It seems Microsoft may be getting ready for the release of the Xbox Avatar Marketplace, after it’s been confirmed that the mysterious Beta ’09 symbol on some Microsoft employees gamercards is indeed the new store.

As you can see in the above picture one tester “Randy No Arms” has even been caught sporting an all Halo get up, although not of the type many were hoping for (full Spartan Armour please).

With any luck the really cool gear will be available for getting in-game achievements, like COG armour for completing Gears 2 on Insane, if the awards could be retrospective that would be even better, SAS gear for completing COD4 on Veteran would be nice and a definite badge of honour that would spice up the Avatar system.

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