12 Days of Xbox Kicks Off - Discounts for All!

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Lee Bradley

This is it, folks. As if we weren't all skint enough already, Microsoft has kicked off its 12 days of Christams deals for Xbox. Each day over the holiday period the company will drastically reduce the price of a game, an add-ons or an avatar item.

Today's deal is a whopping 50% off of Supergiant Games' debut XBLA title Bastion. I'm a supergiant idiot because I've still not played it. For 50% off it's hard to find any more excuses, innit? Beware though, these deals last for one day and one day only. After that, it's on to the next deal.

There are other deals to grab too, mind. Should you miss out on the daily deals, Major Nelson has issued a timely reminder that a whole bunch of discounts are still available on XBLA until 2nd Jan 2012. Check out the details here.

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  • sweeeeeeet. and a great game to start it off
  • Ya! well done Microsoft a great game at a great price +1 to you!
  • I haven't played the demo of this yet. Guess I'll have to today to see if this will be interesting to me. The sale until Jan. 2nd stuff, unfortunately is all uninteresting to me. I have LEGO Star Wars, Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle and Portal, don't own L.A. Noire yet and haven't played the demo for Shadow Planet yet. The rest of it is all pets for avatars or stuff I am uninterested in. D:
  • Still think they should go the steam low price route but half price is good.
  • Don't forget there's also a free premium theme to mark the holiday season! http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/Product/Holiday-2011-Premium-Theme/63f4d5e2-3c5e-4ea1-84ea-6f2d537b0002
  • Both Portals are like a couple bucks each on sream right now. Oh well, still better than nothing I guess.
  • Can someone clarify something for me? I've just bought Bastion, I understand that will only be reduced for today, was getting it regardless because at 600MSP thats awesome. However, will the other content like the L.A. Noire Rockstar Pass and Peggle only be reduced for today as well? Or will they be kept reduced until January 2nd? Just wondering because I've got L.A. Noire for christmas, but if the Rockstar Pass is only reduced for today I'll buy it ready, if not I can wait and see what else gets dropped as well.
  • I don't often buy Arcade games, but when I do they're pretty damn good! Bastion here I go
  • @7 The deals in the major nelson link are discounted until Jan 2nd... Only Bastion is a one day deal :)
  • I was going to use the points for the Lonesome Road DLC but Bastion looks pretty good.
  • @9 Thanks :) Looks like I'll hold off the Rockstar Pass for a while then to see if theres anything else I want first.
  • This looks worth the money. Last year the whole list leaked iirc, I wonder if it will for this 12 day special? It's good to know what's coming so we can plan our points lol.
  • Picked it up just now, its something I had always been wanting to play buy didn't have the yime when it came out.
  • personally hoping they put the black ops map packs on sale,really want the zombie maps but can't be bothered paying 1200 for multiplayer maps i'll never play on :D
  • Yes please! Was going to get this a couple of weeks ago .. good job I didn't!
  • Well there SPESS MAHREEN DLC out today any cheevos?
  • Bastion is one of the best xbla games, so grats for the people that decided to pick it up. Bought it myself a few months ago and even at 1200 it was well worth it. That list on Major nelsons site is a bunch of others deals right? Thought it was the 12 days stuff and suddenly christmas felt a bit craptastic.
  • Just picked up Bastion and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. Looking forward to the rest of the deals!
  • Checking out the listings on major nelsons site ... It's a pretty shitty 12 days of Xbox ... The stuff after bastion is either not selling well or has been on the market place for over a year ...
  • These games will also be on sale troughout these 12 days. http://majornelson.com/2011/12/20/12-days-of-xbox-deals/
  • Oh there is a god. all this week I was hearing about Bastion and now. I love you santa.
  • Looked at the list and again there is nothing i will be buying.
  • @20 - Those aren't the daily deals. Bastion is the first daily deal, for today only. The rest of the games on that list are going to be on sale for the duration of the promotion. It says: "In ADDITION to the daily deals, we’ve also go the following special offers available until January 2, 2012"
  • @21 that isn't the 12 days of Xmas deal list.
  • Quite fancy Bastion but I want to know what the other deals are going to be before commiting the points...TORN!
  • @20 and 21 seriously? did you guys read either site OR the comments? The listing on major nelsons site are the deals available until january 2nd. The 12 days deals are revealed each day, the first being today and the game being Bastion for 600msp. swear to god trying to make people on the internet understand the basic concept of reading is like trying to fathom why a brick wall cant talk back to you
  • Bastion is a fantastic game, I would buy it again if I didn't have it already. Any thoughts on Bloodrayne or Renegade Ops? Worth getting or no?
  • That's actually really good news, I did always want to get Bastion, but could never really justify 1200MSP, but 600MSP... Here I come.
  • Shame my xbox live account is on a 25 day suspension after being hacked :( i miss all the christmas deals
  • Must keep up to date on the deals! Good way to score before xmas! Thanks guys!
  • Bought Bastion and it's pretty cool! Definitily worth it :)
  • I'm glad I checked this morning when I woke up! Purchased!
  • I wish I had some cash right about now
  • And here I was contemplating buying another points card to buy Bastion since all I had was 600 points. Glad the procrastinator in me took over, haha
  • @30. you can still goto xbox.com and buy deals?!??
  • I have yet to buy the Rockstar Pass for L.A Noire and saw it will be down to 50% off. I would be an idiot to not get it when it goes up for sale.
  • Played the Bloodrayne trial. Been holding off as 1200 seemed a bit too steep. But 600 = insta-buy. Bastion seemed good, but I'm not sure. Will redownload trial. I just think there will be other things over the next few days that I want more
  • @36...nope...someone changed my xbox live ID...the email address attached to my gamertag. Sooo...I cant even sign in on the website...perfect timing. This is my sad face :(
  • Would anybody recommend BloodRayne: Betrayal at that marvellous price?
  • Got the LA Noire season pass. I don't even have LA Noire yet, but I'll be buying it in the very forseeable future (When Halifax sort out my effing account :@)
  • Bastion and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet are both fun games but WAY too short in my opinion. I liked From Dust more than those two games...
  • @ 7 Its on the dashboard just like Major Nelson has it. It will show the one day deals and the next 3 sections has arcade, movies, and tv shows on sale.
  • IMHO, Bastion is the game of the year. Yes, even more than the retail titles. Don't pass it up!
  • just picked up Bastion finally :D
  • I just bought the homerun animation...my luck.
  • @Giptuc Well said. You have saved me an uber grumpy rant. :)
  • I just picked it up after finally playing the trial. Almost want to put off picking up my collectors edition of The Old Republic for a couple hours and play this instead. Why must I always take so long to discover these gems?
  • Bastion: Arcade game of the year. Bar none. There is so much more to it than screenshots and the trial will have you believe. You just... need to play it.
  • Groovy! That's Bastion and ITSP added to the collection.
  • I've been waiting for this to go down. Hope other days are just as good.
  • Both Bastion and Insanely Twisted Shadow is half off.. See, this is why I never pay 1200 points for arcade games. They always go on sale. My patience has paid off. :)
  • Some of don't care about STEAM and don't play games on the PC, so stop saying "but on steam, its cheaper". Well, its also FREE to download pc & console games off usenet, so whats your point?
  • @53 thank you, I get sick of hearing that crap too. Just curious, how much time will it take to get 200g in Bastion?
  • Hell yeh Bastion! just hope i dont want anymore of these deals until xmas cause i know theres some MSP cards in my stocking
  • I just hope they have New Vegas and Trenched in upcoming days as well=) Would defo pick em up. Already snatched Twisted Planet, Bastion and Renagade Ops=)
  • @54 - It's not too difficult, I did it in not too long at all. The only achievement which I would consider difficult is Complete New Game +, because some people don't have the patience to complete a game twice :P
  • Trying to figure out Microsoft's math. "12 Days of Christmas is for 6 days." Uhm... okay. Grabbed Bastion, great game. Hoping for a couple more great deals like this. Also grabbed Insanely Long Name Planet.
  • Raskulls!!!!!! =/
  • Bastion and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet so far. I really can't afford to get these games but at the same time I can't afford not to!
  • @58 - It's a 12-day countdown to New Years. They actually call it a "Holiday" sale, and there doesn't seem to be any mention of Christmas on the sale page or Major Nelson's blog (presumably to keep it politically correct - such is the world we live in).
  • i tried the demo & i really didnt understand it. it was good what i did understand. but i just couldnt get into it. but a good saving on that game.
  • I think #58 failed to tap the right bumper to scroll to the next page of daily deals. ZedChuva... try looking "above" the 6 pretty squares and see the list of other items available, to the right!!! Thanks for all the recommendations for Bastion. I wasn't even going to check it out, since I never heard much about it... but I am downloading the trial version, to give it a go! If I like it, I may buy it - it's a good price!!
  • @63 *FACEPALM* He stated in his comment he brought Insanely twisted whatsitsface planet, which is ON the second page. These aren't all daily deals either, apart from Bastion, it's just a general sale. I recognize how you might have got mixed up, but if you're going to be condescending towards someone, at least ensure you've got your facts right -_0
  • @64 *BROKEN WRIST, DISLOCATED SHOULDER, HEAD SLAMMED INTO WALL* He made a big deal about there only being 6 days, the math, yada-yada-yada. I'm not gonna review what other deals are on additional pages - it is NOT important! EXTREME FAIL to you, #64... for posting a comment that has nothing to contribute to this thread! Playing Bastion... it's not bad! Recommended!!! :-)
  • @27 - the same reason people demand an article be copy and pasted, rather than go to the site that did the actual work: laziness. As for Bastion, I was waiting for a decent price drop, and this was good enough.
  • The WP7 deals aren't showing up for me. :(
  • @65 Yup, way to make yourself look like an belligerent idiot. I was being fair on you there, but then you made yourself look like a tit. But in short, he meant 6 days till Christmas. YOU misunderstood and thought he was complaining about there only being six deals, and began to patronise him based on there being another page of 'Daily deals'. When your point is based on him not looking at this other page of deals, you should really take into account something he brought is actually on that page. Thus it is 'important'. FYI, I already contributed to this thread earlier. I re-contributed because you were being a condescending moron.
  • innit....you sound like one of these inner city london kids bruv...ya get me! but yeah definitely worth a buy at 600....price tag put me off a little bit but seems like a bargain for that!
  • OMG, gotta get me some points!
  • Quite enjoyable game so far. Looking forward to seeing what the other bargains come up. Got myself 3000 MS Points to burn.
  • hah wonder if they will give anything free
  • Bought it this morning :-)
  • @72 Holiday 2011 Premium Theme. thats microsoft.
  • I decided to take a look at Bastion and was very impressed. I picked that up, After Burner Climax which is pretty decent and an easy 200g, Got the DLC for LA Noire which I was waiting to go down before I started it. Looks like im going to need another points card at this rate
  • Today’s two daily deals are both for Kinect: Leedmees and Hole In The Wall. http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Promotion/countdown2012-daily-deal
  • @Lee Bradley: Your not a supergiant idiot for not playing it yet, you are smart. Every single XBLA game comes half off eventually.
  • Anyone who is in need of point shoot me an email. I have $10 off coupons for 1600 MSP. There are 4 coupons per sheet. [email protected] You're welcome.
  • Today's deal is terrible
  • @ #78 email sent :)
  • Bugger, was away yesterday and got home late so missed Bastion.
  • @#78 I sent an email to you as well. I appreciate it it . Thank you. (in advance)
  • @81 Me, too! I'm so disappointed. Hopefully they do what they did once before and make all 12 days available again for a single day!
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