Digital specials this week

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

Steam Specials

Steam has specials on the underrated mind-bending puzzle platformer Psychonauts ($1.99), Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed ($4.99) and the interesting indie stealth game Gunpoint ($4.99).

Psychonauts

Greenman Gaming

The folks over at Greenman Gaming are celebrating “Bethesda Week” by offering Brink for $7.74, Rage for $4.99 and Dishonored for $20.09.

Also on the site is Damnation for $3.39 and Super Meat Boy ($5.09).

Bundle Stars

Bundle Stars has the jam-packed Indie Rush bundle on special this week for R34 (at the time of writing).

The bundle includes Rush Bros, Velvet Assassin, The Tiny Bang Story, Lunar Flight, Glowfish, and Bad Bots.

Velvet Assassin

GOG.com

GOG has the isometric RPG action game Inquisitor on special for $4.99, down more than 50% from its original price.

GamersGate

GamersGate features the entire Walking Dead season 1 from Telltale Games for R61, while the hack-‘n-slash action game Viking: Battle for Asguard is only R37.

The Walking Dead

BT Games

BT Games’ new digital store continues its specials, with Dungeon Siege priced at R95, Rage: Campaign Edition for MAC priced at R299, and Inversion for R195.

PS Plus

In October, gamers will be hard pressed to argue that Sony isn’t once again offering good value, with the likes of big hitter Street Fighter X Tekken, open-world FPS Far Cry 3, and the fantastical action-RPG, Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen.

Entering PS Plus:

25th September: Far Cry 3
25th September: Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
25th September: Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen
25th September: Street Fighter X Tekken
25th September: Touch My Katamari

Humble Indie Bundle 9

As we have come to expect, Humble Indie Bundle is offering another great bundle to keep you busy while helping charity.

The games on offer are:

Trine 2: Complete Story
Mark of the Ninja
Eets Munchies
Brütal Legend

Paying above average gets you:

FTL: Faster Than Light
FEZ
Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken
A Virus Named TOM
Bastion
LIMBO

The bundle also includes some soundtracks from the games.

On top of that, for a minimum of $6.00 the Humble Weekly sale is offering:

Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
Shadow Warrior Classic Redux
Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition
Hard Reset Extended Edition
System Shock 2

Humble Indie has also launched a Humble Bundle Android app which allows you to install the games you’ve purchased. In addition, it sends you automatic notifications when updates are available for your installed games.

Trine 2

Xbox LIVE

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is now available on Microsoft’s Games with Gold programme. This follows Magic: Duels of the Planeswalkers, which was available from the beginning of September but has now expired.