June 28th 2010 1:03 pm PT

Deal of the week: Critics Choice

 

This week, Xbox LIVE Gold Members can save big one some of the most critically acclaimed Xbox LIVE Arcade titles:

 

Defense Grid, 400 Points

PB Winterbottom, 400 Points

Rocket Riot, 400 Points

Darwinia+, 800 Points

Chime, 240 Points

Poker Smash, 400 Points

 

These prices will be available until Monday, July 5th.

 

Deal, Marketplace By Larry Hryb, Xbox LIVE's Major Nelson

permalink: http://majornelson.com/2010/06/28/deal-of-the-week-critics-choice/

  • tbs0

    Defense Grid is awesome! Go get it! :)

  • Toothball

    Excellent, I’d been waiting for Winterbottom. Chime is rather interesting although I got that back when it was still charitable.

  • clarky456

    Defense Grid, here I come.

  • xLoCk 0nx

    Picking me up some defence grid :D Awesomeness!

  • Glenn ZA

    Awesome prices! Well done!
    Chime is a must get even at such a give-away price.
    I will be getting Defense Grid and PB Winterbottom…

  • SilentHunter382

    Nothing really worth getting for me this week. Defence Grid is an awesome game.

  • SalarymanDaishi

    Dang! The Misadventures of P. B. Winterbottom for 400 points would’ve been a done deal! Nice to see DotW evolving beyond one item per week, though – keep it up, the route you’re taking is much appreciated!

  • wiirule111

    I didnt care that much for Winterbottom, but the damn good atmosphere in the game made me buy it, and play it. ;) I also bought Poker Smash.. I already own Rocket Riot, Defense Grid and Chime. Rocket Riot is also worth 800 points.

  • AutomaticOcelot

    Fun to see the eastern hemisphere users all up on these early morning posts. :)
    Winterbottom is my kind of charming, but I don’t have time in my life for another puzzler. Time to give Defense Grid a try.

  • Iris2010

    Chime is really fun. i played it at a friends house.

  • SCS 85

    After seeing the great sales on Steam I must say these deals are poor.

  • dirty whirlwind

    Toothball: Chime is still charitable though. The nonprofit publisher, OneBigGame, aims to always donate, I think, 80% of their profits so buying Chime today still gives 60% of the purchase price to charity, as it did when it was first released back in February.

  • Antarael Dulac

    Picked up Chime and Winterbottom =)

    already have bought Rocket Riot and Defense Grid as they were on sale a time ago..

    Not sure if i take Poker Smash too…

    man i’m spending a lot of points since the multiple deals are going on lol ^^”

  • Beitamax

    I just bought Chime. Played it, Love it!

  • Shonk

    Picked up four i got the other two the other week on offer

  • I DLord I

    I played the trial for Darwinia+ and was a little underwhelmed. Can anyone comment on the replayability factor of this game?

  • Mikro

    I’m looking for Summer of Arcade and Hydro Thunder Hurricane I hope it’s soon

  • PriusGuy2004

    There are some great deals here! I got “PB Winterbottom” after work today…the rest of the ones I like from this list I already own. Hey Major…still waiting on those family board game deals…such as “Carcassonne”…that would be sweet!

  • MACPH1ST0

    @ dirty whirlwind: Toothball is right. After June 3rd, the money made from the sales of Chime is no longer being donated to charity. http://www.trueachievements.com/n1353/chime-will-no-longer-be-charitable-after-june-3rd.htm
    But it’s still a very fun music/puzzle game and anyone would be crazy not to get it at a steal of a price like 240 points.

  • radinplaid

    damn, seriously? i just bought winterbottom a week ago. i wish i had known that waiting a week would equate to 50% off.

  • dirty whirlwind

    MACPH1ST0: Thanks for updating me with the link. I wasn’t aware of that. So I apologize to Toothball.

    Although it’s kinda weird, a quick google search doesn’t give me anything else but the trueachievement article. You think that it would attract a little bit more attention. They don’t say nothing on their official page about it either, as far as I can tell.

  • MACPH1ST0

    @ dirty whirlwind: Yeah I thought that was a bit odd too. You’d think that something like that would be reported at the very least by sites like Kotaku and Joystiq, and not just TrueAchievements.

  • peteer01

    申し訳ございません

    このコンテンツはお住まいの地域ではご利用いただけないか、有効期限が切れています。

    Darghs. Unfortunately, PB Winterbottom, Chime and Rocket Riot weren’t released for XBLA in Japan, so my choices are limited to Defense Grid, Darwinia+ and Poker Smash, which is a shame, because when I read about these deals over at Kotaku, I got really excited about getting Chime and PB Winterbottom this evening. :-/

    The worst part is, as an American in Japan, I DO have a US account with points…but it’s silver, so I can’t get in on these deals. :-(

  • Jaysonguy

    Fantastic sales this week and only one person in the comments section is confusing the PC with the 360, overall it’s a great week.
    Winterbottom is great for 400 (though I grabbed it at 800) and Poker Smash is pretty fun even though I have no idea how to play poker lol

  • OperaMando

    Defense Grid is a great deal at 800 points, so getting it at 400 is pure thievery! Plus there are the new maps as DLC. Only 80 points($1)for each new set of 2 maps, so go get them.

  • chiruno99

    I have everything and everything’s a repeat except Winterbottom, and that’s actually pretty good. I remmber getting Rocket Riot and Defense Grid in the blowout last month, Chime when it first came out and Poker Smash at some random point in time.

    Still, a pox on you for not getting it when it was charitible. A pox I say.

  • RealRuler

    I’m in for Defense Grid, Winterbottom, Rocket Riot, Darwinia+ and Poker Smash. All those + PQ 2 = there goes my points. Good thing Microsoft gave me 400 free points lol

  • FraGNeM

    Why aren’t these prices showing up on the links provided by Major Nelson?

    Am I missing something?

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