The Xbox Live Marketplace (XBLM) is a virtual market designed for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console that allows Xbox Live members to download purchased or promotional content. The service offers movie and game trailers, Video Store, game demos, Xbox Live Arcade games, Xbox Live Indie Games (Previously Community Games), Games on Demand (Xbox 360 and Xbox Originals, downloadable content such as map packs, gamer pictures, and Xbox 360 Dashboard themes.
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The Xbox Live Marketplace (XBLM) is a virtual market designed for Microsoft's Xbox 360 console that allows Xbox Live members to download purchased or promotional content. The service offers movie and game trailers, Video Store, game demos, Xbox Live Arcade games, Xbox Live Indie Games (Previously Community Games), Games on Demand (Xbox 360 and Xbox Originals, downloadable content such as map packs, gamer pictures, and Xbox 360 Dashboard themes.
The 11th August 2009 update added Xbox 360 games for download, Avatar Marketplace and renamed Community Games to Indie Games.
The Spring 2007 update to the Xbox 360 Dashboard relocated the Marketplace to its own "blade" in order to bring more attention to the service and make it more accessible to users. Although this has been obsoleted by the NXE update, the section has been implemented into two separate sections in the Dashboard: the Video Marketplace and Game Marketplace.
Microsoft Points are used as currency in the Xbox Live Marketplace,...
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