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Bungie’s FPS Halo 3 is now available for download on Xbox Live.

Following today’s release of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City on Games for Windows – LIVE, Microsoft has revealed a special offer for PC gaming fans of the Grand Theft Auto franchise. For a limited time only, gamers who download Grand Theft Auto IV from Games for Windows – LIVE’s Games on Demand service will benefit from a specially reduced price.

It’s sale time here at Games for Windows – LIVE…we’re extending the sales into April, so gamers can STILL take advantage of INCREDIBLE limited-time deals!

This is the big one, folks: to celebrate the release of The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony on Games for Windows – LIVE, we’re offering Grand Theft Auto IV for 50% off (that’s just $14.99!), from 2:00 A.M. PDT on Tuesday, April 13, all the way until 5:00 P.M. PDT on Monday, April 19. Don’t hesitate…take advantage of this great deal today!

Available in stores today, Xbox 360 introduces the 250GB Hard Drive, which offers more space to store your favorite game and entertainment content. Available at the incredible value of $129.99 (U.S ERP), the 250GB Hard Drive offers more freedom to download the latest demos, Xbox LIVE Arcade games, full game titles with Games on Demand, TV shows, movies and more straight to your Xbox 360 console.

With the closure of Xbox LIVE for Xbox Originals on April 16th to make way for future planned developments to Xbox LIVE on the 360 – it certainly would come as no surprise that an update would be in store to bring gamers a much needed improvement to the service. This could bring many new features such as interactivity with the upcoming Windows Mobile 7, a huge increase to your friends list with the ability to create groups, but would Microsoft really be that stupid to allow any gamer to freely download Xbox LIVE Arcade games, Indie Games, Games on Demand and DLC content to a USB Memory Device?

RockstarNetwork.net reports: "Rockstar just announced that GTAIV is now available for Games on Demand. Check out the press release below. You can download it from On Demand for only $29.99! If you haven’t got a copy of it yet, now is your time to buy!"

Major Nelson’s Blog writes:

"Here is the current schedule for upcoming content coming soon to the Xbox LIVE Marketplace*

Xbox LIVE Deal of the Week:

Feb. 15: Battlefield 1943, 800 Microsoft Points

Xbox LIVE Games on Demand:

Feb. 9: Street Fighter IV

Feb. 9: Halo Wars (Europe, Australia and New Zealand)

Feb. 16: Resident Evil 5

Feb. 16: Beautiful Katamari

Feb. 16: Viva Piñata: Party Animals (Japan)

Xbox LIVE Arcade:

Feb. 10: Darwinia +, 1200 points

Feb. 17: The Misadventures of PB Winterbottom, 800 points

Xbox Avatars Marketplace:

These are just a few of the collections scheduled for the Xbox LIVE Avatar Marketplace.

Feb. 11: Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

Feb. 16: Resident Evil 5

Feb. 18: Metro 2033"

Sony talks about a possible ‘Games on Demand’ type feature and backwards compatibility as to how Sony will treat PS2 titles for new Sony adopters.

Slashgamer Writes: There has hardly been any news since the first reveal of OnLive to the world at GDC 2009 in San Francisco. When Steve Perlman, the CEO of the games-on-demand service and one of the inventors of Apple’s QuickTime technology, took center stage at the press briefing to introduce the gaming community to his newest project OnLive – he was met with both praise and criticism. Some people thought this ambitious "cloud-gaming" service was the future of gaming, while many others thought there is no way this technology will work with the functionality of today’s Internet capabilities. But with all these questions, most people always seem to ask the same one; how much will the consumer have to spend in order to use the service?

A few days ago, a video of Perlman was uploaded onto youtube, where he went back to his old school Columbia University and discussed his next endeavor. While nothing to new was unveiled, he did briefly mentioned something interesting about the MicroConsole."

Well, at least console domination. In a press release, the gaming giant speaks to it’s new commitment to downloadable distribution. They plan on making available new games, classic games and bestseller games (duh) via what’s being called “digital distribution,” a misnomer if we’ve ever heard one. Ah, well. Here’s what’s planned for now on the XBox 360 system:

Xbox LIVE Games on Demand
• Ridge Racer® 6, E for everyone, now available for 1600 Microsoft Points
• Beautiful Katamari™, E for everyone, available Q1 2010

Additional plans for an expanded PSOne Classics and PSP presence are also in the works. For more details, see sister site, The Portable Gamer