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Weekend PC download deals: StarCraft 2 for $20

The weekend is upon us! Ready thyself. My warmup for the weekend is dancing like a maniac, a maniac, but you, perhaps your routine is buying cheap downloadable PC games? This weekend you'll find StarCraft II for $20, Just Cause 2 for $4, Postal 3 for $4 (I don't know, maybe you're morbidly curious), Chivalry: Medieval Warfare for $10, Natural Selection 2 for $13, Borderlands 2 for $24, Tomb Raider pre-orders for $36, and Dead Space 3 for $42.
Alice O'Connor
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The weekend is upon us! Ready thyself. My warmup for the weekend is dancing like a maniac, a maniac, but you, perhaps your routine is buying cheap downloadable PC games? This weekend you'll find StarCraft 2 for $20, Just Cause 2 for $4, Postal 3 for $4 (I don't know, maybe you're morbidly curious), Chivalry: Medieval Warfare for $10, Natural Selection 2 for $13, Borderlands 2 for $24, Tomb Raider pre-orders for $36, a bundle of oh so many Tomb Raider games for $24, and Dead Space 3 for $42. Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals:

GameFly

Medal of Honor Warfighter

Amazon

Amazon's offering $30 in credit to spend on other 2K Games releases if you pre-order BioShock Infinite. Something to save for Grand Theft Auto V, perhaps. Plus, regular discounts:

Poker Night at the Inventory

Blizzard

StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty

GamersGate

Two Worlds 2

Get Games

Just Cause 2

GOG

The Whispered World

Green Man Gaming

Get 20% off most games with the voucher code GMG20-P4DLK-FKYRS. This makes many games cheap, including:
  • Chivalry: Medieval Warfare (Steam) - $10.00 (60% off)
  • Crazy Taxi + Jet Set Radio + Nights Into Dreams + Sega Bass Fishing + Space Channel 5 Part 2 + Sega Genesis Collection Series 1-5 (Steam) - $16.87 (80% off)
  • Dollar Dash pre-order (Steam) - $6.80 (32% off)
  • Kairo - $3.20 (60% off)
  • Pid (Steam) - $4.80 (52% off)
  • Sleeping Dogs + 4 DLC packs (Steam) - $20.65 (73% off)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog + Sonic 2 + Sonic 3 & Knuckles + Sonic CD + Sonic Adventure DX + Sonic Adventure 2 + Sonic 4 Episode 1 + Sonic 4 Ep 2 + Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing + Sonic Generations (Steam) - $21.56 (80% off)
  • Tomb Raider pre-order (Steam) - $36.00 (28% off)
  • Tomb Raider I + Tomb Raider 2 + TR 3 + TR 4: The Last Revelation + TR 5: Chronicles + TR 6: Angel of Darkness + TR: Legend + TR: Anniversary + TR: Underworld (Steam) - $24.00 (60% off)

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare

Impulse

Magicka

Indie Gala

Pay what you want for 7.622MM, Darwinia, Talisman Prologue, and Introversion's Subversion City Generator and Voxel Destruction tech demos. Beat the average price to also get Defcon, Demigod, Fibrillation, Galactic Civilizations 2, Hearts of Iron 3, King Arthur, King Arthur: Fallen Champions, King Arthur 2, Multiwinia, Uplink. Some activate on Steam. Ends today!

King Arthur 2

Indie Royale

Pay what you want for Delve Deeper, Guns of Icarus Online, Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior's Rise, KRUNCH, and Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People. Some activate on Steam.

Guns of Icarus Online

Origin

Dead Space 3

Steam

As well as being on sale, War of the Roses is free to play until 1pm Pacific on Sunday. Click here to install it through Steam.

Natural Selection 2

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    March 1, 2013 1:15 PM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Weekend PC download deals: StarCraft 2 for $20.

    The weekend is upon us! Ready thyself. My warmup for the weekend is dancing like a maniac, a maniac, but you, perhaps your routine is buying cheap downloadable PC games? This weekend you'll find StarCraft II for $20, Just Cause 2 for $4, Postal 3 for $4 (I don't know, maybe you're morbidly curious), Chivalry: Medieval Warfare for $10, Natural Selection 2 for $13, Borderlands 2 for $24, Tomb Raider pre-orders for $36, and Dead Space 3 for $42.

    • Schnapple legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      March 1, 2013 2:46 PM

      Man you know it's bad when you're thinking about getting Postal III and the thing that's tripping you up is not the $3.74 that it's costing, but the fact that it will be in your Steam list forever. It's like the game equivalent of a bad tattoo

      • Pneum0 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        March 1, 2013 4:04 PM

        a stain on your otherwise flawless collection.

      • scary_monster legacy 10 years
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        March 1, 2013 4:12 PM

        HAHAHA, that's exactly what was on my mind too! LMAO!

      • senor135 legacy 10 years
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        March 1, 2013 4:43 PM

        i think the fact that it's gamefly is more of a hangup for me

        • soundcreepy legacy 10 years
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          March 1, 2013 8:05 PM

          why? its just a steam code

          • senor135 legacy 10 years
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            March 4, 2013 4:15 PM

            that part is nice, but my short experience with gamefly in the past has been less than fluid, easy, customer-friendly, or enjoyable. sort of in the same way that GFWL makes me ill

      • geedeck legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        March 1, 2013 4:45 PM

        tramp stamp game

      • baron calamity legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        March 1, 2013 4:56 PM

        Its more of the rash that you got from a one night stand that wont go away.

    • PenicillinX57 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      March 1, 2013 2:50 PM

      Natural Selection 2...how big is the community these days? Is it still going strong, or showing signs of disappearing? Hate buying MP only games if nobody is playing...

      • Stimpak Chopra legacy 10 years
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        March 1, 2013 3:08 PM

        There'll be people playing for years if it's anything like the first NS.

      • Wisp! legacy 10 years
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        March 1, 2013 3:19 PM

        Plenty of people on every night. Even more so now. The developers release bi-weekly updates that keeps everyone coming back.

      • LoioshDwaggie legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        March 1, 2013 3:25 PM

        It's steadily growing. They even have a dedicated livestream that shows team matches and demos new patches.

    • shirif legacy 10 years
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      March 1, 2013 3:47 PM

      Missed the sega sale @ Getgames
      http://getgamesgo.com/category/SEGA-sale?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sega++Action+Sale&utm_content=Sega++Action+Sale+CID_fb0261512a2d92932def58cf666a0a0e&utm_source=cm&utm_term=Click%20here%20for%20our%20SEGA%20Sale

    • sambront legacy 10 years
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      March 1, 2013 4:44 PM

      It looks like Tomb Raider is only 10% off?

    • senor135 legacy 10 years
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      March 1, 2013 4:50 PM

      i've wanted to try out sword of the stars II for a good while now. Ive heard the good and bad about it. Most recently i saw a review stating that while there is some fun to be had, it's not worth the huge learning curve that it takes to get there, and that the AI was garbage.

      but for $5...? does anyone have any thoughts about this game? ive played and greatly enjoyed MOO2, the homeworld series, a little galactic civilizations 2, sins of a solar empire and endless space (hope i didnt leave any out). How does SotS II compare to these?

      endless space i did not enjoy because the combat was completely uninteresting, and i felt that ship design was completely pointless, at least from a creative / fun perspective.

      somehow i didnt really get too much into galciv's ship design action.

      from what ive seen, SotS II's ship design funtionality looks reasonably cool on its own.

      thoughts?

      • senor135 legacy 10 years
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        March 1, 2013 4:51 PM

        oh, also, what're space empires IV and V like? not long ago i tried to check out some gameplay videos of V but i actually couldnt find any.

        what's space empires like compared to MOO2 and galciv II?

        • Aldebrand legacy 10 years
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          March 1, 2013 9:16 PM

          I haven't played Space Empires V before and it has been years since I played Space Empires IV but I remember it as being a lot like MOO2 but kinda dumbed down. I don't think I really "got" the game either. I've bought the Space Empires pack and I'll probably give it a go a bit later. :D

          • senor135 legacy 10 years
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            March 1, 2013 11:40 PM

            i see. well id be interested in what you think about it. if it's more or less a dumbed down MOO2 i guess id probably skip it. MOO2 is such great fun.

            i havent played it often but i did boot it back up a little while ago and it's still awesome haha.

      • thetangent legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury mega
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        March 1, 2013 10:14 PM

        I loved all of the games you greatly enjoyed, and I also loved the original Sword of the Stars. If you haven't played it, get THAT instead. The first SotS was a fantastic game, easily on par with stuff like galciv II. The second one is still a pile of shit. I bought it a couple of months ago because I also saw it on sale. But it just isn't worth it. Stick with the first one.

        • senor135 legacy 10 years
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          March 2, 2013 2:50 AM

          i probably should get the original, but the combat is kind of a turn off to me.

          it seems to be uninteractive auto-resolve? unless im wrong? is there as much race diversity as in 2, and how does the star map gameplay work. SotS II's different race warp technologies sound cool... and all the random encounters and such.

          i also worry that the ship editor isnt as cool in the original. honestly that's kinda a big pull for me for the sequel. maybe im crazy.

          • thetangent legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury mega
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            March 2, 2013 10:37 AM

            No, there's a large amount of control over battles in SotS. You CAN auto-resolve if you want, but you can also fight out each and every battle.

            Also, the ship editor in the original is better than that of the sequel. The sequel got seriously dumbed down for ship editing.

    • ArB legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      March 1, 2013 8:38 PM

      Is The Cave any good? It looked interesting, but I didn't hear much about it.

      • Deathlove legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        March 2, 2013 6:23 AM

        It's Double Fine, you should buy it.

        • Haxim legacy 10 years
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          March 2, 2013 10:25 AM

          Every review I read the reviewer seems pretty underwhelmed. Did you play it? Is it any good?

    • senor135 legacy 10 years
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      March 1, 2013 11:51 PM

      Sword of the Stars II is now showing up as $9.99

      i was hesitant at $4.99 cause of what ive heard about the game. now suddenly it's $9.99?! booo

      :( i am rage.

    • [deleted] 1383068760 legacy 10 years
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      March 2, 2013 12:25 AM

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    • bryanvlo legacy 10 years
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      March 2, 2013 1:29 AM

      Wow MOH must have really tanked, already 50% off.

    • bryanvlo legacy 10 years
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      March 2, 2013 1:30 AM

      Strarcraft looks tempting I always been a fan of the storyline perhaps not much the gameplay (I'm bad at RTS). Should I pick it up guys?

    • [deleted] 147069810 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      March 2, 2013 6:05 AM

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      • Deathlove legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        March 2, 2013 6:35 AM

        I can put my finger on it: you suck.

      • rms legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury super mega
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        March 2, 2013 7:30 AM

        If you got bored with BL1, you'll get *really* bored with BL2. Get something else

        • Pneum0 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          March 2, 2013 9:55 PM

          It's certainly more of the same.

    • Xulu legacy 10 years
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      March 2, 2013 12:47 PM

      NS2 is fantastic.

      Bought NS2 the 1st time it was on for preorder, and what an incredible mess it was for the longest time. Alpha, beta, nothing was playable.

      Played it today, they did it. It's on its way to topping the original in terms of playability. Keep patching, keep balancing, keep improving... Just like NS1, nothing in the AAA space is this good.

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