Microsoft updated their Xbox LIVE Games on Demand service this morning by adding two new games from distinctly different genres. One is a 3D fighting game featuring weapons and guest characters from the Star Wars films. The other is the the latest in the long-line of World War II shooters to grace game consoles.
Console Monster writes: The Xbox Live Marketplace has received a range of new content over the last couple of days. The highlights include Medal of Honour: Airborne releasing on Games on Demand, a demo for the upcoming Superstars V8 Next Challenge and the Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack sees the light of day for non-Halo: ODST owners. Here is the full Xbox Live Marketplace update for Monday 1st, Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd February 2010: Games on Demand Medal of Honour: Airborne Price: £19.99 Size: 6 GB Game Demos Superstars V8 Next Challenge Demo Price: Free (Gold Exclusive offer) Size: 278 MB Game Content Halo 3 Mythic II Map Pack Price: 800 Microsoft Points Size: 314 MB...
Major Nelson's Blog writes: The following Xbox 360 game are now ready for direct download from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace: Content: DDR Universe 3 Price: Check pricing for your region Availability: North America Dash Text: DanceDanceRevolution celebrates its 10th anniversary! DanceDanceRevolution UNIVERSE 3 dances it's way to you with an all new sleek enhanced interface, fun new modes and settings for players of all skill levels, cool smash-hit songs, robust online and offline support and exciting new exclusives! Content: MOH Airborne Price: Check pricing for your region Availability: Not available in Asia and North America Dash Text: Take to the skies in Medal of Honor Airborne, where your choices will turn the tide of WWII. Starting with your jump from a C-47, every choice you make can seal your fate. In the air, control your parachute to select the landing spot that brings you the greatest strategic advantage. On the ground, explore the open, vertical environment for positions that will provide you a tactical edge against your enemies. Then, head onto Xbox LIVE for furious multiplayer battles in three different modes, including all-new Airborne modes! You decide where to drop, you decide how to fight. It's a different war every time.
Major Nelson writes: Here is the current schedule for upcoming content coming soon to the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
Speaking once again to Reuters, movie man Steven Spielberg has said that he shouldn't have sold Dreamworks Interactive to EA, allowing them to pick up the hit Medal of Honor franchise in the process. The smartest and dumbest thing I ever did was to sell my company to EA, the veteran entertainment boss conceded.
Video game soundtracks being used in a political campaign? GamePolitics has shrewdly noticed that a recent John McCain ad is layered with the theme from EA's Medal of Honor: European Assault. Very inspiring, one supposes? The plot thickens, though, when you learn that the music's composer, Christopher Lennertz, is one hundred percent Team Obama.
Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchford has described Brothers in Arms competitor Medal of Honor as a franchise in trouble. It's a great franchise, and a lot of people love it, but I think somebody really needs to get hold of that franchise who cares about the subject matter and understands what the real promise and the fantasy is, Pitchford told CVG today at a press event in London. EA's Medal of Honor series blew gamers' socks off when Allied Assault launched on PC, but the series has never experienced the same accolade since.
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