Hydrophobia, Dance Central deals in upcoming Xbox Live marketplace updates

The next couple weeks of Xbox Live marketplace updates include deals for Harmonix's Dance Central and a "Get Wet" theme, which does not actually include the game Wet. For the week of January 24, Dance Central DLC will be 160 MSP apiece ($2, a buck off). The "Get Wet" promotion for the week of January 31 includes Hydro Thunder Hurricane for 800 MSP ($10, 33 percent off), Aqua at 400 MSP ($5, half off) and the upgraded Hydrophobia for 400 MSP ($5, also half off)

The list also reconfirms the launch dates of the Call of Duty: Black Ops "First Strike" map pack, Breach and Bionic Commando Rearmed 2. Check out the full schedule for the next couple weeks after the break.

Xbox Live Deals of the Week (Gold members only)

Week of January 24 – Dance Central:

Dance Central 4 song add-ons – 160 Microsoft Points for each song (33 percent off)
Janet Jackson "Control"
Sean Paul "Temperature"
Ne-Yo "Because of You"
Cameo "Word Up"

Week of January 31 – Get Wet!

Hydro Thunder Hurricane, 800 Microsoft Points (Save 33 percent )
Aqua, 400 Microsoft Points (Save 50 percent )
Hydrophobia, 400 Microsoft Points (Save 50 percent )

Xbox Games On Demand

January 25: The Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena
February 1: Dark Void

Xbox Live Avatar Marketplace

January 20: Cool Moves collection (Kung Fu moves, flipping, jumping, and more!)
January 20: Dead Space 2
January 27: Military collection
February 1: Call of Duty: Black Ops
February 3: World Sports

Xbox Live Game Add-ons:

January 26: Castlevania Harmony of Despair Playable Character Simon Belmont, 160 Microsoft Points
January 26: Castlevania Harmony of Despair Origins Stage Pack , 240 Microsoft Points
January 26: Bomberman Live: Battlefest Bomb-Up Pack III , 240 Microsoft Points
February 1: Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike , 1200 Microsoft Points
February 2: Castlevania Harmony of Despair The Legend of Fuma Stage Pack 240 Microsoft Points
February 2: Castlevania Harmony of Despair Playable Character Getsu Fuma, 160 Microsoft Points

Xbox Live Arcade:

January 26: Breach, 1200 Microsoft Points
February 2: Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, 1200 Microsoft Points

Reader Comments (27)

Ill be buying a few things over the next 2 weeks. Black Ops, Dance Central DLC, and Hydrophobia.

@MarkHawk Word up!

I'll check out Hydrophobia again. I severly didn't enjoy the demo the last time, mostly due to the controls. Let's hope that all this extra time they've spent on this game has been worth it.

@Richard Jae The controls are much, much more intuitive this time around, and for 400MSP it's a great deal.

@Richard Jae - I think I'll also give it another try since they did the big update and it will only be $5. I had already been thinking of giving it a second go when the dropped the price to $10 so this will definitely make me do it.

@Richard Jae Same. I will definitely pick it up for 400. The voice acting is bad though, like painful bad.

There's also gonna be a sale on Rockstar content starting on Jan 25.

I can't say this enough, if you don't own Hydro Thunder Hurricane, you need to own it! It's amazing.

Unless they fixed the Dark Void Turret glitch it better be free-$5.

Holy cats! They are still pumping out DLC for Castlevania HoD! I might have to get the Simon Belmont since he is the "original" Belmont.

They actually sell animations for your avatar? wtf is the point of that?

@Trojan Having a different animation for your avatar.

I love xbla but the xblm deals are usually lame and mostly try to get sales for games that should have done well but didn't. I wish we got steam-like sales

@Colorfuljosh I think you are wrong.

@Colorfuljosh I don't see the problem with their sales either. I almost always wait until a game goes on sale and I have managed to get all the games I have wanted other than some newer ones that haven't been on sale yet.

Steam sales are awesome around the holidays, but their week to week sales aren't usually anything too special.

I'd love to read a review for the new version of Hydrophobia. Sounded interesting the first time, but reviews just tore it up.

@SisypheanLife

Yeah, I would also love to see a review of the updated Hydrophobia. It seems like the review score would definitely be considerably higher considering they updated pretty much every possible thing in the game. I'm probably gonna grab it though. 5 bucks isn't bad at all and it seems like it's a pretty decent game now since the patch.

Yeah you do? That's great! No reason to be hostile , not sure why I thought anyone but Fanboys who would actualy buy human fecal matter if Microsoft sold it under the xbox name would reply to that comment but yeah just my comment / opinion

Temperature is a heat song by the by. I bought it last week. Not sad though since it is only a buck. Hey Harmonix more songs please.

@Jack Kevorkian Great*

Just got 400msp from Bing Reawrds, and was about to buy Cthulhu Saves the World.....but Hydrophobia for 400msp? I think I will have to go with that instead.

@Robborboy

I normally hate the little gimmicks to get points, but the Bing Rewards bar does work nicely. Granted, the points are slow, but steady. Not shabby for a mouse clicks a day.

@Robborboy Cthulhu is the much better game updates or no.

@SisypheanLife They currently have me set up on on search for one point for a total of 20 points a day. And two six-point single searches every two days. Pretty nice if you ask me.

@Jack Kevorkian But the thing is Cthulhu will always be 240 msp. Hydrophobia won't always be 400msp.

DAMNIT! I knew a deal was gonna be coming since I broke down and bought a Dance Central DLC song. Well whatever

Aqua has cheesy voice work, but is a fun twin-stick shooter. Cool world, too. I could see it developed into a Savage Worlds paper & pen RPG pretty easily.

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Hydrophobia, Dance Central deals in upcoming Xbox Live marketplace updates

Reader Comments (27)

Posted: Jan 20th 2011 2:28PM MarkHawk said

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Posted: Jan 21st 2011 2:10AM Colorfuljosh said

Posted: Jan 20th 2011 5:57PM Jack Kevorkian said

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Posted: Jan 20th 2011 6:03PM Robborboy said

Posted: Jan 20th 2011 6:47PM SisypheanLife said

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