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Microsoft is having a little car boot sale to celebrate US Labour Day this weekend, meaning we'll all be able to download four Live Arcade games for half price.

On the chopping block are Small Arms and Zuma Deluxe, trimmed down to 400 points (GBP 3.40, EUR 4.80); plus Gauntlet and Dig Dug hacked down to 200 points a pop (GBP 1.70, EUR 2.40).

The slashing will start on noon this Sunday, and run through until one minute before midnight on Monday.

Microsoft also wanted us to know what next Wednesday's Live Arcade additions will be, wheeling out Cyberball 2072 and Fatal Fury Special before us.

The first of these is a futuristic take on American Football, where the players are robots and the ball heats up and explodes, destroying whatever is holding it. Every time your team of nuts and bolts has a down, the ball will heat up a notch (downs give teams four attempts to advance further than 10 yards. If they do, they move to a first down, and get another four goes to move another 10 yards. Mess it up, or reach your fourth down without getting a touchdown or scoring one of those kicking goals, and the ball is turned over to your opposition - just off the top of my head).

To stop the ball exploding in the hands of your robots, you'll need to keep it moving, resetting the status to "cool" by crossing the 50 yard line. You're probably not even reading any more.

Fatal Fury Special, on the other hand, is a fighting game from Arcade big shots SNK. The aim is to smash your limbs into faces and progress your way to the ultimate showdown with boss Wolfgang Krauzer, ruler of the made-up Southtown city. You'll get to pick from 12 burly brawlers, too, and punch your friends in multiplayer mode.

Both come with the usual spattering of 12 achievements and 200 Gamescore points, and will cost you 400 points a piece (GBP 3.40, EUR 4.80).

Look out for our thoughts on them nearer the time.

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quantumsheep #1 5 years ago

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Gauntlet and dig dug for me I think! \o/
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crazyhorse174 #2 5 years ago

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If games are going to cost multiples of 200 points (200, 400, 600, etc) why cant they sell the points in those too, instead of 500, etc!?

If I want to buy something at 200, I need to buy 500 points! Bonkers!

Edited by 1 at 31/08/07 @ 12:01
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bengray66 #3 5 years ago

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where is SWOS
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the_dudefather #4 5 years ago

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yay for more 400 point games, hopefully it will come more of a standard again (there are a couple of games like Pacman CE I would have bought in a heartbeat for 400)
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DUFFMAN5 #5 5 years ago

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Not that I want these games (I have Gauntlet) but what are they going to do for all the poor sods, me being one of them that have our 360's being repaired/swaped/body snatched or whatever!
I think we should have credits applied to our live accounts at the very least, for the inconvienience of not haveing the 360 to use.
I am enjoying Bully on my ps2 at the moment, but it's not the point is it.
Slaters
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quantumsheep #6 5 years ago

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Where is Space Giraffe?

Oh...
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Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #7 5 years ago

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@ crazyhorse

I think that's the whole point - you only want 400 points but you need to pay for 500. And it's rare that you'll ever use up all your points, so you'll always need to keep adding them in 500 increments even though you only need 80 points or something... in short, it is A Money Making Scheme.

It's not MS's fault, really; we are, after all, a capitalist society. I buy 2000 point cards off the interweb, and make a very slight saving (of about a quid).

Oh, and where is SWOS, etc
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AFX #8 5 years ago

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What the heck is this "Cyberball 2072"? Sounds like a Speedball ripoff if ever I heard one. Which is a shame cos Speedball is due to come out for XBLA sometime too.
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Bumhug360 #9 5 years ago

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Speedball ripoff? Uneducated youth of today! Its an arcade classic from the 80's
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lennon #10 5 years ago

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I still have Cyberball on my Lynx and I havent felt the need to play that for ages so nothing of interest for me next week. SWOS is delayed. Im guessing late September earliest now.
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crazyhorse174 #11 5 years ago

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@ Britesparc

I sort of thought that after I'd typed my message. Still a pain in the arse though! And dont the points expire after a while as well if you dont use them? I've got 100 points left to spend and I'll be fucked if I'm using them to buy a couple of pictures for my user icon, so they'll probably just go to waste!

...unless SWOS comes out soon - then I'll probably top them up!
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silver-jon #12 5 years ago

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Nice one Rob. This is what I read:
"The first of these is a futuristic take on American Football, where . . . .
(herhum - skim read)
. . . 50 yard line. You're probably not even reading any more"

What are you, Derren Brown ?!
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ukslim #13 5 years ago

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If cyberball lets us have 2-on-2 matches online -- with private voice chat channels for each team and a button to press to announce stuff to the whole room -- then I'm in.

Otherwise, it's a missed opportunity.
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t8yman #14 5 years ago

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"your probably not even reading any more"

pmsl!!!
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neuroniky #15 5 years ago

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Zuma for 400 points... I'm doing a gift to my girlfriend then...
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EmiliasHorse #16 5 years ago

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Dig Dug will do nicely at that price, might even have a bit of Small Arms too.
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bioreit #17 5 years ago

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Am I missing summat 'bout SWOS?

Downloaded it off XBLA last night. Haven't played it, mind.
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Birchy #18 5 years ago

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You downloaded a video of SWOS
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Dr_Rofl #19 5 years ago

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I've already got small arms and thats really good, i;d suggest you buy that. I'll probably get dig dug.
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Ryze #20 5 years ago

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Yes, I'll have loads to buy when I finally splash out on the 360.

Too busy right now to have EVERY evening swallowed by a gaming binge, but soon...
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bioreit #21 5 years ago

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Ah, thanks Birchy.

My eyes were somewhat blurred after steaming through Space Giraffe for an hour and I wasn't paying too much attention to what was on-screen!
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gizmo #22 5 years ago

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Zuma for 400 points... I'm doing a gift to my girlfriend then...

??

Can you send live games to a friend as a gift?

I have a mate who is so tightfisted its untrue, but theres a few live games which would be great fun if only he'd buy them. If you could send a game as a gift, that would be excellent.

'Here, have worms...'
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Harlequeen #23 5 years ago

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I used to love Cyberball in the arcades. An early two screen game. Solo the aim was 99-0 and $999.999. But with multiplayer you really had to know the plays.
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neuroniky #24 5 years ago

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@gizmo: not directly. You can buy a gift card with preloaded microsoft points though you won't be able to choose the game he is buying.

BTW, my girlfriend actually lives with me and we share the 360 so this is not a problem for us
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DUFFKING #25 5 years ago

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Might get small arms.
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quantumsheep #26 5 years ago

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How will you use the controller?

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mattigan #27 5 years ago

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LOL
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yagisencho #28 5 years ago

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"You're probably not even reading any more."

=D

Was an okay game in the arcade. 20 years ago. And I have no interest in buying it.
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convercide #29 5 years ago

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So they're games I don't care about then...
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Darkedge #30 5 years ago

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points never expire on an account Crazyhorse so don't worry.
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caligari #31 3 years ago

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GLOL @ QuantumSheep
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