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FREE Xbox Live Arcade Game for your 360

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This freebie is open to anyone with an xbox 360 (even free silver account holders).

Due to the poor service over the Xmas period on Xbox Live Microsoft are giving away an Xbox Live Arcade Game away for free as an apology.


To get the game for free simply go to the list of arcade games on XBLA and find one called 'Undertow', Double check it still says "free download" and then grab it :)


I think it is free for 7days before it goes back to its normal price of 800 microsoft points (roughly just under £6).

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  • Dra90n
    Dra90n Posts: 30 Forumite
    Brilliant, thanks for that! :beer:
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  • tweddyla
    tweddyla Posts: 123 Forumite
    Hi all
    I own an xbox 360
    And the reason they are giving this game away is because since xmas it has been virtually impossible to get an online game of call of duty 4
    Its getting easier now
    But for the price we pay for gold memberships and xbox 360s
    It should be a free joypad or proper game not an arcade game
    Sort it out microsoft
    Im sure bill gates should dig in his pocket for this one
  • tweddyla wrote: »
    And the reason they are giving this game away is because since xmas it has been virtually impossible to get an online game of call of duty 4

    The official reason for the game is as follows,
    Dear Xbox LIVE Members:

    During this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox LIVE records. This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE in our 5 year history and just yesterday you broke the record for the single biggest day of concurrent members ever on the service.

    As a result of this massive increase in usage we know that some of you experienced intermittent Xbox LIVE issues over the holiday break. While the service was not completely offline at any given time, we are disappointed in our performance. I would like to take this moment to thank you each and every one of you for your patience and understanding as our team has worked around the clock to return the service to a stable state.

    At the same time we would like to offer a token of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for the service. And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge. In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you.

    Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today!

    Sincerely,

    Marc Whitten
    General Manager, Xbox LIVE
    Gamertag: Notwen

    You can read more details here, http://aceybongos.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!34EFB79E92974FD2!8457.entry and here, http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/live/serviceissue.htm.

    The game is available free until Sunday 27/01/2008 @ 23:59 PST, which is 15:59 GMT.
  • danwms
    danwms Posts: 30 Forumite
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    tweddyla wrote: »
    Hi all
    I own an xbox 360
    And the reason they are giving this game away is because since xmas it has been virtually impossible to get an online game of call of duty 4
    Its getting easier now
    But for the price we pay for gold memberships and xbox 360s
    It should be a free joypad or proper game not an arcade game
    Sort it out microsoft
    Im sure bill gates should dig in his pocket for this one


    I don't think i have ever had a problem playing COD4 on live:confused:
    Starting Debt (October 2008) - £10928.27:confused:
    Feb 2009 = £8419.21 (12/02/09)
    Now = £2867.39 (27/06/11):cool:
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  • The Game is available on Marketplace now it is called Undertow and to be honest its a pile of rubbish.

    COD4 for me is always loosing connection and disconnecting especially over xmas.
  • arthro
    arthro Posts: 47 Forumite
    Is this available for international users?
  • arthro wrote: »
    Is this available for international users?

    Yep, as far as I'm aware, everyone, except those countries that don't have Xbox Live.
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