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QUOTE said:With the upcoming shutdown of Xbox LIVE for a day for maintenance and to prepare for some of the recently announced features that will be available later this summer you may wonder what some of the new features are and when they are coming.
Games on Demand feature will be available sometime in August, and will allow members to digitally download retail games instead of buying a hard copy. There will be around 30 games available in the system at launch and new content added each week. Users will be able to use credit cards directly to make their purchases instead of buying and using points, bypassing the point system altogether, but users will still have the option to use points if they choose. The licensing model for the Games on Demand purchases will also mirror those of Arcade Games. The license information will be kept on the LIVE servers, so the user who purchased it can roam to another console and play the game there. This also allows gamers to delete the entire game to free up hard drive space, and then redownload whenever
QUOTEAnother feature that will be coming to Xbox Live is one that we have been expecting for quite a while now. User ratings will allow players to rate games and content on a 5-star basis to show how much they enjoyed the game or content. If you love, rate it. If you think a piece of content sucks, give it a single star. This will make searching for items much easier, particularly in the area of Xbox Live Arcade games.
There will also be a brand new Avatar marketplace, which will allow users to purchase more types of clothing, including game-based items. Not to mention, you will now be able to deck your Avatars out with new items such as a remote control Warthog. It will cost you 320 Microsoft points, or $4.
News Source: Gaming Front