If you signed up for the preview program for the next Xbox 360 dashboard refresh when we tweeted about it a few weeks ago, that has launched. If you were accepted and you're not seeing the preview download to your console when you sign into Xbox Live, go to Connect.Microsoft.com and be sure you submitted required details about your console.
Whether you're on the old or new 360 dashboard today, here's what you'll find that's new this week on Xbox Live Marketplace:
- Arcade: Fusion: Genesis ($10)
- The Black-Eyed Peas Experience ($3) "Bebot"
- Call of Duty Elite (free; $50 for premium features including all Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 DLC)
- Dead Rising 2: Off The Record Firefighter Skills Pack ($2) and Gamebreaker Pack ($5)
- Tropico 4 Junta ($5)
- Just Dance 3 ($3 each) "Satisfaction (Isak Original Extended)" by Benny Benassi, "Jin Go Lo Ba" by Fatboy Slim, "Cosmic Girl" by Jamiroquai, "Jump in the Line" by The Sunlight Shakers
- Rock Band 3 Country Mega Pack ($20, offered in smaller bundles for $5.50 to $11, or $2-3 each) with "Ride" by Trace Adkins, "Crazy Town" by Jason Aldean, "Man of Me" by Gary Allan, "Sideways" by Dierks Bentley, "Rain Is a Good Thing" by Luke Bryan, "Giddy On Up" by Laura Bell Bundy, "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash, "That's How Country Boys Roll" by Billy Currington, "Mama Tried" by Merle Haggard, "Perfect Day" by Lady Antebellum, "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Reba McEntire, "Backwoods" by Justin Moore, "Summer Nights" by Rascal Flatts, "Alright" by Darius Rucker, "TWANG" by George Strait, "Settlin'" by Sugarland, "Party for Two" by Shania Twain with Billy Currington, "Kiss a Girl" by Keith Urban, "Awful, Beautiful Life" by Darryl Worley, "Single White Female" by Chely Wright and "Intentional Heartache" by Dwight Yoakam plus Rock Band Network tracks ($1-3 each) "The Fractal Reason" by Active Knowledge, "Faux King Christ" by Atheist, "Frankenstein Teaser Trailer" by Richard Campbell, "The Cascade Effect" by Chaotrope, "The Answer" and "Life or Death" by Fallen Angel, "Inversion" by Halcyon Way, "Haunting the Dead" by Lockdown, "The Consequences" by Mystakin, "Boy" and "Can You Tell" by Ra Ra Riot, "Heavy Weather - The Storm ov The Undead" by Rainbowdragoneyes and "Let It Ride" by Spinning Chain
- Games on Demand: Fight Night Companion ($30), Monster Jam: Path of Destruction ($40) and Ninety-Nine Nights II ($30)
- Demos: Happy Feet Two, Let's Cheer (Kinect), Rayman Origins, Yoostar on MTV (Kinect) plus all Xbox Live Arcade, Game Room, Indie games and Rock Band Network tracks
- Indie Games (usually $1-10 each): 3D PixelArt Studio, Bobby, CastleMiner Z, Claustrophobia, Distortion King, Flowrider, Growing Pains, Iron Core, Master of Influence, Pumpkin Smasher, RE: Get to School on Time, Robot Platformer 2, Snake 2, StarCatcher, You're All Diseased and Zombusters
- Game Videos: Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Call of Duty: Elite, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, DarkStar One, Devil May Cry, Dragon's Dogma, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Guardian Heroes, Happy Wars, Joe Danger: Special Edition, Jurassic Park, Kinect Sports: Season Two, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, MotionSports Adrenaline, NBA 2K12, Puss in Boots, Rocksmith, Saints Row: The Third, SpongeBob's Surf & Skate Roadtrip, Syndicate, UFC: Undisputed 3, Warp and Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012
- Themes (free to $3 each): Saints Row: The Third, Jeep and Lincoln
- Pictures (free to $2 each; some may enter you in sweepstakes): Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Half-Minute Hero, Max Payne 3, Hyundai, Jeep and Lincoln
- Avatar Items (usually priced $1-5 each): Just Dance 3 and Metal Gear Solid
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