MS promised us some compensation for the recent downtime on XBL the past month or so. It comes in the form of a better than decent arcade game, Undertow. It is available for download now until 11:59 PM PCT on Sunday January 27th.
If you already bought the game, call MS support and they will try to “take care” of you. What that means is anyone’s guess.
Remember Xbox Live being broken for a little over 3 weeks? I sure do. And remember that letter than Microsoft’s General Manager of Xbox Live, Marc Whitten, promising a free Xbox Live game? The wait to find out what game we’re getting is finally over.
Undertow will be available beginning next Wednesday, 2:00 a.m. PST through Sunday, 11:59 p.m. PST for free to all Xbox Live members worldwide. This includes you Silver members too.
What’s upsetting is they’re giving away a game that was released in November 2007. So you either have it already, or you don’t want it. Great way to smooth things over, Microsoft. They really should have given everyone any game they wanted up to 800 Microsoft Points. That would have made everyone happy. Let us know your thoughts on getting this game to make up for 3 weeks of no Xbox Live.
[via Gamerscore Blog]
[UPDATE}
Many XBL owners already purchased Undertow. The obvious next question is what do they do? Chances are the hardcore owners who already bought the game are probably the most affected by the outage. Majornelson promises that MS will “take care” of those who already bought it. Here is a direct link to a comment made by Major himself.
It’s that time of the week again folks! Microsoft has released their latest batch of post-Christmas goodies for XBLA. Lets see what they’ve released for us yeah? Hit the jump for more
Alrighty then. Lets see what this week brings us in the world of XBLA shall we?
Kind of a slow arcade week really. Mostly Picture Packs for classic games. There were however several games that came out that were noteworthy. My personal favorite was an updated version of the classic Tempest – it never gets old for me. I will say though that the trial game for Space Giraffe was A). Longer. B). More fun. I seriously got to play about thirty seconds of either the classic or updated version. Yeah man, the games twenty-six years old but wouldn’t want to give too much away would we?
Anyways. Hit the jump for more
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