Free Fable II episode, Bust-a-Move, Military Madness overrun Xbox Live

As is the Wednesday custom, Microsoft's online storefront will be updated with new Arcade games, with three $10 (800 MSP) games on tap. This week will see the arrival Bust-a-Move Live!, Taito's remake of its own 1994 arcade puzzler Bust-a-Move (aka Puzzle Bobble). Besides updated graphics, which will include Xbox Live Avatars, the game will sport 135 single-player stages, eight opponents in CPU Battle mode, and Infinity mode, which lets players play indefinitely. Rated E for Everyone, Bust-a-Move Live! will also feature offline and online multiplayer, the latter with voice chat.

Also in the Japanese remake department is Backbone Entertainment's Military Madness: Nectaris, a rework of Hudson Soft's 1990 TurboGrafx-16 turn-based strategy title, Military Madness. The game will have completely new 3D graphics, as well as new commander units and multiple command views. Rated E10 (Everyone 10+), it will also boast four-person online multiplayer and stat-tracking leaders.

Last but not least for soccer fans, Football Genius: The Ultimate Quiz is bouncing onto Xbox Live. As advertised, the I-Imagine Interactive-developed game is a soccer trivia title, offering over 3,500 questions about International, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish leagues, players, and teams. Four-player multiplayer and nine different game modes will be on tap, as will support for the Scene It? big button controller.