Digital specials you need to know about

This week sees the big guns in the digital distribution realm delivering some great specials on new games, classic titles, and under-appreciated gems.

Steam Specials

Steam has the innovative zombie-action game, How To Survive, on special for $10.49. The game offers a unique crafting system and co-operative play.

Also on sale is the robot survival game, Sir, You Are Being Hunted, which is 50% off for $9.99.

How to Survive

GamersGate

PC gamers can enjoy a horde of deals from GamersGate, as the dino-packed FPS Primal Carnage is on special for R37, the Sniper Elite Nazi Zombie Army spin-off is priced at R74 and the vehicle and run-‘n-gun shooter Ravaged is cut down to R25.

Primal Carnage

Greenman Gaming

Greenman Gaming has a bunch of hot deals on offer, including 25% off the following: Batman: Arkham Origins ($49 before discount), F1 2013 ($49.99 before discount) and LEGO Marvel Super Heroes ($29.99 before discount).

Greenman Gaming has the Batman Super Pack on offer this week, which includes Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition, Arkham City GOTY edition, the upcoming Arkham Origins and the playable Deathstroke DLC, all for $62.49.

Lego Marvel Superheroes

Indie Royale

Indie Royale has the Birthday Bundle available this week, which includes Cities in Motion 2, Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project, Impire, XenoMiner, Perfection, and Zombusters, all for the current minimum of $5.52 (at the time of writing).

GOG.com

GOG has a number of appealing deals happening this week, including Spelunky for $7.49, Aarklash: Legacy for $16.79, The Swapper for $7.49, and Lilly Looking Through for $8.99.

Humble Bundle

Humble Bundle has launched the Humble Bundle 7 with Android, which features a bunch of games for the usual pay-what-you-want DRM-free deal.

Ticket to Ride, Greed Corp, Incredipede and Anodyne are included, and if you pay more than the average (currently $6.24 at the time of writing), you’ll get Worms Reloaded and The Bard’s Tale,Broken Sword: Director’s Cut, Organ Trail: Director’s Cut, Anomaly Korea, and the Europe DLC for Ticket to Ride, along with the digital soundtracks.

Bundle Stars

Bundle Stars is promoting the Quickfire Indie bundle, which features 9 games for R35.

The bundle includes Warframe, GTR Evolution (includes base game), the incredibly underrated Dark Sector, Cannon Fodder 3, Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator, Space Pirates and Zombies, 1953 KGB Unleashed, Guardians of Graxia + Map Pack DLC, and Guardians of Graxia: Elves & Dwarves DLC.

Warframe

PS Plus

Sony continues to deliver on the PS Plus perks, making signing up to the premium service worthwhile, and November sees a bunch of exciting games hitting the platform for members to download for free.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Remember Me, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD, and Motorstorm RC will keep PS3 and PS Vita players busy throughout the month of November, but remember, there are still some great games to grab from October’s offering before it’s too late.

Leaving PS Plus:

23rd October: Far Cry 3
23rd October: Mafia 2
23rd October: Spec Ops The Line (NBA 2K13 in UAE)
23rd October: Street Fighter X Tekken
23rd October: Touch My Katamari

Entering PS Plus:

23rd October: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
23rd October: Remember Me
23rd October: Oddworld Strangers Wrath
23rd October: MotorStorm RC

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance

Xbox LIVE

Xbox SA has confirmed that Xbox Live Gold members will be getting Halo 3 for the second half of the Games with Gold programme for October.

Halo 3 is now available as of 16 October, and this is good news, as previous SA Games with Gold offerings haven’t lined up with international offerings, due to complications with the ratings board in SA.