This week's Xbox Live Marketplace haul includes Fable II Pub Games, which enable you to start amassing gold now for the full Fable II retail game when it launches in October or, more likely, start out the game in debt. The good news is that the games are all fun and the tutorials in the demo give you a nice tour of the three innovative variants on blackjack, roulette and slots. Now if you preordered Fable II hoping to score a free code for the Pub Games only to have it fail to work, try again now - there was a lag between when the codes were e-mailed and actually active to use on Xbox Live. (Me, I refuse to invest any more real dollars into Microsoft points until Xbox support sorts out the stuff I've already paid for or downloaded legitimately, but if I had 800 of them in my account I'd buy it!).
If you have more points than sense, here's what you'll find this week (a few freebies too):
If you have more points than sense, here's what you'll find this week (a few freebies too):
- Arcade: Fable II Pub Games ($10) and Bionic Commando: Rearmed ($10)
- Rock Band Roadrunner Records Pack 1 ($6 or $1 each) "Runnin' Wild" by Airborne, "Clouds Over California" by DevilDriver, "Constant Motion" by Dream Theater, "My Curse" by Killswitch Engage, "Aesthetics of Hate" by Machine Head and "Sleepwalker" by Megadeth
- Demo:Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09
- Game Videos: Battlefield: Bad Company, Beijing 2008, Dead Space, Facebreaker, Madden NFL 09, Saints Row 2 and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
- Themes: Beijing 2008, Bionic Commando: Rearmed, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Gemma Atkinson, Facebreaker, Madden NFL 09 20th Anniversary, Fracture and Think Pink ($1.88 each) plus Ford Flex and Hamlet 2 (free)
- PIctures: Beijing 2008 ($2.50), Bionic Commando: Rearmed ($1.25), Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Gemma Atkinson ($1.25), Fable II Pub Games (free; enters you in sweepstakes), Golden Axe: Beast Rider ($2.50), Madden NFL 09 20th Anniversary ($1.25), Ford Flex (free) and Hamlet 2 (free)
