Xbox Live Deal of the Week (02/08/2011 - 08/08/2011)

Change your Gamertag for 30% less.

Tuesday 2nd August, 2011

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Fancy a new you for the summer? Maybe you've grown out of xX3LiTeSn1pA5KiLlz09Xx? Or maybe you just have too many Microsoft Points burning a hole in your virtual pocket? Whatever your reasons for wanting a change of Gamertag, for one week only, Microsoft have kindly decided to give you a whopping 30% off the usual amount they charge for the service. If it seems a bit unreasonable that you have to pay to change your online name to begin with, apparently, the charge only exists so that people who develop a bad reputation on games like Call of Duty for being a bit anti-social can't simply keep changing their name willy nilly, and losing their reputation whenever it starts to catch up with them.

Change Your Gamertag

Was: 800 Microsoft Points (about £6.80)

Now: 560 Microsoft Points (about £4.76)

Worst. Deal. Ever.

Change Your Gamertag is a trilling tale of love, life and loss set against the back-drop of war-torn Afghanistan. When xX3LiTeSn1pA5KiLlz09Xx's girlfriend GamerGirl87 gets captured by a evil dragon, it's up to him to fight his way to the ends of the earth - and as he begins his journey, he quickly finds out nothing is quite as it seems, as whole towns have been turned to zombies by a mysterious explosion, and his princess is always in another castle. Featuring an eclectic mix of rhythm action, first person shooter and football managing, Change Your Gamertag is truly genre-defining, and a perfect metaphor for the human condition.

[Note - the above may not be true. There is no game called Change Your Gamertag - the deal this week is simply the ability to change your online moniker on Xbox Live. That's it.]

Microsoft's Deal of the Week is only for Xbox Live Gold subscribers - Silver members will not be able to take advantage of the discounted prices. Approximate value of Microsoft points in pounds is based on buying the points direct from Microsoft through the Xbox dashboard - equivalent price in pounds will vary depending on where you bought your points.

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