Microsoft today announced that three of the Xbox Live Arcade's greatest arcade games have been permenantly reduced in price - the mind-bending, time-travelling, and slightly too pretentious Braid, the crazy platformer Cloning Clyde, and over the top ice hockey game, 3 on 3 NHL Arcade.
All three have seen 400 points (around £3.40) chopped off their prices, bringing them down to a respectable 800 points for Braid (£6.80), and 400 points each for Cloning Clyde, and 3 on 3 NHL arcade.
If you were to ask us which one we'd recommend out of the three, it's actually pretty hard to choose. Cloning Clyde probably represents the best value for money of the lot, as it's easy to enjoy, cheap and cheerful, but, if you can get past the levels of prentention, Braid has a lot to offer too, as a quircky, brain teasing platform/puzzle game.
Of course, that's not to say that 3 on 3 NHL arcade isn't worth the money either - if you've got a friend (or two or three) that you can rope in for multiplayer, the game's a blast - although you can probably get the full 200 gamerpoints from it in one or two sittings. That's either a bad or a good thing, depending on how you look at it.
Either way, we hope this is a sign of the start of a mass price reduction policy, as some of the games (specifically Cloning Clyde) have been at the same price as they launched at for four or five years, now! Sooner or later, the prices have got to come down.
