This week’s Xbox LIVE ‘Deal of the Week’ has been announced to be none other than the (apparently) addictive Puzzle Quest, a Match-3 puzzler imbued with role-playing game elements (also known as ‘Bejeweled with mana’).

Xbox LIVE Gold members are now able to buy Puzzle Quest for a surprisingly low 400 MS Points (as opposed to the usual 800 MS Points).

Hurry if you want it, though – this deal only lasts until next Monday!

The Major has revealed that two highly anticipated Xbox LIVE Arcade (XBLA) games are now up on the service and available for your consumption now, but what are they?

The first is Flock!, available for 1200 MS Points, sees asks players to “herd cute, cuddly animals through over 50 sandbox puzzles with the help of your UFO tractor beam! Flock together with a friend, and even create and share your own crazy levels online with the built-in level editor!”

Puzzle Quest Galactrix, however, the second game available on XBLA today for 1600 MS Points, allows you to “explore the entire Galactrix universe in the exciting return of the Puzzle Quest franchise with its signature addictive RPG/Puzzle hybrid gameplay.”

While they both sound a little bit pricey, they’re sure to be entertaining, so you can always check out the demo before you commit any of your hard earned Space Bucks.

Xbox Live fans are in for a treat this week as two games arrive tomorrow as part of the Xbox Live Days of Arcade promotion. Puzzle Quest: Galactrix will be available for 1600 points while Flock! will cost 1200 points.

Flock! sees players piloting a UFO and herding livestock into the Motherflocker. The game features over 50 pastoral puzzles where players must pick up wood to form bridges, move boulders to create obstructions and flatten fields to create pathways to help herd the animals before time runs out. You can flock together thanks to the two player local co-op mode and the level editor means you can even create and share your own levels online.

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D3 Publisher has confirmed that Puzzle Quest: Galactrix will be launching on Xbox Live Arcade on the 8th of April. The game will be arriving on the PlayStation Network this Spring.

The game will feature online multiplayer, matchmaking, leaderboards and voice chat. Said to incorporate a “blend of casual and hardcore gameplay elements” (similar to Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords), Galactrix is set is a new futuristic science-fiction setting.

The game features a new hexagonal puzzle board, allowing players an “extra layer of strategy” while the upgradeable spacecraft options allow players to create, develop and customize the fleet.

Infinite Interactive handled the development of the DS, PC and XBLA versions while the PSN version was co-developed by Infinite Interactive and Kalloc Studios.