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Marble Blast Ultra was originally released for 800 Microsoft Points. However, on December 5, 2007, it was made an Xbox Live Arcade Hit and its price was lowered to 400. In 2008, three new achievements totaling 50 gamerscore were added to Marble Blast Ultra on Xbox.com. On Wednesday the 29th of October 2008 a new downloadable content pack was made available which contained a new multiplayer level "Marble It Up". On December 3, 2008 the Marble-Fu map pack was released, and on December 23, 2008 the Agoraphobia pack was released. Each pack contained five maps and was available on InstantAction prior to their Xbox 360 release.
On February 12th 2011 Marble Blast Ultra was delisted from the Xbox Live Arcade service. GarageGames, now a subsidiary of Graham Software Development, retained the rights to the Torque Engine which powers Marble Blast Ultra, but not the rights to the game. Game rights are property of InstantAction Holdings. GarageGames CEO Eric Preisz said that it was "unlikely" that the studio would reacquire the rights to its games.
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