Tozai Games has just released information for the Deal of the Week promotion on Xbox LIVE for their Xbox Live Arcade title, Lode Runner. The Deal of the Week promotion for Gold members highlights one title in the Xbox Live Marketplace and is given a reduced price point for the entire week. From September 14th through September 20th, XBLA Gold members will be able to find Deal of the Week notices for Lode Runner on the Xbox 360’s dashboard, in the Xbox.com newsletter and in the Xbox Live Marketplace at Xbox.com.

Tozai Games and developer SouthEnd Interactive collaborated on the creation of Lode Runner just as in the case of Tozai’s first Xbox LIVE Arcade title, R-Type Dimensions. The game’s design and its huge collection of 272 levels were created by Tozai’s Brett Ballow, while the SouthEnd team rebuilt the game’s infrastructure from the ground up.

Lode Runner is also known as one of the very first game franchises to include a Level Editor so players could create their own challenges. Tozai Games not only created an easy-to-use Level Editor, they pioneered Community sharing of user generated content for Xbox LIVE Arcade.