Xbox Live Marketplace Black Friday sale

by James Ransom-Wiley on Nov 26th 2008 2:45PM

It's not just your friendly neighborhood retailers looking to take advantage of your weekend weakened state of mind this Friday. No, online marketplaces are looking to snag your credit card digits, too, as you sit slumped before your computer screen after awakening from a paralyzing food coma with an insatiable appetite to ... BUY!

Microsoft's Major Nelson has posted the Black Friday discounts for Xbox Live Marketplace, available to Xbox Live Gold members "Friday morning" through "Sunday evening" (an originally stated start time of 6 am ET has been removed). The sale includes Xbox Live Arcade games, premium DLC and several NXE Themes. Full details are posted after the break.

XBLA
Rez HD - 500

(reg. 800

; 37.5% off)
Arkadian Warriors - 500

(reg. 800

; 37.5% off)
Assault Heroes - 250

(reg. 400

; 37.5% off)
Catan - 500

(reg. 800

; 37.5% off)
Brain Challenge - 500

(reg. 800

; 37.5% off)
Boogie Bunnies - 500

(reg. 800

; 37.5% off)
Golf: Tee It Up! - 500

(reg. 800

; 37.5% off)

DLC
GH3: Metallica "Death Magnetic" Album - 1000

(reg. 1440

; 30.6% off)
Forza: March Car Pack - 250

(reg. 400

; 37.5% off)
Crackdown: "Gettin' Busy" Pack - 500

(reg. 800

; 37.5% off)
Rock Band: "All That Remains" Pack - 290

(reg. 440

; 34.1% off)
Lips: "The Remedy" (Jason Mraz) - 100

(reg. 160

; 37.5% off)

NXE Themes
Gears of War 2: Last Day - 180

(reg. 250

; 28% off)
Sonic Unleashed - 180

(reg. 250

; 28% off)
Castle Crashers - 180

(reg. 250

; 28% off)

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Tags: black-friday, black-friday-2008, breakingnews, holidaze-2008, xbla, xblm, Xbox-360, xbox-live, xbox-live-gold

Reader Comments (54)

god damnit the only things i want on that list i already bought

buy them again think about the savings!!!!

Same! I bought Rez HD today before coming here. My flat finally fixed my XBox Live connection (SINCE JULY IT'S BEEN DOWN) and I went on a XBLM binge.

Ditto. Kind of a crap selection with one or two gems that you'd be crazy not to already own.

Also screw those premium themes. Even 180 points is too damn much.

i want all that remains

But if you buy All That Remains there won't be any left for anyone else!

*instantrimshot.com*

I'd say the only thing worth it on that list would be Rez HD. Though I already have Catan.

Also, do people really still play Crackdown?? I mean that DLC came out over a year ago and it's still at 800MP?

Crackdown...is...bitching.You did not just diss that game.

Although I admit that 800 Points at this point is just utterly retarded.

I wasn't dissing it. It was a good game when it came out. But seriously? That was almost 2 years ago and they still want to charge 800 points for a DLC? There is something wrong with that.

Son of a bitch. Have I had 30 more points I could've at least bought some themes off the Online Marketplace...

Is that Bowser raping a young female in your avatar or do I need better glasses?

Oh come on, since when does coping a feel = r4pe?

(Stupid censoring system is stupid. It will delete the entire message the moment you press reply.Once I wrote a half-a-page explanation as to why Anti-Racism stuff is racist in the very core and imagine my look when the comment disappeared because I decided to use the N-Word uncensored in order to stand by my opinion.)

Rule 34 NaeemTHM,Rule 34.

There better be to infringements of rules 1 and 2 following your reference to rule 34...

*no

Rules #1&2 only apply to raids...

Anyways, it's a picture of a female, human-like Bowser groping a female Mario.

Female versions of male characters is Rule #63 of the Internet.

While the image is somewhat sexual, I wouldn't say it's pornographic. Therefore, I don't think it's covered by Rule #34. Now, if these two ladies were naked and touching each others' naughty bits... then we'd have some 34 here.

The More You Know
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Sometimes I'm amazed by the amount of /b/tards in Joystiq.

Hey guis by the way.

THE GAME.

stupid /b/tards on mah internet...

ROW ROW FIGHT THA POWAH

BTW Omega I never finished to read all da rules but I'm sure there was one that said that if you knew all the rules something something TL;DR An hero,aIrite?

o.O ?

Call me BPM, not Omega, please.

And I hate /b/. I stay the hell away from that place. I just know an unhealthy amount of info on memes and the junk.

damnit mr. esc
you made me lose the game

@ Mr.ESC

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

Pass.

I'd have considered the Viva Pinata theme if it were on sale.

Sweet, REZ and maybe I will sell out my principles and get that castle crashers theme, I just love the art.

Awww... I already have Rez, Assault Heroes, and the Crackdown DLC. Nothing else interests me.

I might have to pick up Rez. 500 points is pretty cheap. Just like me. ;)

Gears of War 2: Last Day theme is sweet, got that one. :D

The fact that it will be on sale is not sweet. :(

I don't why people bother on buying themes,all the good ones are free anyway.

Also there should be a way to get a preview of the theme.Otherwise they are asking me to make ablind buy.

I bought a Naruto theme once (What I was thinking at the time? No Idea.) anyway I still regret it.

But the premium themes have those little backgrounds that the avatars stand in front of. I've got whichever one Gamestop gave me for buying Gears. Unfortunately, it just looks like everyone is standing in front of big brown blobs of mud, with the occasional dirty truck in there. The Halo ones are still pretty cool though, with Pumas (I mean, Warthogs) and Banshees and whatnot.

Wait, I got the Last Day theme for free. You're supposed to pay for it?

I missed out on the limited time freeness :(

ESC, care to offer up the names of these free themes? I've been sitting on a pile of points for awhile, so I caved and bought my first theme, the Fable II one. Pretty cool.

Meh, they need more GAMES on sale...

no thanks, already own all of the good ones on that list.

I would buy REZ but I'm already saturated with games.I bought Fallout a few weeks ago and I haven't play it.I'm to hooked onFable 2 and Banjo 3.

Why the hell Banjo got so many bad reviews that game is awesome.

The "Death Magnetic" album was too much at 1600, but it's nice to see they're lowering it to 1000, which is about how much it's worth anyway. That's about the only good I see here.

think i may pick up REZ :)

I would buy Rez but i'm not a gold member. oh well

Good deal on Rez. Of course I already thought it was a good deal for even 800 points when I bought it awhile back. Wonderful game.

Agreed. To all those that are saying they might pick up Rez... why the hell haven't you already???

Wheres the Canadian love?

:(

It would finally give me a reason to pick up Settlers (I always found it weird that they call it Catan here. Ever since I've been young playing, we always shortened Settlers of Catan to Settlers, not Catan... but I digress).

That's a pretty weak sale. Oh well.

PSN BF sales > XBL BF sales

Several good games 1/2 price there on the PSN. I was expecting a little more out of Microsoft this time since it's been ages (it seems) since they've added a bunch of 1/2 priced "XBLA Hits" titles.

And yeah, I agree - the Crackdown DLC should be free by now; c'mon already. =S

Whoa whoa whoa hold the phone here.
"Gold members only"? WTF

Gee just when I thought they were TOO greedy...WOW.

*golf clap*

How about chairs.

W00t! This is perfect!

I have 1000 points right now and was dying to get the Castle Crashers NXE theme, but didn't wanna break the 800 point mark.

My only question is... will this apply to all XBLA, seeing as i'm in Canada...

You are SOL my friend, as are many among us. :( Major Nelson specified in his blog post that this is US only. First Netflix, now this. My week just keeps getting better and better... :S

YOU MUST BUY CATAN AND REZ....

That is all.

*looks over list

im sorry, we're supposed to be impressed by these "deals"?

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