Tue, Aug 21, 2012 | 14:29 BST
Xbox Live content update, August 21: Counter Strike: Global Offensive, NHL 13 demo, more
Microsoft has updated its schedule for Xbox Live Marketplace, and the content releases kick-off today with a demo for NHL 13, a sale on Forza 4′s May TopGear Car Pack, Left 4 Dead hitting Games on Demand, and tomorrow, the release of Counter Strike: Global Offensive.
Also available tomorrow is JOJO’s Bizarre Adventure HD as well as various discounts for TNT Racers, Faery and other titles.
Games on Demand titles releasing today are: Ratatouille, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, Metal Gear Solid HD and the aforementioned Left 4 Dead.
On August 28, the latest DLC for Mass Effect 3, Leviathan, lands and a sale on Assassin’s Creed: Revelations DLC starts.
The Gunstringer: El Diablo’s Merican Adventure will also go on sale the 28th, and the Rockstar Publisher Sale also begins the same day.
Finally, on August 29, Rock Band Blitz will release on the XBL Marketplace.
The full update is below, and through Major Nelson.
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Posted in: Microsoft, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
Tags: Counter-strike: Global Offensive, JOJO’s Bizarre Adventure HD, NHL 13 demo, Xbox Live content update
11 comments
#1
ManuOtaku
21/08/12, 3:12 pm
Iam on the fence of getting Counter strike, i did never played it before, therefore i dont know if it is for me, or if i do stand a chance against the more expert players in this game out there, the price also is an issue, iam waiting for jet set radio next month and warth of the rabbit, what to do?
#2
Hcw87
21/08/12, 3:21 pm
People with mouse/kb out there will tear people up i guess, since i heard there’s hardly any autoaim. But finally (i hope) a game that requires pure skill.
#3
Gadzooks!
21/08/12, 3:37 pm
#2
I dont think its a cross-platform game so there should be no m&k users.
#4
Hcw87
21/08/12, 3:46 pm
You can use mouse+kb on x360 aswell. Look up XIM 3 for example, just one of many. It’s what people in their superawesomeMLGclan use and think they’re good.
#5
DSB
21/08/12, 3:49 pm
Yeah, they tested cross-platform, but they couldn’t make it work.
#6
ManuOtaku
21/08/12, 3:52 pm
One question guys this plays like COD?, and if thats not the case, to which first person shooter do plays like or has the most similarities?
#7
DSB
21/08/12, 3:54 pm
The major changes are pretty much graphical.
I’m not a CS expert by any standard, so I can’t tell you exactly what’s different, but it’s the same old CS to me.
#8
Hcw87
21/08/12, 4:23 pm
It’s as barebones as it gets, no killstreaks/vehicles etc. Just pure gunplay. I guess there’s Search and Destroy/hostage rescue and probably TDM in there, can’t say for sure though.
#9
Gadzooks!
21/08/12, 5:14 pm
I seem to remember a plant-the-bomb mode from way back when I used to play CS.
Could just be an acid flashback though.
#10
ResisT PaVaTiiC
22/08/12, 4:46 am
so will counter strike come out at exactly midnight or a 6 in the morning?
#11
bakagami
22/08/12, 5:09 am
#10 it’s already on PSN
Steam as well.