In honor of a decade of service, Microsoft is rewarding its customers. Over the next 48 hours, users can download a copy of the Xbox Live Arcade game Wreckateer (for Kinect) for free. Microsoft has also halved the prices on several other games, include Battlefield 1943, Castle Crashers, Fruit Ninja Kinect, Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2, Bastion, Peggle, and Full House Poker.
In addition to game discounts, Microsoft is offering US users the option to download a 10-year gamerpic, which will enter them into a drawing to win a custom Xbox LIVE Anniversary Xbox 360 console along with additional prizes.
Microsoft Corporate VP of Xbox Live Marc Whitten released the following statement:
"We are proud to announce that during the week from 6th November to the 13th November, our members spent more time on Xbox LIVE (gaming and watching entertainment) than any other week in the history of our service: a total of 442 million hours. And Halo 4, which broke entertainment industry numbers, resulted in the LIVE community unlocking 43 million achievements in just the first five days of gameplay.
This year, we had an average of 9.4 million people a week using multi-player gaming on Xbox LIVE and in the 10 years of LIVE, nearly 14.5 billion Achievements have been unlocked worldwide, accumulating a total combined Gamerscore of more than 270 billion."But that's not all. Microsoft plans to further celebrate its anniversary by rewarding long-term users with a free Xbox 360 system. The tailor-made console includes a new color scheme, a custom controller, a logo on the console that reads "decade of entertainment," and a plate on the disc tray door that reads "XBL10."
Still no word from Microsoft how many free consoles will be delivered to long-time users, but Xbox staffer Larry Hryb stated that the majority of these systems will be sent to the "members that have been with us the longest."
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