Weekend PC download deals: festive sales

Merry Winterval, everyone! If you're scrabbling around for ideas of what to buy Auntie Judith or Uncle Ian, the answer is clear: video games. Yes, write a Steam code in the card you give them, and watch glee spread across their face as they decipher that string of characters. This weekend's PC download deals include all of the video games.

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

GameFly

• Crusader Kings II (Steam) - $9.99 (75% off)

• Hotline Miami (Steam) - $4.99 (75% off)

• Left 4 Dead 2 (Steam) - $4.99 (75% off)

• Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai (Steam) - $7.49 (75% off)

• War of the Roses (Steam) - $14.99 (50% off)

Hotline Miami

Amazon

Amazon's huge festive sale includes:

• BioShock + BioShock 2 - $4.99 (88% off)

• BioShock + BioShock 2 + Spec Ops: The Line (Steam) - $9.99 (89% off)

• BioShock + BioShock 2 + Civilization IV Complete + Civilization V GotY + Civilization V: Gods & Kings + CivCity: Rome + Duke Nukem Forever Complete + Mafia II + The Stronghold Collection - $29.99 (88% off)

• Borderlands GotY + Duke Nukem Forever + The Darkness II (Steam) - $9.99 (80% off)

• Borderlands 2 four-pack (Steam) - $89.99 (50% off)

• Civilization IV Complete + Civilization V GotY + Civilization V: Gods & Kings & The Stronghold Collection (Steam) - $19.99 (85% off)

• Costume Quest + Psychonauts + Stacking (Steam) - $7.49 (81% off)

• Crysis + Crysis Wars + Crysis Warhead + Crysis 2 Maximum Edition - $14.99 (79% off)

• Darksiders + Darksiders II + Darksiders 2 DLC (Steam) - $13.19 (67% off)

• Dead Island GotY (Steam) - $5.99 (70% off)

• Grand Theft Auto IV Complete - $7.49 (75% off)

• Hitman: Absolution (Steam) - $19.99 (60% off)

• Homefront + Metro 2033 + Red Faction Armageddon + Red Faction Guerrilla + S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl + Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (mostly Steam) - $7.49 (94% off)

• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning + DLC (Origin) - $11.99 (80% off)

• L.A. Noire Complete (Steam) - $7.49 (75% off)

• Max Payne 3 (Steam) - $14.99 (75% off)

• Payday: The Heist four-pack (Steam) - $14.99 (81% off)

• Syndicate (Origin) - $4.99 (83% off)

• The Sims 3 Seasons (Origin) - $19.99 (50% off)

Syndicate

Blizzard

• World of Warcraft + WoW: The Burning Crusade + WoW: Wrath of the Lich King - $5.00 (75% off)

• World of Warcraft: Cataclysm - $10.00 (75% off)

• World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria - $30.00 (25% off)

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

GamersGate

GamersGate's huge festive sale includes:

• Botanicula - $2.50 (75% off)

• Dark Souls (Steam) - $26.77 (33% off)

• Fallen Enchantress (Steam) - $8.06 (80% off)

• Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition (Steam) - $14.98 (70% off)

• Sanctum (Steam) - $0.90 (91% off)

• Sins of a Solar Empire Trinity (Steam) - $4.99 (75% off)

• Super Meat Boy (Steam) - $3.74 (75% off)

• The Witcher - $2.50 (75% off)

Dark Souls

Get Games

Friday:

• Stealth Bastard Deluxe (Steam) - $4.99 (50% off)

Weekend:

• Carrier Command: Gaea Mission - $24.99 (50% off)

• Far Cry 3 - $38.39 (23% off)

• Far Cry 3 Deluxe - $46.19 (33% off)

• Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit (Steam) - $5.09 (66% off)

• Overlord II - $2.49 (75% off)

• The Darkness II (Steam) - $7.49 (75% off)

Get any two of the following games for $15. All except Space Colony activate on Steam.

• Serious Sam 3 BFE

• Sid Meier's Civilization V Game of the Year Edition

• Space Colony HD

• Stronghold 3 Gold

• Total War: Shogun 2

• Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai

Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit

GOG

GOG's huge holiday sale has discounts on a bajillion games, and bigger savings in daily deals.

Friday:

• Blood + Blood 2 + Carmageddon + Painkiller Black + Postal + Postal 2 - $11.94 (75% off)

Postal

Green Man Gaming

Get 30% off almost every game with the voucher code GMG30-DPLIM-DN831. This makes many video games cheap, including those selected below:

• Doom 3 BFG Edition (Steam) - $10.50 (65% off)

• Hitman: Absolution (Steam) + $5 cashback or $7 credit - $24.99 (50% off)

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Steam) - $28.14 (53% off)

Hitman: Absolution

Humble Bundle

Pay what you want for The Binding of Isaac plus its expansion, Closure, Shank 2, and Snapshot. You also get Indie Game: The Movie and some soundtracks. Beat the average to get Legend of Grimrock and Dungeon Defenders too.

The Binding of Isaac

Impulse

Impulse's holiday sale includes:

• Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Steam) - $7.49 (75% off)

• Just Cause 2 (Steam) - $7.49 (50% off)

• Sanctum Collection (Steam) - $3.99 (75% off)

• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines - $4.99 (75% off)

• XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Steam) - $37.49 (25% off)

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Indie Royale

Pay what you want for Colour Blind, Offspring Fling, Serious Sam Double D, Serious Sam: The Random Encounter, Puzzle Bots, and Little Kingdom. Some must be activated on Steam.

Serious Sam Double D

Steam

Steam's colossal holiday sale includes daily deals, flash sales, discounts you can vote on, and a million games. Here, the daily deal highlights:

Ends Saturday:

• Borderlands GotY - $7.49 (75% off)

• Borderlands 2 - $29.99 (50% off)

• Borderlands 2 four-pack - $89.99 (50% off)

• Hitman: Codename 47 + Hitman 2: Silent Assassin + Hitman: Blood Money - $6.24 (75% off)

• Mirror's Edge - $4.99 (75% off)

• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - $2.49 (75% off)

• Prince of Persia Complete - $12.24 (75% off)

• Scribblenauts Unlimited - $19.99 (33% off)

• Wargame: European Escalation - $9.99 (75% off)

Ends Sunday:

• Darksiders + Darksiders II + Darksiders 2 DLC - $13.59 (66% off)

• Dishonored - $29.99 (50% off)

• F.E.A.R. - $2.49 (75% off)

• F.E.A.R. 2 - $3.74 (75% off)

• F.E.A.R. 3 - $4.99 (75% off)

• F.E.A.R. Collection - $13.71 (75% off)

• Psychonauts - $2.49 (75% off)

• Psychonauts + Costume Quest + Iron Brigade + Stacking - $9.99 (75% off)

• SimCity 4 Deluxe - $4.99 (75% off)

• Tom Clancy Pack - $67.99 (31% off)

Dishonored