pc gamers: headsup... the steam summer sale started.

Flash Deal Alert: Arkham Asylum GoTY and Arkham City are both on sale for the next 11 hours. Arkham Asylum is goign for $6.79, and Armham City for $10.19. If you've ever wanted to be Batman, now is your chance. These games are seriously good -- well written, excellent design, exquisite controls. The freeflow combat system is easy to learn, but hard to master.

Seriously, I cannot recommend these games enough. Buy them. Do it.

EDIT: It should be noted that these games do make use of the Games for Windows Live nonsense. It's relatively unobtrusive, and for those of you who own XBoxen I think there's some way to link it to your XBox Live account. Still worth noting, as if that's a deal breaker you may want to pass.

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Excellent choice. We've got a few TFPers who get together for L4D2 nights fairly regularly. You'll need to get onto our friends list to be included -- there's no harm at all in having another player.

 

Deal alert: Bastion is on for $3.74 for the next five hours. Isometric action-RPG time travelling adventure goodness with silky smooth narration is well worth getting at twice that price. I actually paid more than triple that and still feel like I got more than my money's worth.

Buy it. You know you want to.

 

Flash Sale Alert!

Civilization V: Game of the Year Edition is selling for $7.49 for the next 3.5 hours.

Also for the next 3.5 hours, Mirror's Edge is selling for $4.99, which is a game I highly recommend!

 

I picked up Mirro's Edge. I will stop now. I've already spent more this year on games than I have in many, many, years. Of course, I've gotten more games than just the 2 or 3 I would have bought back in the day.
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dammit. i just bought crysis package because well, I've never played it before.

 

Flash deal: All Double Fine games are on for 75% off for the next five hours. Psychonauts and Costume Quest are both excellent. I haven't played Stacking, but bought it just because it is a Double Fine game.

 

Save 90% on Railworks 3: Train Simulator 2012 on Steam

railworks is 90% off for $3.49

If you like train sets, this is a fun thing.
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If you buy the entire DLC it will be $1030.06
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fuck why did i look at stacking? I wanted that game when I first saw it come out. Shit, fuck, piss, mother fucker... I can't wait for this sale to be over.

Save 75% on Stacking on Steam

 

I probably should be resisting these purchases too -- I've still got a couple of games from the last holiday sale that I haven't gotten around to yet. I just have a hard time saying no to good games for under $5.

I think for the next sale I'm going to have to give myself a limit on the number of games I'm allowed to buy.

 

The sale is ending in a few short hours, to the relief of games everywhere. A couple of last minute deals:

Skyrim is 50% off. If you enjoy the Elder Scrolls series, it's worth taking a look at.
Bastion is 75%, Going for a mere $3.75. I've talked at length about how fantastic this game is, so I won't beat the drum anymore.
Double Fine games are all 75%. They're all great, you can't really go wrong on this one.
SPAZ is on for a meagre $2.50. That's a cup of coffee, for a game that can eat hours of your time. Top down space sim. It has zombies. You can take prisoners, and then eject them out the airlock. Seriously, what more do you want?

And of course, if there's anything you've been waiting for a sale on that hasn't come up, now is the time to grab it.

 

I picked up the Overlord pack during the last holiday sale. Well worth $20 in my opinion, but if you can keep yourself occupied until December I'd say there's a good chance of getting it for cheap then.

 

I actually distributed a few copies of Magicka when it was on for $2.50. You didn't get one because you already had it.

I'm hoping we can get around to playing some of these neat-o multiplayer games soon, but alas work conspires against me at the moment.