Microsoft offering free XBLA game due to Xbox Live issues

Microsoft wants to say "sowwy" for the intermittent Xbox Live issues plaguing the service over the holiday, and they'd like to apologize with a free Xbox Live Arcade game. Major Nelson posts a letter from Marc Whitten, general manager of Xbox Live, which has a lot of customer service filler in it until the line about a free XBLA game for "all our Xbox Live members around the world"
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xbox Live member get a free Xbox Live Arcade game. Specifics on which game/games, and how you get hold of it, aren't yet available