Every Wednesday, at 9AM GMT (2AM PDT), you can play new games for Xbox Live Arcade and get other Xbox Live Marketplace downloadable content for Xbox 360. Here’s an overview of what Microsoft announced worldwide this week.
Content: Wrecked Revenge Revisited
Price: 1200 Microsoft Points (that’s US$15 / €14.40 / £10.20 / CAN$18.60 / AU$19.80)
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: From the creators of MASHED comes the next evolution of explosive battle racing fun! It’s time to unleash your rivalries again and make a few new ones in the process. Revenge is sweet when it’s a rocket through your rival’s back window! Using weapons or just your kick ass driving skills, unleash your fury, cause absolute carnage, and send your ‘friends’ to a very humiliating defeat!
Like last week’s Dungeon Fighter Live: Fall of Hendon Myre, this week once again there are a few games missing in action. Let’s hope Pinball Arcade & Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior’s Rise get released on XBLA shortly.
Very odd day, but there’s a Friday Xbox Live Arcade release:
Content: South Park: Tenorman’s Revenge
Price: 800 Microsoft Points (that’s US$10 / €9.60 / £6.80 / CAN$12.40 / AU$13.20)
Availability: Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region
Dash Text: Scott Tenorman is back and he wants revenge! Help Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny take on Tenorman and his army of Ginger robots before they destroy South Park! Suit up as the boys’ superhero alter-egos to track Scott and his evil forces through time and space in this exciting platformer. It’s the ultimate fight to save South Park!
New Game Add-ons:
* Gears of War 3: Forces of Nature Map Pack – 800 Microsoft Points
Dash Text: If you own Gears of War 3 Season Pass DO NOT purchase this content here as you will be charged again. This pack adds five new multiplayer maps, each featuring unique weather conditions: Aftermath (Flooding City), Artillery (Tornado), Cover (Fog), Jacinto (Rainstorm and Imulsion), and Raven Down (Snowstorm). Also included are 250 Achievement Points and four new multiplayer characters; the Savage Hunter, and new variants of Commando Dom, Mechanic Baird, and the Savage Grenadier Elite.
* Worms Ultimate Mayhem Customization add-on – 400 Microsoft Points
Description: The classic hilarious war game series Worms is back in a whole new way in Worms Ultimate Mayhem. Check out what customization is featured for your worm team!
* Asura’s Wrath: Additional Episode 11.5
Description: Don’t miss this fully-animated episode revealing the mysterious explosion between episodes 11 and 12!
* Street Fighter X Tekken: Ibuki (Swap Costume)
New Games on Demand are:
* Gears of War 3 – $39.99
* Two Worlds II – $44.99
* Fantastic Pets – $29.99
The latest Xbox Live Marketplace demos are:
* Blades of Time Demo
* Birds of Steel Demo
The Deal of the Week is:
This week, Xbox LIVE Gold members can save Microsoft Points on an assortment of select Marketplace items. The special pricing will be available until April 2. All of the below are 50% discounted.
* Forza: American Muscle Car Pack
* Forza: November Speed Pack
* Forza: December IGN Pack
* Forza: January Jalopnik Pack
* Joe Danger: Special Edition
* Daytona USA
* Sega Rally Online Arcade
* There’s also a special Games on Demand Sale going on with up to 30% off!
New Avatars are:
* Halo Update
* Trials Evolution
* adidas Originals 4 Collection
* Zoo Animals
Upcoming Xbox Live Arcade games are:
* TRIALS EVOLUTION, April 18 for 1200 Microsoft Points
“Trials Evolution” is on every front, the next dimension of the smash-hit, award-winning “Trials HD.” Bust out of the warehouse into an outdoor world of night and day, curved driving lines, and spectacular scenery. Multiplayer comes alive in your living room or on Xbox LIVE. Build your own tracks with the in-game editor or download those of any other player from the new Track Central. Customize your bike and rider with awesome gear and unique parts, enjoy innovative skill games, try ghost racing, beat your friends’ scores and more! Don’t miss the madness!
* BLOODFORGE, April 25 for 1200 Microsoft Points
With a brutal combat system, stunning art style, and a deeply compelling story, “Bloodforge” empowers you to slaughter hordes of demonic soldiers, deformed worshippers, and the gods themselves, using ferocious Rage Kills, devastating Rune attacks, and furious Weapon Combos. Help seal Crom’s fate – and the fate of the rest of the world – in this dark, visceral story of revenge, betrayal, and destiny.
* FABLE HEROES, May 2 for 800 Microsoft Points
“Fable Heroes” is an action-packed, hack-and-slash adventure built for Xbox LIVE Arcade. It delivers a fresh spin on the “Fable” franchise with a unique art style and gameplay that takes playful competition to the next level. Whether on the couch or using Xbox LIVE, up to four players work together to defeat enemies while also competing with one another to collect gold coins and level up. Precious gold collected in Fable Heroes can be imported into the forthcoming Kinect title, Fable: The Journey, providing players with a valuable head start from day one.
* MINECRAFT: XBOX 360 EDITION, May 9 for 1600 Microsoft Points
The infinite possibilities in “Minecraft” just got bigger. “Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition” brings the global phenomenon to console gamers for the first time. The Xbox LIVE Arcade version of the game features an innovative new crafting interface, natural controller movements, a full Tutorial mode to teach the basics and for the first time in “Minecraft,” split-screen multiplayer as well as over Xbox LIVE.
Here’s the official Arcade Next trailer under which these games will be released: