Updated 10pm: Play have now returned the price of their Xbox 360 Elite bundle to £189.99. The deal was only on their site for 12 hours, in total.

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Today is the last day of the Play.com “£5 off orders over £50″ voucher. The voucher code is PLANW09.

The code works with all consoles and games for any platform (including the PC). It will not work with products in the Electronics, PC (software and hardware) or Mobile categories.

The last day of the voucher code  coincides with the Play.com Monday Madness sale we mentioned yesterday. There are several nice discounts to be found, including a significantly reduced price on Play.com’s main Xbox 360 Elite bundle.

Be sure to browse through the various available deals to pick out anything of interest to you.

We’ve had a couple of people contacting us who have had problems getting the Amazon Xbox 360 bundle to work.

First, to reiterate, the bundle is available and it does work as described.

After a few email exchanges, people seem to have one of two common problems:

* Trying to add Xbox 360 games not covered by the Amazon Xbox 360 bundle deal (this is fine, just don’t expect them to be discounted!).

* Looking in their “Basket” and assuming the discount hasn’t been applied. With Amazon, their discounts are only ever applied toward the end of the checkout process.

Our advice for people having trouble is, firstly, to follow the following instructions carefully:

1) Go to the Amazon Xbox 360 Elite or Amazon Xbox 360 Arcade bundle deal page.

2) To get the “three games and an extra controller for free” offer, add an Xbox 360 console, Wireless Entertainment Pack and one other item to your basket. The Wireless Entertainment Pack contains two games and a controller, so in total you’re getting three games and an extra controller.

3) Once you’ve added the qualifying items to your Basket, go to your Basket and check to make sure you haven’t accidentally ordered more than 1 of each item. Note that the discount will not be shown at this stage.

4) All done! Go through the checkout process, and the full discount and correct price will be shown towards the later stages!

If you still have problems after following these steps, please get in contact!

Amazon have just dropped the price of their Xbox 360 Elite bundle deal by £10, bringing it to the lowest price we’ve seen this Christmas season. Anyone holding off buying an Xbox 360 Elite waiting for a Christmas price drop may want to consider this.

The Amazon price drop is perhaps in response to a new Comet deal which offers an Xbox 360 Eite, four games, and an extra controller for £189. The advantage Amazon has over the Comet deal is that of choice; Comet’s games are all pre-selected, whereas Amazon allows customers to select the games they want.

We’ve also added a new guide on Xbox 360 Internet Accessories and Xbox Live, which aims to go through some common questions about getting a new Xbox 360 online and connecting to Xbox Live.