A Free Playable Demo for Kinectimals: Now With Bears is now available for download via the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. The demo weighs in at 1.55 GB.
Content: Kinectimals: Now With Bears (demo) Price: Free Availability:Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region Dash Text: “Kinectimals Now with Bears!” adds to the original five feline cubs, now with 5 additional cuddly bear cubs as you solve a mystery on the undiscovered islands of Lemuria and Mira! Meet the new bear cubs and share adventures as you build a bond that grows each time you play!
The Call of Duty Elite DLC may be more "elite" than intended. Users on the Call of Duty forums are complaining that the DLC maps can only be played by one account per console.
That means that only the person who bought it can play the maps -- not other users of the same game on the same console, unless they share a single Xbox Live profile.
"I just tried on my other account and you are right, I cannot use the maps on the same Xbox with another gamertag even though it's all on the same xbox," notes forum user HalfericTuck, just one of many complaining fans. Reader Aaron, who alerted us to this issue, told Joystiq, "My girlfriend, whom I live with, cannot play the maps. My friend's teenage sons cannot play the maps."
This restriction does not square with the stated terms on the download. When users download the add-on, they are told, "You can use this item on the first Xbox 360 console you downloaded it to. Access to this item will also be granted to all users on this first console."
A free playable demo for the Xbox 360 version of The First Templar is now available for download via the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. The demo weighs in at roughly 1 GB.
Content:The First Templar (demo) Price: Free Availability:Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region Dash Text: The First Templar follows the story of a French Templar and his companion, a noble lady who has been proclaimed a heretic. Taking control over these two unlikely allies, the player must uncover the mysteries behind the Templar Order, play a role in a grand conspiracy, and discover the secret of the Holy Grail.
A free playable demo for Jimmie Johnson’s Anything With An Engine is now available for download from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. The demo weighs in at 167.17 MB and should be available in most Xbox LIVE regions.
Jimmie Johnson's Anything With an Engine let's players race unconventional vehicles like a jet powered lawn mower and a dumpster.
Content:Jimmie Johnson's Anything With An Engine (demo) Price: Free Availability:Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region Dash Text: Kart Racing Where Everything and Anything Goes…Fast! Lead-footed bathers, dumpster divers, lawn-mowers, bargain shoppers, sadistic caddies and many more race and battle their way toward glory in unique vehicles outfitted with custom weapon mods on uniquely stylized tracks strewn with themed hazards, traps and awesome jumps in a humor-packed race to the finish line. Up to 4 player split-screen and 8 player online multi-player. 3D TV Support.
Quarrel, a competitive word game that mixes elements of Risk and Scrabble, is now available for download via the Xbox LIVE Arcade.
Content:Quarrel Price: 400 Microsoft Points Availability:Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region Dash Text: QUARREL is the most novel word game ever made. But don’t just take our word for it – grab it now and enter a universe where WORDS (11 points) literally speak louder than ACTIONS (8 points). Use a cool combination of word power and strategic cunning to crush your opponents and reign supreme. Come settle your differences with wordplay rather than swordplay; make verbal not chemical weapons; load up with letters not bullets and use chatter to batter your enemies into submission and rule the world. Compete to use your troops to make the highest-scoring word from the letters given then capture territories and conquer islands in this wholly original virtual board game.
Puddle, a brilliantly designed physics-based puzzle platform game and winner in the 2010 GDC Independent Games Festival Student Showcase Division, is now available for download via the Xbox LIVE Arcade.
Content:Puddle Price: 800 Microsoft Points Availability:Check availability in your Xbox LIVE region Dash Text: What began as a student project that won a Student Showcase prize at Independent Gaming Festival at GDC 2010 is now a full-fledged downloadable game experience like nothing you’ve ever played before. Guide puddles of fluid through a variety of novel, themed environments (the human body, a garden, a foundry, and more). But to do so, you must tilt the environment, balancing each fluid’s unique properties with the environmental factors of gravity, friction, and each course’s obstacles.
Metro Simulator 2 is coming soon for Xbox and PlayStation consoles Ultimate Games (@ULTGames) confirmed that Metro Simulator 2, the realistic and relaxing simulator with faithfully reproduced subway realities and train control mechanics from KishMish Games, will laun..