{"id":9145,"date":"2010-12-27T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"countdown-to-new-year-s-eve-promo-on-xbox-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/9145-countdown-to-new-year-s-eve-promo-on-xbox-live","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to New Year\u2019s Eve promo on Xbox LIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s almost 2011, and &ndash; possibly, depending on your subscription to superstitious predictions &ndash; that much closer to a fireball apocalypse, so what better way to celebrate the beginning of the end than blowing all your pension cash on game deals? Remember, a subterranean bunker in your garden probably won&rsquo;t save you from robot velociraptors with laser guns, so it&rsquo;s a waste of money.<\/p>\n<p>Xbox LIVE is hosting a Countdown to New Year&rsquo;s Eve promo, with a bunch of games discounted on the Marketplace between now and 31 December. In addition to daily specials, the following games will be going cheap for the duration of the event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/Super-Meat-Boy\/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410a5a\">Super Meat Boy<\/a><\/em> (33% off) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/Comic-Jumper\/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410a20\"><em>Comic Jumper<\/em><\/a> (33% off) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/Toy-Soldiers\/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025841099e\"><em>Toy Soldiers<\/em><\/a> (33% off) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/Banjo-Tooie\/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410955\"><em>Banjo-Tooie<\/em><\/a> (50% off) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/The-UnderGarden\/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410a87\"><em>The UnderGarden<\/em><\/a>(50% off) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/RISK-Factions\/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410a13\"><em>Risk<\/em><\/a> (50% off) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/New-Revolution\/2468ce4a-758f-438c-8425-250ba697d915\"><em>Borderlands: Claptrap New Revolution<\/em><\/a> (50% off) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/Carcassonne\/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410840\"><em>Carcassonne<\/em><\/a> (50% off) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/After-Burner-Climax\/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410a06\"><em>Afterburner Climax<\/em><\/a> (50% off) <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/Castle-Crashers\/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802584108b7\"><em>Castle Crashers<\/em><\/a> (50% off)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a free pair of <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">stupid-looking<\/span> really rad <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/2011-Glasses\/00000100-c79f-d2c3-c1cc-c01358580828\" target=\"_blank\">2011 Avatar Glasses<\/a>, and a big sweepstakes competition that nobody outside of America is eligible to enter so stuff that.<\/p>\n<p>Due to chaotic fluctuations on the time-space continuum and implacable planetary rotation, today&#8217;s daily specials are technically actually yesterday&#8217;s daily specials, and only valid until noon or so. Until then, they&#8217;re:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/Perfect-Dark\/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802584109c2\">Perfect Dark<\/a><\/em> (XBLA game, 50% off)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.xbox.com\/en-US\/Product\/UAV\/00001000-2a71-a203-c596-3cc141560817\">Modern Warfare 2 UAV<\/a> (Avatar accessory, 50% off)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save cash on Super Meat Boy, Castle Crashers, The UnderGarden, and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}