Fri, Feb 22, 2013 | 17:38 GMT

Games on Demand sale coming to Xbox 360 next week

Microsoft has announced its Games on Demand Xbox 360 service is gearing up for a run of huge discounts. Prices will be slashed from February 26 to March 4, although we are yet to find out what reductions will be made.

The digital service often prices games too extensively, meaning many users will simply order elsewhere. Larry Hryb, aka Major Nelson, revealed the upcoming sale on his Twitter account.

Here’s the list of participating games (as OXM pointed out, “Revelations” is probably misplaced Assassin’s Creed DLC):

Assassins Creed
Assassins Creed 2
Batman Arkham Asylum
Batman Arkham City
Bioshock
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Brotherhood
Call of Juarez
Call of Duty 2
Call of Duty 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Code Veronica
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements
Dead Island
Dirt 2
Dishonored
El Shaddai Ascension of the Metatron
Fable III
Fallout 3
Fallout 3 New Vegas
GRID
Halo 3
Halo 4
Halo Reach
Halo Wars
Kane & Lynch Dead Men
Left for Dead 2
Max Payne 3
Metal Gear Solid HD
Metal Gear Solid Peacewalker
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat vs. DCU
Orange Box
Portal 2
Raccoon City
Rainbow Six Vegas
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 6
Red Dead Redemption
Revelations
Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution
Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter X Tekken
Super Streetfighter IV Arcade Edition
TC’s H.A.W.X.
Tekken 6
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
The Darkness
The King of Fighters XIII
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Tomb Raider Legend
Virtua Fighter 5
World at War

Major Nelson claims some games could receive up to 85% off over on his blog. I’ll wait to see which games before being unfairly cynical.

7 comments

woe
22/02/13, 5:36 pm

This is because of the Red Dead and Skyrim backlash that Nelson got last week.

Moonwalker1982
22/02/13, 5:39 pm

I doubt i’ll be seeing 85% off of Dishonored. But i will keep this in mind. Is this for europe though?

noamlol2
22/02/13, 6:14 pm

is this for all regions or just US?

Moonwalker1982
22/02/13, 6:22 pm

I’m checking out PSN now and jesus christ….12 euros for Arkham City. Only 10 for Darksiders 2 and Sly HD Collection. It’s fucking time MS starts to do this too.

fearmonkey
22/02/13, 7:20 pm

Too little too damn late MS…. I have since moved on to Steam and so has many others. A real shame that its taken them so long to get it together, i wonderful how great the sales will actually be though.

OlderGamer
22/02/13, 9:43 pm

Fearmonkey +1

Ge0force
23/02/13, 12:44 am

This reminds me of this article:

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-11550-Microsoft-Defends-Games-on-Demand-Pricing-and-Staggered-Releases.html

Most of all this part:

“It’s a successful part of our business, we’re very pleased with the growth and it continues to do really well. Clearly there’s an audience out there who are happy to purchase a product at full ERP six or so months after [its retail release]. It’s a successful model, so why change something you don’t need to?”