Free XBVM downloads of Witchblade and more
by Dustin Burg 
{ Jan 31st 2008 at 3:30PM }
Available on the U.S. video marketplace is some free content to help nourish your insatiable appetite for free visual stimulus including some cartoonified anime. The first episode of the animated series Witchblade titled "The Beginning" is a free 269MB download that's ready to make your HDD its home. Also, under the "Shorts" section, you'll find a free 139MB episode of Disney's step-brother cartoon Phineas and Ferb, titled "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror". Finally, we thought we'd mention that there are a few free music video downloads to check out on the U.S. Marketplace, including Jay-Z, Finger Eleven and even some Chemical Brothers. So, be sure to check those out if you're interested. That's all we could scrounge up for today's free goods, but be sure to keep checking the XBVM as there's bound to be more free stuff releasing in the near future.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Knight Marquise @ Jan 31st 2008 4:25PM
Ya, seen Witchblade yesterday. Ended up downloading all 8 episodes.
Does anyone know if MS has a schedule posted when they plan on updating titles in video marketplace?
Wilson @ Jan 31st 2008 4:54PM
Anyone knows if this is only valid for US? or world wide?
George Arauz @ Jan 31st 2008 5:34PM
Gotta love free Anime
c'mon @ Jan 31st 2008 6:11PM
Give video marketplace to Finland already.. We are a small part of Europe after all. :(
SadisticHam @ Jan 31st 2008 6:26PM
Fuck you Microsoft how about you stop giving freebie's out to America and start filling up the UK marketplace, it's empty and instead of giving us a freeby when it launched, all you did was nock some MS points off.
I don't even know what witchblade is but god damn this is becoming annoying. And don't even get me started on the free music videos what is it here 250 MS points for one?
Josh @ Feb 8th 2008 3:18PM
The problem with the UK marketplace is localization efforts. In the US, Microsoft only has one culture to cater to - offering a wide range of content is vastly easier and less risky for them as a business in our market. Europe has the added challenge of content in many languages, and a much harder formula to predict what will sell. Microsoft isn't neglecting you - they want your money! It's just harder for them to go about it. Not that I go out of my way to defend Microsoft - they are just as bloodthirsty as any global conglomerate.
Also, only a few of the music videos are free. The vast majority of them cost a ridiculous amount of points for 3 minutes of video.
rockeranimefreak @ Jan 31st 2008 8:37PM
yay! anime! :D
BananaBoat @ Jan 31st 2008 11:14PM
Witchblade isn't a particularly good animoo, but you can't beat free. Unless of course you download it, and it turns out that it has advertisements in it. That's the type of thing that would, say, keep me from buying any episodes when they go on sale.
You wouldn't do that to me though, would you purveyors of Milfblade? Would you? WOULD YOU?!?!?!?
I shall find out...