What's amazing about this week's Xbox Live Marketplace update is the sheer volume - including more 7 Game Room titles (with more promised for next week, no doubt locked away in this week's pack), 33 Rock Band Network tracks and 37 indie games. That's got to be a record! Plus a free Call of Duty: Black Ops theme for Xbox Live Gold members.
Here's what's new:
- Arcade: Aqua ($10) and Metal Slug XX ($15)
- Game Room ($3-5 each; requires Game Pack 004): Asteroids, Demons to Diamonds, Grand Prix, Shark! Shark!, Space Duel, Stampede and Time Pilot
- Dragon Age: Origins Darkspawn Chronicles ($5)
- Record Of Agarest War various packs ($2-$7 each)
- Skate 3 Time Is Money Pack ($7) - basically, cheat codes you pay for
- Split/Second various cheat codes for sale ($2.50-$5 each)
- Guitar Hero 5 Aerosmith Track Pack ($5.50 or $2 each) with "Livin' On The Edge," "Love In An Elevator" and "Rag Doll"
- Rock Band/Rock Band 2 Grateful Dead Pack 03 ($10 or $2 each) with "Beat It on Down the Line," "Cumberland Blues," "Scarlet Begonias," "Throwing Stones," "Touch of Grey" and "U.S. Blues" plus tracks ($2 each) "A Girl Like You" and "Only a Memory" by The Smithereens - Note: "Family friendly" tracks also work with Lego Rock Band.
- Rock Band Network tracks ($1-3 each; Rock Band 2 required to download and play) "Walls" by All Time Low, "Valkyries" by Amberian Dawn, "Light Of Day" and "You're Not Alone" by Atom, "Automatic Doors" by A'tris, "Paper Dolls" by Ballyhoo!, "Is There a Ghost" by Band of Horses, "Swallow the Razor" by Bang Camaro, "Santa Fe" by Blackberry River Band, "Knifeman" by The Bronx, "India" by Circus Circus, "Eency Weency Spider" by CJ, "We're Not Getting Any Younger" by Color Theory, "Sunday Suit" by Connor Christian and Southern Gothic, "Don't Feel Like That Anymore" by Johnny Cooper, "Five More Minutes" by Counterfeit Pennies, "Til I'm Gone" by Kristin Dare, "Now Demolition" by Evile, "Shape 3" by Farther Snake, "Tastes Like Kevin Bacon" by Iwrestledabearonce, "By Yourself" by The Knew, "Chemical Infatuation" by Like A Storm, "Rock Your Socks Off" by Midnight Ocelot, "Death Metal Guys" by Reverend Horton Heat, "Wrong Side of the Sky" by Rose of Jericho, "It's Not Paranoia If They're Shooting Live Bullets" by Sadaharu, "The Great Plains" by Scale the Summit, "Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov)," "Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms)" and "Night on Bald Mountain (Mussorgsky)" by Paul Henry Smith & The Fauxharmonic Orchestra, "Everyone I Know is an Alcoholic" by Robby Suave, "Bra Off Party On" by Thunderdikk and "You're an Egg! (Evolution)" by Windtunnel Syndrome
- Lips tracks ($2 each) "Wouldn't It Be Good" by Nik Kershaw, "La La La" by LMFAO, "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers and "Ain't Nobody (Remix)" by Rufus and Chaka Khan
- Games on Demand: The Force Unleashed ($30) and Top Spin 3 ($20)
- Demos: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 plus all Xbox Live Arcade, Indie games and Rock Band Network tracks
- Indie Games (usually $1-10 each): 3 in 1 Game Compilation, Allegory, Amazing 8bit Ball, Avatar Hangman, Avatar Ninja!, Avatar QuizCall: Africa 2010, Avatar Racedrome, Bit Crunch, Blaster and Amethyst, Bloom＊Block, Coastal Defence, Doppelganger, Gerbil Physics 2, Get To Tha Choppa!!, Lamingtons Zero, LOL LOL Kitty Commando, Lone Gunner, Loot, Steal & Destroy, Magic Gem, The Manly Game for Manly Men, Meds, Meltdown Moon, Modern Pirate Hunter: Ep 1, MoonShine, Nova Lancer, Paipa, Play x Play! Guitar, Quarantine, Quarry, Radiangames JoyJoy, Ranger, Rock4U, Uprising, Zombie Estate, Zombie Sniper 3D and まもって騎士 ("Mamotte Knight")
- Game Videos: Alan Wake, Aqua, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Dragon Age: Origins Darkspawn Chronicles, Gears of War 3, Medal of Honor, MLB 2K10, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, Red Dead Redemption, Snoopy Flying Ace, Spider-Man:Dimensions, UFC Undisputed 2010 and Zeno Clash Ultimate Edition
- Themes: Aqua ($3), Call of Duty: Black Ops (free) and Lost Planet 2 Premium ($3)
- Pictures: Might & Magic Clash of Heroes ($1), various registrations (free; enters you in sweepstakes) and Hot Pockets
- Avatar Items (usually priced $1-5 each): Lost Planet 2 and The Empire Strikes Back
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