Undertow will be our Xbox Live Arcade freebie
January 21st, 2008 |
Microsoft has announced that it will be giving the Xbox Live Arcade game Undertow away for free to any Xbox Live members that want it. Consider it a “thank you” from Microsoft for being a loyal subscriber to their online service.
Actually, the free game is a quiet “we’re sorry” — an apology for the network difficulties that Xbox Live had over the holiday season. They announced at the beginning of the year that they would be giving us a free game, and this is it.
I was kind of hoping we’d have our pick of games to download for a limited time, but I suppose this will do. Undertow looks pretty cool, so it’s worth downloading to try. It’s an underwater shooter-style game that has some pretty impressive 3D visuals for one of the Xbox Live Arcade titles (which are normally much simpler).
The game will go live for free at 10am GMT this Wednesday, January 23 and will stay up for free until 8am GMT on Sunday, January 27. Both Silver and Gold members are able to download the game for free.
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January 21st, 2008 at 11:06 pm
[...] has announced that it will give away Undertow for free to Xbox Live gamers who download the game between Wednesday, January 23, 2008 and Sunday, [...]
#2 Andrew
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Awesome. Thanks for the heads up. I just started using Live on my 360 recently, so I haven’t done too much at all with it. Free downloads are definitely a plus.
#3 Badger Gravling
January 29th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Cheers for the reminder. I actually played it last night, and it’s a fun little game. It’s definitely better as a co-op game than in single player…but certainly nothing to complain about for no cost…
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November 16th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
[...] Sales of the consoles went up and the network went down. Microsoft later apologized for the downtime, by giving us Undertow for free. [...]