Microsoft announces Christmas XBL sale
Plus, Red Dead hits Games on Demand.
Super Meat Boy, Comic Jumper and Castle Crashers are among the titles seeing price cuts in a festive Xbox Live sale starting next week.
The promotion will run from 21st December until 31st December and include the following deals:
- Super Meat Boy Discounted, Price: 800 Savings: 33 per cent
- Comic Jumper, Discounted Price: 800 Savings: 33 per cent
- Toy Soldiers, Discounted Price: 800 Savings: 33 per cent
- Banjo Tooie, Discounted Price: 600 Savings: 50 per cent
- Castle Crashers, Discounted Price: 600 Savings: 50 per cent
- The UnderGarden, Discounted Price: 400 Savings: 50 per cent
- Risk Factions, Discounted Price: 400 Savings: 50 per cent
- Afterburner Climax, Discounted Price: 400 Savings: 50 per cent
- Borderland's Claptrap New Revolution, Discounted Price: 400 Savings: 50 per cent
- Carcassonne Discounted, Price: 400 Savings: 50 per cent
On top of all that, there will be a different "surprise" offer every day, details of which will be published on Major Nelson's blog.
Microsoft has also detailed the rest of its Xbox Live slate for December. Highlights include Games on Demand releases for Red Dead Redemption and Just Cause 2, and new DLC for Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
Here's the full line-up:
Xbox Games On Demand:
- December 21: Red Dead Redemption
- December 21: Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands
- December 28: Transformers: War for Cybertron
- December 28: Just Cause 2
- December 28: Ghostbusters
Xbox LIVE Avatar Marketplace:
- December 15: Bomberman LIVE
- December 15: Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode I
- December 15: Winter Wear
- December 23: Disney Sidekicks
- December 23: University Collection (College Football Bowl Season)
- December 23: Ninjas Collection
Xbox Game Add-Ons:
- December 21: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam Expansion Pack, 1200 Microsoft Points
- December 29: Bomberman Live: Battlefest Bomb-Up Pack I, 240 Microsoft Points
Xbox LIVE Arcade:
- December 22: A World of Keflings, 800 Microsoft Points
- December 29: Raskulls, 800 Microsoft Points
- January 5: ilomilo, 800 Microsoft Points