Xbox LIVE’s Games on Demand update is today imbued with the powers of EA Sports’ boxing title, Fight Night Round 4, while North American Xbox LIVE users will be able to get their hands on a snowmobile racing game called Ski-Doo Snowmobile Challenge.

Finally!

Discover what these games are all about, and what they look like in motion, with official descriptions and a collection of videos and trailers below:

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EA recently announced that the announced downloadable content (DLC) for their boxing sim, Fight Night Round 4, has been released and is now available to buy and download from both Xbox LIVE Marketplace and the PlayStation Store.

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EA, and by extension EA Sports, can really feel proud of their accomplishment in Fight Night Round 4. While they could have simply rested on their laurels, safe in the knowledge that their series is the undisputed, unchallenged king of the boxing game genre, EA have come out swinging with a new iteration of Fight Night, with all new features, upped visual quality and a polished presentation that adds up to what is undeniably the greatest entry to the series yet.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Fight Night Round 4.

The first downloadable boxer pack for EA’s Fight Night Round 4 will be available in late August on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.

The downloadable boxer pack will include Oscar De La Hoya, Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko as well as alternate versions of George Foreman and James Toney. It will cost 800 Microsoft Points or $9.99.

The publisher will also be releasing a free downloadable game update at the end of August.

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Fight Night Round 4 fans can look forward to the first downloadable content which will be available by early August.

The first DLC pack will be available for both Xbox 360 and PS3 gamers for free. It will include a new training gym, new gameplay sliders as well as new equipment that players can use to outfit boxers. Xbox 360 users will also be treated to an exclusive alternate version of Sugar Ray Leonard in their first DLC pack.

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In a sea of new releases, EA’s Fight Night Round 4 manages to remain right at the top of the UK Software Sales Chart this week, bobbing and weaving to No. 1 for the second time in a row, despite a 35% drop in sales.

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Fight Night Round 4, a title that debuted on the UK Software Sales Chart last week, has managed to punch its way to the No. 1 spot on the listing this week, which marks the first time a boxing game has ever reached this position in the UK.

As a result, Prototype has had to step down to No. 2 from No. 1 last week, as The Sims 3 is also forced to take a knock down to No. 3 this week from No. 2. Wii Fit, still hanging tough, also only has to take a small walk, this week down to No. 4 from No. 3 last week.

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According to this posting on Xbox.com, a demo of the amazing looking boxing simulation game from EA, Fight Night Round 4, is now up on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, although it’s only available to Xbox LIVE Gold members.

“With an all new physics based gameplay engine, truly unique and differentiated boxer styles, the fastest and most true to life representation of the ‘Sweet Science,’ and the most impressive boxer roster ever including the return of the legendary Iron Mike Tyson, EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 4 takes video game boxing and fighting to an entirely new level.”

Truth! Go get the Fight Night Round 4 demo now (if you’re a Gold member…).

Fight Night Round 4 always looks impressive, and this new batch of screenshots continues the fine tradition of making the boxing simulation game from EA look superb.

Boxing game fans must be chomping at the bit for this one, with new physics technology and EA’s proven boxing gameplay, not to mention the incredible leap in visual quality, showing off every sweat and blood particle, as well as muscles twitching and flexing with each jab.

Have a look at a bunch more Fight Night Round 4 screenshots below:

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Fight Night Round 4 is looking more and more impressive with each viewing, and this latest trailer for the game is no less impressive.

Revealing a variety of fighters from the game (naturally sweating like no-one’s business to show off the in-game tech), the trailer asks you, the player, what’s your style… and then proceeds to show you a few different fighting styles that you can take advantage of during a fight to beat your opponent.

Watch the Fight Night Round 4 styles gameplay trailer below:

The release date for the next entry to the boxing simulation game, Fight Night, was recently revealed, with a new batch of screenshots following up the announcement.

Fight Night Round 4 is looking superb, and superbly realistic, as the physics demo below reveals how the dramatic lighting, added sweat particles and sheen, as well as what can only be described as ‘skin flap physics’ all add up to an excellently real looking experience, as the game’s producer, Brian Hayes says:

“[In Fight Night Round 3], you often found that the gameplay degraded into two guys standing in front of each other and trading blows. You saw a very scripted, very repetitive experience where people stood in front of each other.

“What we’re really trying to deliver is the most realistic simulation of the sport of boxing ever in a video game… in Fight Night Round 4, you see a much more fluid, natural game.”

Fight Night Round 4 is set to ship on June 30th on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Check out the rest of the screenshots, as well as that realistic physics demo, below:

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EA has unveiled that EA Sports Fight Night Round 4 is in development at EA Canada. The game will be available for the Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2009.

The game is touted to feature “the most realistic in the ring experience to date” and well as “some of the greatest boxers in history fighting in their prime” including Mike Tyson in the first boxing video game in nearly a decade.

EA Sports Fight Night Round 4 will feature a re-written game play engine that “recreates the full spectrum of true-to-life punch impacts, giving boxers a devastating arsenal of punches, blocks and ring movement.”

The new physics system ensures that no fight will be the same, at the same time allowing missed punches, glancing punches, knockout blows as well as the first time ever rough and tumble inside fighting. The game will take into account fatigue, adrenaline, footwork as well as timing. It will feature various fighting styles and boxer differentiation to emulate different fighters including Mike Tyson and Muhammed Ali.

“The EA SPORTS Fight Night franchise has always been synonymous with quality and innovation that raised the bar for the sports videogame genre”, said Kevin Wilkinson, Executive Producer, EA SPORTS.

“EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 3 was a platform defining game as the industry transitioned to next generation consoles. EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 4 will change how boxing games are played and measured in the future.”