Shack PSA: Weekend PC Digital Deals on GTA 4, BioShock 2 and Much, Much More
Other offers include a treasure trove of vintage Ubisoft bargains, Beyond Good & Evil for only $4, some Command & Conquer series savings and oh so much more. On top of all that, the first of the Thanksgiving sales have kicked off.
Our choice selection of this week's deals follows below.
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- Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition - $9.95 (75% off)
- BioShock 2 - $9.99 (50% off)
- [Friday only] Saints Row 2 - $5.99 (80% off)
- [Saturday only] BioShock - $1.99 (90% off)
- [Sunday only] Age of Empires 3: Complete - $0.10 NEW DEAL!
- Sniper: Ghost Warrior - $14.99 (50% off)
- Sniper: Ghost Warrior Map Pack - $2.49 (50% off)
- Beyond Good & Evil - $4.00 (75% off)
- Darwinia - $1.19 (80% off)
- Uplink - $1.19 (80% off)
- Trine $3.39 (80% off)
- Beat Hazard - $3.19 (67% off)
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Thanksgiving sale (ends November 29)
- Dawn of Discovery Gold - $14.99 (50% off)
- The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom - $24.99 (50% off)
- Total Annihilation - $4.99 (50% off
- Star Trek Online - $9.99 (50% off)
- Laserbrain - $2.25 (75% off)
- Tropico 3 - $7.49 (75% off)
- Imperium Romanum Gold - $4.99 (75% off)
- Grand Ages Rome Gold - $7.49 (75% off)
- Commander: Conquest of the Americas - $25.99 (35% off)
- Hearts of Iron III - $8.99 (70% off)
- Sword of the Stars Complete - $14.99 (50% off)
- Company of Heroes Gold - $14.99 (50% off)
- Dark Void - $9.99 (66% off)
- Flock - $4.99 (50% off)
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl + Call of Pripyat Bundle - $9.99 (80% off)
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - $9.99 (50% off)
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Uprising - $9.99 (50% off)
- Command & Conquer 4 - $9.99 (50% off)
- Zombie Driver - $4.95 (50% off)
- Beyond Divinity - $3.99 (60% off)
- Eschalon: Book 1 - $9.99 (50% off)
- Eschalon: Book 2 - $12.49 (50% off
- Gothic II Gold Edition - $4.99 (50% off)
- Gothic III Gold Edition - $14.98 (50% off)
- Spellforce 2 Gold - $9.99 (50% off)
- The Whispered World - $14.95 (50% off)
- Theatre of War 2: Kursk 1943 - $9.98 (50% off)
- Zombie Driver - $4.97 (50% off)
- Ubisoft Pack - $84.83 (50% off)
- Beyond Good & Evil - $6.99 (30% off)
- Chessmaster 9000 - $6.99 (30% off)
- Driver: Parallel Lines - $6.99 (30% off)
- Far Cry - $6.99 (30% off)
- Heritage of Kings: The Settlers - $6.99 (30% off)
- Heroes of Might and Magic - $6.99 (30% off)
- Heroes of Might and Magic 2: Gold Edition - $6.99 (30% off)
- Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Complete Edition - $6.99 (30% off)
- IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 - $6.99 (30% off)
- Might and Magic 6-Pack: Limited Edition - $6.99 (30% off)
- Panzer General 2 - $6.99 (30% off)
- Panzer General 3D Assault - $6.99 (30% off)
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - $6.99 (30% off)
- The Settlers 2: Gold Edition - $6.99 (30% off)
- Silent Hunter 2 - $6.99 (30% off)
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon - $6.99 (30% off)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six - $6.99 (30% off)
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I only buy games for Steam anymore. I know this is ridiculous, but it's true. :(
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It's not ridiculous. The interface is perfect. The prices are great. Your collection is in one place. Installation could not be easier. Most important of all are the community features. You can see your friends online and what they are playing. It's Xbox Live for the PC expect with more features and better features; no subscription required.
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That's your basic vendor lock-in. Except, to Steam's credit, it does through being generally good rather than anything else.
GOG is the most painless exception you can afford to make: payment is simple, download is simple, installer is simple, everything to Steam's standard of higher, the only thing missing is the annoying client and tray icon.-
This is exactly how it works for me. I prefer Steam, due to the ease-of-use and the fact that it provides a great set of features, and I'll only buy games from other services if the deal is extremely good. GoG is an exception, because they have a different subset of games and they don't use DRM, which keeps the ease-of-use very high as well.
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I'd rather go with impulse. You don't have to launch a client every time you play a game.
And once I've beaten a game, I just take the icon off of my desktop until I feel like playing again. I don't see the point of needing to see a list of all the games on your computer when you're only playing one or two at a time.