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Entire Half-Life line / PC – 55.8% off
To celebrate Gordon Freeman’s victory over Mario in GameSpot’s All-Time Greatest Game Hero contest, Valve has put all of the Half-Life titles on sale for 55.8% off for this weekend only. (Why 55.8%? Because that’s the margin with which Gordon won.)
Half-Life 2 is one of the greatest videogames of all time (96 at Metacritic), but [...]
Virtua Fighter 5 / XBox, PS3 – $12.14 or $23
Virtua Fighter 5 (89 at Metacriic) is a fighting game that specializes in quick, technical combat. There’s not much of a story, no character development (outside of buying items to hang on your fighter), no levels to unlock, no hidden bosses to reveal.
But what it does, it does really well.
It’s fast, it’s responsive, and it’s [...]
Beneath a Steel Sky Remastered / iPhone – $4.99, or free
Oh, 1994.
You with your whining modems, your EGA monitors, and your dreams of cyberspace. You were cheeky, a dreamer, but you were underpowered. My 2009 cell phone would make you genuflect with its speed, color, and wirelessness.
By comparison, your action games were thin and sad — a very-flat looking Doom came out in 1993 — [...]
World of Goo / PC, Mac, Linux – name your price
Developer 2D Boy is celebrating the first birthday of their terribly charming World of Goo (90 at Metacritic) by letting you name your own price for it.
Wikipedia describes it like so:
The game is built around the idea of creating large structures using balls of goo. … The game is divided into five chapters, each containing [...]
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space / PC and Mac – Free
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space / PC and Mac (77 at Metacritic) is a small, fun little game where you “explore the galaxy … in 20 minutes or less!”
It plays a lot like a board game — and was originally distributed by a great traditional game publisher, Cheapass Games — but it’s punctuated with arcade [...]
War Games / PC – $5 each
Direct2Drive, an online retailer who specializes in downloadable games, is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a month-long sale of PC titles for $5. Each week offers a new category. This week the theme is “war.”
WAR! (HUH!)
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
A bunch of really bitchin’ games, it turns out.
Of the list of titles that are [...]
Dead Space / Xbox, PS3 – $22
Dealnews brings word that Buy.com is offering the survival horror title Dead Space for the PS3 or the Xbox 360 for $22, delivered.
Deadspace is a well-reviewed survival sci-fi horror game (88 or 89 at Metacritic, depending on platform). You play a communications engineer set out to find out what went wrong with a mining vessel [...]
Painkiller, Gothic, The Guild collections / PC – $10 or less
A while back, an Austrian game publisher decided that it would be an excellent idea to take some of their long-running, successful titles and gather up the entire series into one product — like, say, the box set of Godfather I, II, and III. As a result, JoWood Productions brought us ‘Painkiller: Universe’, ‘Gothic: Universe’, [...]
F.E.A.R. 2, Left 4 Dead / PC – under $18
Two well-reviewed horror shooters are on sale.
Left 4 Dead / PC – $14.99
Steam is selling Left 4 Dead for $14.99 as a downloadable.
GamingExcellence described it this way:
You’re trapped on a rooftop, zombies are everywhere and you’re running low on ammo. Welcome to Left 4 Dead.
HardcoreGamer lead with:
I should probably get this out of the way [...]
Indie Games / PC – $5
Direct2Drive, an online retailer who specializes in downloadable games, is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a month-long sale of PC titles for $5. Each week offers a new category. This week the theme is “independents.”
Games that are worth playing in the set that are currently on sale include:
World of Goo – a charming platform and [...]