Get Alien Swarm now directly from Steam!

INSTALL THE GAME

If you happen to own previous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games (Shadow of Chernobyl or Clear Sky) on your Steam account you can get the newest (Call of Pripyat) for 9€ (or 50% less, depends on a Tier).

Simply buy the game and let it check if you have older Chernobyl games on your account, if yes the new one will be working ok.

However, you cannot gift Call of Pripyat with the discounted price to anyone but that’s pretty obvious.

Join our discussion forums to talk more about this!

updated on 22th January: added GoG

It’s unbelievable how quickly time goes by, time to next weekend deals. Again. Okay, here we go again :)

GamersGate shoots first with Sid Meier. Every Sid Meier’s games are off by 50%. So if you ever played Pirates! back on 90’s, get Sid Meier’s Pirates!, it is same thing, only with nicer graphics with some addons :)

Steam is offering Company of Heroes franchise with 75% discount.

Impulse has 20 items on sale!

GamesPlanet has Winter Sale still running.

Good Old Games woke up and is offering Cyan Inc. games with 25% discount.

PS. The list will be updated when new offers will pop up.

GamersGate

GamersGate is having Sid Meier Week!

Civilization IV Complete Edition - 50%
Civilization IV Colonization - 50%
Civilization IV - 50%
Sid Meier’s Railroads! - 50%
Civilization III Complete - 50%
Sid Meier’s Pirates! - 50%
CivCity Rome - 50%

Steam

Steam offers Company of Heroes series with 75% discount. So if you are into WWII RTS, then it is for you :)

Company of Heroes

US: $19.99 $4.99 (~3.55€)
UK: £9.99 £2.49 (19% lower)
EU: 9,99€ 2,49€ (30% lower) !!!!

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

US: $19.99 $4.99 (~3.55€)
UK: £9.99 £2.49 (19% lower)
EU: 19,99€ 4,99€ (40% higher)

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

US: $29.99 $7.49 (~5.33€)
UK: £9.99 £2.49 (46% lower)
EU Tier1: 34,99€ 8,74€ (64% higher)

Company of Heroes: Gold

US: $7.49
UK: £3.74 (19% lower)
EU: 3,74€ (30% lower) !!!

Complete pack

US: $12.49 (~8.88€)
UK: £7.49 (3% lower)
EU: 11,49€ (29% higher)

Impulse is offering 20 items this time! Check them out here. Worth to mention: King’s Bounty Gold Edition, Tropico 3, Sins of a Solar Empire, Dawn of Magic 2, Sword of the Stars Ultimate, Ceville, etc

GamesPlanet

GamesPlanet still has their Winter Sale going on, so check it out.

King’s Bounty: The legend – 30% off: £24,99 £17,49
Borderlands – -£5: £34,99 £29,99
Football Manager 2010 – 25% off: £39,99 £29,99
Buccaneer – 30% off: £14,95 £10,45
Trine – 50% off: £14,99 £7,49
Civilization 4 Complete – –50% £39.99 £19.99

If you’re an adventure games fan you probably already own at least two copies of each Myst game – after all it was the best selling PC game for a decade! But if you were waiting for an even better deal than grabbing Myst: Masterpiece edition, Riven: the Sequel to Myst and The Manhole: Masterpiece Edition for $5.99 each, then GoG is offering 25% off of all three games. Check the promopage here.

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NB! Up to 20% higher than US price is still almost fair price, because US price doesn’t contain VAT.

NOTE: STEAM UNPOWERED IS NOT CONNECTED IN ANY WAY WITH CDKEY STORES OR DIGITAL STORES, WE ARE JUST PROVIDING THE BEST STEAM ALTERNATIVES FOUND ON THE INTERNET. IF YOU THINK WE ARE ADVERTISING OUR OWN BUSINESS GO DIE IN HELL AND LEAVE THIS GROUP/WEBSITE.

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Almost 11 years ago a PC game bought together two of the most vicious creatures ever unleashed on mankind by filmmakers. Aliens™ and Predators™. Although the cross-over of this former two independence movie franchises is dated back to 1990, it was the game that lead to it’s today success. It was followed by a sequels and two movies in 2004 & 2007.

February 16th Aliens vs. Predators™ will return to the PC for a third strike.

Good price for Britons, while Europeans once again suffer from the 1€=1$ conversion.

US: $49.99
UK: £24.99 (19% lower)
EU: 49,99€ (43% higher)

Pre-orders receive a copy of Universe at War: Earth Assault for free (can be gifted if you already own) and 3 three unique skins. One for each side Marines, Aliens and Predators.

Aliens vs. Predators™ requires Steam for activation.

It use Steamworks-features and Steamcloud to store game settings and saves. Multiplayer will use dedicated servers.

No Aliens vs. Predators™ for Germans

Unfortunately Sega decided not to release AvP in Germany, because of its high violence content. This means it’s not possible to buy from Steam Store with a German IP. However it doesn’t prevent you from buying AvP as retail and register it with Steam. I posted in the forums cheap retail alternatives.

Please note retail will be released 10 days later on February 26th
http://steamunpowered.eu/forums/other-stores/alien-vs-predator-retail-for-germans/

Minimum requirements

• OS: Windows 7, Vista, XP
• Memory: 1 GB RAM (XP), 2 GB RAM (Vista/Win7)
• Processor: 3.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 oder Athlon 64 3000+
• Graphics: DirectX 9.0c with at least 128 MB RAM

Recommend requirements

• OS: Windows 7, Vista, XP
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 or equal
• Graphics: DirectX 9.0c with at least 512 MB RAM (NVIDIA Geforce 8800 oder ATI Radeon HD2900)

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In the mean time you can try Aliens vs. Predator Classic 2000™. Sega has updated the original Aliens vs. Predator Gold Edition from 2000 to run on modern PCs and includes support for widescreen monitors. It’s released to Steam only

Aliens vs. Predator Classic 2000

US: $4.99
UK: £2.99 (3% lower)
EU: 2.99€ (16% lower)

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You probably all remember nice hit-game Bioshock that collected many awards and so on. Now it is time for sequel. But like usually, there are no good things without bad things. The good thing is that you can get Bioshock 1 for free, you can give the extra copy to your friend, if you already have one. And there is now multiplayer! Achievements! DLC‘s! And somekinda social networking based on Games for Windows live.

And the bad thing is the price for Europeans, except United Kingdom citizens.

US: $49.99 $44.99 (~32€)
UK: £39.99 £26.99 (2% lower) <- 33% discount not 10% like the others!!!!!
EU: 49,99€ 44,99€ (43% higher)

Fortunately there is chance to buy 4-pack, which makes one game (~34€) be priced equal to US single price 32€.

US: $149.97 $134.97 (~95€)
UK: £89.97 £80.97 (2% lower)
EU: 149,97€ 134,97€ (43% higher)

Minimum requirements

• OS: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
• Processor: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800+ 2.4Ghz or better, Intel Pentium 4 530 3.0Ghz Processor or better
• Memory: 2GB
• Graphics: NVIDIA 7800GT 256MB graphics card or better, ATI Radeon X1900 256MB graphics card or better
• DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c
• Hard Drive: 11GB
• Sound: 100% DirectX 9.0C compliant sound card or onboard sound

NB! Don’t forget to check out their awesome homepage!

Ubisoft is launching their new service called Uplay. I gotta say that the presentation on their website is stunning! What is Uplay? It’s just another service like Games For Windows Live or Steam Community.

Basically you have so called Uplay Win which has accomplishments (achievements), points and other unlockable stuff that is synchronized with your consoles (XboX 360 and PS3) and the PC!

Uplay Help has tutorials and walkthroughs created by the community or Ubisoft game developers.

Uplay Store has all the DLC and probably games like Assasin’s Creed 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction for now.

Uplay Share – friends and your own content like videos from the game or screenshots.

All services are available through the game you’re playing or Uplay.com! Could this crash XboX Live/Games For Windows Live or services like Steam Community or Xfire? More about Uplay here.

And now watch the presentation because it’s really cool:

US: $29.99
UK: £14.99 (20% lower)
EU: 19,99€ (5% lower)

Save big on your holiday shopping with Telltale

It’s that time of year again, and you’ve got someone on your holiday list who is impossible to shop for. Fortunately for you, the Telltale Store has some special holiday packages over on the gifts page! If you’re new to their site, they’ve got loads of games, comics, DVDs, and more in the Telltale store – and some extra-special deals on Monday, November 30th for Interloper subscribers, and also a couple of holiday-related perks to take advantage of right now, so read on!

• Free Shipping Starts Now! If your order is worth more than $25, it’ll qualify for free shipping via USPS! Just select the free shipping option in your order checkout, and you’ll be all set. US customers: You’ll want to get your orders in before December 16th to get ‘em delivered in time for the holidays.
• Special One-Day Offers on Monday! You lucky newsletter subscribers will save 20% on all items in the Telltale store. This deal lasts for one day only; it gets started at 12:00AM and runs through 11:59PM (Pacific Time) on Monday, November 30, 2009.
• New Bundles! They’ve put together an assortment of gift packs for the video game enthusiast on your list. Visit their holiday gifts page (or take a peek below this article) to check out our Monkey Island, Sam & Max, and Strong Bad bundles!
• Gift Wrapping! Through the holidays, your order can be gift-wrapped for just $2.50 per item. Select the gift wrap option for each item on the shopping cart page before checkout.

» Visit Telltale’s gift store!

That’s right!

Someone is already playing Left 4 Dead 2 and streaming the game over justin.tv!

Click here to watch it live!

Or watch it here directly:

You can read from Left 4 Dead 2 blog following:

Due to an ongoing debate in the office and online as to whether “12 AM” means noon or midnight (we’re still sticking with midnight), it’s been more challenging than we realized to tell people when exactly our game will be available. Factor in the Earth rotating around the sun, daylight savings time, some of our fans insisting on using the Mayan calendar, and we’re just going to try and make this as specific as possible:

When L4D2 will go live:

Tuesday, November 17th, 12:00 AM (midnight) Eastern Standard Time

• Monday, November 16th, 9:00 PM Pacific Standard Time
• Monday, November 16th, 10:00 PM Mountain Standard Time
• Monday, November 16th, 11:00 PM Central Standard Time
• Tuesday, November 17th, 12:00 AM (midnight) Eastern Standard Time
• Tuesday, November 17th, 5:00 AM Greenwich Mean Time
• Tuesday, November 17th, 8:00 AM Moscow Time
• Tuesday, November 17th, 2:00 PM Japan Standard Time

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After you receive a key enter it in the Steam client and download the free beta while you can! The game takes around 240MB.

Have fun!

And here are some screenshots:

And here’s a short gameplay video I made the other day:

Many forum members are in an uproar over pre-ordering the title without being completely aware of the different release date that was clearly advertised.
"What the… 2 DAYS??? Why the heck did I buy through Steam for? I certainly didn’t know there was gonna be a 2 day delay for us steam purchasers," one forum member wrote.

The ire also stems from the fact customers who purchased a retail boxed copy of the PC game are not forced to wait, despite the title requiring Steam authentication. This has also led many to pursue canceling their online pre-orders.

"I pre-ordered the game, assuming that it would come out on the actual release date. Now I’m waiting for my ticket to be answered for my refund," another member wrote. "The funny part is they probably wont get back to me until after it is released on Steam:

If you pre-ordered Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 off Steam and are still hanging in there waiting, here’s the most updated release details from Steam:
Activision’s policy is for the digital download version of MW2 to be activated 48 hours after the retail release. Therefore copies bought on Steam will be activated as follows: Worldwide (except North, Central, and South America): 3:00 pm PST Nov 11 and North, Central and South America: 9:00 pm PST Nov 11.

Source: IGN

Some nice shots of the retail box…and what makes this story newsworthy though is this picture below. A picture is worth a thousand words indeed…

And this is after everyone were promised the game will work 100% after the street date here in SA – hence the midnight release and everything.

News thanks to our user ld13 (here).

Update: http://steamunpowered.eu/forums/submit-news-in-here/south-african-cod-mw2-release-fail/#p335