Prima Launches In-Game Steam Guides

May 20, 2010 6:00 PM

Prima, longtime provider of video game strategy guides, will now be offering digital guides through Steam. Using the Steam overlay, guides can also be accessed within a game. The digital guides also include videos, which are obviously not available in print.

Regularly priced at $19.99, all guides are 50% off to celebrate the launch. Currently, guides are available for:

This is a great idea, but the Steam overlay also includes a web browser, which can be used to find the most up-to-date strategies, walkthroughs, cheats, and more for no additional charge around the Internet.

Still, as a consumer, it's nice to have the option of purchasing a professionally made digital guide along with a digital game.

Brian Leahy

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Johnnsen

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May 20, 2010 6:03 PM

20 Dollar for the digital guide? I would rather buy games for that. It could be argued if you need guides at all, but if I would, I would get them online. And if I really felt like spending money for it, I would rather have the paper. Meh.
- soundcreepy
  
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  May 20, 2010 6:08 PM
  
  paper version definitely...unless i just need a few pointers....then Google is god
  
  (are those in guide videos i see?)
- Happy Doodle Muffin
  
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  May 20, 2010 6:15 PM
  
  Yeah, I genuinely can't imagine anyone buying one of these. If they were, like, a buck a piece I could imagine them working - maybe - as an impulse buy.