E3 2009: Xbox Games On Demand, Avatar News

Games On Demand
After the main Microsoft conference, GM of Xbox Live Mark Whitten announced the Games On Demand service coming to Live. Games On Demand launches in August with 30 titles, including Mass Effect, BioShock, Oblivion, and Assassin's Creed, with new titles added every week. You'll be able to buy and download these with a credit card rather than Microsoft $pace Bucks. Mass Effect was listed at $20 -- Whitten said On Demand prices would be the same as retail.

ODST costume'd avatar with RC Warthog.

New Avatar Crap
Whitten also announced that game makers can now award players with avatar items for in-game accomplishments. These items include regular clothes as well as full-body costumes and props. Whitten showed a Halo 3: ODST costumed-avatar with pom-poms and also a remote-controlled Warthog.

Tags: Microsoft, BioShock, Mass Effect, E3 2009, Games On Demand, Avatar, Halo 3: ODST, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion

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Ryan Schuster

June 01, 2009

wonder why they showed this afterwards?

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Toby Davis

If I wanted avatar crap i would turn on my PS3 more. 8)

Joshua Henderson

[quote]wonder why they showed this afterwards? [/quote] Yeah I was wondering that too. The Games on Demand is huge IMO. Maybe they ran out of time? Their press conference was still damn good. Crackdown 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 were my favorite announcements.

Lee Carlton

Project Natal looks sooooo cool. I was 15 when Alan Wake was announced. Now that I'm 64 it's good to see that it is finally coming out.

Brian Shirk

June 02, 2009

Well, it looks like Alan Wake won't end up like another Duke Nukem after all.

Zack DeRego

June 03, 2009

Alan Wake looked amazing, MS definitely had the best keynote of this years E3. They showed a lot of really great games and Project Natal was sick.