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Free Shark Week & Unlock Xbox downloads

We advise US Xbox Live members to swim on over to the XBLM to download a few newly free themes and gamer pictures. Discovery Channel is celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Shark Week by giving away a (somewhat bland) shark theme and a set of shark gamer pictures. And what more can we say, they're sharky? But if you hate sharks or just like Doritos, then you'll be pleased to know that there is also a free Unlock Xbox inspired theme and gamer picture set available too.

And allow us to vent a little here and point out that the Unlock Xbox theme bothers the heck out of us. Why? Because the background colors don't match the freakin' blade colors! It looks like the designers tried to match the colors, but got sort of confused by the time they painted the media blade. Hey theme makers, is it that hard to match a few colors? End rant.

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Get your Pathfinder theme and gamer pics


With next month's quiet release of the movie Pathfinder we receive a few free downloads off of the XBLM. Right now you can get a free Pathfinder theme (which isn't anything spectacular) and a picture pack. The picture pack is actually pretty good, featuring a few creature pics and even a skull! Nothing says "I'm hardcore" like a gamer picture featuring a skull. Very l33t indeed. And for our worldly fanboys, we're pretty sure this content is only available to US residents and possibly Canada. Hey, we don't make the rules.

Free Eragon and The Reaping downloads


Today's free XBLM downloads are movie related themes and gamer pictures that are available to a worldly audience. First off is the free Eragon theme available to most of Europe and only Europe. The other downloads are for the movie The Reaping (featuring that swanky Hilary Swank) and include both a theme and a set of gamer pictures. And be sure to note that The Reaping's free downloads are only offered to United States residents ... Canada gets shafted this time, sorry guys. We just rang the free downloads dinner bell, so go get your content already!

Free Blades of Glory theme and gamer pics

In love with competitive figure skating and just can't wait for the Olympics? Well, we didn't think so, but Will Ferrell's new comedy Blades of Glory is about figure skating and looks quite funny. And on the XBLM you can download a free movie theme and a set of gamer pictures. The theme is pretty okay, as the guide isn't the plain jane light gray we usually see. And we'll just say the gamer pictures are "goodish", if goodish is a word. Did we mention we enjoy free themes and gamer pictures? For some reason if the content is free we couldn't care less it was advertising shaving cream or the Smucker's jam ... we just love our free content. Anyway, time to download, you know what to do.

Free gamer picture for Canada [update 1]

Boy do we love those free gamer pictures and themes from the marketplace. And even though there is only one new one and only available for Canadian Xbox Live members, it's still newsworthy. Everyone who's from Canada and loves free goods, hit up the XBLM and get your free Multiplayer Mayhem Month gamer picture right this second! We can't see what it looks like since our HQ is in the States, so if you could download it ... is it one sexy gamer picture?

Update 1: CANADA360 found an image of the gamer picture. It isn't all that bad.



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