An aspect of the Xbox 360 that gets too little attention, definitely is the Xbox Live Arcade and the Xbox Live Marketplace. On the first one, known developers can offer their products to the consumers for very decent prices.

With your points (which you can buy with the interface if you own a credit card) you can download and play games in a blink of an eye. Incredible handy and a huge blessing for the independent game makers that don't find a publisher for their game. I don't have to tell you there are some pretty good games on there if you have ever played Bejeweled 2 or Geometry Wars Evolved.

The marketplace is another fantastic thing: you download for example demos, buy themes or avatars and so on. Now the makers of Full Auto (a game that looks a lot like Burnout but with extra weapons, more explosions and the possibility to manipulate time) have promised to get a demo of their game ready before Christmas. You will be able to download this with your broadband connection.

The game itself will be available on the Xbox360 in February. What about the demo of Oblivion? Or Gears of War? :p

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