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Weekend PC digital deals: Labor Day bonanza

Bargains this weekend include a bundle of Spec Ops: The Line and both BioShocks for $20; Deus Ex: Human Revolution for $6; Quantum Conundrum for $3; Battlefield 3 for $20; Mass Effect 3 for $16; all the Alan Wakes for $13; a bundle of Borderlands GotY, The Darkness II and DNF for $20; and other absurdly cheap things. For this, I work until I hurl obscenities at my monitor, for you.
Alice O'Connor
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For many, Labor (sic) Day weekend is a time of celebration and relaxation. Not for me, no, because digital distributors are running phenomonal sales so I'm still writing them up here, at my monitor, when I should be out dancing at this very moment. You're welcome. Bargains this weekend include a bundle of Spec Ops: The Line and both BioShocks for $20; Deus Ex: Human Revolution for $6; Quantum Conundrum for $3; Battlefield 3 for $20; Mass Effect 3 for $16; all the Alan Wakes for $13; a bundle of Borderlands GotY, The Darkness II and DNF for $20; and other absurdly cheap things. For this, I work until I hurl obscenities at my monitor, for you. Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals:

GameFly

You'll need to use the voucher code 1GFT82012 to get these prices:

Quantum Conundrum

Amazon

Amazon's Labor Day Sale is really, really big. Please, spend hours rooting around in it yourself, if you please, but I'm only picking out a few deals here.

Mass Effect 3

GamersGate

Gray Matter

Get Games

Get Games is running a 'build your own bundle' thing, letting you buy any two of the following games for $15:
  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution Augmented Edition (Steam)
  • Dungeon Siege III + DLC (Steam)
  • Red Orchestra 2 GotY (Steam)
  • Serious Sam 3 (Steam)

Red Orchestra 2

GOG

Total Annihilation

Green Light Bundle

Pay what you want for a bundle of Dino Run SE, Ichi, Muffin Knight, and Syder Arcade. Pay above the average to get Gunman Clive, Guerrilla Bob, Paper Monsters, and Samurai II Vengeance too.

Dino Run SE

Green Man Gaming

You can get these prices all weekend with the voucher code GMG30-916H7-0TG16: Then, from 3am on Sunday to 3am on Monday, you can get 25% off anything with the voucher DERHE-RRDER-RINGE. You might want to get, say:

Guild Wars 2

Impulse

Shank 2

Indie Royale

Pay what you want, above a minimum price, for a bundle of Analogue: A Hate Story, Da New Guys, MiniFlake, Shattered Horizon, Super Amazing Wagon Adventure and Waves.

Shattered Horizon

Origin

Battlefield 3

Steam

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    August 31, 2012 2:30 PM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Weekend PC digital deals: Labor Day bonanza.

    Bargains this weekend include a bundle of Spec Ops: The Line and both BioShocks for $20; Deus Ex: Human Revolution for $6; Quantum Conundrum for $3; Battlefield 3 for $20; Mass Effect 3 for $16; all the Alan Wakes for $13; a bundle of Borderlands GotY, The Darkness II and DNF for $20; and other absurdly cheap things. For this, I work until I hurl obscenities at my monitor, for you.

    • jaytima legacy 10 years
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      August 31, 2012 2:35 PM

      you have Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - Legend of Dead Kel DLC (Origin) for amazon listed as 19.99 but its 4.99

    • Schnapple legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 31, 2012 3:24 PM

      Is Dungeon Siege III any good if you want a mindless dungeon crawler?

      • Alastayr legacy 10 years
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        August 31, 2012 3:41 PM

        Yes. I have nothing but praise for this game. It is an excellent action game, Obsidian's most polished game to date with fantastic art direction and visuals that finally approach that glorious look of old Infinity Engine games.

        It can be simple and underwhelming on normal difficulty, but is highly rewarding and tactical on higher settings. It has flawless local and online co-op and is preferably played by two people on the same couch. With 360 controllers. Sacrilege, I know. That said, the PC version is the definitive version. It simply plays better with a controller.

        Now I should stop gushing. But seriously. Great game. Don't go in and expect anything like the first two (fairly shitty) games. It's not at all "Diablo for slow people" like those snooze pills.

      • darthfusion legacy 10 years
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        August 31, 2012 5:33 PM

        I really didn't like it. It's made for a controller, if you have a PC controller, it would probably be ok, but it's super awkward with M+KB.

      • jaytima legacy 10 years
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        August 31, 2012 6:58 PM

        just reiterating here that it can be enjoyable so long as you keep in mind its an action rpg made for a controller in the vein of dark alliance. it's not really a diablo-like and more based around melee skills and just pointing the stick in a direction to target.

    • oneandone11 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 31, 2012 4:00 PM

      The Secret World - is it worth $25?

    • Eternity07 legacy 10 years
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      August 31, 2012 4:24 PM

      Assassin Creed has been removed, based on your link to it.

    • Navy Spitfire legacy 10 years
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      August 31, 2012 4:28 PM

      Some solid deals right there

    • X-GOUKI legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      August 31, 2012 6:27 PM

      If I wasn't married I would take you out dancing Alice, but in anycase thanks for posting these deals!

    • eorlas legacy 10 years
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      August 31, 2012 7:46 PM

      Guild Wars 2 is out of stock at that site. The digital sales have been suspended according to a previous article.

      • Alice O'Connor legacy 10 years
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        September 1, 2012 12:32 AM

        ArenaNet has only suspended sales on its own site, so GMG will be plain old out of stock. They might have keys back in time for when that voucher code comes into effect on Sunday, though, so I'm leaving it in.

        • eorlas legacy 10 years
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          September 1, 2012 4:04 PM

          Oh, that's good to know! Thanks for the clarification =D

    • senor135 legacy 10 years
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      September 1, 2012 1:34 AM

      anyone know if the dungeon siege III DLC from gamefly will activate on steam?

      • gzubluck legacy 10 years
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        September 1, 2012 2:22 AM

        Dungeon Siege III being Steamworks, I'd assume it does.

      • gzubluck legacy 10 years
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        September 1, 2012 2:22 AM

        Dungeon Siege III being Steamworks, I'd assume it does.

        • gzubluck legacy 10 years
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          September 1, 2012 2:24 AM

          Dammit, stupid double post.

        • senor135 legacy 10 years
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          September 1, 2012 7:19 AM

          yyeaaa..... but id hate to risk giving stupid gamefly even a penny of my money if i thought it might not activate on steam.

          Steam support forum lists the vanilla game as activatable (sp?), but doesn't explicitly list the DLC. So far as i can tell, anything (or nearly anything) not on that list will not activate on steam.

          • senor135 legacy 10 years
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            September 1, 2012 7:23 AM

            I mean... it would make sense that the DLC should activate just fine... but maybe some separate business-deal-shenanigans went down... and you can't enter DLC codes from other sources?

            Best way to find out would be to contact steam i suppose, or hope that someone here who's done it can post with results.

          • gzubluck legacy 10 years
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            September 1, 2012 2:05 PM

            Well, I bought my copy of the DLC from gamersgate at the time, and it activated without trouble. And since the DLC isn't stand-alone (ala Deus Ex HR DLC), I really think you shouldn't be worried too much.

            • senor135 legacy 10 years
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              September 1, 2012 3:37 PM

              Ok cool, I'm sure that if the key from gamersgate worked, then gamefly's should work just fine as well. thanks for the info.

              • senor135 legacy 10 years
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                September 1, 2012 3:48 PM

                oh god... there's a gamefly download client.... what have i done?

    • Darkfox76 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      September 1, 2012 1:53 AM

      Hows Syndicate, is it worth $10?

      • gzubluck legacy 10 years
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        September 1, 2012 2:24 AM

        Single-player is utterly disappointing, despite good ideas. Stupid story & annoying bosses.

        On the other hand, the co-op is addictive as hell and well thought, and is worth it IMO

      • X-GOUKI legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        September 2, 2012 5:27 AM

        I actually enjoyed SP, it was about 7hrs short.
        Co op is really where is at, although I had trouble finding ppl to play with

    • wfalcon legacy 10 years
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      September 2, 2012 5:44 PM

      I take it Gamersgate stuff was 1 day only? Was going to pick up SupCom for a rugrat, but it was full price.

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