This week will also see the debut of the demo for The Club and Devil May Cry 4. The Club is the highly anticipated (at least by me) action shooter from Bizarre Creations and the Devil May Cry 4 demo will mark the first time the series has appeared on anything other than Sony hardware. Both are going to be big hits and both will have large footprints (The Club demo is well over 1GB in size and I would guess Devil May Cry is going to be similar in size).
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I’m not sure who’s doing the scheduling at Microsoft but this week is going to tax Xbox Live as much if not more than the holidays did. While the two demos are Gold member exclusives this week, people are going to be downloading Undertow whether they are really interested in the game or not. This situation could create a perfect DLC Storm and cause yet another round of service issues on Xbox Live. This would be unacceptable for gamers who are still bitter over not being able to use the service during their vacations.
I hope I’m wrong but I’ve been trying to download the demo for The Club for the last two hours and I’m still at 5% complete. We’ll find out later this week but if I’m Major Nelson I’m keeping the flame retardant suit in my office this week.