The big news for the Xbox 360 is that there will be no spring dashboard update this year. The supposed leaked list of improvements has either been delayed till fall or was a remarkable hoax. Instead, we will be getting a long overdue DRM tool in June that will apparently fix the time bomb issues and let people whose Xbox 360s died or were replaced play their purchases offline again without the support headaches.
Along with this welcome news came the report that underperforming Xbox Live Arcade games will be retired in coming months (though presumably if you bought a game you can still redownload it from your Download History indefinitely; hey, this isn't iTunes!). Don't worry, Microsoft promises a three-month warning before any games disappear forever.
In the meantime, here's what you can find now from Xbox Live Marketplace:
In the meantime, here's what you can find now from Xbox Live Marketplace:
- Xbox Live Arcade: Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 1 ($20)
- Xbox Originals: Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse and Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows ($15 each)
- Chessmaster Live Breaking the Lines mini-game ($1.25)
- Lost Odyssey Seeker of the Deep Dungeon Pack ($5)
- TimeShift Urban ReDuel Multiplayer Map Pack ($10)
- Rock Band tracks ($2 each) "Beetlebum" (cover) by Blur, "Hier Kommt Alex" by Die Toten Hosen, "Countdown to Insanity" by H-BlockX, "Perfekte Welle" by Juli, "Manu Chao" by Les Wampas, "Hysteria" by Muse, "Rock ‘N’ Roll Star" by Oasis, "New Wave" by Pleymo and "Monsoon" by Tokio Hotel
- Game Videos: Battlefield: Bad Company, Dead Space, Grid, NBA Ballers: Chosen One, Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 1, Pirates vs Ninjas Dodgeball, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Tom Clancy's HAWX and another Ask a Ninja promotional video
- Themes: Graffiti ($1.88) and University of California and University of Texas ($2.25 each)
- Pictures: Iron Man ($0.63), Kung Fu Panda ($1.63), Camo Crowns ($1.88), University of California ($1.25) and University of Texas ($1.25)
