games and things
After getting the Xbox back, I thought I would checkout the Marketplace to see what I had missed out on in the last couple of weeks. Apart from the normal trailers, gamerpics and themes I spotted DORITOS Dash of Destruction – particularly as it is a FREE Xbox arcade title.
Developed by NinjaBee (developers of Cloning Clyde, Outpost Kaloki X, A Kingdom for Keflings, Band of Bugs, and Boingz for the Wii via WiiWare) DORITOS Dash of Destruction is described as:
fun and fast-paced racing game. Blast your way through cities as a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex, as you chase a speeding Delivery Truck full of tasty Doritos. Or, try zooming in and out of the T-Rex’s path of destruction as the speedy Delivery Truck in search of your Doritos drop-off points.
Anyway a free game is a free game, so I thought I would give it a quick spin. 15 minutes later and I was finished, first game of 2009 completed and 200 gamerscore richer, easy achievements, nice 
Its a fun little game and worth a download.
Click here to add it to your download queue
Now for some reason, I have a craving for Doritos…
Just noticed on Major Nelsons Marketplace RSS feed that a Dead Space demo is now available, and thought it would be a good chance to try out the queuing feature that was included with last weeks NXE dashboard update.
So if you haven’t got access to your 360 whilst your reading this, hit this link for the marketplace at Xbox.com, sign-in with your account and click the download link to queue it up. The demo will begin downloding automatically the next time you turn your 360 on. Nice.
EDIT: The link above is probably for the EU Marketplace, the US maybe a different link. Either way head over to Xbox.com and hover on the Xbox LIVE tab, and then select Xbox LIVE Marketplace for your region.
Yep, got myself a free Robert De Niro Gamerpic from the US Xbox LIVE Marketplace last night, check it out over on the right. Along with an Al Pacino Gamerpic, there’s also a free theme to download to promote their new movie: Righteous Kill.
If you are in Europe and fancy access to the US Xbox LIVE Marketplace, take a look at this previous post I put together back in July.
“IM BATMAN“, Alan Partridge once said.
Its also what I’m saying now I have a new shiny Batman Gamerpic for myself, displayed up there on the top right. But you wont find this Gamerpic in the UK Xbox LIVE Marketplace, oh no, so how did I get it? From the US Marketplace that’s where…
Depending on your location, you will have access to a different version of the Xbox Marketplace, all of which carry slightly different content. I have 3 accounts set up, Shepperton, which is my normal Gamertag that I use to play online and collect precious achievement points, then also a US and a Japanese account I use to access the different Marketplaces.
Once content is downloaded from another Marketplace, its free to use on any Gamertag you may have. For example some demos appear only on the US or Japanese Marketplace, if this is the case its possible to sign to your US/Japanese Gamertag, download it, then sign back into your normal Gamertag and play it.
When a new Gamertag is created it will be Gold Tier for the first month, then revert to Silver automatically after that, you wont have to input any payment details. You will also only be able to grab content that is free.
There’s a full walk through on creating US and Japanese 360 accounts for Marketplace over at GamerReports I recommend Aegis Wing from the US marketplace, which is a Free side scrolling free shooter with 4 player co-op, released last year in May.