Amazon.com is featuring a Buy 1 Gift 1 Free deal on a few Xbox LIVE Arcade games. When you buy one of the XBLA games below, you'll get two Xbox LIVE Marketplace download codes for the game. One for you and one for a friend. Or you can split the cost. Whatever you decide, each of the games below make for some multiplayer fun. The offer is good today, June 15th.
Uno Rush was supposed to be available for 400 Microsoft Points. Instead, Microsoft chose to release the game today for double the price. Check out the 39 second mark in the video below for proof.
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Microsoft Canada sends word about two cool deals during the month of December. Free Multiplayer gaming for the month of December for select games on the Xbox 360 and starting this coming Monday December 8th, Canadian gamers will be able to buy select Xbox LIVE Arcade games, Xbox Original or even Maps for a discount.
Players with Xbox Live Silver Memberships will have the opportunity to taste some of the multiplayer experience before they upgrade to gold memberships. Microsoft is calling this "Friendship is Free" and for a month these players that have yet to upgrade will see the multiplayer functionality functions for eight games be unlocked for them to try out.
One of the biggest features of the upcoming "New Xbox Experience" is Avatars. These Mii-like figures will become users' Xbox personalities, in a sense, and will slowly be integrated in various ways across all kinds of different games. With the NXE set to go live on November 19, Microsoft has confirmed that a few marquee Xbox Live Arcade titles will have instant support for the new characters.
Five Xbox Live games and one game are to get avatars. The games to get avatars are Hardwood Hearts, Hardwood Spades, Small Arms, UNO, and Bomberman Live are to get avatars. Scene It? Box Office Smash is also included. Also, a new Xbox Live arcade game will have playable avatars.
These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade, full versions purchased this week. Here are the top 3 for each charts, see the source for the complete top 10 list.
The voices from Aqua Teen Hunger Force's Master Shake, Meatwad, Err, Carl and Ignignokt will be mixing things up in Uno on Xbox Live on April 24. More details after the jump.