It's Saturday and that means gamesite XGN posts her weekly European Xbox Live Marketplace Roundup. Unfortunately it's not a big list like last week!
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Apr 11, 2008

XBOX Live Marketplace Update (Tuesday 10th April 2008)

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360 - Poker Smash - Xbox Live Arcade - XBOX Live Marketplace Update (Tuesday 10th April 2008)

Here is the XBOX Live Marketplace Update for Thursday 10th April 2008:

Name: Call of Duty 4: Xbox LIVE Fire Weekend 2008 Gamer Picture
Price: Free
Availability: Canada, United States
Description: Downloading this gamer picture enters US and Canadian residents in the Xbox LIVE Fire Weekend 2008 promotion. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States and Canada 14+. Contest closes April 20, 2008. Skill testing question required for Canadian winners. By downloading this item you are allowing Microsoft to contact you from time to time about this promotion. For full contest rules and details visit www.xbox.com/livefire.

Name: McDonalds Dollar Menu Picture Pack
Price: Free
Availability: United States
Description: Download this free McDonalds Dollar Menu picture pack.

Continued at the "sauce" (sorry).
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Apr 7, 2008

Microsoft Confirms Ikaruga For XBLA Wednesday, New Poker Smash DLC

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360 - Poker Smash - Xbox Live Arcade - Microsoft Confirms Ikaruga For XBLA Wednesday, New Poker Smash DLC

Microsoft today announced that Treasure's arcade shooter Ikaruga is slated for a release this Wednesday on April 9, as was listed on Xbox Japan last month.
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Mar 22, 2008

Xbox Live Arcade Sales Chart - 3/22/08 (Brain Challenge ~26k, Doom 3k)

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360 - Poker Smash - Xbox Live Arcade - Xbox Live Arcade Sales Chart - 3/22/08 (Brain Challenge ~26k, Doom 3k)

'N+' finally gets toppled by surprising casual juggernaught 'Brain Challenge', debuting its first full week on the charts with 26,000 units - #3rd overall for best full weeks. FPS classic 'Doom' increases units sold strongly by 110%, and Assault Heroes does very similarly.
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Mar 1, 2008

Xbox Live Arcade Sales, Week Ending 3/01/08 (Triggerheart = 7.2k)

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360 - Poker Smash - Xbox Live Arcade - Xbox Live Arcade Sales, Week Ending 3/01/08 (Triggerheart = 7.2k)

VGChartz reports that this week, Triggerheart Excelica launched to decent numbers. Triggerheart Excelica is the 2nd ever Dreamcast game to come to the XBLA Service, with Rez HD being the first. Excelica beats previous $10 Schmup recordholder, Omega 5's debut of 6,000 units by a decent 20% increase.

However, like Omega 5, it was vastly frontloaded this week: it's debut sales on it's first day was almost 40% of the 3day week (which is rather high). Another major note: Japanese Xbox 360 users made up 40% of the entire Excelica userbase. In the case of Omega 5, it sold only to 14% Japanese users (which is well above the norm, as the JP userbase constitutes maybe 5% of the average XBLA purchase base).

Other notes:

-Sonic the Hedgehog reaches 250,000 Units
-N+ increased very well
-Rez HD finishes it's first month just shy of 100,000 units
-Chessmaster LIVE ends it's first month with almost 28,000 units.
-Poker Smash had a massive drop from last week: it shed 70% from last week. Fortunately, the game has still done very well with grossing $400,000 in 4 weeks.
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Feb 20, 2008

Live activity for week of 2/11

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360 - Poker Smash - Xbox Live Arcade - Live activity for week of 2/11

These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade, full versions purchased this week. Here are the top 3 for each charts, see the source for the complete top 10 list.

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles
1. Call of Duty 4
2. Halo 3
3. Guitar Hero III

Top Arcade Titles
1. Poker Smash
2. Commanders: Attack
3. Rez HD

Original Xbox Top Live Titles
1. Halo 2
2. Ninja Gaiden Black
3. Star Wars: Battlefront 2
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Feb 6, 2008

XBLA: Poker Smash

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360 - Poker Smash - Xbox Live Arcade - XBLA: Poker Smash

Todays Xbox LIVE Arcade release is Poker Smash, for 800 MS points. Poker Smash has seven unique game modes, with eleven immersive environments. And, if you are in the U.S. you can enter the, Poker Smash, Play & Win Sweepstakes.
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Jan 29, 2008

Poker Smash Release Date Confirmed

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360 - Poker Smash - Xbox Live Arcade - Poker Smash Release Date Confirmed

Poker Smash has been confirmed for a Wednesday 6th February 2008 release.

Poker Smash is an action-packed puzzle game with a poker twist. Poker Smash expands on the traditional match-three puzzle mechanic with elements of one of the world's most popular card games: poker. Make vertical and horizontal matches by arranging cards by colour or by forming poker hands, using radical features like super slow motion or card-blasting bombs. Play seven different game modes with up to five player multiplayer support, and make your next poker game an entirely smashing new experience.

It is likely the game will be 800 Microsoft Points.
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Dec 3, 2007

December and January XBLA games revealed

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360 - Poker Smash - Xbox Live Arcade - December and January XBLA games revealed

In a press release announcing the Fall Update's Xbox Live Arcade Hits program, Microsoft also announced the next few months' upcoming Xbox Live Arcade games that are scheduled for release. As things stand right now, the next XBLA games to get released are Arkadian Warriors, Brain Challenge, GripShift, N+, Omega Five, Poker Smash, Rez HD and Sensible World of Soccer. No specific release schedule for each game has been confirmed just yet, but it's always nice to see what's headed down the old XBLA pipeline. And this list also lets us officially get excited for N+ and Rez HD.
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