Countdown to 2022 Xbox 360 sale: Marvelous deals, last chance to get Marvel vs. Capcom games

Xbox 360 Countdown to 2022 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 box

Every twelvemonth since fourth dimension immemorial, Microsoft has put a ton of downloadable Xbox 360 content on auction around Christmastime. The sale returns once again this year as the Countdown to 2022. Running from today through December 31, the Countdown consists both of daily and weekly sales. The first batch of weekly deals runs through the 23rd.

Head past the break for a full list of today's Countdown sales and the weekly deals.

Of special note this year is the inclusion of the Marvel vs. Capcom titles in the Countdown. You run into, Capcom's license to the Marvel vs. Capcom brand expires this year. Equally a result, all downloadable Marvel vs. Capcom games and content volition be delisted on Dec 26. Unlike Windows Phone and Windows 8 games, they can be redownloaded afterwards the delisting. The good news is Ultimate Curiosity vs. Capcom 3, its DLC, and the previous XBLA installments are all on sale for super cheap until December 23rd. Get them at present before they're gone forever!

Get-go up: the two sales that volition last all week long. So we get to the daily deals for today and tomorrow. All prices listed are for the United States. Prices will vary in other regions.

Curiosity vs. Capcom Auction – December 17-23

Open up to all Xbox Live users. Games and downloadable content will be delisted on Thursday, Dec 26.

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 XBLA
Marvel vs. Capcom 2

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 - $3.74 (regularly $14.99) = 197 MB
Ultimate Curiosity vs. Capcom 3 - $5.09 (regularly $29.99) – 3.15 GB

DLC for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom iii:

Boosted Character: Jill - $1.24 (regularly $iv.99) (besides works with standard Curiosity vs. Capcom 3)
Additional Character: Shuma-Gorath - $ane.24 (regularly $four.99) (as well works with standard Curiosity vs. Capcom three)
Value Pack - $4.99. (regularly $nineteen.99) Contains all of the costume packs below. Just buy this.
Ancient Warrior Pack - $.49
Animal Pack - $.99
Brawler Pack - $.99
Costume Pack - $1.24 (besides works with standard Marvel vs. Capcom iii)
Femme Fatale Pack - $.99
New Age of Heroes Pack - $.99
The Evil Twin Pack - $.99
The Rising Expressionless Pack - $.99
Viewtiful Foreign Pack - $.99
Villain Pack - $.99
Weapon Expert Pack - $.99

Curiosity vs. Capcom 2 is considered by many to exist one of the best fighting games ever made. It starting time appeared in arcades and then the Sega Dreamcast console back in 2000. The XBLA version adds online multiplayer but is otherwise a low-frills port.

Players battle each other with a team of ii characters. The game features a whopping 56 fighters, with 28 coming from Capcom games and 28 from Curiosity comics. The graphics are made upwardly of 2d sprites and 3D backgrounds. The music is utterly horrible, merely on the Xbox 360 you can listen to a custom soundtrack instead! We miss that feature on the Xbox One.

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom three is an improved version of Marvel vs. Capcom. Information technology launched equally a retail title and is now available via Games on Demand.

In this game, players select a team of three characters and and then fight in 1-on-one battles. Equally with the 2nd game, you can "tag out" characters during the match. The graphics are entirely 3D, simply the gameplay remains 2D and relatively like (just more complex) to Curiosity vs. Capcom 2.

The Ultimate version adds 12 new characters that weren't present in the original Curiosity vs. Capcom three, for a total of 48 characters (50 if you lot purchase the two boosted DLC characters). The new characters are: Doctor Foreign, Ghost Passenger, Hawkeye, Iron Fist, Nova, and Rocket Raccoon on the Curiosity side; and Firebrand, Frank West, Nemesis T-Type, Phoenix Wright, Strider Hiryu, and Virgil on the Capcom side.

Ultimate is the final version of Marvel vs. Capcom unless Capcom ever renews the license and produces a new game. Get it via Games on Need for a ridiculously low price – even with both DLC characters and the total costume pack it just rings upwards at $12.56!

Even afterwards the game gets delisted, you'll still exist able to buy existing copies of the retail version. However, the DLC will exist gone for good. If you love Curiosity or fighting games, don't miss the run a risk to own this massive crossover fighter.

Countdown to 2022 Sales: Week of December 17-23

Open to all Xbox Live members.

Castle of Illusion XBLA
Castle of Illusion

Xbox Live Arcade

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - $7.49 – 381 MB
Putter Jump Kinect - $.99 – 226 MB (requires Kinect)
Freefall Racers - $.99 – 641 MB (requires Kinect)
Fruit Ninja Kinect - $.99 – 141 MB (requires Kinect)
Guardians of Middle-earth - $4.94 – 1 GB
Marlow Briggs and the Mask of the Death - $xi.24 – 2 GB
Mini Ninjas Adventures - $.99 – 529 MB (requires Kinect)
The Simpsons Arcade Game - $4.99 – 18 MB
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD - $7.49 – 461 MB
Wreckateer - $.99 – 1.7 GB (requires Kinect)
10-Men Arcade - $4.99 – 44 MB

Games on Demand

Bioshock Infinite - $xiii.99 – 6.5 GB
Deadpool - $19.99 – 5 GB
FIFA fourteen - $40.19 – 6.5 GB
Madagascar three: the Video Game - $nine.99 – 4 GB
NHL 14 - $40.19 - 6.5 GB
Rise of the Guardians - $6.79 – 3 GB
Spider-Man: the Edge of Time - $nine.89 – 5 GB
Spider-Human being: Friend or Foe - $ix.89 – iii.five GB
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions - $9.89 – 5.2 GB
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows - $9.89 – 5.2 GB
X-Men: Destiny - $12.79
X-Men: The Official Game- $nine.89 – half-dozen.3 GB
X-Men Origins Wolverine - $ix.89 – 6.v GB - Weapon X Arena DLC - $.99 (xc percent off!)

Xbox Live Deal of the Week – December 17-23

Open up to Xbox Live Gilt members only.

The Walking Dead Episode I

Borderlands 2

Borderlands 2 - $7.49 (regularly $29.99) – 5.five GB
Borderlands 2 — Headhunter ane Bloody Harvest - $1.49
Borderlands 2 — Psycho Pack - $4.99
Borderlands 2 — Season Laissez passer - $20.09
Borderlands 2 — Vault Hunter Upgrade two - $2.49

If you play Borderlands 2, you definitely demand the second Vault Hunter Upgrade. It raises the level cap and adds other overnice bonuses.

Countdown to 2022 Daily Deal: Wednesday, December 18, 2022

One of Midweek's sales has been revealed in advance; at that place could be more. Open to all Xbox Live members.

Terraria XBLA

Terraria - Xbox 360 Edition - $four.94 (regularly $14.99) – 34 MB

Terraria is still due out on Windows Telephone viii at some betoken. Why non enjoy the XBLA version while you wait? Fans of Minecraft will enjoy its mixture of exploration, survival, and building – all in a 2nd world.

More sales every twenty-four hours!

That'southward all the sales we know of for at present. There volition be new daily deals each twenty-four hour period from at present until the end of the year. A new batch of weekly sales should come up along on December 24 equally well.

Encounter whatever games you'll be buying, dear readers? Or have you lot moved on to the Xbox One with no plans to look back? Let us know in the comments below.

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