Weekend PC digital deals: Christmas sales bonanza

Whatever you're celebrating over the next week or so--be it Christmas, Festivus, or New Year--digital distributors are lining up to take away what what little money remains after you've stocked up on the gin you need to survive with the faintest glimmer of hope left in your tired heart.

It's a time of incessant rotating daily deals, so you'll need to be quick if you want to snap up Deus Ex: Human Revolution for $10, Rage for $15, Renegade Ops for $3, and many of the other wonderful bargains. Hey, you could buy video games for others as last-minute gifts!

Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals:

Amazon

Liable to disappear whenever Amazon feels like it:

• Aliens vs. Predator (Steamworks) - $2.99 (85% off)

• Assassin's Creed Director's Cut - $4.99 (75% off)

• Assassin's Creed 2 Deluxe Edition - $6.80 (66% off)

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Deluxe Edition - $24.99 (50% off)

• Beyond Good & Evil - $2.99 (70% off)

• Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood - $3.99 (80% off)

• Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Steamworks) - $9.99 (50% off)

• Empire: Total War (Steamworks) - $3.99 (80% off)

• From Dust - $7.49 (50% off)

• IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover (Steamworks) - $19.99 (60% off)

• Just Cause 2 (Steamworks) - $2.49 (88% off)

• Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (Steamworks) - $2.49 (83% off)

• Medieval II: Total War Gold Edition - $1.99 (80% off)

• Might & Magic Clash of Heroes - $5.99 (60% off)

• Might & Magic Heroes VI Deluxe Edition - $19.99 (64% off)

• Napoleon: Total War Imperial Edition (Steamworks) - $3.99 (80% off)

• Renegade Ops - $2.99 (80% off)

• R.U.S.E. (Steamworks) - $8.99 (70% off)

• Roma: Total War Gold Edition - $1.99 (80% off)

• Sega 48-game Mega Arcade Pack - $7.50 (89% off)

• Sega 60-game Power Pack - $49.99 (81% off)

• Sonic Generations (Steamworks) - $14.99 (50% off)

• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction - $2.99 (85% off)

• Total War: Shogun 2 (Steamworks) - $7.49 (75% off)

• Total War: Shogun 2 - Rise of the Samurai DLC (Steamworks) - $2.49 (75% off)

• Total War: Shogun 2 - The Hattori Clan Pack DLC (Steamworks) - $1.49 (70% off)

• Total War: Shogun 2 - The Blood Pack DLC (Steamworks) - $0.47 (70% off)

• Ubisoft Holiday Bundle - $84.99 (76% off)

• XIII - $2.99 (70% off)

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Direct2Drive

Friday:

• Armada 2526 - $7.50 (50% off)

• Armada 2526: Supernova - $4.95 (50% off)

• Cities in Motion + 6 DLC packs - $19.95 (57% off)

• Dragon Age II - $4.95 (75% off)

Dragon Age II

GamersGate

GamersGate boasts that it has over 800 games on sale at the moment. Copy that list here? Bugger that for a game of soldiers. Here are a few of the deals as a taster:

• Bastion - $7.50 (50% off)

• Cthulhu Saves the World + Breath of Death VII - $1.02 (66% off)

• Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link DLC - $5.09 (66% off)

• Dungeon Defenders - $7.50 (50% off)

• Farming Simulator 2011 - $12.50 (50% off)

• Grand Theft Auto Complete - $24.98 (50% off)

• Magicka (Steamworks) - $3.40 (66% off)

• Metro 2033 (Steamworks) - $9.99 (50% off)

• Sid Meier's Civilization V (Steamworks) - $10.18 (66% off)

• Sid Meier's Civilization V Game of the Year Edition (Steamworks) - $16.98 (81% off)

• The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Digital Premium Edition - $19.99 (50% off)

• Trine - $3.38 (66% off)

Deus Ex: Human Revolution - The Missing Link DLC

Get Games

• Alien vs. Predator (Steamworks) - $3.49 (75% off)

• Alpha Protocol - $3.49 (75% off)

• Bloody Good Time (Steamworks) - $3.00 (70% off)

• Borderlands - $3.99 (80% off)

• Cryostasis - $2.00 (80% off)

• F.E.A.R. - $5.04 (66% off)

• F.E.A.R. 2 Complete Pack - $5.09 (66% off)

• F.E.A.R. 3 (Steamworks) - $12.49 (75% off)

• Just Cause 2 (Steamworks) - $4.99 (75% off)

• Killing Floor (Steamworks) - $9.99 (50% off)

• Mafia II (Steamworks) - $7.49 (75% off) [also on Impulse]

• Men of War: Assault Squad - $14.99 (50% off)

• NecroVisioN Hardcore - $5.99 (80% off)

• Operation Flashpoint: Red River - $9.99 (75% off)

• Red Orchestra (Steamworks) - $2.99 (70% off)

• Serious Sam 3: BFE (Steamworks) - $29.99 (25% off)

• Serious Sam Double D - $5.99 (25% off)

• Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter - $3.00 (80% off)

• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 - $2.99 (83% off)

Mafia II

Good Old Games

Almost every game at GOG is on sale right now. The full list is this-a-way, but here are a few highlights:

• Beyond Good & Evil - $4.99 (50% off)

• Blood - $2.99 (50% off)

• Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition - $2.99 (50% off)

• Dungeon Keeper - $2.99 (50% off)

• Fallout - $2.99 (50% off)

• Fallout 2 - $2.99 (50% off)

• Freespace 2 - $2.99 (50% off)

• Master of Orion 1 + 2 - $2.99 (50% off)

• Painkiller: Black Edition - $4.99 (50% off)

• Planescape: Torment - $4.99 (50% off)

• Psychonauts - $4.99 (50% off)

• Raptor: Call of the Shadows 2010 - $2.99 (50% off)

• The Longest Journey - $4.99 (50% off)

• The Witcher - $4.99 (50% off)

Dungeon Keeper

Humble Indie Bundle

Pay what you want for a bundle with Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony, BIT.TRIP RUNNER, Super Meat Boy, Shank, and NightSky, and their soundtracks. Pay more than the average to get Gratuitous Space Battles and Cave Story+ too, plus the Humble Indie Bundle 3 games: Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, VVVVVV, And Yet It Moves, and Hammerfight.

Super Meat Boy

IndieGala

Pay what you want for a bundle with Hacker Evolution: Duality, inMomentum, Saira, Your Doodles Are Bugged! and Zombie Shooter 2. Pay more than the average price to receive Hacker Evolution: Untold and Zombie Shooter too. All games are redeemable on Steam.

Hacker Evolution: Duality

Impulse

Impulse has 210 games on sale, so here are a few of them:

• ArcaniA: Gothic 4 - $9.99 (50% off)

• Command & Conquer Bundle - $17.99 (70% off)

• Dark Void - $2.99 (70% off)

• Dead Rising 2: Off the Record - $19.99 (50% off)

• Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition + Dragon Age II - $23.97 (52% off)

• Mafia II (Steamworks) - $7.49 (75% off) [also on Get Games]

• Section 8: Prejudice - $5.08 (66% off)

• Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Complete Edition - $9.99 (75% off)

• Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity - $13.36 (33% off)

• Street Fighter IV - $4.99 (75% off)

• Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition - $19.99 (50% off)

• X-COM Pack - $2.99 (75% off)

Dark Void

Little Big Bunch

Pay what you want for a bundle with Explodemon, Frozen Synapse, New Star Soccer 5, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Serious Sam: Double D.

Frozen Synapse

Matrix Games

Specialist strategy publisher Matrix is offering around a third off most of its games. I would select a few highlights if I had the slightest clue about hardcore, esoteric strategy titles.

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East

Origin

• Bulletstorm - $9.99 (50% off)

• Dead Space 2 - $9.99 (50% off)

• Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition - $9.99 (50% off)

• FIFA Manager 10 - $4.99 (50% off)

• FIFA Soccer 10 - $4.99 (50% off)

• Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix - $4.99 (50% off)

• NHL 09 - $4.99 (50% off)

• SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition - $9.99 (50% off)

• The Sims 3 + 1,000 SimPoints - $23.99 (40% off)

• The Sims 3 + Ambitions + Pets + Fast Lane Stuff + Ourdoor Living Stuff - $81.99 (40% off)

• The Sims 3 Barnacle Bay - $9.99 (50% off

Dragon Age: Origins

PopCap Games

PopCap is offering 50% off all its PC and Mac games.

Steam

Steam's holiday sale is big. Really big. Huge. Colossal. There are discounts on publisher catalogues, bundles, and heaps of individual games. Think of a game, then go check and you'll probably find it on sale.

The real treat, however, is the daily sales. Every day, a dozen or so games receive mega-discounts, so you might want to avoid buying games not in daily sales for now in case they crop up a lot cheaper later. And, of course, there's a chance to win every game on Steam.

Until Saturday, 2pm Pacific:

• Aliens vs. Predator - $3.99 (80% off)

• Audiosurf - $2.49 (75% off)

• Back to the Future: The Game - $9.99 (60% off)

• Cave Story+ - $4.99 (50% off)

• Cities XL 2012 - $19.99 (50% off)

• Dirt 3 - $16.99 (66% off)

• E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy - $2.49 (75% off)

• From Dust - $7.49 (50% off)

• Frozen Synapse - $3.74 (75% off)

• Rage - $14.99 (50% off)

• Railworks 3: Train Simulator 2012 - $3.49 (90% off)

• Saints Row: The Third - $33.49 (33% off)

Saints Row: The Third