From today, at 9AM GMT (2AM PDT), you can play 2K Play’s Axel & Pixel on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360. Axel & Pixel will be available worldwide for 800 Microsoft Points (that’s US$10 / €9.60 / £6.80 / CAN$12.40 / AU$13.20).
One day Axel, a painter, and his dog Pixel, awaken trapped in a beautiful but perilous dream world of his own creation. Together, they must solve the mysteries of Axel’s landscapes to get home. Guide Axel & Pixel through this awe-inspiring world to help Axel fulfill his greatest wish—to paint a picture of all four seasons in a single day.
Game features include:
Watch the Axel & Pixel launch trailer:
Also available today is Telltale’s Sam & Max Season 2 on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360. Sam & Max Season 2 will be available worldwide for 1600 Microsoft Points (that’s US$20 / €19.80 / £13.60 / CAN$24.80 / AU$26.40).
Sam & Max Season Two follows the highly successful and critically-acclaimed debut that ran from Fall 2006 through Spring 2007. Each episode will now be available on Xbox Live. Sam and Max Season Two will feature the same quick wit and bizarre scenarios Telltale’s team and Sam and Max creator Steve Purcell delivered the first time around and more! “We’re keeping the general structure and gameplay, and focusing on telling farther-reaching, crazier stories,” says Telltale’s design director Dave Grossman. “You’ll see some changes to the world, too; improvements that were born out of player feedback and our own desire to make the most fun games anyone has ever played.”
Watch the Sam & Max Season 2 cinematic trailer:
Deal of the Week is: Hasbro Family Game Night (50% off)
“Xbox LIVE Gold Members can save 50% when they purchase any of the Hasbro Family Game Night games.Normally priced at 800 points, this week Battleship, Connect 4, Scrabble, Yahtzee, Boggle and Sorry Sliders are 400 points each.”
The new Xbox 360 Games on Demand is: Grand Theft Auto IV.
Grand Theft Auto IV
Price: Check pricing for your region
Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions
Dash Text: (Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB) “Grand Theft Auto IV” by Rockstar Games is set in the largest, most richly detailed interactive environment created, “Grand Theft Auto IV” tells the story of Niko Bellic and his journey through modern-day Liberty City. Searching for a mysterious figure who wronged him in the past, Niko becomes embroiled in a world of violence and corruption as he struggles to cope with his cousin’s mounting debt and the seedy underbelly of Liberty City. The epic story carries on with a new protagonist, story, weapons, music and vehicles in the much anticipated October 29 release of “Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony”. Liberty City gets an overdose of guns, glitz and grime and you can get in on the explosive Multiplayer Unlocked event coming at the end of October.
The most recent demo released on Xbox Live was for Guitar Hero 5.
Play the Guitar Hero 5 demo, featuring 3 songs in the all-new Party Play mode where you can jump in/jump out of songs at any time.
Xbox Live Activity for week of October 5:
Xbox 360 Top LIVE Titles
1 Halo 3
2 Call of Duty 4
3 Call of Duty: WaW
4 Halo 3: ODST
5 Gears of War 2
6 Madden NFL 10
7 FIFA 10
8 GTA IV
9 SOUTH PARK LET’S GO TOWER DEFENSE PLAY!
10 Left 4 Dead
Top Arcade Titles
1 SOUTH PARK LET’S GO TOWER DEFENSE PLAY!
2 Zombie Apocalypse
3 Trials HD
4 Battlefield 1943
5 Shadow Complex
6 Castle Crashers
7 BUST-A-MOVE Live!
8 Defense Grid: The Awakening
9 Marvel vs. Capcom 2
10 Magic: The Gathering
Original Xbox Top Live Titles
1 Halo 2
2 Star Wars: Battlfrnt 2
3 Counter-Strike
4 Fable
5 Splinter Cell Chaos
6 Conker: Live Reloaded
7 Star Wars: Battlefront
8 Doom 3
9 Call of Duty 3
10 SW: Republic Commando
Top Indie Games
1 Avatar Drop
2 I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1
3 The Visualizer
4 Avatar Golf
5 Headshot
6 Pumpkin Carver
7 Junkyard Battle
8 Paint Boll
9 Miner Dig Deep
10 The Fart Machine II
These lists are based on global unique users connected to Xbox Live or in the case of Arcade and Indie Games, full versions purchased during the week.