Hey, you! Have you played Natural Selection 2 yet? If you fancy giving the FPS-RTS a go, today's your lucky day, as it'll be free for all and sundry to try and play on Steam from this morning until Sunday. To put a cherry on top, developer Unknown Worlds is cutting the price by 50% for the weekend too, bringing it down to $12.50.
Branching out from pay-what-you-want bundles, Humble Bundle has launched a new weekly bargain-o-rama. To kick things off, the Humble Weekly Sale is selling Bastion for as little as a dollar, though surely you'd pay more, wouldn't you? Hey, what timing! Developer Supergiant announced its new game, sci-fi action-RPG Transistor, only this morning.
It's a fine weekend for downloadable PC bargains, with loads of lovely bundles and indies going cheap, not to mention just plain old good video games. Highlights include Rayman Origins for $7, To the Moon for $3, Saints Row 2 for $4, Little Inferno for $4, Dustforce for $5, and Anno 2070 for $17. We have oh so much more more inside.
Wadjet Eye Games has done fine work to keep adventure games, publishing and also developing many respectable click 'em ups. If you've been stuck under a rock, perhaps trying bizarre combinations of items in your pockets to lift it, you can now pick up a healthy chunk of Wadjet's catalog for an Abe. A new pay-what-you-want bundle offers seven games published by Wadjet for as little as $5, including sci-fi noir Gemini Rue and Resonance.
"We spied the solitary grave at the edge of The Perilous Precipice & we wondered what was up with that. #sworcery", your Twitter chums tweet, and what is up with that? They're playing Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, see, and you can too for cheap, as it's been added to the pay-what-you-want Humble Bundle With Android #5, along with two other games. You don't need to let it spam Twitter, mind.
Pay-what-you-want bundleer Indie Royale launched another bargain bag of video games over the weekend, this time showcasing six assorted debuts, including several games' debut appearances on PC and some studios' debut game. Perhaps most noteworthy is Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller, an adventure game made by the folks behind free King's Quest revival The Silver Lining and which Gabriel Knight creator Jane Jensen consulted on.
This weekend brings few super-mega-turbo-amazing bargains, but a solid selection of reasonable discounts. PC digital distributors are offering Tropico 4 for $8, Killing Floor for $4, Mass Effect 3 for $10, Max Payne 3 for $14, Crysis 3 for $40, some decent bundles, and loads more.
The Humble stork has delivered another big bouncing bundle of games in the Humble Bundle with Android 5. The latest pay-what-you-want package offers musical shoot 'em up Beat Hazard Ultra, Dynamite Jack, Solar 2, NightSky HD, and, if you beat the average price, tower defense action-RPG Dungeon Defenders plus superb spin 'em up Super Hexagon too. All games come in PC, Mac, Linux and Android flavours.
The weekend is upon us! Ready thyself. My warmup for the weekend is dancing like a maniac, a maniac, but you, perhaps your routine is buying cheap downloadable PC games? This weekend you'll find StarCraft 2 for $20, Just Cause 2 for $4, Postal 3 for $4 (I don't know, maybe you're morbidly curious), Chivalry: Medieval Warfare for $10, Natural Selection 2 for $13, Borderlands 2 for $24, Tomb Raider pre-orders for $36, a bundle of oh so many Tomb Raider games for $24, and Dead Space 3 for $42.
Xbox Live Games on Demand typically ends up making you pay more than retail price--even during sales--for games which don't need to be pressed, packaged, shipped, or stored, which makes it essentially a costly way of saving shelf space. Microsoft's knocking up to 85% off off loads of games in a string of daily deals it's calling 'The Xbox LIVE Ultimate Game Sale,' starting with the Halo series, and for once it actually makes digital Xbox 360 games (mostly) cheaper than physical.
Gosh, so many fine games are going cheap this weekend that it's hard to pick one out to highlight, but I do need to choose one for the headline image. Let's say Dark Souls for $15. You'll also find digital distributors offering Painkiller: Hell & Damnation for $6, The Witcher 2 for $7, Dead Island GotY for $7, LEGO The Lord of the Rings for $8, Battlefield 3 for $10, Brutal Legend pre-orders for $12, Tomb Raider pre-orders for $36, Dead Space 3 for $40, and heaps more bargains.
Another weekend brings another lovely load of discounts at digital distributors. Do pick up The Witcher 2 for $10, as it's pretty nice. Other bouncing bargains delivered by the stalk to the basket (just go with it okay) include Trine 2 for $4, FTL for $5, the World of Warcraft Battle Chest for $5, Tropico 4 for $5, Torchlight 2 for $8, Mass Effect 3 for $10, and Max Payne 3 for $11.
If you've only got $5 in your virtual wallet this weekend, don't be down: blow what little money you have on digitally-distributed PC games. For $5 or less you can buy Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dear Esther, Batman: Arkham City, Borderlands, or several other respectable games. Bump your limit up to $10 and, well, you're looking at all the Dragon Ages, both Crysises, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, and more treasures. And if you're keenly awaiting next week's launch of Aliens: Colonial Marines, you can pre-order that for $37.49.
Your regular dealmeister is taking a break this week, but bargains wait for no one. This weekend you can grab AntiChamber, Just Cause 2, Dark Souls, The Cave, Dead Island GOTY, Little Inferno, and more on the cheap. You just need to know where to look, and that's where we come in.
PlayStation Plus membership is already a pretty redonculous bargain, given how many free games it gets you for PS3 and Vita, but Sony has sweetened the deal further. For the next few months, buying a year's PS Plus membership will get you a bonus three months. That's three extra months of free games, discounts, and wondering why Xbox Live is still so expensive.
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