It’s Black Friday! And apparently that hails discounts at various retailers who are all capitalising on the urge to splurge.
Not to be left out of the action, digital download gaming stores are also offering a variety of specials (yes, they offer specials every week, but let’s play along).
There are a load of deals floating around though, too many to list in one article, so if you’re trying to make every penny count, it will definitely reward you to shop around.
Below are a selection of the most prominent digital sales going down, with everything covered from the latest and greatest AAA to the feistiest indie game.
Steam Spring Sale
The sale everyone is probably aware of, Valve has launched its Spring Steam Sale, with a variety of games discounted daily, along with 8-hour flash sales.
For example, today’s deals include:
- Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition 60% off
- Dark Souls 80% off
- Dead Island: GOTY 75% off
- Don’t Starve 66% off
- Final Fantasy VII 66% off
- Game Dev Tycoon 50% off
- Papers, Please 50% off
- The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 66% off
- XCOM Enemy Unknown 75% off
Humble Bundle deals
Over on Humbe Bundle, the Mobile Bundle 3 still has a few days to go, and the just-launched weekly deal entices with a variety of cool indie games.
Humble Mobile Bundle 3
All nine games are revealed now: Pay what you want to receive: EPOCH, rymdkapsel, SpellTower, Swordigo. If you pay more than the average you also get: Ridiculous Fishing: A Tale of Redemption, Kingdom Rush, Hundreds, Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manoe, and the Desert Bus. A selection of soundtracks are also included.
Humble Weekly Sale
A good variety of indie games are on offer, covering schmups, puzzle-platformers, brick-breakers, action-RPG, and tower defense.
Name your price for Jamestown, Closure, Space Pirates and Zombies, Shatter. Paying more than $6 gets you Dungeon Defenders, and Defense Grid Gold.
Greenman Gaming 4-play special
Greenman Gaming is running a promotion on various games – 4 deals every 4 hours for 4 days. Obviously you’re going to have to camp out on the store to catch some good deals.
Indie Royale Debut 7 bundle
Indie Royale is launching 7 new indie games.
Pay more than the minimum ($3.41 at the time of writing) and receive Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae, Metal Planet, Pulse Shift, Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman’s Mine, Millennium 2 – Take Me Higher, and Fleet Buster.
A mystery game is yet to be revealed.
GOG Black Friday
GOG has launched their Black Friday special – there are 65 titles discounted up to 70%, and none of the risks of bodily harm. There variety of classic PC games seriously tugs at your nostalgic heartstrings – check out the list here: http://www.gog.com/promo/black_friday_weekend_promo_291113
GamersGate Black Friday
GamersGate has launched their Black Friday sale, with a huge variety of daily deals running over the weekend. For example, some of the standout deals include:
- Torchlight II: R51
- BioShock Infinite: R102
- Payday 2 4-pack: R552
Bundle Stars
Bundle Stars has launched two new bundles, both rather compelling if you’re keen on some indie games and space-themed games.The Ultimate Sci-Fi bundle includes 8 games and 1 add-on for R27.
- Sword of the Stars II Enhanced Edition
- Project Freedom
- Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
- SpaceChem
- SpaceChem: 63 Corvi DLC (add-on)
- Really Big Sky
- Planets Under Attack
- Data Jammers: FastForward
- Ion Assault
The Outer Limits Bundle includes 10 games for R31:
- UFO Extraterrestrials Gold
- Blades of Time Limited Edition
- Insane 2
- Hydrophobia Prophecy
- Race Injection
- Warfare
- Puzzle Kingdoms
- Gumboy Tournament
- Supreme Ruler 2020 Gold
- Razor2: Hidden Skies
Other cool deals
If you are looking for something off the beaten path, Desura.com’s specials could be of interest. You can also build your own bundle of cute games over on Groupees.
If you’d like to pick up a gadget of the physical variety, check out what the local retailers are offering, as well as MyBroadband weekend tech deals roundup:
SA “Black Friday” gaming sales
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