Major Nelson reports that Burnout Revenge, NFS ProStreet and FIFA 09 are now ready for direct download from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
Console Monster writes: "Microsoft's 'Deal of the Week' promotion continues this week with the price drop of FIFA 09's Ultimate Team downloadable content. The content has been reduced from its 800 Microsoft Point price tag to 400 Microsoft Points, a saving of 50%. The description for Ultimate Team is as follows:
Cheating on online ranked matches has become a common practice in FIFA 09, more common than in any other game. It has reached such high levels that fans report that almost 30% of online ranked matches result against people using Dream Teams or Edited Teams.
Fresh off the press (well airwaves), we've just got news via the official FIFA 09 podcast - presented by Steve and Rom - that FIFA 09 will be getting kit updates for a select number of teams....
BeefJack writes: "For those of you that purchased the FIFA 09 Ultimate Team DLC, you may have found that the game 'challenged' the EA servers and led to a disruption to gameplay.
BeefJack writes: "The world's best 32 virtual football players lined up at Port Olympic, Barcelona, Spain in an attempt to be crowned the FIFA Interactive World Champion 2009.
Xorloser noticed the other day that when FIFA'09 for Xbox360 is patched with the latest update, the flags that specify what media the game is allowed to run from have changed. Originally it was allowed to boot from a standard original Xbox360 disc, however now it is only allowed to boot from a new media type which is basically an updated version of the original Xbox360 disc type.
Console Monster writes: "We have just added the new Achievements for FIFA 09 on the Xbox 360. The new achievements are for the recently-released downloadable content. The 2GB download has the following dashboard description:
FIFA 09 Ultimate Team is available to download now from Xbox Live Marketplace for 800 MS Points.
FIFA fans, EA SPORTS is looking for knowledgeable soccer/football fans to contribute to their games' database.
With the new add-on content for FIFA 09 just around the corner EA today announced the new celebrations that will be in the game.
TheSixthAxis.com picks up on a tweet revealing the price of the new game mode coming to FIFA '09 in March.
With the release of FIFA 09 DLC just three weeks away, a tasty nugget of information has been found.
Taking place on Thursday April 23rd at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London, this year's MCV Industry Excellence Awards will be the most hotly-contested ever, with 17 accolades up for grabs, across a diverse range of categories covering the entire industry.
TheSixthAxis takes a look at the new details for EA's new game mode for FIFA '09 'Ultimate Team' coming on March 19th.
GI.biz writes: "Electronic Arts has released FIFA 09 statistics, revealing that around 1.25 million games are played online every day.
The publisher says that over 141m games of FIA 09 have been played across Xbox 360 and PS3 since the game was released late last September
Xbox Only writes: We've seen baseball cards integrated into 2K Sports' MLB 2K series and now EA Sports is getting back into the card game with a downloadable expansion for FIFA 09. Dubbed "Ultimate Team", this mode will be available on March 19 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game and will likely cost $14.99on PS3or 1200 MS points.
Danny Cowan from Gamasutra writes:
Electronic Arts (EA) have sponsored the £10,000 FIFA 09 tournament on the xbox360 at the first i-series event this year, i36. Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, UK will pay host to this event by Multiplay on the 10th April. With £5,000 available for first place, competition will be very strong!