On August 11, we'll be able to welcome Microsoft into the digital age, as its finally rolling out the ability to purchase full games that were previously only available on disc. Think of it as the 360 finally getting to where the PC has been for years, and where the PSP has been for a bit, now, too.

• Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
• Burnout Paradise (EA)
• Call of Duty 2 (Activision)
• Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda)
• Fight Night Round 3 (EA)
• Kameo: Elements of Power (Microsoft Game Studios)
• LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (LucasArts)
• Mass Effect (Microsoft Game Studios)
• Meet The Robinsons (Disney)
• MX vs. ATV Untamed (THQ)
• Need for Speed Carbon (EA)
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted (EA)
• Perfect Dark Zero (Microsoft Game Studios)
• Prey (2K Games)
• Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis (Rockstar Games)
• Sega Rally (Sega)
• TEST DRIVE: UNLIMITED (Atari)
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (Ubisoft)
• Tomb Raider Legend (Eidos)
• Viva Piñata (Microsoft Game Studios)
• Viva Piñata 2: Trouble in Paradise (Microsoft Game Studios)

On August 11, we'll be able to welcome Microsoft into the digital age, as its finally rolling out the ability to purchase full games that were previously only available on disc. Think of it as the 360 finally getting to where the PC has been for years, and where the PSP has been for a bit, now, too.

• Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
• Burnout Paradise (EA)
• Call of Duty 2 (Activision)
• Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda)
• Fight Night Round 3 (EA)
• Kameo: Elements of Power (Microsoft Game Studios)
• LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (LucasArts)
• Mass Effect (Microsoft Game Studios)
• Meet The Robinsons (Disney)
• MX vs. ATV Untamed (THQ)
• Need for Speed Carbon (EA)
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted (EA)
• Perfect Dark Zero (Microsoft Game Studios)
• Prey (2K Games)
• Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis (Rockstar Games)
• Sega Rally (Sega)
• TEST DRIVE: UNLIMITED (Atari)
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (Ubisoft)
• Tomb Raider Legend (Eidos)
• Viva Piñata (Microsoft Game Studios)
• Viva Piñata 2: Trouble in Paradise (Microsoft Game Studios)

some of these look worth a buy. 

Plenty of stuff I actually never got for my 360 yet. Joy!

Aw man, I though we we would get the new releases on demand. :(

I can get physical copies of most of those games used for less.

Great news :) 
 
If you guess right the prices, it will be hilarious, since most of those games, in europe are at the same price they launched. 
 
Take that greedy videogame stores!!!!  
 
Also if it was to come L4D, that would be fun to watch too.

Some games are worth it if they are still $20. I can get some of those games for a better price.

idk I like having a physical copy to rly on or pass around or whatever

"I can get physical copies of most of those games used for less. "

I was gonna go pick up perfect dark aswell =D
 
I'll see the price of it when it hits the UK.

Sweet, there is actually some pretty good titles there.

Say what you want about Sonic the Hedgehog, but it's a goldmine for potential drinking games. Died a buggy death? Take a shot. Cutscene containing creepy human/anthropomorth romance subplot? Take a shot.

  Meet The Robinsons (Disney)
 
Uh, why? Doesn't Microsoft know that the only people who would even consider buying that would have gotten it at Walmart after they saw the movie?

On another game website they said there are 3 additional games launching for us North Americans and that the Europeans are limited to the 21 games. Lucky us. Here's the list that was put up by joystiq... don't know which one is correct, but here it is:
 
Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (LucasArts)
Rainbow Six Vegas (Ubisoft)
BioShock (2K Games)
Mass Effect (Microsoft Game Studios)
Ridge Racer 6 (Namco)
Burnout Paradise (EA)
Meet The Robinsons (Disney)
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis (Rockstar Games)
Call of Duty® 2 (Activision)
MX vs. ATV Untamed (THQ)
Sonic the Hedgehog (SEGA)
Viva Piñata 2: Trouble in Paradise (Microsoft Game Studios)
Need for Speed Carbon (EA)
Test Drive: Unlimited (Atari)
Fight Night Round 3 (EA)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (EA)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2K Games/Bethesda Softworks)
Prey (2K Games)
Viva Piñata (Microsoft Game Studios)
Karaoke Revolution American Idol Encore (Konami)
Kameo: Elements of Power (Microsoft Game Studios)
Perfect Dark Zero (Microsoft Game Studios)
Dance Dance Revolution Universe (Konami)

@ArbitraryWater: Yeah, hopefully not all of them (like Kameo, which I've seen around for $9.99) will be $19.99. There are a couple of games on that list that I would buy (Burnout Paradise and, once again, Kameo), but probably not digitally. I can get a used platinum hit for $12-15 and not have to clog up the hard-drive. Still, it's speculation at this point; I'll see when prices are officially announced.

Awesome, will be buying some of these straight away.

Shit, they're not messing around with this.

Overall the list seems pretty good for back cataloge but I have three problems.

1) I can get these games for cheaper or similer price already. 

2) I have a 20gb HDD (which is actually more like 13gb) and when I erase everything I dont need (saves, DLC im using and Arcade games im playing) I only have 3gb left.

3) I have a terrible download speed (and only way to upgrade is to move) which means this would take many hours (6 or more in some cases) so I may as well just go to my local store and get a copy if its going to be cheaper or similer.

i thought bioshock was going to be one of them? hm... well, it deserves to be. easily the best game on the next gen consoles in my opinion.

Im getting Oblivion. I just love the idea of being able to pop in the that universe every now and then :)
 
and maybe i should try to get into Viva Pinata finally?
 
I have a 60gb but my internet is super fast, so i don't mind deleting and redownloading for space

"@ArbitraryWater said:

"I can get physical copies of most of those games used for less. "

That's the thing.  Why would you want to download it if you can get a physical copy for less?  When they start having games there that you can purchase for cheaper compared to EB Games/Amazon, then it will be ineteresting. "

You are wrong Jeff. Fight Night 3 is still worthwhile for a very easy 1000 points.

I think Perfect Dark Zero, graphically, still holds up to this day, well i would say that, it was the first 360 ("next-gen" to me then) game i ever played and wow.
 
I'd rather play the original of course, but i still liked Zero...mostly because of the time i was released though.

I can get most of those games used at a store for less than $7.00.  Screw this.

I hope idiots don't buy this version of Elder Scrolls when you can get GoTY edition for $10 more in a physical copy.

No thanks, I can get most of them on disk for 10 bucks.
Viva Pinata, for instance.

Almost all of these games are about the same price at Gamestop. New. Which means they're fucking overpriced here because its not more convenient to buy this version of a game over the disc version with the current average internet speeds, and the disc version costs money to make, and this doesn't, so it should be cheaper. Like, half of what they're asking for most of these. You don't sell old games by keeping them the same price, everyone who gave a damn about Assassin's Creed already played it. It has to be cheaper.
But it doesn't matter what I say, the market will speak for itself.

Here's my chance to buy Viva Pinata 2 :D 
 
But, are these limited time games?

This is cool. Don't have the hard drive space though :(

I really wanted Crackdown to be on that list.

 There is a video on the Xbox dashboard(maybe it's on the UK dashboard only) that shows Perfect Dark Zero at 1600 Microsoft points.

" This is cool. Don't have the hard drive space though :( "

off topic: is XBL down for anyone else right now?

awesome..need more hard drive space and points.

Oh yeah, I am definitely getting Viva Pinata: TiP. That looks like a lot of fun. I may be tempted to buy LEGO Star Wars too....

One... Twenty one games... they contain guns... and sometimes you fight.... (doo doo DOO) 

Anyway, song references aside, i like this idea. Im one of the people who would rather just download something for the convenience instead of goin out to buy it, as stores tend to weird me out. Seems like a quality list and definitely interests me, as i got my 360 late last year and played none of those games except burnout. However, i think the only game i would buy on here is AC. And CoD.

Where's Bioshock?
 
Well anyway, going to buy cameo and burnout

Way more games than I expected it to be...and Mass Effect will be 1600 points and that's about 20 bucks which is definitely acceptable.

It's kind of cool the Viva Pinata games are there, that's a type of support I suppose.

$19.99 in the US huh? Great. 
 
So I'll be able to by Perfect Dark Zero here in Australia, on demand, for probably $60.00, but probably not until next year either.

Lots of great games, I still prefer to go out and buy myself a copy though.

They really, REALLY need to release Rock Band 2 as a game on demand. The whole DLC-centric nature of that game really lends itself to that market (i.e., ME) It'd make it one step easier to bust out, too, since you would never need to look for the disc, just bust out the instruments and hit "go". 
 
Actually, better yet, for EA, here's your billion dollar idea. Sell a Rock Band Mini set on there, that contains NO songs, just the RB 2 framework, and works off DLC. Bundle the DL with a code to export your RB2 songs to DLC. Then you can get people that don't ever need to grab a disc, they can just buy the songs they want alá carte. (Also, put the RB2 disc songs in a special category of DLC so that RB2 people can't accidentally buy them.) Make this core unit like 5 or 10$. You've already done all the work building it and selling it, and recouped all that in the disc sales of RB1 / 2. 
 
Hell, call it Rock Band 3, and introduce some more casual friendly features with it to incent current RB2 owners to pony up a few bucks for the discless version.

SO people with the the old Pro models with the 20GB HDD (like me) or have the arcade version are kinda screwed. As far as I am  it's just another scheme on the hands of MS in order to make people buy their extremely over priced HDD's. 

" They really, REALLY need to release Rock Band 2 as a game on demand. The whole DLC-centric nature of that game really lends itself to that market (i.e., ME) It'd make it one step easier to bust out, too, since you would never need to look for the disc, just bust out the instruments and hit "go".  Actually, better yet, for EA, here's your billion dollar idea. Sell a Rock Band Mini set on there, that contains NO songs, just the RB 2 framework, and works off DLC. Bundle the DL with a code to export your RB2 songs to DLC. Then you can get people that don't ever need to grab a disc, they can just buy the songs they want alá carte. (Also, put the RB2 disc songs in a special category of DLC so that RB2 people can't accidentally buy them.) Make this core unit like 5 or 10$. You've already done all the work building it and selling it, and recouped all that in the disc sales of RB1 / 2.  Hell, call it Rock Band 3, and introduce some more casual friendly features with it to incent current RB2 owners to pony up a few bucks for the discless version. "

I love the idea of this, but, can't help but feel the pricing is a wee bit steep. I tend to trawl thru this site in the UK for bargains: 
http://www.find-games.co.uk/xbox360--1-price.aspx