Weekend PC digital deals: $15 Dead Island

This weekend, you'll find Dead Island for $15, Payday: The Heist for $10, a wonderful bundle of D&D games for $7, Sonic Generations for $10, Super Meat Boy for $5, and heaps more bargains. Plus, until Saturday, Vampire: TM - Bloodlines for $5.

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Another weekend, another load of lovely PC bargains! This weekend, digital distributors are flogging Dead Island for $15, Payday: The Heist for $10, a ridiculously wonderful bundle of D&D games for $7, Saints Row: The Third for $25, Sonic Generations for $10, Super Meat Boy for $5, and heaps more bargains. Plus, before Saturday morning, you absolutely must pick up Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines for $4. Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals:

Amazon

Stronghold 3

Be Mine Indie Game Bundle

Pay what you want for Beep, The Ball, Wasteland Angel, Xotic, Sideway New York, Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals, and some music. All games offer Steam keys.

The Ball

GamersGate

Planescape: Torment

Get Games

Super Meat Boy

Good Old Games

Riven

Green Man Gaming

Duke Nukem Forever

Impulse

Sonic Generations

Steam

Payday: The Heist is running a free weekend on Steam, so you can try before you buy. Click here to install it. Friday: Weekend:

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

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    March 2, 2012 2:00 PM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Weekend PC digital deals: $15 Dead Island.

    This weekend, you'll find Dead Island for $15, Payday: The Heist for $10, a wonderful bundle of D&D games for $7, Sonic Generations for $10, Super Meat Boy for $5, and heaps more bargains. Plus, until Saturday, Vampire: TM - Bloodlines for $5.

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      March 2, 2012 2:10 PM

      Alice, why must we absolutely pick up Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines?

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        March 2, 2012 2:17 PM

        Because it is fucking awesome

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        March 2, 2012 2:18 PM

        Get the community patch and play an awesome game!
        http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=26395368#item_26395368

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        March 2, 2012 2:23 PM

        It's one of very few FPS games that followed in Deus Ex's footsteps...offering freedom to approach situations with different tactics, dialogue as an alternative to combat, and branching story paths. It's pretty cool, and unlike most every other game. It could have used some more technical polish at launch, but I think the community patches have got it in pretty good shape now.

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        March 2, 2012 2:31 PM

        And another successful troll, Haxim

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          March 2, 2012 2:51 PM

          Genuine curiosity my dear shirif! I'd always heard it referred to positively, but never bothered to find out why it was so well regarded.

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            March 2, 2012 4:04 PM

            The game feels totally noire throughout. Just a ridiculously atmospheric, seedy underground game, with amazing voice acting and great writing. The story jumps in interesting ways and you never think to yourself, "why am I here, or I would have done this level sequence differently if I were to design it".
            It flows really well. The gameplay is fine, with some interesting branches, but like most RPGs become a slaughterfest later on.

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        March 2, 2012 3:41 PM

        Because it will show your Twilight-loving significant other what vampires are supposed to be like

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        March 2, 2012 4:23 PM

        The boob physics.

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        March 2, 2012 5:28 PM

        As others have explained, it's lovely and Deus Ex-y. A fine setting, some horrible monsters, a story which bounces along merrily, great memorable moments, and general pleasantness.

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      March 2, 2012 3:41 PM

      Is Saints Row 2 worth picking up at $3.75?

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        March 2, 2012 4:19 PM

        You might get lucky and have it work well on your machine, or get it patched to have it run well.

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        March 2, 2012 4:45 PM

        I'm gonna give it a try. Just hoping it isn't locked to a horrible fps like some older console ports.

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          March 2, 2012 4:57 PM

          lol. It doesn't even reach a consistent (bad) fps. It's all over the place.

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        March 2, 2012 5:03 PM

        I figured for $4, why not. Dead Island is definitely worth the $15, though. I downloaded the director's cut mod, amputator tots mod, decapitator tots mod, and some texture enhancements. I'm having a blast with it! Dropping zombies with 1 well placed swing or bullet to the head never gets old. :-D

        LOL AgentPothead! Nice vid...

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        March 2, 2012 5:30 PM

        I realise it's almost universally reviled, but I didn't have any problems with Saints Row 2 on PC. Aside from brief and minor pauses when crossing over into a new block of the world at high speeds, it was all pretty much hunky-dory. Yes, interface issues and all that jazz, but nowhere near bad enough to spoil it for me.

        If it does run fine for you, it's fun video games. If not... you'll join the many people who loathe it.

        With a modern PC, though, your odds are probably all right.

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      March 2, 2012 4:51 PM

      I'm still waiting for an Anno 2070 sale. :(

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      March 2, 2012 5:35 PM

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        March 2, 2012 5:48 PM

        Nope.

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        March 2, 2012 6:25 PM

        Its kinda fun solo, I didn't play it coop but I can see how it would be a lot more fun that way.

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