This week, Xbox LIVE’s Deal of the Week concerns itself with massive price reductions on a total of six Xbox LIVE Arcade games, giving Xbox LIVE Gold members a hair under seven days to purchase and download some great titles for half their normal asking fee.

Entitled the “Critic’s Choice,” this edition of the Deal of the Week consists of the following items:

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The Major of Xbox gaming, Larry Hryb, has let everybody know what kinds of cool content we can expect on Xbox LIVE Marketplace next week, with a couple new Games on Demand games, Xbox LIVE Arcade games, a Crackdown 2 Avatar item, and discount prices on Xbox LIVE Arcade games (for Xbox LIVE Gold members).

Check ‘em out, check ‘em out:

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Last week I gushed a little about Introversion Software and the fact that the developers have been toiling over their latest work for a good long while, but now it’s finally time for the world to see the results of Introversion’s hard labour in the form of Darwinia+. From the release:

“The world of the peaceful Darwinians has been decimated by an evil virus and without your help they have no hope of survival.

“Play the full campaign or take control of a Multiwinian army and challenge your friends to some digital carnage in this IGF award winning action-strategy classic from Introversion Software. It’s a stick man slaughter where only the flattest survive.”

Darwinia+ is now available on Xbox LIVE Arcade for the sum of 1200 MS Points. You should definitely have a look at some screenshots and the debut trailer for the game over here, and at least give the demo a try. You shan’t regret it.

After a mighty long time in development at indie developer Introversion, Darwinia+ will be ready for primetime next week Wednesday, February 10th, on Xbox LIVE Arcade for the princely sum of 1200 MS Points.

Darwinia+ is a wonderfully stylised strategy title that combines both 2005’s Darwinia and 2008’s Multiwinia into one game, and is polished to the hilt for modern, console sensibilities to include streamlined interfaces and usability niceties.

Introversion said of this upcoming momentous achievement:

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