Microsoft Store Coupons & Sales

Microsoft Store offers Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure for Xbox 360 Kinect for $29.99 with free shipping. That's the lowest total price we could find by $18. Sales tax is added where applicable.

Microsoft Store offers Forza Motorsport 4 for Xbox 360 Kinect for $39.99 with free shipping. That's $20 under our April mention and the lowest total price we've seen since Cyber Monday, when it was $3 less. (It's a current price low by $22.) Sales tax is added where applicable.

We've found five Editors' Choice deals last night and early this morning that'll hopefully get you over the mid-week hump. Check out our deals on electronics, a 1-year Food & Wine Magazine subscription, and a preorder of the highly anticipated Halo 4 for Xbox.

Microsoft Store offers Halo: Reach for Xbox 360 (pictured) for $19.99 with free shipping. That's $2 under our March mention and the lowest total price we could find by $8. Sales tax is added where applicable.

Microsoft Store also offers Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition for Xbox 360 for $19.99 with free shipping. That's $5 under our December mention and the lowest total price we could find by $9.

Microsoft Store offers preorders of Halo 4 for Xbox 360 bundled with a $25 Microsoft Store Credit for $59.99 with free shipping. Assuming you use the credit, that's the lowest total price we could find by $24. Sales tax is added where applicable. This game is due for release on or around November 6.

Note that the credit will be added to your account within a week of the game's release.

Microsoft Store offers the 5.7-lb. Acer Aspire AS5750-6867 Intel Core i5 2.5GHz 15.6" LED-Backlit Widescreen LCD Notebook in Black for $499 with free shipping. (Tiger Direct has a similar model for a buck more.) That's tied with our mention from last week and the lowest total price we could find for a similarly-equipped 16" Acer laptop by $16. Sales tax is added where applicable. It features an Intel Core i5-2450M 2.5GHz dual-core processor, 15.6" 1366x768 LED-backlit widescreen LCD, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard drive, DVD burner, media card reader, 802.11n wireless, Gigabit Ethernet, webcam, microphone, HDMI, 6-cell battery, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

Microsoft officially announced its new contract-based Xbox promotion yesterday, which entails getting the 4GB console with Kinect for just $99 — if you sign up for a 2-year Xbox LIVE Gold membership in the process. But the prospect of being locked into a static LIVE membership plan, with unchanging rates, raises the question: Is this intriguing promotion actually a deal at all?

Microsoft Store offers the 5.7-lb. Acer Aspire AS5750-6867 Intel Core i5 2.5GHz 15.6" LED-Backlit Widescreen LCD Notebook in Black for $499 with free shipping. That's tied with our mention from two weeks ago and is the lowest total price we could find for a similarly equipped 16" Acer laptop by $16. Sales tax is added where applicable. It features an Intel Core i5-2450M 2.5GHz dual-core processor, 15.6" 1366x768 LED-backlit widescreen LCD, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard drive, dual layer DVD burner, media card reader, 802.11n wireless, Gigabit Ethernet, webcam, microphone, HDMI, 6-cell battery, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

Microsoft Store offers the 4.88-lb. Acer Aspire Timeline Intel Core i5 2.5GHz 14" LED-Backlit Notebook in Blue, model no. AS4830TG-6457, for $649 with free shipping. That's tied with last week's mention and the lowest total price we could find for a Timeline model with this CPU by $31. Sales tax is added where applicable. It features an Intel Core i5-2450M 2.5GHz dual-core Sandy Bridge processor, 14" 1366x768 LED-backlit LCD, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard drive, DVD burner, 802.11n wireless, Bluetooth, NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 1GB video card with switchable graphics, Gigabit Ethernet, 1.3-megapixel webcam, HDMI port, 6-cell battery, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.