I'm going to assume the chances Minecraft goes on sale are pretty slim?

Bought Trine 2 and Mark of the Ninja. My next purchases will be Dust and Walking dead episodes 1-5. Maybe deadlight.

Where are the sales advertised? I'm having to look them up in this thread and then manually search for them.

Not,   Most of the sales this year were not advertised.  Most don't even know their is a sales app .

I gave in and got Fez although the point system sucks all the enjoyment out of impulse buys.
I shopped around but gave up trying to find the right amount of points for a decent price.
In the end I just got it on the console itself CAD 7.25 before tax for 500 points. 20% more expensive then US points although our dollar is worth more now. Damn border taxes... At least Canadian xbox live points are still cheaper then European ones :/

For example:
http://www.pcgamesupply.com/buygames/xbox-360-live-gold-cards-codes-points/
US points for as low as CAD 1.23 per 100
Japan points up to CAD 2.82 per 100
It's just online download codes, all before tax, I don't get it. (And some are out of stock too?!)

Anyway I would have bought a lot more xbla games if the point system didn't remind me I'm getting ripped off every time.

There is a huge ad on the dashboard for the winter sale.

Grabbed that Ninja game, yesterday. Don't know when I'll play it but I've heard great things about it so I got it while it was on sale. Missed out the Lego games but I think I can find them cheaper at retail, anyway.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD is reduced from 1200 to 600MSP.

SvennoJ:
Japan and most (all?) European countries include their sales tax in everything as they have nationwide rates.

Already got Tony Hawk....including DLC :s;. I hope this sale will be a succes and we get more (better)sales in the future..