Play arcade games and earn avatar items, free Gold membership or MS Points

Apr 1, 2013 14:52 GMT  ·  By

Xbox 360 owners who are members of the Live Rewards program can take advantage, starting today, of the new MyPunchcard system that basically gives them benefits for playing arcade games this month.

Microsoft wants to reward its fans with lots of interesting promotions, and the most recent one is called the MyPunchcard system for the Xbox Live Rewards service.

Basically, for completing certain tasks that include buying and playing games, Xbox 360 owners can get different rewards like avatar items, a free month of Gold membership, or 800 MS Points.

Check out the full list of goals below.

- Play 20 hours of any combination of arcade games, receive a free avatar item - Purchase any four arcade games for 400 Microsoft Points or more from Xbox LIVE, receive a one month Xbox LIVE Gold membership - Spend 3200 Microsoft Points on arcade games, receive 800 Microsoft Points in return.

Quite a lot of great arcade games will appear on Xbox Live this month, according to Xbox Community Manager Larry Hryb, including BattleBlock Theater, Double Dragon II, Motocross Madness, Sacred Citadel, God Mode, and Monaco.