XBox 360 Rally

“You buy the product, you get the content,” Team Fortress 2 designer Robin Walker told us. “We make more money because more people buy it, not because we try and nickel-and-dime the same customers.”

“[In multiplayer games] the content you’re playing is being created by the players you’re playing against, so the more people that get into the game, the more content you’re going to have,” Valve’s Charlie Brown concurred.

I ponder if the words of Valve have already been given a stamp of approval by Microsoft. Already knowing how they seem to feel about free content on the marketplace with Gears of War wanting to give free content as well as Geometry Wars was meant to be free. I honestly can’t wait to see how this plays out, as if anything, Valve has the money to pay off Microsoft to ensure their products are put on the Xbox Live Marketplace for free, where as on the other hand Microsoft has a little bit more money, and the will power to say “NO, this is our marketplace, you do it by our rules.”

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World Rally Championship style events and off road racing, get to it!

Name: DIRT Demo
Price: Free
Availability: Not available in Mexico or Asia
Dash Details: High speed, adrendaline fuelled, off-road racing.
Size: 768.9 MB (approx.)

[Major Nelson]

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Now that the important part is out of the way. The game seems to be a 2-D side-scrolling space shooter (Contra fans come out of hiding). Up to 4 players can play at once. Hey, its a free game, check it out!. Thanks to xbox360fanboy for making me aware of this (among a few other blogs).

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Major Nelson, or as he is referred to by us 360 fanboys, “The Touched One”, has passed along to us all that there is new downloadable content for Test Drive: Unlimited.

Name: Free Saturn Curve
Price: Free
Availability: Available for all Xbox Live Gold members
Dash Details:Download the Saturn Curve for free (in-game currency still required for purchase at respective dealer).

Name: Test Drive Collection - Volume 4
Price: 350 Points
Availability: Available for all Xbox Live members
Dash Details:Premium set includes the Ferrari Challenge Stradale, Cadillac Cien, RUF RK Spyder, Dino 246 GT, Lamborghini Murciélago Roadster, TVR T440R and Saturn Curve. In-game currency still required for purchase at respective dealer.

Now, if you play this game, go you. Personally, I don’t think I have a single person on my friend’s list who actually DOES play this game. But hey, if you do, hooray for you. Go hug a rainbow.

[Major Nelson]

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Okay… not a game this time.

It’s but a few short months until the all new Simpsons Movie, and Microsoft have been kind enough to give gamers the chance to own a limited edition Simpsons themed Xbox 360.

There will only be 100 available, sadly the bad news is that Microsoft, being Microsoft have only made the console available to the US and have taken us Europeans out of the equation.

They are to be part of a Simpsons Movie Competition which should begin in conjunction with the movies release on July the 27th.

(Okay, I think this is enough Simpsons related Xbox to cover the next month or so)

Digital Something has gotten their hands on an early copy of the Toys R Us ad, which shows a pretty cool offer involving the Xbox 360. I was hesitant to report this, since if you’re at this site you almost certainly have an Xbox 360, but all the same — if you don’t, for whatever reason, this Sunday Toys R Us will have an offer where you can receive a free $50 Gift Card with the purchase of any Xbox 360 unit.

In addition to the $50 Gift Card, there is a good deal on Activision games — Buy 1, Get 1 Free. At last, I have an excuse to buy Marvel Ultimate Alliance back.

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The Profit (note the spelling) Major Nelson has told us of some new, free, useless junk for download over at the XBLMarketplace. Of course, as we all know, we never get anything really worth a damn so this news is really time fill for a pretty slow Xbox week. With that said, here’s this week’s free crap.

First of all, all I know about the upcoming film “The Reaping” is that it has Hilary Swank in it. That’s honestly all I know, and it’s almost enough for me to care. Almost. Regardless, it’s just the latest in a long line of films to take advantage of Xbox Live’s Marketplace (and it’s more gullible customers) for advertisement reasons. For free, you can go and download both the Dashboard Theme and Gamerpic packs for “The Reaping” and show all your friend what a sad, sad person you truly are.

But wait, there’s more!

For you European folks who have yet to be subjected to the God Awful mess that is “Eragon,” you too can get a taste of it’s massive suck by downloading it’s free Dashboard Theme. This offer is for European 360 owners ONLY, I’m happy to say, so we can keep this contained.

All these items are free, and available for download over Xbox Live’s Marketplace, but remember… if you download any of these, you’re part of the problem.

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