This weekend is double XP in COD4 Multiplayer on Xbox Live, starting about 2 hours ago and running through Sunday. At the same time, the Variety Map Pack is discounted 50% to just 400 MS points. For $5, you can play in two of my favorite maps, Chinatown and Broadcast, and get your head sniped off 5000 times in Creek (if your skill level is similar to mine). Killhouse is the 4th map, and it’s awesome for 1v1. See you in Headquarters, where I’ll be spending my weekend.
This weekend, Xbox Live’s Play & Win is the Fable 2 Pub Games. Gamble away your hero’s livelihood August 22-24 for your chance to win an exclusive Fable 2 themed Xbox 360 signed by none other than Peter Molyneaux.
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Whoever dreamed up the marketing scheme for Fable 2 must belong to Mensa – as you can see from the blog here, the Mr and I are sucked right into their evil genius schemes. Today was the release of the Fable II Pub Games, available for free with a pre-order of the full game (coming October 21). I got a chance to play them this afternoon, and I can easily tell you how to waste a few hundred hours before October. Gambling.
The games (three of them) are fun and unique, I have lost all my money three times over already, and I am racking up lots of debt for my hero. Lots and lots of debt. I imagine that my Fable 2 character will be much like my original Fable character, walking through a swarm of flies with horns coming out of my head bathed in a halo of light and goodness.
The best part about these games is being in the Fable universe again. The art, the sounds, the music… they all bring back those old familiar memories of kicking chickens and getting wasted at the pub. Er, and saving damsels and slaying bad guys. Yeah, that.
If you didn’t already pre-order Fable 2, are you crazy? you can download a trial of the games on the Xbox Live Marketplace today. However, if you tend to get easily addicted to gambling-type games (these are cards, dice, and spinners), you should stay far far away.
I have to go borrow another 100 bucks from the banker. But I’m sure I’ll win the jackpot on the next game. Or the next. Or sometime in the next week. You can’t win if you don’t play, right?