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Weekend PC digital deals: It's Payne!

This weekend's deals include Fable III for $17, a Sins of a Solar Empire pack for $10, all the King's Bounty you can eat for $5, both Max Paynes for less than $4, and heaps more.
Alice O'Connor
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This weekend at PC digital distributors, you can find a Sins of a Solar Empire triple-pack for less than $10, Fable III for $17, a bumper bundle of King's Bounty fun for less than $5, both Max Payne games for less than $4, and heaps more bargains. Don't forget that the Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle ends soon too! Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals:

Amazon

King's Bounty: Armored Princess

Beamdog

Direct2Drive

Max Payne 2

Get Games

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover

Good Old Games

Again, GOG's deals are on a sliding scale, with the discount increasing as you buy more.

SWAT 3

Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle

Pay what you want for Frozen Synapse, SpaceChem and Trauma. Pay more than the average and you'll get the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle too, with Trine, Shadowgrounds, Shadowgrounds: Survivor, and more.

Frozen Synapse

Impulse

Sins of a Solar Empire

OnLive

Friday only:

Space asshole

Steam

Until 10am Pacific on Saturday: All weekend:

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    October 7, 2011 3:30 PM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Weekend PC digital deals: It's Payne!.

    This weekend's deals include Fable III for $17, a Sins of a Solar Empire pack for $10, all the King's Bounty you can eat for $5, both Max Paynes for less than $4, and heaps more.

    • Lung Fu Mo Shi legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 7, 2011 3:49 PM

      Great caption for Red Faction: Guerilla. I still like that game.

      Also, I see no Green Man Gaming on the deals. They have the Battlefield 3 Pre-Order for $49+ USD.

      • peat legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        October 7, 2011 3:56 PM

        Red Faction: Guerilla is a really fun game, $5 is a steal

        • Marrbe legacy 10 years
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          October 7, 2011 4:12 PM

          Yes, get it for sure. Just remember to bias your settings a bit more toward fps than usual, since mouse behavior is tied to it. There's one or a few settings to tweak primarily.

          • Wadmaasi legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury ultra mega
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            October 7, 2011 4:58 PM

            For me it was disabling occlusion that made it MUCH more snappy.

          • azshack legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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            October 7, 2011 7:23 PM

            And play on Easy. Way more fun to go around hammering things when you're not constantly dying.

            • Marrbe legacy 10 years
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              October 8, 2011 3:52 AM

              I played on Hard, more adrenaline and tension that way. You need a plan to go with the destruction or they'll take you down.

      • Alice O'Connor legacy 10 years
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        October 7, 2011 4:09 PM

        I think something wonky is going on with Battlefield 3 on Green Man for the US.

        Trying to view the store page from the US (well, a remote box in the US, but it's always worked before) redirects to the UK site and gives a "This product is not available for purchase in your region at the present time."

        This doesn't happen for other games so... I'm not sure what's happening there.

        • MeestaNob legacy 10 years
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          October 7, 2011 4:27 PM

          It's to do with regional restrictions being imposed by the new deal they signed with EA.

          No other games on their site have this issue, those publishers are just happy to make legitimate sales, however now that EA is on board it's a clusterfuck (check out GMG's numerous Facebook updates on the subject).

          Now, why am I not surprised things are all fucked up the second EA is involved in them?

          • Alice O'Connor legacy 10 years
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            October 7, 2011 4:49 PM

            Tch!

            Then, as the deals PSA is US-centric, it has to be excluded.

            Shame, as $49 would be $4 less than other DD sites are charging for BF3.

            • Lung Fu Mo Shi legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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              October 7, 2011 6:02 PM

              Yup. I just read that on their Facebook page. Looks like they are consolidating a business answer. Right now they are saying they will honor all sales from yesterday (when it started), but EA may quash that.

              Otherwise, I know Newegg has twice offered a 2/3 sale on BF3 with one of their codes for about $48 + free S&H. It's not currently going on, but I hope it'll come up again.

              Thanks for checking Alice.

      • Fpsnut legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        October 7, 2011 6:58 PM

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcUBI-YVRY8

    • dognose moderator legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 7, 2011 4:25 PM

      Anyone who hasn't played the Max Payne games and doesn't pick this deal up is just plain goofy.

      • GreggD legacy 10 years
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        October 7, 2011 4:56 PM

        The goofiest, in fact.

      • ShXIII legacy 10 years
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        October 7, 2011 7:55 PM

        Was there ever a fix for the first one and windows vista? I don't use vista anymore but for people who may still have it might not be able to play it. Also how do these game work with Win 7 64, anyone?

        • GreggD legacy 10 years
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          October 8, 2011 10:26 AM

          There's a patch for the audio in Vista/7. Which as far as I know is the biggest compatibility issue.

      • Chod legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        October 7, 2011 8:03 PM

        dognose I'd go so far as to say anyone who hasn't played the Max Payne games just isn't American.

      • AhmNee legacy 10 years
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        October 8, 2011 7:35 AM

        What if you picked them up the last time they were on sale and still haven't played them?

        • DinK legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          October 8, 2011 8:41 AM

          Yeah, just hypothetically of course, what if you are this guy?

          • GreggD legacy 10 years
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            October 8, 2011 10:25 AM

            YOU PLAY THEM RIGHT NOW, GOOFBALL! Pretty obvious, if you ask me.

    • [deleted] 877988455 legacy 10 years
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      October 7, 2011 7:01 PM

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      • abrasion legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        October 7, 2011 7:03 PM

        I don't know why they had to leave NYC, half of the fun of Max Payne is the dirty night time feel of that city :/ I hope 3 is good but I dunno, I don't see why it's necessary to do this, some of us don't mind the same old thing - again.

    • Rag and Bone Man legacy 10 years
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      October 7, 2011 9:04 PM

      Kung Fu mod is awesome

    • musterfox legacy 10 years
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      October 8, 2011 2:48 AM

      It would have been nice if Ironclad offered Sins of a Solar Empire on Steam as well....

    • Vogerl legacy 10 years
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      October 8, 2011 4:12 AM

      "It's Payne!

      Payne to the max!

      Payne in the butt!"


      "Guys, Payne's in there with the bosses and they aren't answering!"

      +1 for the chapter 3 reference in the title.

    • DjiXas legacy 10 years
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      October 8, 2011 6:04 AM

      This item is currently unavailable in your region

      FUCK YOU, STEAM

    • Don Vito Corleone legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      October 8, 2011 7:28 AM

      Thank you! Just picked up King's Bounty: Armored Princess! Was wanting to get that at some point.

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