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This week's roundup of the week's top news and releases from the digital download space, courtesy of sister site GamerBytes, brings us Monkey Island 2, a new Dead Space downloadable, and much more
[We round up the week's top news and new digital releases from console digital download site GamerBytes, featuring new information about Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, WiiWare, DSiWare and PSN Minis.] This past week we've had a good number of releases for console digital download -- for starters, it looks like both Monkey Island 2 and Blacklight: Tango Down have been roaring successes. We've also seen some good news -- the possibility of NBA Jam coming to other consoles, as well as a new Dead Space downloadable game. Here's the notable news, plus the store updates made over the previous seven days. Store Updates XBLA Update - Blacklight: Tango Down, Monkey Island 2, Game Room and Worms 2 DLC NA PSN Store Update - Monkey Island 2, Family Feud, 5-in-1 Arcade Hits And More EU PSN Store Update - Monkey Island 2, Groovin’ Blocks And more NA Nintendo Update - Soul Of Darkness, SteamWorld Tower Defense, Pearl Harbor Trilogy And More EU Nintendo Update - Toribash, SteamWorld: Tower Defense, Shadow of the Ninja And More Top Stories Xbox Indies - Crossfire (Radian Games) (XBLIG) "Radian Games surprised us a couple of months ago with their Xbox Live Indie game Joy Joy -- now, they've one-upped themselves with their next sweet retro action title Crossfire." NBA Jam Coming To Xbox 360 And PS3 (XBLA / PSN) "The German USK rating system has revealed that NBA Jam is coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 [likely in digital download form], courtesy of EA." Plain Sight Coming To PSN (PSN) "Back in September 2008 we had a chat with Beatnik Games about Plain Sight [which was] being developed with XNA and Xbox Live Arcade in mind. Now a year and a half later and with the PC version released on Steam, Beatnik hasn't lost sight of a console release -- but now it's coming to the PS3." Free Ilomilo Music, Trailer (XBLA) "Indie developer Southend Interactive has posted five playful songs from the soundtrack of Ilomilo, its forthcoming XBLA 3D puzzle-platformer." Dead Space Puzzler To XBLA, PSN (XBLA / PSN) "Dead Space Ignition is coming this fall to XBLA and PSN. The game will contain three hacking mini-games: Hardware Crack, Trace Route and System Override, all strung together with an interactive comic book storyline and the ability to "choose-your-own-adventure" throughout the game."

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