This week is a busy week for discounts for the Xbox enthusiast. Not only can you score major deals on a full year of Xbox Live, but two stellar games are releasing at retail, along with a huge sale by Square Enix. Ha, and you thought this was finally the year you were going to spend your savings on the perfect Valentine’s Day gift? Sorry, not during an unusually strong first week of February.
Xbox Live Weekly Sale
Get a full 12 months of Xbox Live Gold for $20 off at various retailers this week.
The biggest Xbox Live related sale isn’t even on XBLA games this week. From February 5th until February 11th you can pick up a 12 month Xbox Live subscription card for $39.99 at multiple retailers. Head to your local Toys’r’Us, Best Buy or GameStop.
Go on a quest with Crimson Alliance for a third of the price you would normally pay.
As for the weekly Xbox Live sales, Crimson Alliance is your deal of the week. You can pick up this action-RPG with all character classes for 800 Microsoft points, or purchase each class individually (Assassin, Mercenary, Wizard) for 560 Microsoft points. All of these are on sale for roughly 30% off their normal price.
There is a lot of Square Enix content on sale, Seriously, a lot.
Not to be outdone, Square Enix is having a huge sale on content from various games. You can pick up Explosion Mission Pack for Deus Ex: Human Revolution for 140 Microsoft points, Tactical Enhancement Pack for 80 Microsoft points, and The Missing Link for 600 Microsoft points. All of these Deus Ex items are roughly half off.
Continuing with the publisher sale, you can score the Black Market Aerial and Boom packs for Just Cause 2 for just one dollar. You can grab A Hazardous Reunion Challenge Pack 3, All The Trappings Challenge Pack 1, and the Raziel & Kain Character Pack all for 200 Microsoft points. The DLC for Tomb Raider: Underworld is on sale for half off, with Beneath the Ashes, and Lara’s Shadow clocking in at 400 Microsoft points.
Xbox 360 Retail Game Releases
The Darkness II
The Darkness 2 wants to play with you.
Gamers everywhere have been raving about the demo for The Darkness II for the last few weeks and the wait for the game is finally over. The Darkness II takes place two years after the original, The Darkness, and Jackie Estacado is engulfed in an all-out mob war after an attempt is made on his life. He still can’t forget the brutal murder of his girlfriend during the first game, and the Darkness inside him is resurfacing.
Gamers can quad wield weapons (you read that right) by firing two separate weapons with Jackie’s human arms while using his demon arms at the same time. There is four player campaign co-op over Xbox Live and the story is helmed by the Paul Jenkins who not only wrote the story for The Darkness but for many famous comic books, like The Incredible Hulk and Wolverine.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
Kingdoms of Amalur is being praised as the Skyrim killer by some media outlets.
Fans of Western RPGs who were turned off by the distinctly Japanese flavor of Final Fantasy XIII-2 last week will be pleased to know they have quite the role playing game to delve into this week. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning is being described in some circles as a deep RPG with the simplicity of combat found in Fable.
Some great minds collaborated to bring you Kingdoms of Amalur like best-selling author R.A. Salvatore, Todd McFarlane, and lead designer of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Ken Rolston.
Games on Demand
If you’re already planning for a future where all entertainment content is digitally distributed then this week’s additions to Microsoft’s Games on Demand service for Xbox Live should be of interest to you. This week you aren’t getting any notable additions to the service, instead you can get three older titles at a cheaper price.
Discounts on Games on Demand this week: Battlestations Pacific for $24.49 (25% off), Just Cause 2 for $24.49 (25% off), and Tomb Raider: Underworld for $14.99 (25% off)
Xbox Live Arcade releases
You can look forward to Shank 2, as well as some insane Batman inspired FPS action in Gotham City Impostors this week.
Game Demos
If you are the type of person who prefers to try a game before you buy it, but can’t find a copy of new releases to rent anywhere near you then you can look forward to demos for Kinect Disneyland Adventures and Kinectimals Now With Bears.
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