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Deal of the week: 50% off CoD 4's Variety Map Pack

by David Hinkle { Nov 2nd 2009 at 11:45AM }

This week, Xbox 360 and PS3 gamers will be able to snag Call of Duty 4's Variety Map Pack for half off, Activision announced. We've seen this with car dealers a million times. With next year's model -- Modern Warfare 2 -- about to hit the show floor soon, Activision is looking to get as much as it can out of the older model.

Still, if you're happy fragging folks in the older model, then you may want to check out the Variety Map Pack -- which has been discounted by half to 400

($5) on Xbox Live and $4.99 on PSN, culminating in a double XP event for both consoles this coming weekend. Though odds are, if you care about this dinosaur of a game still, you and a majority of the other 13 million or so players probably already own this content.

Gallery: Call of Duty 4: Variety Map Pack

Reminder: Fable II Pub Games is Xbox Live 'deal' of the week

by Alexander Sliwinski { Oct 26th 2009 at 1:15PM }

Fable 2's Pub Games was a brilliant way to prep players for adventures in Albion before the game's release last year, but its post-launch price of $10 seemed like a bit of a gamble. It's this week's Xbox Marketplace "deal" at 400

($5).

Considering that Pub Games was designed as a glorified piece of marketing, wouldn't it make sense to release it for free to generate renewed interest in the Fable 2: Game of the Year Edition (in which it is also included) or the episodic download? Surely that's the better bet.

Add Fable II Pub Games to your queue

Gallery: Fable 2 Pub Games (XBLA)

Reminder: XBL Deal of the Week is RE5 Versus Mode

by Richard Mitchell { Oct 20th 2009 at 11:50AM }

As promised, this week's Xbox Live Deal of the Week is the Versus Mode DLC for Resident Evil 5. The content has been discounted by forty percent, dropping from 400

($5) to 240

($3). We can't imagine there being too many fence-sitters out there waiting to buy this initially controversial DLC (which we liked).

Over in Japan, they're getting a different deal: Golf: Tee It Up for 400

($5), fifty percent off the normal price. Remember when you could just call a game "Golf" and be done with it?

[Via Major Nelson]

Reminder: Hasbro games 50% off this week [update: Sorry! discounted too]

by Richard Mitchell { Oct 12th 2009 at 1:45PM }

Update: We've confirmed with Major Nelson that Sorry! should have been priced at 400

as well. The price will be updated on XBLM "very soon."

Just a quick reminder here to let everyone know that this week's XBLM Deal of the Week is discounted prices for nearly all of the Hasbro Family Game Night collection on Xbox Live Arcade. All this week, Gold Live members can pick up Boggle, Scrabble, Battleship, Yahtzee, Sorry! Sliders or Connect 4 for 400

($5) each (half off the usual 800

). Curiously, one game, the original Sorry!, has not been discounted and remains at 800

.

Still, if you've been waiting for a reason to pick up one of the other titles, this week looks like a good time to take the plunge.

Browse the Hasbro Family Game Night collection on XBLM (sign in to see discounted prices)

Microsoft details October's Xbox Live Deal of the Week specials [update]

by David Hinkle { Oct 9th 2009 at 10:15AM }

Update: Houston, we have prices!

As you already know, this week's Xbox Live Deal of the Week is none other than Prince of Persia's 'Epilogue' DLC. We're not here to talk about that, though -- instead, we're here to give you the heads up on what the rest of this month has in store for penny-pinching purchasers looking for goodies on Xbox Live. So let's get to it:

October 12

Hasbro Family Game Night (Battleship, Connect 4, Scrabble, Yahtzee, Boggle and Sorry! Sliders discounted to 400)

October 19

Resident Evil 5's Versus mode (discounted to 240)

October 26

Fable II Pub Games (discounted to 400)

Pub Games is the only title with its planned discount listed, so you'll have to wait until the appropriate time to know how much the others are discounted for. We're sorry we boggled your mind with savings, only to battle your ship -- ah, forget it, that joke could never work.

XBLM Deal of the Week: Prince of Persia Epilogue DLC

by Justin McElroy { Oct 5th 2009 at 2:00PM }

Sure, we get it. You're interested in seeing the last chapter of the new Prince of Persia, you're just not quite as interested as some of your buddies. It's hard to put a number on, but let's say you're ... 30 percent less interested.

Well, friend, your moment has arrived: the Prince of Persia Epilogue DLC has bee slashed from 800

($10) to 560

($7) as the latest XBLM Deal of the Week. If you've already purchased the content, you may want to ask Elika to rewind time and let you try again, but wouldn't that make it all too easy?

Reminder: Xbox Live 'Deal of the Week' is Pinball FX for $5

by David Hinkle { Sep 21st 2009 at 11:14AM }

Just as expected, today's Xbox Live Deal of the Week is none other than Pinball FX. MIcrosoft has slashed its price in half, Major Nelson reports, bringing the cost of the game down to 400

($5). It's not a bad price and, while it ain't no The Addams Family pinball, it's about your best bet for a fix considering the American arcade has all but gone the way of the ManBearPig.

Reminder: Xbox Live 'Deal of the Week' is Lode Runner for $10

by Alexander Sliwinski { Sep 14th 2009 at 2:15PM }

For a brief time on the morning of April 22, 2009, Lode Runner cost 800

($10) on the Xbox Marketplace before reverting to a 1200

($15) price. This week, you can relive that fateful morning and nab the game at its initially incorrect -- but oh so right -- price as the Xbox 360 "deal of the week."

The Xbox 360 deals for the month of September were announced last week, so be sure to take a look at what savings the future holds.

Gallery: Lode Runner (XBLA)

Xbox 360's 'Deal of the Week,' Games on Demand, Avatar DLC for Sept.

by Alexander Sliwinski { Sep 8th 2009 at 8:30PM }

Tossing the usual drip-fed weekly schedule aside for the moment, Microsoft has released the full details for its "Deal of the Week," Games on Demand and Avatar DLC releases (in the US) for the entire month of September. Let's start with Games on Demand:

Games on Demand (no prices noted)

Sept 8: Civilization Revolution
Sept. 15: FIFA Street 3
Sept. 22: Shaun White Snowboarding
Sept. 29: Fable II: Game Episodes -- (we'd hold out for that "game of the year" edition)

Check after the break for the "Deal of the Week" and Avatar DLC details.

Continued →

Puzzle Quest ventures to $5 this week on XBLM

by Alexander Sliwinski { Sep 7th 2009 at 7:15PM }

The excellent and addictive Puzzle Quest gets half off this week for Xbox Live Gold Members. Major Nelson sends word by necromantic carrier pigeon that the jewel-dropping epic will cost a mere 400

($5).

Even if you aren't interested in the game at the moment, may we suggest picking it up as a "boredom insurance policy?" Seriously, the first time you get bored, just boot up Puzzle Quest and you'll come out of the trance sometime the following week. Hey, listen ... we said it was an insurance policy against boredom -- nothing about you being able to keep your job, spouse or grades after starting.

Queue Puzzle Quest to download on your Xbox 360

Gallery: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (XBLA)

XBLM Deal of the Week: Penny Arcade - Episode 2

by Xav de Matos { Aug 31st 2009 at 3:15PM }

In celebration of the upcoming Penny Arcade Expo, this week's Xbox Live Marketplace Deal of the Week is none other than Gabe & Tycho's second adventure: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode Two. Normally 1200

($15 USD), the Hothead Games' episodic RPG has been reduced to 800

($10 USD) in Microsoft funny-money.

The sale also begs the question, "Where da heck is Penny Arcade: Episode Three?!" Hopefully Hothead Games and the guys at Penny Arcade will be able to tell us all about the next game in the series when PAX 2009 kicks off on Friday, September 4. Make sure to keep refreshing Joystiq all weekend long as a slew of our minions will be on hand for the community friendly event.

Queue up the XBLM Deal of the Week: Penny Arcade - Episode 2

Gallery: Penny Arcade Epidsode 2

PSA: Lost and Damned is Deal of the Week for $15

by Ben Gilbert { Aug 24th 2009 at 12:00PM }

In case you'd forgotten, Major Nelson reminded us this morning that this week's Xbox Live Deal of the Week is the Grand Theft Auto IV expansion, The Lost and Damned. Rather than running you the standard price of 1600

($20), the motorcycle gang-themed DLC will only cost 1200

($15) this week.

Considering how many games have already headed into the "early 2010" release window, we wouldn't be surprised to see the retail compilation of The Lost and Damned with The Ballad of Gay Tony slip to next year. Hopefully this week's discount on the former is a precursor to the latter getting a release date or, well, any info at all since it was announced back in May. In the meantime, at lease we're getting a discount!

Gallery: Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned DLC

Incoming Xbox Deals of the Week: Lost and Damned, Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 2

by JC Fletcher { Aug 10th 2009 at 4:29PM }

How often is the Xbox Live Deal of the Week actually exciting? Not this week, at least, but it will be this month! On August 24, Microsoft will offer something pretty tempting: Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned for 1200

($15), 5 bucks off the normal asking price for the Grand Theft Auto IV expansion.

If you're the guy who bought GTA IV on 360 but hasn't picked this up yet -- and you don't want to wait for Episodes from Liberty City -- now's a great time to pick up a new set of missions to give up on halfway through the game, in favor of just doing awesome bike jumps.

The announcement also reveals that a deal for Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 2 is incoming, so ... you know, don't buy it yet. Also, a Halo 3 Dashboard theme that you really don't need to buy ever.

R-Type finally comes down to a reasonable price for deal of the week

by Alexander Sliwinski { Aug 3rd 2009 at 10:30AM }

Xbox Live gold members can pick up R-Type Dimensions for the reduced price of 800

($10) this week. How is that reduced, you ask? Well, for some strange reason, the side-scrolling shmup is normally a tad on the expensive side at 1200

($15).

At present, though, its probably best to spend those Microsoft space bucks on the excellent 'Splosion Man or wait a couple weeks until Shadow Complex releases. However, if you gotta have the R-Type, at least you'll get a deal on the game this week.

Add R-Type Dimensions to your queue

Gallery: R-Type Dimensions (XBLA)

XBLM 'Deal of the Week' is Far Cry 2 DLC

by Richard Mitchell { Jul 27th 2009 at 2:31PM }

Now this is the Xbox Live Deal of the Week that we know and don't love. After a month of decent deals (plus one week of The Force Unleashed marketing), the Deal of the Week has returned to its roots: DLC for a game that came out last year. The game in question is Far Cry 2. The DLC in question is the Fortunes Pack, which includes three weapons, two vehicles and four multiplayer maps. Usually 400

($5), Deal of the Week status knocks it down to only 240

($3). We suppose it might be a good deal if you're still playing Far Cry 2. Then again, if you're still playing Far Cry 2, you probably have the Fortunes Pack already.

Thank goodness, we'd almost forgotten the empty, tepid feeling that the Deal of the Week can inspire. Welcome back, complete indifference!