Plan tactical assaults, order your units around the map and control them directly at any time to join in the action. Utilize both action and strategy elements to outwit and defeat your enemy in two distinct campaigns.

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December 11th 2012 at 6:29 am | Demo, Marketplace | 8 comments

Content coming soon to the Xbox LIVE Marketplace

Here is a look at some of the upcoming content scheduled for the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.*

Follow me on Twitter for additional updates.

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*As with all game related releases, dates, prices and availability are subject to change and vary by region

December 11th 2012 at 6:00 am | Arcade, Deal, Game Add-on, Marketplace, Xbox 360 Games On Demand | 131 comments

Halo 4 Game add-on: Crimson Map Pack

Content: Halo 4 Crimson Map Pack
Price: 800 Microsoft Points
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: If you own Halo 4’s “War Game Map Pass,” DO NOT purchase this content here as you will be charged again. Venture into the large, vehicle focused human environs of Harvest, explore a human foray on an alien moon in Shatter, and witness the chaos of a clash of civilizations in Wreckage, with its blend of claustrophobic spaces and dangerous exposures.

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You’ll need a copy of Halo 4 to use this game add-on

December 10th 2012 at 6:08 am | Game Add-on, Halo | 82 comments

Resident Evil 6 to deliver new content on December 18

Capcom has released new information about the game-add coming December 18th. Here are the details on the three modes (and more) available exclusively first on Xbox 360 from their press release:

London – Dec. 5, 2012 – Capcom, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games today confirmed that the initial wave of game add-on content for Resident Evil® 6 consisting of Predator, Survivors and Onslaught modes will be available on December 18 exclusively first on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Each mode is priced at 320 Microsoft Points and expands on the game’s multiplayer elements, providing new and exciting ways to enjoy the world of Resident Evil 6. Alternatively, players can purchase all three modes together as a bundle pack at the value price of 720 Microsoft Points on the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for Xbox 360.

Available for two to six players, in Predator one player takes on the role of the Ustanak, the fearsome B.O.W. that stalks Jake Muller throughout his campaign, and tries to eliminate the human players. The humans’ task: stop the deadly B.O.W. in its tracks, or at least survive until the end of the session.

Survivors takes the classic solo and team-based versus mode and adds a twist. Get killed and respawn as an enemy character with the ability to attack the human characters. Take down one human character to resurrect in human form. Last man or team standing wins. Survivors can be played by two to six players.

Onslaught sees two players go head to head in an attempt to clear waves of oncoming enemies. Chaining combos provides the key to success in Onslaught as this will send enemies over to the opponent’s screen, the more that are sent over, the quicker the victory will be.

Furthermore, December 17, will also see the release of a free title update for Resident Evil 6 that will allow owners to adjust the in-game camera to give a greater field of view as best suits their play style, while those who want to combine English language audio with subtitles in their desired language will now be able to do so. Also included in the title update is an unlock for Ada Wong’s campaign that adds an optional player-controlled co-op partner for that story, and the aptly named No Hope difficulty level, for those who want an extreme challenge.

December 5th 2012 at 11:26 am | Game Add-on, Xbox 360 | 17 comments

Arcade: Guardians of Middle-earth

Content: Guardians of Middle-earth
Price: 1200 Microsoft Points
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: Guardians of Middle-earth delivers an authentic multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game set in Middle-earth and crafted specifically for console systems. Gamers team up as the most powerful heroes from the greatest fantasy epic of all time, bringing up to 10 players together in strategic five versus five competitive multiplayer battle arenas in the epic setting of Middle-earth.

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December 5th 2012 at 6:00 am | Arcade, Marketplace | 21 comments

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dragonborn

Content: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dragonborn
Price: 1600 Microsoft Points
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: With this this official add-on for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, journey off the coast of Morrowind, to the island of Solstheim. Encounter new towns, dungeons, and quests, as you traverse the ash wastes and glacial valleys of this new land. Become more powerful with new shouts that bend the will of your enemies and even tame dragons. Your fate, and the fate of Solstheim, hangs in the balance as you face off against your deadliest adversary – the first Dragonborn.

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You’ll need a copy of Skyrim to use this game add-on

December 4th 2012 at 5:27 am | Game Add-on, Marketplace | 9 comments

Arcade: Red Bull Crashed Ice

Content: Red Bull Crashed Ice Kinect
Price: 400 Microsoft Points
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: Experience the most intense Kinect sports game in your living room with Red Bull Crashed Ice Kinect for Xbox 360. Fly down Ice Cross Downhill tracks at incredible speed, carve through turns, pull off crazy stunts and crash your way to victory across 5 authentic downhill tracks. Take the prize and become the Ice Cross Downhill World Champion on the leaderboards, battling it out with other players from all over the world.

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November 30th 2012 at 5:38 am | Arcade, Marketplace | 15 comments