XBLA sale this weekend News
Xbox 360 News by Robert Purchese
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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crazyhorse174
31/08/07 @ 11:01
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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!
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the_dudefather
31/08/07 @ 11:02
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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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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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Britesparc
31/08/07 @ 11:18
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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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crazyhorse174
31/08/07 @ 11:45
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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
31/08/07 @ 11:48
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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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Emilia'sHorse
31/08/07 @ 12:34
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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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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
31/08/07 @ 14:05
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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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yagisencho
31/08/07 @ 21:54
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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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