When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Xbox preorder bonuses coming to Microsoft Stores for the holidays

Microsoft announced today that its retail stores will be rolling out a new promotion focused on Xbox game pre-orders. Usually, the pre-order bonus at Microsoft Store is a $10 gift card to the store, but with a new Xbox Live Rewards incentive, you'll now get 15,000 rewards credits ($15) when you pre-order any Xbox 360 or Xbox One game from its stores this holiday season. These credits are on top of the $10 gift card you already would get for purchasing your pre-order.

To make the deal even sweeter, certain games like Halo: Master Chief Collection and Sunset Overdrive will get exclusive in-game content bonuses and swag when gamers choose the Microsoft Store for their pre-orders.  Microsoft used Halo as an example of an in-game content bonus by announcing that Microsoft Store pre-order shoppers will get the "Boom Skull" in Halo 2 Anniversary, which gives players twice the explosion physics when playing a campaign mission.

To take advantage of the pre-order bonuses, you'll need to sign up for the Xbox Live Rewards program using your Microsoft/Xbox account and put your preorders in through a physical Microsoft Store location or Microsoftstore.com. You must use the same email you use for your Xbox Live account to receive the credits when purchasing from the store website.

UPDATE: Online pre-orders will not stack the $10 gift card and the 15,000 XBL Rewards credits.  In-store pre-orders are still capable of stacking the gift card and credits when you pick up your pre-order.

Source: Xbox Wire | Image: Microsoft

Report a problem with article
Next Article

Dropbox credentials leaked by third-party, change your password immediately [Update]

Previous Article

Microsoft sort of explains what happened to Windows 9

Join the conversation!

Login or Sign Up to read and post a comment.

14 Comments - Add comment