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Enormous Xbox Marketplace sale starts next week

Daily deals in the run up to New Year.

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News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief
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It's time to stock up on Microsoft Points. A huge Countdown to 2013 sale is approaching.

Dozens of Xbox 360 games are set to go on sale from next Tuesday, 18th December, with additional daily discounts through until New Year's Eve.

Must... log on... Christmas day.

Each day is themed around a certain game series, genre or publisher, with deals set to go live on Trials titles, Call of Duty content, Rockstar games and Lego adventures.

For anyone yet to dip their toes into Telltale Games' The Walking Dead series (spoiler: it's really good), the whole series is on sale on 28th December, while first the episode is completely free for a week starting Christmas Day.

Sale prices are yet to be announced, but its worth making a note of anything you fancy from the list below (spotted by NeoGAF.

18th - 31st December sale items

  • Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition
  • Joe Danger 2: The Movie
  • Zuma's Revenge!
  • The Simpsons Arcade Game
  • Wreckateer
  • Plants vs. Zombies
  • Peggle
  • PeggleNights Content Pack
  • Fire Pro Wrestling
  • SONIC 4 Episode II
  • Sonic The Hedgehog 2
  • RAW
  • A World of Keflings
  • A World of Keflings - Sugar, Spice and Not So Nice
  • A World of Keflings - It Came From Outer Space
  • Kinect Party
  • Jet Set Radio

A number of Games on Demand titles will also be on sale - these are still to be announced.

18th December - Modern Warfare 3 deals

  • Modern Warfare 3
  • Collection 1 DLC
  • Collection 2 DLC
  • Collection 3 DLC
  • Collection 4 DLC

19th: LEGO Games

  • Lego Batman
  • Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
  • Lego Star Wars III
  • Lego Indiana Jones
  • Lego Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Lego Indiana Jones 2
  • Lego Harry Potter

20th: Platformer Games

  • Fez
  • HELL YEAH! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit
  • Sonic Adventure 2
  • Rayman Origins
  • Rayman 3 HD
  • Mark of the Ninja
  • Trine 2

21st: Rockstar Games

  • L.A. Noire
  • Red Dead Redemption
  • Max Payne 3
  • Midnight Club: LA

22nd: TBA

23rd: Summer of Arcade 2012 Games

  • Dust: An Elysian Tail
  • Deadlight
  • Hybrid

24th: Trials HD and Trials Evolution

  • Trials HD
  • Trials HD - Big Thrills
  • Trials HD - Big Pack
  • Trials Evolution
  • Trials Evolution: Origin of Pain

25th: Kinect Family

  • Hydro Thunder
  • Rock of Ages
  • Mini Ninjas Adventures
  • Leedmees
  • Fruit Ninja Kinect
  • Fruit Ninja Kinect - 8-bit Cartridge
  • Fruit Ninja Kinect - Art Box
  • Fruit Ninja Kinect - Space Capsule
  • Fruit Ninja Kinect - Storm Season

26th: TBA

27th: Borderlands

  • Borderlands
  • Borderlands 2
  • Borderlands 2 Season Pass

28th: The Walking Dead

  • The Walking Dead Episode 1
  • The Walking Dead Episode 2
  • The Walking Dead Episode 3
  • The Walking Dead Episode 4
  • The Walking Dead Episode 5

29th: Family Games

  • Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
  • Cars 2: The Video Game
  • Crash Of The Titans
  • Toy Story 3
  • Crazy Taxi
  • The Splatters

30th: Fighting Games

  • Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown
  • Street Fighter III: Online Edition
  • Dungeon Fighter LIVE: Fall Of Hendon Myre

31st: Skyrim and Oblivion

  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dawnguard
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Hearthfire
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Shivering Isles
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Knights of the Nine

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