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Black Friday 2011: More PC game download sales

John Callaham — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:27:35 +0000

Black Friday 2011 brings more PC game download sites into the annual week of savings including sites like Direct2Drive, GameStop's Impulse, EA's Origin and GoG.com, among others. Read more...

Black Friday 2011: Steam and other PC game download sales

John Callaham — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:55:01 +0000

Black Friday 2011 hasn't officially started yet but at least three PC game download sites, including Steam, are jumping the gun with massive sales that last through Monday. Read more...

EA's Origin passes four million downloads; now to include third-party games

Paul Ferson — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:26:07 +0000

Electronic Arts' digital distribution service, Origin, has passed four million installations across various computers. Electronic Arts shares news about the availability of games through it. Read more...

GameFly to launch unlimited PC game service

John Callaham — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:56:30 +0000

GameFly, who has offered monthly subscription plans for console games rentals, will add a way for subscribers to download and play as many PC games as they want later this year. Read more...

Independence Day weekend gives us lots of PC game sales

John Callaham — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:57:16 +0000

Would you like to save some money while having a barbacue or watching fireworks shows this weekend? Various PC game download sites are happy to oblige you with lots of daily game sales: Steam - Valve's... Read more...

Friday's PC game sales are set for the weekend

John Callaham — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:13:43 +0000

Friday brings us a number of new daily, weekend and week long PC game sales to take advantage of Direct2Drive - GameFly's PC game download site has a sale for today only on Battlefield 2 and... Read more...

Thursday's PC game sales include free game

John Callaham — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:47:51 +0000

It's Thursday and that mean it's also the busiest day of the week for PC gamers to get some good deals on a bunch of games. We start up with the release of a game... Read more...

Tuesday's PC game sales include free game (for a week)

John Callaham — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:54:56 +0000

The daily PC game sales that can be found on the Internet today include the offer to play the full version of a popular shooter until Monday. We've also added a console game bundle that... Read more...

Monday's PC game sales save you some money

John Callaham — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:15:30 +0000

After an E3 induced hiatus, we have come back to give you some alerts to the various new PC game sales deals that you might find on the Internets. Most of these deals expire within... Read more...

Thursday's PC game sales get us set up for the weekend

John Callaham — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:26:40 +0000

With a shortened work week thanks to Memorial Day, Thursday's PC game sales deals get us ready for the weekend. Here's what's on tap: Steam - Valve's PC game download site offers up a weekend sale... Read more...

Wednesday's PC game sales include free game offer

John Callaham — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:26:38 +0000

It's the middle of the week, so why does it feel like Tuesday? Oh yeah ... that's right. Well if you are looking for some savings on hump day on PC games you have come... Read more...

Tuesday's PC game sales get us out of the holiday slump

John Callaham — Tue, 31 May 2011 20:15:27 +0000

The three day weekend is now over and that means that lots of us are depressed about going back to work. However there are some PC game sales today that might cheer you up: Steam -... Read more...

Monday's PC game sales hit on Memorial Day

John Callaham — Mon, 30 May 2011 18:57:27 +0000

It's Memorial Day here in the US and UK residents are also enjoying a day off. But even holidays don't take a day off when it comes to PC game sales. Let's take a look... Read more...

Friday's PC game sales take us to Memorial Day weekend

John Callaham — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:53:14 +0000

This weekend is a three day affair here in the United States as we celebrate Memorial Day on Monday. As we remember those who gave their lives for our freedoms, we also have the freedom... Read more...

Thursday has a bunch of new PC game sales

John Callaham — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:57:43 +0000

If you like saving money, it's time once again to see what PC game download sites can give us in terms of new price cuts: Steam - Valve's PC game download site has a number of... Read more...

Wednesday's PC game sales still have lots of Steam price cuts

John Callaham — Wed, 25 May 2011 23:05:25 +0000

This week has seen a flood of price cuts, both of the daily and longer variety. Today is no exception as a number of new sales deals have popped up. Some other price cuts can... Read more...

Gamefly officially purchases Direct2Drive

John Callaham — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:53:20 +0000

While the first news of the deal was leaked late last week, the video game mail order rental service GameFly has now officially announced that it has acquired the Direct2Drive PC game download store from... Read more...

Tuesday's PC game sales include lots of Steam price cuts

John Callaham — Tue, 24 May 2011 20:11:14 +0000

Tuesday brings us a flood of new PC game sales, particularly on the Steam web site. Let's get to all the new deals: Steam - The PC download site continues its Ubisoft week long sale with... Read more...

Monday's PC game deals include free copy of Necrovision Lost Company

John Callaham — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:20:03 +0000

Do you like free games? Do you like first person shooter titles? Then you are in luck for the next 48 hours. That's the time period that the Green Man Gaming web site has decided... Read more...

Friday's PC game sales bring us into the weekend

John Callaham — Fri, 20 May 2011 21:52:09 +0000

Friday has arrived and with it comes a new batch of daily and weekend PC game sales to mull over. Let's check them out now, shall we? Steam - Over at the Steam web site they... Read more...

Report: IGN selling off Direct2Drive to Gamefly

John Callaham — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:31:32 +0000

One of the biggest PC game download stores may be sold off by its current owner, if Internet reports are correct. The MCV web site reports via unnamed sources that IGN Entertainment is in the... Read more...

Thursday's PC game sales show up on the Internet

John Callaham — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:11:59 +0000

Thursday brings us a number of new PC game sales and price cuts. Over on the Steam web site you can get the futuristic racing game Metal Drift on sale from now until 1 pm... Read more...

Wednesday's PC game sales include trucks, dragons and pirates

John Callaham — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:42:34 +0000

Hump day has arrived. With the arrival of Wednesday comes a few more daily PC game sales that you might be interested in. Steam continues its daily PC game sales with, of all things, a... Read more...

Tuesday's PC game sales pop up on the Internet

John Callaham — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:37:42 +0000

Saving money is our business and today business is good. Tuesday brings a bunch of new PC game sales to the forefront. One of the game sales is absolutely free. As we previously reported you... Read more...

Monday's PC game deals include final minutes for Serious Sam HD deals [Update]

John Callaham — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:26:03 +0000

If you want to still get a deal on all the Serious Sam games on Steam you have a few more minutes to do so. The Steam web site will close all the 75 percent... Read more...

Friday's PC game deals get us ready for the weekend

John Callaham — Fri, 13 May 2011 20:41:23 +0000

We made it! Friday is here which means the weekend is about to begin. But before you start relaxing or seeing a concert or taking in a movie you can try to check out some... Read more...

Thursday's PC game sales deals hit the net

John Callaham — Thu, 12 May 2011 19:17:37 +0000

Thursday is one of the busiest days of the week in terms of finding new PC game sales and today is no exception to that rule. Today over at the Steam web site, they have... Read more...

Tuesday's PC game sales include The Witcher for $4.99

John Callaham — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:21:49 +0000

Today's PC game sale highlight can be found over at GoG.com. The DRM free web site has CD Projekt's 2007 fantasy RPG The Witcher available to download for just $4.99 for the next two weeks... Read more...

Monday PC game sales include discount on Duke Nukem Forever

John Callaham — Tue, 10 May 2011 00:20:21 +0000

We start out a new work week with word that PC gamers can now go ahead and pre-order Duke Nukem Forever on Steam and also on Direct2Drive. Yes. the long awaited first person shooter from... Read more...

Sunday's PC game sales include price cuts on Battlefield games

John Callaham — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:18:24 +0000

It's a lazy spring Sunday but PC gamers can still save some well earned cash by taking advantage of today's price cuts. In addition to today's one day deals we will remind you of some... Read more...

Saturday PC game sales deals include Dead Space price cuts

John Callaham — Sat, 07 May 2011 20:18:55 +0000

Saturday is Free Comic Book Day here in the United States. Oddly enough we don't have any free games being given away as part of our PC daily sales deals but we do have some... Read more...

Thursday brings in more PC game sales deals

John Callaham — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:48:32 +0000

Thursday has arrived and with it comes a number of PC game sales from various web sites. Let's check out Steam's deals first. The site is still smack in the middle of its week long... Read more...

Wednesday's PC game sales deals include lots of Sims games

John Callaham — Wed, 04 May 2011 18:37:38 +0000

It's Wednesday or as many of us call it "Hump Day". May 4 is also "Star Wars Day" which we have been told was selected because May 4 sounds a little like "May Force". In... Read more...

Tuesday's PC game sales hit the net

John Callaham — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:26:29 +0000

Tuesday has arrived and with it comes a new batch of daily, two day and longer sales periods for a select number of PC games. We start the day by checking out the Steam PC... Read more...

Monday PC games on sale - a new daily feature

John Callaham — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:05:36 +0000

It's the start of a new work week but saving money is something that anyone can do any day. Ever since PC games started to move towards being sold more and more via digital downloads,... Read more...