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Good and Cheap at Best Buy
There are a bunch of games at the corner of cheap and good at Best Buy right now. Ratings are from GameRankings:
Dead Space, Xbox and PS (89): $14.99
It’s a sci-fi horror shooter. I wrote about Dead Space back in October.
Fight Night: Round 4, Xbox and PS3 (87): $19.99
This is the latest in a series of [...]
Guitar Hero Smash Hits / PS3, Xbox, Wii – $20 or so
Dealnews brings word that Guitar Hero Smash Hits (72 or so on GameRankings) is going for around $20 at both Best Buy and Amazon.
This is the re-packaging of songs that had previously been in the Guitar Hero franchise, but this time, with the whole band, and a few other features.
Critics were shaky on it when [...]
Street Fighter IV – old school fighter made new – $20
Street Fighter IV / PS3, Xbox (93 on Metacritic) brings together the old-school fighter with all of the characters made famous from the franchise with lots of great newness: online match-making, high definition 3D, moves, and a bunch of characters. It’s a full-on button-mashing party, and everyone’s invited.
Here’s what HardcoreGamer said in their 4.75 / [...]
CyberMonday: kinda meh, but hey! Evil Genius, Monkey Island – $2.50!
So, I’ve been checking the feeds for deals for about a week now, and, while there have been a couple of outstanding buys (particularly for console boxes), there’s also been a lot of UNNECESSARY SCREAMING ABOUT SAVING FIVE DOLLARS OFF OF RETAIL! ACT NOW! ONLY 15 LEFT!
That said, I found this today, and it gave [...]
Black Friday downloads to your PC
Cheap, good PC gaming is doing great this Black Friday. All ratings are from GameRankings.
Steam
Steam is having a series of 1-day sales this weekend. Today they’ve got Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (93) for $2.49, Dead Space (86) for $14.99, and Majesty 2 (75) for $9.99.
Character design from Majesty 2
EA
EA has 30% [...]
A Gamer’s Black Friday
The real gamer’s strategy this Friday is to stay home and play a freakin’ game. There is no deal that can be had out there that is as fun as a good game.
If you have relatives around, consider breaking out a nice co-op game, like Rock Band, Castle Crashers, Mario Kart Wii. Or — and [...]
GameStop: Buy 2, Get 1 Free Used
GameStop has a Buy 2, Get 1 Free sale going on for used games and accessories, both online and in-store, from today through Sunday. They’ve got some great titles available. BioShock, Mass Effect, and Splinter Cell: Double Agent, for instance, are all under $20, and one of them would be free — total cost: $33.
Valkyria Chronicles / PS3 – Strategy in 1930’s Europe Fantasy
From DealNews: GameStop is having a sale on Valkyria Chronicles / PS3 for $20 (86 at Metacritic). (Make sure to hit DealNews for the details on free shipping.)
Valkyria Chronicles is a well-produced squad-based strategy game that walks the line between something like Final Fantasy Tactics and a first-person shooter. It’s set in a ‘Europe in [...]
The Week in Games
Hype of the Week
Three games make a strong running for the title this week: Left 4 Dead 2 (all, 90 on Metacritic), Assassin’s Creed II (Xbox, PS3, 91 or so on Metacritic) , and the New Super Mario Bros. Wii. (Wii, 87 on Metacritic). All three are worth playing, although, personally, I got a little [...]
Trine – fantasy platformer on the PS3, PC: $20
Trine / PS3 and PC (83 at Metacritic) is a very pretty 2d action platformer, in which the action shifts between a thief, a knight, and a wizard. In the single-player game, you flip between these characters. In the co-op mode, up to three players can join up and fight the good fight together. Each [...]