Countdown to 2022 with festive Xbox Windows Phone and Xbox 360 sales

Microsoft may have shelved the Xbox Windows Phone Deal of the Week programme for the remainder of the year, but that doesn't hateful at that place won't be whatever more sales on Xbox games. Similar to the Black Friday calendar week sales concluding month, the big MS has merely kicked off a major sale on Xbox Live games for Windows Telephone and Xbox 360. Yes, the Inaugural to 2022 sale (sequel to last year's Countdown to 2022 sale) has already begun! As a special treat for console owners, you'll be able to go two costless XBLA games during the inaugural.

Xbox Windows Phone Sales

There are half-dozen Xbox Windows Phone games on sale this time, just like this year's Blackness Friday auction and double the selection of terminal year's auction. The sale prices are valid from now until December 31 – no daily sales for Windows Phone. That said, WP sale prices oftentimes take i or more days to prove upwards for some users, and so keep checking back until you see the sale price.

Contre Jour – $.99, down from $2.99 – Shop Link

This marks the offset fourth dimension Chillingo's lovely physics puzzle game has gone on sale. The object is to straight the Tentacles-looking protagonist Petit to the safety of each level's get out. The catch is players don't control the creature directly. To help the little guy avoid a small death, you'll tap to drag and reshape the landscape, rolling him around. Utilise pulleys and other environmental gadgets (slingshots, tentacles, portals, blows, and more) to motion Petit past a diversity of environmental puzzles.

Doodle Leap – $.99, down from $2.99 – Review - Store Link

Game House's seminal endless jumping game has been on auction a few times before, but new Windows Telephone users will certainly want to give it a look. Doodle Jump is the progenitor of the jumping game subgenre. Players command the Doodler past tilting the phone. He's always jumping, then you only need to worry about where you're going to land, collecting power-ups, and borer enemies to kill them. Unfortunately, Game House never released a promised update with new themes (levels), then the Windows Phone version lags far, far behind the iOS and Android games.

geoDefense Swarm – $.99, downwardly from $ii.99 – Store Link

geoDefense Swarm has only gone on auction once before. Swarm is the semi-sequel/spin-off to geoDefense. The key difference hither is that enemies no longer travel along straight lines towards the player's base. Instead, the entire playing field is fabricated up of hexagons. Enemies can move anywhere along information technology, and players can put towers on almost of those spaces.

However, it often happens that simply one or 2 defenses volition actually work, greatly reducing players' liberty. Equally a result, Swarm is more challenging than its predecessor, and the difficulty of levels is still all over the place. Simply if you don't mind the uneven difficulty, it's all the same an appealing tower defense game.

iStunt ii – $.99, down from $2.99 –Store Link

Miniclip's snowboarding game has never gone on sale earlier. Its gameplay involves steeingr a snowboarder effectually 2nd courses, collecting stars and trying to earn high scores. Your border volition have to survive crazy loops, buzzsaws, gravity portals, and other hazards in order to accomplish the stop line. Steering is as uncomplicated every bit tilting the phone to arrange the board'due south position, while swiping down on the screen crouches and swiping up jumps. Subsequently levels crave copious memorization and retries in social club to catch all the collectibles, making the game and its Achievements harder than I'd like. But it'south lots of fun till the difficulty ratchets upward.

Kinectimals – $.99, down from $2.99 – Review - Shop Link

Kinectimals has only gone on sale once before. Information technology's the portable version of Frontier Software and Microsoft's feline-themed Kinect game. Players can choose one of five kitties or import an existing true cat from the 360 version using the phone's photographic camera. Then it's time to teach your kitty tricks by performing swiping motions, play catch, consummate challenges, and buy lots of accessories. There'southward non much depth here, but the kitties are cute and the Achievements are super piece of cake.

Mush – $.99, downward from $two.99 – Review - Store Link

Mush was just on auction during Black Fri week, simply for $1.99 instead of 99 cents. Angry Mango's first WP title is a bright and original platformer that plays a bit differently from the norm. The main character gains unique abilities based on his emotions. Depict a smile and becomes and so elated that he floats; make him pout and he sinks way downwardly depression. By switching emotions as necessary, yous'll aid Mush solve puzzles and win a game of hide-and-seek with his friends. Likewise the creative emotion mechanic, Mush also boasts a beautiful and appealing art style. It's kind of brusk and easy, but and then pretty y'all probably won't heed.

Xbox 360 Sales

Kinect Party is gratuitous until the end of the twelvemonth and insanely fun.

Just like with Black Friday, the Xbox 360 sales on offer dwarf the Windows Phone offerings. To exist fair, the 360 has been around far longer and has far more than games and items to choose from. The following games and expansions are on auction for 25-75 percent off and will remain and then until the stop of the year.

Games on sale:

• A World of Keflings - 400 MS Points  – 2 DLCs on sale for 160 Points
• Bully: Scholarship Edition - US price: 800 MS Points ($9.99) - United kingdom price: 1080 MSPoints (£8.99)
• Burn Pro Wrestling - 400 MS Points
• Frogger Hyper Arcade Edition - 400 MS Points
• Jet Set Radio - 400 MS Points – Our impressions
• Joe Danger ii The Movie - 400 MS Points
• Kinect Party (sequel to Double Fine Happy Action Theater) – Costless through December 31st! Make sure you grab the DLC unlock, which is only free during the sale.
• Peggle - 400 MS Points - "Peggle Nights" DLC - 200 MSP
• Plants vs. Zombies - 600 MS Points – Windows Phone version review
• RAW (Realms of Ancient War) - 400 MS Points. An well-nigh universally reviled game.
• Rock Band iii - U.s. price: 800 MS Points ($9.99) - United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland toll: 1080 MSPoints (£8.99)
• Sonic 4 Episode 2 - 600 MS Points – Our impressions
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - 160 MS Points
• Super Meat Boy - 600 MS Points
• The Simpsons Arcade Game - 600 MS Points – My review
• Wreckateer - 200 MS Points – Our Wreckateer interview
• Zuma'due south Revenge! - 400 MS Points  - Our impressions – Our developer interview

Daily Sale Schedule:

• Tuesday, December 18^thursday: Call of Duty: Mod Warfare three and DLC
• Midweek, December 19^thursday: LEGO games (these are live right at present!)
• Thursday, December twenty^th: Platformer games. Includes Hell Yes! and Sonic Adventure 2!
• Friday, December 21^st: Games from Rockstar, including Read Dead Redemption
• Sat, Dec 22^nd: Tony Militarist's Pro Skater games (rumored)
• Lord's day, December 23^rd: Summer of Arcade 2022 games. Brand sure y'all purchase Grit!
• Monday, December 24^th: Trials Evolution and Trials Hd
• Tuesday, Christmas: Kinect and Family games. Includes Fruit Ninja Kinect. As well, The Walking Expressionless: Episode 1 will be free from December 25-31!
• Wednesday, December 26^thursday: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (rumored)
• Thursday, December 27^thursday: Borderlands games and DLC. I'thou so hooked on Borderlands right now.
• Friday, December 28th: The Walking Dead Episodes on sale
• Sat, December 29^th: More than Family games
• Lord's day, Dec 30th: Fighting games!
• Monday, December 31^st: Elder Scrolls games and DLC

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Which Windows Phone and Xbox 360 games going on sale are y'all excited for, loyal readers?

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