GTA IV, Dead Space coming to Xbox 360 Games on Demand this month

by David Hinkle on Oct 9th 2009 10:00AM

The Xbox 360's Games on Demand service is getting quite the booster shot this month, as Microsoft has announced six new titles coming to the service in October. The festivities kicked off earlier this week with the release of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 and Call of Duty 3. Here's what the rest of this month has in store:

October 13

Grand Theft Auto IV

October 20

October 27

Dead Space
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There's no word on price for any of these titles right now, so we've checked with Microsoft and will be sure to update you when we hear back.

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Reader Comments (55)

As far as achievement whoring goes, it wouldn't be any different than renting a game at a B&M store, except it would be more convenient and MS would get the money. They'll be all over it, eventually. Trust me.

I think the major hurdle there is file size and download waits.

It takes me a few hours to download 1.5-2gb of data from a dedicated server at my full connection. Now, for a game that is 8gb... by the time I finish downloading it I could have just gone to the store and picked up a copy.

Though I guess it does benefit people who don't live close to a video store or don't have a means to get to one.

But, you don't have to take it back to the store when you're done. You're only including half of your trip.

New releases or wtf is the point?

I agree with you 100% for myself, but it seems as though the majority of people in brick and mortar retail stores are buying 'older' games.

I can't tell you how many times I'm at a gamestop buying a game on it's release date, while three people (usually with kids) are there to buy a NEW copy of some game that came out months--or even years--ago.

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