Weekend PC digital deals: Zeno Clash, Deus Ex: Human Revolution

How'd you fancy pre-ordering Deus Ex: Human Revolution for only $28.80, saving you 43%? Or perhaps you fancy picking up splendid surreal first-person face-puncher Zeno Clash for a bargain $3.75? It's but the tip of the sales iceberg lurking in the PC digital distribution waters this weekend.

I do have a question for deal fans: what do you make of the one-day sale fad that's ever so hot right now? Personally, it really gets on my wick.

I believe the idea is that customers will feel obliged to check sites more regularly, leading to more impulse purchases. However, I'm unlikely to be checking stores over the weekend, and these deals are rarely announced in advanced--so, say, they can't be publicised in this here roundup. Instead, I entirely miss the deals, and end up displeased with the damn fool store running them. I'd much rather we went back to the standard weekend deals model.

And, on a professional level, it gets my goat that I have to spend even more of my Friday writing this, trying to figure out which poorly-labelled deal expires when.

But that's enough of my grumbling. Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals at digital distributors:

Steam

• Zeno Clash - $3.75 (75% off)

Zeno Clash

Green Man Gaming

Pre-order Deus Ex: Human Revolution for only $28.80--a whopping 43% discount--thanks to a combination of a discount and a voucher code. I would suggest you do so, especially as it's a Steamworks title and you'll just get a key to plug into Steam. Simply add it to your basket then apply the code GETYO-URWAN-DOUT1 at the checkout.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

S2 Games

• Heroes of Newerth - $10 (66% off)

Heroes of Newerth

Direct2Drive

Until Saturday, 10am PST:

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood - $19.98 (50% off)

• James Bond 007: Blood Stone - $19.98 (50% off)

• Full Spectrum Warrior - $3.98 (60% off)

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

Impulse

Friday:

• Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West - $1.93 (85% off)

Weekend:

• Company of Heroes Gold - $7.49 (75% off)

• Ship Simulator Extremes - $9.99 (66% off)

• Spore - $9.97 (50% off)

• Supreme Commander - $3.74 (75% off)

Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West

GamersGate

Friday:

• R.U.S.E. (Steamworks) - $7.49 (75% off)

Saturday:

• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction - $6.65 (70% off)

Sunday:

• Anno 1404 (Dawn of Discovery) Gold - $8.98 (70% off)

Weekend:

• Assassin's Creed - $9.72 (35% off)

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood - $25.97 (35% off)

• Beyond Good and Evil - $3.24 (35% off)

• Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway - $6.47 (35% off)

• Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 - $6.47 (35% off)

• Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood - $12.97 (35% off)

• Far Cry - $6.47 (35% off)

• IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 - $6.47 (35% off)

• Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands - $12.97 (35% off)

• Silent Hunter 4 Gold Edition - $12.97 (35% off)

• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas - $6.47 (57% off)

• Trackmania United Forever - $25.99 (35% off)

R.U.S.E.

Get Games

• Alpha Protocol - $5.99 (70% off)

• Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga - $19.99 (50% off)

• Jagged Alliance 2 Gold Edition - $4.99 (75% off)

• Operation Flashpoint: Red River - $33.46 (33% off)

• Tropico 3 - $4.99 (80% off)

Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga

Beamdog

• Elven Legacy Collection - $2.99 (70% off)

• Europa Universalis III Complete - $3.75 (75% off)

• Hearts of Iron III - $5.99 (70% off)

• Hearts of Iron III: Semper Fi - $5.99 (70% off)

• King Arthur Collection - $7.49 (75% off)

• Majesty 2 - $7.49 (75% off)

• Mount & Blade - $4.99 (75% off)

• Mount & Blade Warband - $7.49 (75% off)

• Victoria Complete - $2.99 (70% off)

Mount & Blade Warband

Good Old Games

Until Saturday, 5:59am EDT:

• Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich - $2.39 (60% off)

Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich

Games for Windows

• Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition - $14.99 (50% off)

• Batman: Arkham Asylum - Crime Alley Challenge Map DLC - $1.49 (50% off)

• Batman: Arkham Asylum - The Villain Challenge Map DLC - $1.49 (50% off)

Batman: Arkham Asylum