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Weekend PC digital deals: Frozen Synapse, Deus Ex: Human Revolution

If you missed last weekend's opportunity to pre-order Deus Ex: Human Revolution for only $28.80, good news! This weekend's selection of deals sees the return of that offer, along with heaps more.
Alice O'Connor
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If you missed last weekend's opportunity to pre-order Deus Ex: Human Revolution for only $28.80, good news! That deal has returned this weekend, along with dozens more discounts at PC digital distributors. As well as more pre-order offers, including Assassin's Creed Revelations and Driver: San Francisco, there's cheap Frozen Synapse, Civilization V, and heaps more. Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals at digital distributors:

Steam

Until Saturday, 10am PST: Weekend:

Civilization V

Green Man Gaming

Get 20% off (almost) everything by applying the code FACEB-JULY3-20PEC at the checkout. Combined with a 15% discount on select pre-orders, it comes out as 32% off pre-ordering these fine games:

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Get Games

Frozen Synapse

Direct2Drive

Until Saturday, 10am PST: Weekend:

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Impulse

Friday: Weekend:

Dead Space 2

GamersGate

Friday:
Weekend:

Napoleon: Total War

Games for Windows

Section 8: Prejudice

Good Old Games

Until Saturday, 5:59am EDT:

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    July 22, 2011 8:30 PM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Weekend PC digital deals: Frozen Synapse, Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

    If you missed last weekend's opportunity to pre-order Deus Ex: Human Revolution for only $28.80, good news! This weekend's selection of deals sees the return of that offer, along with heaps more.

    • NickDelios legacy 10 years
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      July 22, 2011 9:57 PM

      Ok - stupid question time:

      I've never done a deal with Green Man Gaming and I'm kind of interested in the Augmented Edition of Deus Ex (ok - so the goddamn viral video they put up a day or two ago won me over, gah) and I'm wondering the following:

      Since it comes with the art book, the 'making of', motion comic and the soundtrack - does that mean you get a Steam key for the game and they still send you a retail copy... or at least the rest of it as a retail copy?

      • dpgagnon legacy 10 years
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        July 22, 2011 10:28 PM

        Nah you get digital versions of them, i.e. PDFs of the books and audio/video files for the other stuff. However, I'm not sure if you have to download them from Green Man Gaming or you unlock the Augmented Edition on Steam itself and get them from there.

    • Machinaeclipse legacy 10 years
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      July 22, 2011 10:01 PM

      Green Man Gaming standard Deus Ex is 35.99 :(

    • littledoc legacy 10 years
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      July 22, 2011 11:02 PM

      Uh... am I the only one having trouble with Green Man Gaming? Both my credit cards came up with a message that the bank did not authorize the order. WTF?

      • sharpie legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        July 22, 2011 11:29 PM

        had the same problem. You have to put your address info into your account page manually for it to work.

      • dpgagnon legacy 10 years
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        July 22, 2011 11:39 PM

        They're in the UK so it's possibly you're actually being blocked from purchasing for security reasons. If you can't get it working, try Paypal or call up your CC customer service to authorize the purchase.

        • sharpie legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          July 22, 2011 11:42 PM

          Just a quick warning, Paypal won't work unless he's linked his paypal account to his bank, I learned that the hard way as well. Very annoying trying to buy a game from them so far. And I haven't gotten a confirmation email regarding my pre order. Ah well.

      • crummynz legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        July 23, 2011 12:29 AM

        yes, happened to me, I had to use Paypal instead. my bank called me later about it.

      • nevlos legacy 10 years
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        July 23, 2011 9:01 AM

        Mine worked, but didn't get the steamworks key yet... assuming it gets emailed when it's released?

      • [deleted] 716648330 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        July 24, 2011 5:01 PM

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    • Printmatic legacy 10 years
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      July 23, 2011 6:05 AM

      HON $10 deal is extended and still on.

    • eiopa legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      July 23, 2011 8:03 AM

      Does the Steamworks thing means that I can just activate it on Steam and forget about Green Man Gaming? I don't want to bother with another service...

      • PointlesS76 legacy 10 years
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        July 23, 2011 8:05 AM

        Yeah. They'll send you a key and you'll put it in Steam to download.

        • cgreeen legacy 10 years
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          July 23, 2011 8:38 AM

          Anyone ever buy anything off of getgames? Want to pick up frozen synapse but they're asking for a shipping address-is it not downloadable?

          • jucheidea legacy 10 years
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            July 23, 2011 8:56 AM

            The games are downloadable. I've bought Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood from them and they both play with no problem.

    • Longgshot legacy 10 years
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      July 23, 2011 2:21 PM

      Watch the Section 8 screen.

      "Purchasing available"
      Purchase Heart
      Fatality!

      XD

    • Motoryogurt legacy 10 years
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      July 23, 2011 7:22 PM

      Avoid green man gaming...fyi

    • mobab legacy 10 years
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      July 23, 2011 9:05 PM

      What's the deciding factor for ordering the list? Do you randomly pull the digital distribution name from a hat?

      • Alice O'Connor legacy 10 years
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        July 24, 2011 6:53 AM

        There's a loose ordering.

        Steam goes first, because it's the site readers most care about, plain and simple.

        After that, I go vaguely in order of interesting deals, based on the highly subjective "Oooh I like that!" scale. I can usually eyeball a clear order to sort them by, but this week's is slightly murkier. Green Man's the best, GOG's the worst, then the rest is video games and went in whatever order I wrote them in.

        So no, usually it's relatively structured.

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