Xbox Live Deal of the Week: Fable 2's Knothole Island [update]

...How is this even remotely related to the story?

This is a more reasonable price for the content, this is what it should have been to begin with. The plot isn't particularly interesting, it'll only take you a couple of hours to get through, but it's easily worth the 500 points for the items you get, some of them are really cool.

Dangit, I bought this a few weeks ago and haven't even got into it yet (got distracted by other games). Should have waited.

Good news since I have a couple of spare MS points and I actually bought See The Future, but not Knothole Island. i might just pick this up.

Hopefully this will be a trend in the good deals, since alot of them have been shitty.

Unrelated post #2:

Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.

Iran began recounting some of the votes cast in its disputed presidential election Monday in an apparent attempt to placate opposition protesters, and the government dismissed the idea of downgrading relations with Britain despite accusing that country of stirring up unrest.

The regime's standoff with the West over its crackdown on demonstrators sharply escalated Sunday. Britain denounced the detention of nine local employees of its embassy in Tehran, and the European Union condemned what it called Iranian "harassment and intimidation."

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi told a news conference broadcast on state television Monday that five of the Iranian embassy staffers had been released and the remaining four were being interrogated.

Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseini Ejehi claimed he had videotape showing some of the employees mingling with protesters, and said the fate of those who remain in custody now rests with Iran's judiciary, which is tightly controlled by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

But Qashqavi played down the dispute, saying Iranian officials were in written and verbal contact with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who called the allegations "wholly without foundation."

"Reduction of diplomatic ties is not on our agenda for any country, including Britain," Qashqavi said.

Is this a Gold only Discount????

Griffin handles the hardware sales post and has been traveling for an assortment of things during the summer, hence both the hardware sales and webcomic wrapup have fallen by the wayside some weeks.

The link posted was for See The Future, and I accidentally bought it. Grr...

ill just wait for the game of the year edition to come out.

I liked this quest, but it was too expensive for the add-on. Same thing with the second one. It made the game essentially cost $80.

I've completed the add-on quests in about an hour each (it doesn't help that I already had an end-game level character ready to smash through any "challenges" the add-on areas brought on).

Since this happened to me, I want to be the first one to say it:

"I just bought this last week! ARGHGhghhgh!"

It's not related to this story. However, since joystiq doesn't have a forum, this was the only option. I understand if you think it doesn't belong here, but some members only visit this site for information. I'm just providing that information for them. That's all.

And now back to your regularly scheduled blog post.

Seriously, I don't think ANYONE actually cares about those numbers. Why are you bringing it here?

well, with all of the awards it one, i would assume it would have one, and if not, then at least a platinum hits should be coming soon, since its already been bundled with a 360 and its price is 30 bucks. so there is a chance that it will be released with dlc. not 100%, but a high one.

Sadness! I failed at the comment even!

Amen, Tip.



JOYSTIQ OVERLORDS!!!

We request that you cease the hardware sales updates, in Japan at least. Its a bore to read, leads to flame wars, and I'm sure must be a waste of your server space, what with your witty references abound. Just throw in sales figures when relevant to an article; theres no real need to have an article about them. I'll probably get downvoted for questioning you though. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!

Unrelated post #3:

Monica Conyers, the chairwoman of the Detroit City Council and wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), pleaded guilty Friday to federal bribery charges, the latest blow to a city still reeling from the collapse of the U.S. auto industry and the jailing of its former mayor.

Monica Conyers pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in connection with a city sludge-hauling scandal. As a member of the Detroit City Council in 2007, Conyers cast the deciding vote in favor of awarding a $1.2 billion contract to Synagro Technologies Inc.

Monica Conyers’s attorney said Friday that she would be sentenced to between 30 and 37 months in federal prison.

John Conyers, who did not attend his wife’s court session, declined to say anything to Capitol Hill reporters about his wife’s guilty plea, but his office later released a statement on the case.

“This has been a trying time for the Conyers family and, with hope and prayer, they will make it through this as a family,” the statement said. “Public officials must expect to be held to the highest ethical and legal standards. With this in mind, Mr. Conyers wants to work towards helping his family and city recover from this serious matter.”

Terrence Berg, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, whose office has conducted a two-year investigation of the Detroit City Council, said no other council member will be charged in the Synagro case, and added “that the evidence offered no suggestion that United States Representative John Conyers, Ms. Conyers’ husband, had any knowledge or role in Ms. Conyers’ illegal conduct, nor did the congressman attempt to influence this investigation in any way.”

Monica Conyers initially opposed the Synagro contract with the city but later reversed her position and cast the critical vote approving it. Her reversal caused uproar inside the city council, and federal investigators soon began looking into allegations of payoffs surrounding her vote.

According to Monica Conyers’s plea agreement with the Justice Department, “During the summer and winter of 2007, both before and after her vote, defendant received cash payments … from an individual sent by Rayford Jackson, a paid consultant for Synagro.”

Jackson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery 10 days ago, leading to heavy speculation in Detroit political circles that Monica Conyers would soon accept a plea deal of her own.

Jackson’s payments to Monica Conyers totaled at least $6,000, according to news reports.

Monica Conyers, 44, was elected to the city council in January 2005, and in September 2008, she was named the council’s interim president.

Her tenure has been marred by controversy and complaints about her personal behavior. Last year, in a dispute during official council proceedings, Conyers called then-council President Ken Cockrel “Shrek.”

Earlier this year, Councilman Kwame Kenyatta accused Conyers of making fun of his poor hearing and lack of a college degree in a confrontation outside his office. Kenyatta also said Conyers had started rumors about him having cancer.

Monica Conyers also came under fire after the city’s pension board said she owed the city $5,600 in unpaid travel advances from last year.

With her guilty plea today, Monica Conyers joins former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in the ranks of now disgraced Motor City politicians.

Following a long, winding investigation that convulsed city politics, Kilpatrick, son of Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich.), pleaded guilty last year to obstruction of justice charges, resigned from office and served more than three months in jail.

The House ethics committee announced on Wednesday that Carolyn Kilpatrick would be among the five lawmakers that it would investigate as part of its probe into who paid for Caribbean trips in 2007 and 2008.

purchase see the future... its a nice price for such a great quality DLC.

you will not regret it!

David Hinkle,

See The Future (the DLC you linked us too, and made me wrongly purchase) is always 560 points.

Knothole Island is usually 800 points, and it is this week only, 560 points.

OMG! I'm so happy, I was just about to buy this yesterday, but I thought it would be best to wait to see if there's gonna be an XBL Deal of the Week later on in the summer! Looks like I didn't have to wait long. This is the second Deal of the Week in a row that I will purchase!

I think I will buy this before the price goes back up! :)

See the Future is also 560 points right now!

I've actually JUST started playing Fable II, the only reason I purchased it was because my sister asked for it.

Should I download this content now while it's on sale even though I've barely started? Will it let me access it now or later when I'm assuming you're "supposed" to be able to?

it appears to ONLY be for see the future, knothole is still 800 pts