The surprise this week is the return of Game Room after its developer closed shop. It appears that the games are only $3 now, though it's not clear whether this grants access to the PC versions of the games as well as the Xbox 360. In addition to the new game pack, there's a title update and some new games from the previous pack.
Here's what's new at Xbox Live Marketplace :
- Arcade: Crazi Taxi ($10) plus 3D Ultra Mini Golf Adventures 2 Fairy Tales Map Pack ($3) and Castlevania: Harmony of Despair character packs ($3 each)
- Game Room ($3 each; requires Game Pack 11 and 12): Blades of Steel, Golf, Human Cannonball, Miniature Golf, Pitfall II: Lost Caverns, Skiing, Slapshot Hockey, Space Battle, Super Football, Trick Trap: 1771 and Vectron
- Enslaved: Odyssey To The West Pigsy’s Perfect 10 ($10)
- Fable III Understone Quest Pack ($5), Hair Pack ($2) and Five-Star Dog Potion ($1)
- Front Mission Evolved Last Stand ($5) and Map Pack ($4)
- Mafia II Joe’s Adventures ($10)
- Splatterhouse The Killing Floor ($2) and various masks ($1 each)
- Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 All In One Pack ($10)
- Moto GP 09/10 2010 Moto2 and 125 Update (free)
- Dance Central tracks ($3 each) "I Gotta Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas, "Word Up" by Cameo and "Whoomp! (There It Is)" by Tag Team
- DJ Hero 2 Tiesto Pack ($8) with "Traffic" vs. "Louder Than Boom" and "Feel It In My Bones" featuring Tegan & Sara and "Knock You Out" featuring Emily Haines vs. "Young Lions" by Tiesto
- Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock My Chemical Romance Pack ($7.50 or $2 each) with "Bulletproof Heart," "Helena," "Teenagers" and "Welcome to the Black Parade"
- Rock Band 3 "Imagine" album by John Lennon ($15 or $2-3 each) with "Crippled Inside," "Jealous Guy," "It's So Hard," "I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama," "Gimme Some Truth," "Oh My Love," "How Do You Sleep?," "How?" and "Oh Yoko!"
- Rock Band 2/Rock Band 3Rock Band Network tracks ($1-3) "For We Are Many" by All That Remains, "Oceans Between Us" by The Downtown Fiction, "Better Sleep" by Fatter Than Albert, "Linear A" by Free Electric State, "Two Minute Warning" by Hitman Blues Band, "Spira Mirabilis" by Kodomo, "Living Saints" by Polar Bear Club and "On Parole" by Sister Sin
- Lips tracks ($2 each) "Step Into Christmas" by Elton John, "The Thong Song" by Sisqo and "Mull Of Kintyre" by Wings
- Games on Demand: Alan Wake ($30), Avatar ($20) and Timeshift ($30)
- Demos: CSI: Fatal Conspiracy, Saw II: Flesh and Blood and Sonic Free Riders plus all Xbox Live Arcade, Game Room, Indie games and Rock Band Network tracks
- Indie Games (usually $1-10 each): Avatar Banker: Greed is Good, Blur Ball, Console Info: 2010 Edition, The Deep Cave, Dogfight Sketch, A Game You Can't Beat, Jetpack Man, Monsters Elect, Outbreak on Uranus, Sketchy Tower Defense, Space Police on Superhighway 9, Spring Break in Zombie USA, Super Janitoroid, Table Soccer X and Valet Parking Inc.
- Game Videos: Crazy Taxi, De Blob 2, Halo: Reach, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, Splatterhouse and Tron: Evolution
- Themes: Kinect Joy Ride (free), Splatterhouse ($3) and Tron: Legacy (free)
- Pictures: Call of Duty: Black Ops (free; enters you in sweepstakes), Major League Gaming holiday ($1) and Tron: Legacy (free)
- Avatar Items (usually priced $1-5 each): Tron (due Thursday, Nov. 25)
Crazy Taxi is so tempting to purchase... but it's a real shame they weren't able to renew their soundtrack license with THE OFFSPRING... (I know you can use custom soundtracks and all, but it just isn't the same experience, for me at least) and also KFC was removed from the game! What are they CRAZY? Crazy Taxi didn't deserve this treatment, wish they put more effort and money into releasing something as close to the original game for Dreamcast.
On the positive side, I still have my original Crazy Taxi copy for DC :)
OK, so now you're making me want to boot up the ol' Dreamcast. I have that game, haven't played it in years!
At least you still have your Dreamcast! I'm here stuck with an original copy of Crazy Taxi and no Dreamcast... lol Shucks!
Amazing game though, but for anyone who played it on the Dreamcast, it won't be the same authentic experience.
Who knows, maybe one day Crazy Taxi 2 will be released.