14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has just revealed a few more details about its upcoming Xbox Live House Party promotion, this time showing off the release dates for each of the four games, including Warp, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare, Nexuiz, and I Am Alive, as well as their actual prices.
Microsoft has always relied on special promotions to make sure people notice upcoming digital releases. As with any beginning of the year, the Xbox Live House Party is set to debut next month and bring four great games with it.
The 2012 edition of the House Party includes Warp from Electronic Arts, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare from Remedy Entertainment, Nexuiz from THQ, and I Am Alive from Ubisoft.
We already know their contents, but Microsoft has now decided to share the release dates and prices for each of these games.
As such, Warp will arrive on February 15, for 800 MS Points, Alan Wake’s American Nightmare debuts on February 22, for 1200 MS Points, Nexuiz is deployed on February 29, for 800 MS Points and, last but not least, I Am Alive makes its debut on March 7, for 1200 MS Points.
Microsoft is running a special promotion for those who buy all four House Party games, between February 15 and March 13, as they’ll receive a bonus 800 MS Points which they can spend on anything they want.
In case you’re not familiar with some of these games, you can check out Microsoft’s descriptions below.
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare (Microsoft Studios): In this brand-new stand-alone experience, Alan Wake fights the herald of darkness, the evil Mr. Scratch. A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode, make this a must for Alan Wake veterans, and the perfect jumping-on point for new players. Can you survive until sunrise?
I Am Alive (Ubisoft): One year after a worldwide cataclysmic event has wiped out most of human civilization, a man struggles for survival. Faced with an insecure, decaying and hazardous world, he scours a desolated city, searching for his long-lost wife and daughter. Survive the suffocating, murky streets covered in dust. Climb the teetering remains of last-standing skyscrapers to reach breathable air and find untouched resources. Explore the crumbling ruins of a once-thriving metropolis. Discover a changed human condition, punctuated by distrustful survivors, dangerous armed gangs and victims in need. Nexuiz (THQ): For centuries, the Kavussari and the Forsellians have waged war. They have a fragile truce but, because of their seething disgust of each other, still pit warriors against each other in arenas rather than on the fields of war. These episodes of lethal combat are broadcast throughout the galaxy as entertainment — a spectacle known as The Nexuiz Competition — an arena-based first-person shooter where you can alter the rules of the match and the laws of physics while dominating opponents in ever-changing hostile environments.
Warp (EA): “Warp” is a puzzle-based stealth action game where you play as Zero, a lovable-yet-lethal orange alien with a big score to settle! Captured by the villainous Commander and imprisoned in his underwater facility, Zero must plan his ultimate escape using his arsenal of alien abilities — warp, frag, echo, swap and launch. The Xbox Live House Party is set to begin next month, on February 15, exclusively on the Xbox 360.