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Weekend PC download deals: $10 Battlefield 3

The weekend brings some wonderful, wonderful PC download sales, which you would do well to avail yourself of. Bargains include Battlefield 3 for $10.00, Spec Ops: The Line for $7.49, Skyrim for $27.00, Dawnguard for $13.97, Defcon for 37¢, Legend of Grimrock for $7.49, both Alan Wake games for $19.99, and Saints Row: The Third for $9.99. A number of fine bundles are on offer too.
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The weekend brings some wonderful, wonderful PC download sales, which you would do well to avail yourself of. Bargains include Battlefield 3 for $10.00, Spec Ops: The Line for $7.49, Skyrim for $27.00, Dawnguard for $13.97, Defcon for 37¢, Legend of Grimrock for $7.49, both Alan Wake games for $19.99, and Saints Row: The Third for $9.99. A number of fine bundles are on offer too. Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals:

GameFly

Friday: Weekend:

Spec Ops: The Line

Almost Human

Legend of Grimrock

Amazon

You can get 25% off most games, excluding pre-orders and games released in the last 30 days, with the voucher code OCTOFUN1. You'll need that for most of these prices:

Guild Wars 2

GamersGate

Sanctum

Get Games

Saints Row: The Third

GOG

Rather than copy out GOG's whole huge Activision sale, I've picked out a few games.

Arcanum

Green Man Gaming

You can get 25% off almost everything with the voucher code GMG25-EVFWS-4Z4ZN. Use that to get these prices:

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Groupees

Pay what you want for King's Bounty: The Legend, Mercy Corps, Neo Scavenger, and X-Blades. Pay over $5 to also get Tropico 3, Oddworld Stranger's Wrath HD, and some comics. Most are Steamy.

Stranger's Wrath HD

Impulse

Impulse's offers include 33% off most Codemasters games, with bigger daily deals. Plus, there's an Anno 2070 flash sale. Friday:

Anno 2070

Indie Gala

Pay what you want for Alien Breed 2 and Worms plus Android versions of Battlegroup and Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land. Pay more than $5.87 to also get Broken Sword, Broken Sword 2, Broken Sword 3, Worms Blast, Worms Crazy Golf, Worms Pinball, Smooth Operators, and Alien Breed 3: Descent. Except for the Android games and Smooth Operators, they're all Steamy.

Alien Breed 2

Indie Royale

Pay what you want, above a minimum price, for Chime, Hector: Badge of Carnage, The Adventures of Shuggy, Dangerous High School Girls In Trouble! and The Network. With music!.

The Adventures of Shuggy

Mike Bithell

Friday:

Thomas Was Alone

Steam

Steam's running a big THQ weekend sale, with 50% off everything THQ and bigger savings in daily deals. You may want to wait and see if the game you really want comes up in a daily. Friday: Weekend:

Company of Heroes

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    October 5, 2012 11:30 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Weekend PC download deals: $10 Battlefield 3.

    The weekend brings some wonderful, wonderful PC download sales, which you would do well to avail yourself of. Bargains include Battlefield 3 for $10.00, Spec Ops: The Line for $7.49, Skyrim for $27.00, Dawnguard for $13.97, Defcon for 37¢, Legend of Grimrock for $7.49, both Alan Wake games for $19.99, and Saints Row: The Third for $9.99. A number of fine bundles are on offer too.

    • soundcreepy legacy 10 years
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      October 5, 2012 11:40 AM

      IndieGala just unlocked the bonuses. Aside from the two albums they have a bonus game called Smooth Operators Indie Gala Edition, fun little time-sink if you ask me.

    • Rehevkor legacy 10 years
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      October 5, 2012 11:41 AM

      Buy Saints Row 3 and Alan Wake. Everyone. DO IT.

    • Dechter legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 5, 2012 11:46 AM

      Is Spec Ops worth $7.50 just for single player?

      • SirX legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury super mega
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        October 5, 2012 11:52 AM

        this is what I am wondering. the gamefly review makes it sound great....

      • gzubluck legacy 10 years
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        October 5, 2012 11:52 AM

        I loved it!
        Don't expect a great shooting experience (gunfight is far from Max Payne 3, for example), but still, an unique setting combined with an experience that'll grow on you.

      • TylerJSmith legacy 10 years
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        October 5, 2012 11:59 AM

        Yes, not the best shooter, but I had a great time with the campaign.

      • Dechter legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        October 5, 2012 2:51 PM

        Thanks for the feedback; purchased!

      • Vamatt99218 legacy 10 years
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        October 5, 2012 4:26 PM

        Don't forget to use the 20% off Gamefly Coupon to make it $6 making it truly a great deal.

    • ehaykal legacy 10 years
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      October 5, 2012 12:26 PM

      I really want Defcon but on Steam :(
      I can't keep up with all those different clients,

      • ehaykal legacy 10 years
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        October 6, 2012 1:47 AM

        ok i ended up trading a game for it. The trading system on GMG is something steam should integrate.

    • Jobos legacy 10 years
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      October 5, 2012 1:11 PM

      GameFly doesn't take Paypal. They just lost my $10.

    • Hilux SSRG legacy 10 years
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      October 5, 2012 3:41 PM

      Hopes dashed. Wanted to pickup BF3 Premium or Borderlands2 at discount. And no I don't want GMG after the hassle I had with them.

      • pizzaput legacy 10 years
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        October 5, 2012 5:54 PM

        You'd still have it on Origin, they'd just give you the serial keys to add it there. Bf3 isn't worth money though, imo.

    • Hilux SSRG legacy 10 years
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      October 5, 2012 3:41 PM

      Hopes dashed. Wanted to pickup BF3 Premium or Borderlands2 at discount. And no I don't want GMG after the hassle I had with them.

    • ThomW legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury ultra mega
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      October 5, 2012 4:59 PM

      There are some sweet deals! (Finally) picked up BF3 and couldn't pass up Grimrock for $7.50. Too bad it doesn't have a mac version. :/

    • Halen legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury super mega
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      October 5, 2012 5:23 PM

      I click on the GW2 at Amazon and it is still $60 :(

      • Halen legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury super mega
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        October 5, 2012 5:26 PM

        Oh a voucher code. Derp. :(

    • TPSReport legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 5, 2012 5:44 PM

      i'm in for $10 Bf3. but what am I buying, a download code or something? so i pay $10 to Gamefly then go download the game from EA's origin system?

    • cookblaze legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 5, 2012 6:30 PM

      I don't think I'd play BF3 multi...is the SP good?

      • pyide legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        October 5, 2012 6:34 PM

        Nah. There's some good looking scenes that stand out which you may find worth the price if you have a decent PC. It's a mediocre campaign though. MP is the real reason to get it, and it's not exactly a $10 proposition when you start adding the DLC into the mix.

        I'd say get it for both, there used to be weekly shackbattles but I'm not sure if those are done for good already or what.

        • cookblaze legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          October 5, 2012 6:37 PM

          I feel like it's too late to get in on MP. I'm way behind the curve :(

          • comiekazie legacy 10 years
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            October 5, 2012 9:44 PM

            I see sub-colonels all the time. There is a handful of us that play regularly if you're looking for someone to play with.

        • TPSReport legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          October 5, 2012 6:49 PM

          does one have to have the DLC's to play MP?

          • pyide legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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            October 5, 2012 7:45 PM

            No, but that's probably where the largest concentration of active players are when you figure all the folks who tire of the base vanilla content or move on to other games* after awhile. New content brings some back but the die hards will be doing it all for the long haul.

            *It was crazy how fast the shack dropped this game, we had like 4 full platoons / 400 players and after Skyrim a month later we were down to a only few dozen playing regularly and it never picked back up, even with the DLC. Armored Kill came way too late imo.

            • comiekazie legacy 10 years
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              October 5, 2012 9:48 PM

              I see just the opposite. CQ and AK are for niche audiences, most servers are still B2K and Vanilla.

              • pyide legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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                October 5, 2012 9:56 PM

                How many are full / empty though, and I wonder what the reqs are to change a server over? Anyway, when I checked last the old stuff was a ghost town but that wasn't long after to AK's launch. And of course I'm including Back to Karkand when I say the DLC is a factor as it stopped coming with the base game a long time ago. He or anyone else buying the game now has to pay extra for that.

                • comiekazie legacy 10 years
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                  October 5, 2012 10:11 PM

                  Pretty much my entire favorites list was AK after launch, but I think only one or two are holding out right now. It was the same for CQ. I just went on battlelog to look, most servers require DLC, but the full servers were vanilla maps.

            • Lucy Labia legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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              October 6, 2012 12:16 AM

              I loaded it up yesterday and found people to play with on vanilla quite easily.

      • shirif legacy 10 years
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        October 5, 2012 7:14 PM

        Nope.

      • Haku-Jin legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        October 5, 2012 7:16 PM

        Why wouldn't you play multi? It's a great game.

    • clue legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 5, 2012 8:50 PM

      Darksiders 2(PC) for 18.75 from amazon with that OCTOFUN1 voucher. Great deal

    • MamiyaOtaru legacy 10 years
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      October 5, 2012 9:42 PM

      ugh I was going to suck it up and deal with Origin, but having to make a Gamefly account too is making me D:

    • TPSReport legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 5, 2012 10:30 PM

      man is Origin this fucked up??

      I create new account, it never sends me any signup email. Ok whatever, then i tried to login, fail, it doesn't recognize me. Ok, but re-creating account fails because it found an existing account with my email addr. Ok, so I enter email to have it reset the password, it says "email addr is not recognized"

      Fuck me. And fuck PC gaming.

      Good thing this was only $8, otheriwse I'd be pissed.

      • Schnapple legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        October 7, 2012 9:35 PM

        No, fuck Origin. It's almost comical how bad it is. Even if you try to give it a fair shake compared to Steam, the sheer pain in the ass to get anything done is just lame. It took me two conversations with support to get my copy of Crysis 2 to be associated with my account.

    • mrnails legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 6, 2012 1:46 PM

      Amazon.com has BF3 for $10 too. Activation on Origin easy.

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