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Games on Demand für Xbox 360
Microsoft startet im August einen Games-on-Demand-Service für die Xbox 360. Mit dabei sind
Titel wie Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed oder BioShock.
Zugang zu den Spielen erhält man nach dem Kauf via Kreditkarte oder Microsoft Punkten natürlich über Xbox Live.
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30 Spiele sollen zum Start zu Verfügung stehen, neben den anfangs
angesprochenen Titeln auch Sonic the Hedgehog, Oblivion, Colin McRae
DIRT, Call of Duty 2 oder LEGO Star Wars.
Analog zu Xbox Live
Arcade will man jede Woche neue Titel veröffentlichen. Nutzer können
sogar anhand eines Bewertungssystems Noten für die Spiele vergeben.
Ob zukünftig neue Titel gleichzeitig mit dem Verkaufsstart im Handel auch auf Xbox Live veröffentlicht werden, ist unklar.
E3: Win Avatar extras by playing games
Microsoft has revealed you'll soon be able to win new items for your avatar by playing Xbox 360 games.
The items will include special t-shirts and shoes, for example. But
there will also be costumes - "Full-body outfits that allow avatars to
come to life," as Microsoft's Mark Whitten put it.
He was speaking during a press lunch following Microsoft's E3
conference today. Whitten also revealed you'll be able to win props,
such as a pair of cheerleader pom-poms or a remote control car.
Much of the content will be provided by Microsoft Game Studios, but
you'll also be able to win accessories in third-party titles. Raiden's
eyepatch, anyone?
The new items will be available worldwide and we should see them
appearing in games pretty soon. Whitten explained Microsoft has already
created the tools and put them in Xbox 360 dev kit, so now it's up to
developers to make use of them.
"We have no details on specific games, but we believe lots of
games [developers] will want to do this," Whitten said. "The two groups
most asking for in-game avatar rewardables are publishers and the
community... So we expect to see a lot of that coming pretty quickly.
"The support is out there now," he added.