Weekend PC digital deals: Star Wars

This weekend's PC digital deals cover Star Wars, Tex Murphy, Dragon Age, Paradox releases, and heaps more.

September 16, 2011 6:45 PM

Star Wars games are apparently the 'in' thing this weekend at PC digital distributors, with numerous discounts on Jedi-y games. If that's not your bag, you can pick up ~~the Ultimate Edition of Dragon Age: Origins for $12,~~ Dirt 2 for $7, the classic Tex Murphy games at 50% off, or avail yourself to the many other deals we've collected this weekend for your purchasing pleasure. Do have a gander at Steam's special Paradox Interactive sale this weekend, which includes discounts across the publisher's catalogue and a series of one-day mega-discounts. Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals:

Amazon

Alice: Madness Returns - $24.95 (50% off)
Duke Nukem Forever (Steamworks) - $19.99 (50% off)
Port Royale 2 - $1.49 (70% off)
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution (Steamworks) - $14.95 (50% off)

Alice: Madness Returns

Beamdog

King's Bounty: Crossworlds Game of the Year Edition - $12.50 (50% off)
Men of War - $3.75 (75% off)
Men of War: Assault Squad - $17.50 (50% off)

King's Bounty: Crossworlds

Direct2Drive

Crazy Cat Love - $4.95 (50% off)
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga - $9.95 (50% off)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Republic Heroes - $9.95 (50% off)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Ultimate Sith Edition - $9.95 (50% off)
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - $9.95 (50% off)

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

GamersGate

Command & Conquer 4 - $7.98 (60% off)
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - $7.98 (60% off)
~~Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition - $11.98 (60% off)~~
Dragon Age 2 - $14.98 (50% off)
Worldshift - $1.99 (80% off)

Dragon Age: Origins

Get Games

Cryostasis - $2.00 (80% off)
Dirt - $7.49 (50% off)
Dirt 2 - $7.19 (76% off)
Dungeon Siege III - $19.99 (60% off)
Jagged Alliance 2 Gold Edition - $3.00 (80% off)
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter (Steamworks) - $3.74 (75% off)

Dirt 2

Good Old Games

Tex Murphy 1 & 2 - $2.99 (50% off)
Tex Murphy: Overseer - $4.99 (50% off)
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive - $4.99 (50% off)
Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon - $4.99 (50% off)

Under a Killing Moon

Impulse

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood - $4.99 (75% off)
gShift - $4.99 (50% off)
Metal Brigade Tactics - $4.99 (50% off)
Red Faction: Guerrilla - $4.99 (75% off)

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

Steam

Saturday:

Darksiders: Wrath of War - $5.00 (75% off)
King Arthur Collection - $7.49 (75% off)

Weekend:

Portal - Free (100% off, innit)
Star Wars Collection - $49.99 (50% off)
Star Wars: Battlefront II - $4.99 (50% off)
Star Wars: Republic Commando - $4.99 (50% off)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - $4.99 (50% off)
Star Wars: Empire at War Gold Pack - $9.99 (50% off)
Paradox Complete Pack - $99.99 (87% off)
Cities in Motion - $9.99 (50% off)
East India Company - $4.99 (50% off)
Europa Universalis III Complete - $7.49 (50% off)
Hearts of Iron III - $9.99 (50% off)
King Arthur: The Role-playing Wargame - $4.99 (75% off)
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West - $4.99 (50% off)
Magicka - $4.99 (50% off)
Mount & Blade: Warband - $14.99 (50% off)
Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition - $4.99 (50% off)

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This weekend's PC digital deals cover Star Wars, Tex Murphy, Dragon Age, Paradox releases, and heaps more.
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  - dookiebot
    
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    September 16, 2011 7:00 PM
    
    Works for me (on steam) I also installed a 1.5 mod that added a bunch of new maps and gamemodes and playable NPCs ect. It's worth it if you have some peeps to play with.
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    September 16, 2011 8:20 PM
    
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  - shirif
    
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    September 16, 2011 8:21 PM
    
    I have that game. I'm installing it into my win7 x64 box and will let you of anything.
    - shirif
      
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      September 16, 2011 9:03 PM
      
      Works great.
  - Xencer
    
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    September 16, 2011 8:59 PM
    
    I'll play with you all!
- Thund3rball
  
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  September 16, 2011 7:12 PM
  
  How is Darksiders with KB/Mouse controls, as good as say Batman Arkham Asylum?
  - Jikim
    
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    September 16, 2011 7:22 PM
    
    It's good but the inventory ui feels a bit clunky. Gameplay is fun though!
  - Who_Is_John_Galt_?
    
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    September 16, 2011 7:24 PM
    
    Darksiders is amazing. It's a pretty good PC port. It's optimized correctly, controls feel and use fine and the game itself is a very good hack and slash.
    
    The only problem I've had so far is that on the first start up, there was a small hitch and I just had to restart it. Everyone gets it and it only happens once.
    
    Worth the 40k Space Marine Pre-Order and I would've payed about $30-40 for it either way. Not enough longevity to justify a $50 or $60 price tag though.
    - Thund3rball
      
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      September 16, 2011 7:35 PM
      
      Yeah I played it on PS3, might give it a go on PC if the controls are decent.
  - rodneystubbs
    
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    September 16, 2011 7:37 PM
    
    It's good but it's really a gamepad game
  - Begawkiness
    
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    September 16, 2011 7:47 PM
    
    I was pleasantly surprised at how well it worked with kb+m. Took me a little bit to get used to but once I did it was quite natural to use.
  - skinlab133
    
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    September 16, 2011 8:00 PM
    
    I bought a wired 360 controller specifically for it after trying M+KB, and I am diehard M+KB.
  - sixfoot6
    
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    September 16, 2011 8:06 PM
    
    My problem with it is the puzzles. In fact my save right now is half way through some puzzle and it's been so long I don't know wtf. Tried finding my place in some walkthroughs and just lost interest.
  - shirif
    
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    September 16, 2011 8:09 PM
    
    Good port, I liked the M&KB input. There was no lag to it.
  - Dschinghis Khan
    
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    September 16, 2011 8:10 PM
    
    Perfectly fine
- aethyr
  
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  September 16, 2011 8:16 PM
  
  Are any of Battlefront II, Republic Commando, and/or Empire at War worth picking up?
  - shirif
    
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    September 16, 2011 8:19 PM
    
    yes,yes,yes/
    - shirif
      
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      September 16, 2011 8:19 PM
      
      But if you must pick one, make it Republic Commando for uber gameplay.
  - grabbie
    
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    September 16, 2011 8:20 PM
    
    Republic Commando is such an amazing game. Give us a sequel already
  - Fenring42
    
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    September 16, 2011 8:27 PM
    
    Commando is great, but I believe it has minor graphical issues. I can find video of them, if you want.
    - shirif
      
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      September 16, 2011 8:31 PM
      
      It's related to modern ATI cards and enabling bump mapping to the max.
  - aethyr
    
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    September 16, 2011 8:34 PM
    
    So the consensus is, if I pick 1 game, it should be Republic Commando?
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      September 16, 2011 8:41 PM
      
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      - vertdang
        
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        September 16, 2011 10:33 PM
        
        I used to play the snot out of EaW. lately all I play is multi spacebattles though. Space is much better than ground.
    - thetangent
      
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      September 17, 2011 12:21 AM
      
      Out of the three, you will get the most out of Empire at War. It has a fantastic mod scene.
      - anbilow
        
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        September 17, 2011 10:21 PM
        
        The mod scene got pretty lolz. "Hey look it's the Eclipse! Hey it's taking up 75% of the map!"
  - thetangent
    
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    September 17, 2011 12:21 AM
    
    All three are great, though you could skip Battlefront II if you had to pick two.
  - cell9song
    
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    September 18, 2011 11:26 AM
    
    The Battlefront games are a lot of fun if you enjoy combined arms style gameplay a-la Battlefield. The bot support isn't too bad. I don't believe there are many people playing it online anymore though.
    
    Republic Commando is fun but a bit too linear for my own tastes. YMMV.
- Xencer
  
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  September 16, 2011 8:37 PM
  
  We should all start a battlefront II game, that game is awesome!
  - shirif
    
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    September 16, 2011 9:12 PM
    
    yes we should.
    Here's my steam page for easier coordination : http://steamcommunity.com/id/shirif
- Jrakosik
  
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  September 17, 2011 12:18 AM
  
  Gamersgate price on DA2 is wrong, it's 29.98 (list price 59.99)
  - Alice O'Connor
    
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    September 17, 2011 3:51 AM
    
    Hmmm. Thanks. It looks like they're fucking around with randomly changing the games on offer too.
- rms
  
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  September 17, 2011 7:01 AM
  
  Gameagent.com has DNF for Macs @ 19.99
- geneshifter
  
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  September 17, 2011 7:29 AM
  
  All games now with more NOOOOOOOOO!
- GigiLeCheshire
  
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  September 17, 2011 5:59 PM
  
  Do want entire Star Wars collection
- anbilow
  
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  September 17, 2011 10:22 PM
  
  too bad pc bf2 is 1st person... doesn't work as well imo.
  - nwillard
    
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    September 17, 2011 11:04 PM
    
    you're high. there are two modes, you know.
- Odin77
  
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  September 18, 2011 9:03 PM
  
  Cant believe nobody has mentioned the Tex Murphy series, one of my favorte series of games of all times, such great stories and humor. Found out that the original makers of the series are back together and that there might be another Tex game when/if they get enough funding so I bought the games just to support them even though I still have all the original games(and replay them every 5 years or so :)
  - fractured_sanity
    
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    September 18, 2011 11:14 PM
    
    I've been rebuying on GoG sales just so I don't have to deal with discs :P