People at HotUkDeals have figured out how to get Burnout Paradise for free via EA’s Origin service – in the UK, at least.

Open the Origin client, do a search for Burnout Paradise, add it to your basket, check out and then enter the word “PARADISE” (in caps) as the Promo Code. It’s worth noting that if you choose to pay by PayPal you won’t have to enter any credit card details during the checkout process. We have no idea how long the offer will last, so get it while it’s hot!

Update:

@Cocodwor: Works in France too and apparently some other european countries

Source: PC Gamer

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From now on we’ll keep on posting every bad EA thing we find. This sums it up pretty well:

Source: Reddit and original image.

Source: reddit

It’s already known that Origin will be required to play Battlefield 3 on the PC, and at first, it seemed like just another digital download service, however, some might find it disturbing that, according to the Origin EULA, EA collects information about your computer, the software installed on it, its hardware, not only to “improve the service”, but they can also pass on this data to third parties, as the document states:

EA may also use this information combined with personal information for marketing purposes and to improve our products and services. We may also share that data with our third party service providers in a form that does not personally identify you.

The last part, “in a form that does not personally identify you”, is a relief, but it’s scary to know that Origin will be collecting all sorts of information from your system, including your IP address and other, non-EA software that you have installed on your PC. You can read the full Origin EULA here.

It gets scarier. Another EA EULA, which covers EA Online and EA account privacy (which is requited to play Battlefield 3), has even more concerning legal speak. The scary part of the EULA, as pointed out by a user on The Escapist Forums:

When you use EA online and mobile products and services or you play our games on your PC or console, we may collect certain non-personal demographic information including gender, zip code, information about your computer, hardware, software, platform, media, mobile device, mobile device ID, console ID, incident data, Internet Protocol (IP) address, network Media Access Control (MAC) address and connection. We also collect other non-personal information such as feature usage, game play statistics and scores, user rankings and click paths.

Since Battlefield 3 and all other EA Online games fall under this category, it gives EA the right to collect vast amounts of data on players, and to make matters worse, the beginning of the document states that you waive all your rights to be protected by law. Worse, EA reserves the right to share all of this information with any third party, including law enforcement agencies.

We’re not sure if this is common among other publishers in their license agreements (like Valve’s Steam service), but it definitely seems like EA is taking it too far, if not breaking the law. If you wish to read the EA Online EULA, you can find it here.

What the fuck world?

Source: bf3blog.com

PS here’s a real difference between PC and PS3 version (I had a chance to play both):

If I’ll ever hear some jackass from Sony saying that PS3 is still a powerful piece of hardware I will fucking punch my screen.

It seems that Electronic Arts has quietly removed some of its recent releases from Steam – including Crysis 2 and Alice: Madness Returns.

However, for some reason they decided to keep those games on other digital services such as Amazon and Impulse. Although there has been no official statement from either EA or Valve concerning the matter, it would appear as though EA is preparing a big fight on the digital market area.

Additionally BioWare’s MMO caled Star Wars: The Old Republic is going to be released exclusively on Origin. Coupled with the upcoming high-profile launch of Battlefield 3, which is rumored to be headed for Origin exclusivity, EA seems to be poised to make a big push against Steam.

Given how new the Origin system is many gamers remain hesitant to adopt the new platform.

Source

Source: reddit

Let’s check the latest week news around the various sites.
Today’s games use 23-30% of Kinect; Shops slam Steam monopoly/Valve is killing market!; APB is coming back – sold with £1.5 mil; Stargate Worlds MMO developer loses license; You exploit a glitch in CoD: BO? cheater, douchebag (by Treyarch)!; House of the Dead: Overkill 2 for Wii & PS Move; Free female avatar Black Ops clothes; next CoD will be in space!; Operation Flashpoint next game, GRID 2 & DiRT 3 coming; 3D will go into iPhone next year; Valve: single player games have a future; PS Move stealing Wii users; enhanced and revamped BC1 maps coming to BC2; Postal III in Q1 2011; why Uwe Boll doesn’t stop already? – Bloodrayne 3; Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO launches in 2011; WoW: Cataclysm vs Bejeweled 3; Battlefield Play4Free launches on Nov 30. STALKER TV series coming – kotaku, official page; Take 2 on sale again; armed robbers make off with 100 copies of CoD: BO; Retail threatens Steam ban;

PS. There may pop up more lots of good deals but unfortunately I can’t update the post, because I am in Poland, in Plock, enjoying Jean Michel Jarre concert on Saturday :) So please be goood boys and girls and post the good deals into comments :)

And now let’s look at the good offers in this week.

Risen -50% (1$ = 1€ price)
F1 2010 -33% (this is very unfair deal, EU Tier 1 price (30.14€) 54% higher than US(19.40€) and it’s N/A in EU Tier 2)
Other deals here

Hunting Unlimited 2011
MinerWars 2081 Pre-Alpha -75%
Majesty 2 Kingmaker  -75%
Majesty 2 – The Fantasy Kingdom Sim  -75%
Total 34 discounts here including casual, space, strategy and pirate games

On sale:
9 items in UK: Civ 5, MoH, Fallout: NV, FM2011, CoD: BO, Dungeon Defenders & Sega Classics
5 items in EU: Burn, Zombie, Burn!; Dungeon Defenders & Sega Classics

Slow week in GoG :)
Find your game in the list

Hot deals here

Undercover week – save up to 75%!
Lots of discounts here including Majesty 2 Mania deal

Family casual week – 50% for every game (Plants vs Zombies, Bejeweled, Zuma, Peggle, etc)

Anything else?

Games for Windows aka Games on Demand has 50% discount for Osmos as a Deal of the Week

GetGames: VVVVVV & Trine duo offer. Civilization V + DLC

EA Store has Bioware week -30%!! Medal of Honor Hot Zone Map Pack exclusively in EA Store

Game.co.uk has also several discounted games (Bioshock 2, Empire: Total War, FM2010, BC2, Kane & Lynch 2. Sims 3 etc) for digital download. Check here

THQ official shop lowered prices for some games too. Check here

Have more info? Post a comment if you dare!

Handful news from past weeks:

DOTA SCII mod shown @BlizzCon; Blizzard exited about 4th WoW expansion; Hitman 5 is coming!; APB not dead? Back to the Future series by Telltale, pre-order it, get free copy of Puzzle Agent and support Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research; Microsoft claims that new PC Marketplace is NOT like Steam; Minerva’s Den DLC for Dragon Age still coming; F.3.A.R. worldwide on 22nd March 2011; brand new Battlefield coming; first Unreal Engine powered game for iPhone by EA; NBA Elite 11 cancelled (EA); Dragon Age Legends for Facebook in Feb 2011; Heavy Rain is for girls!; next Silent Hill movie by Michael J. Bassett; over 100k players joined the free-to-play MMO Bloodline Champions in few weeks; EA invading Facebook during next 5 years; next Resident Evil game will be developed by SOCOM?; Blizzard doesn’t know how StarCraft ][ ends; new add-on Dragon Knight Saga for Divinity II; Microsoft woke up and starts developing MOAR GAMES!; Japanese CoD: Black Ops totally different; nude patch for Fallout New Vegas; CoD: BO pre-loadable in D2D; Might & Magic Heroes Kingdoms – browser based online game; Kinect; if you live in US, Canada or UK, you can win stuff from 2K games sweepstakes; Zynga (Facebook games) is worth more than EA!; Bejeweled 3 coming on 7th December – looks awesome!; Irrational Games radical upgrades to Unreal Engine for BioSchok Infinite

And now let’s see what our friends have to offer.

Updated: The Sims 3 DLC discount in EA store and warning to Supreme Commander 2

Free weekend for Shattered Horizon (install) and Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West (install)
Also they’re sold together and separately with 50% discount as Frontier pack
GTA Classics (GTA 1, 2, 3, VC, SA) -75%
Supreme Commander 2 & DLC -66% (Warning, EU price is ULTRA UNFAIR – 134% higher than US price)

Darkfall -75%
MinerWars 2081 Pre-Alpha -75%
Hacker Evolution – Untold w/Flight Zero -50%
If you live in US or Canada, then you can get Sims 3 everything with 50% discount
Total 20 discounts here

On sale:
9 items in UK: Civ 5, MoH, Fallout: NV, FM2011, CoD: BO, Dungeon Defenders & Sega Classics
4 items in EU: Dungeon Defenders & Sega Classics

DotEmu (Gobliins etc) catalogue 50% discount
Find your game in the list

Detective Collection – save 50%
Other hot deals here

Strategy week – save up to 75%!
Lots of discounts here

Anuman week – 25% for every Anuman game (Syberia series, Still Life etc)
RPG weekend! 50% discount for The Witcher, Start Trek Online, Torchlight, Spellforce 2 & Disciples 3!

Anything else?

Games for Windows aka Games on Demand has 50% discount for Resident Evil 5 as a Deal of the Week

GetGames Zombies and Aliens threesome offer; VVVVVV & Trine duo offer. GetGames opened Arcade section. Overlord for £2 (2€/$2.50)!

EA Store Medal of Honor Hot Zone Map Pack exclusively in EA Store. The Sims 3 DLC -30% discount

Game.co.uk has also several discounted games (Empire: Total War, FM2010, BC2, Kane & Lynch 2. Sims 3 etc) for digital download. Check here

THQ official shop lowered prices for some games too. Check here

Have more info? Post a comment if you dare!

• Steam
• Impulse
• GamersGate
• GetGames
• EA Store
• Good old Games
• Green Man Gaming
• GamesPlanet
• Games on Demand

Steam

Steam has launched THQ WEEK sale.

Monday, 25th Oct – Red Faction series -75%

Tuesday, 26th Oct – Titan Quest Gold  -75%

Wednesday, 27th Oct – Metro 2033 -66% (if you like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., you will like this! recommended. NB! FAIR DEAL!)

Thursday, 28th Oct – Frontlines: Fuel of War -85% (FAIR DEAL)

Weekend deal, 29th Oct – 1st Nov – Dawn of War whole series -50%

Huge amount of sales!

Ghostbusters: The Videogame, Worms Reloaded, Left 4 Dead Bundle (also separately), Team Fortress 2, Resident Evil™ 5, Zombie Driver, Nation Red, Burn Zombie Burn!, Doom Rails, Ghost Master®, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dracula Origin, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition, Zombie Bowl-o-Rama, Overlord Complete Pack (also separately), Alter Ego, BioShock™, Aliens vs. Predator™, Devil May Cry 4, Dark Fall: Lost Souls, Haunted House™, Dead Space!

I wonder why there is Bioshock but not Bioshock 2, why there is no Vampire, the Masquerade. Why no Devil May Cry 5?

Anything else? What game should also be in this list? Leave a comment!

Left4Dead Halloween and now MAC support – http://www.l4d.com/macupdate/available_now.html

Team Fortress 2 Halloween “Scream Fortress” with 4 ghostcheviements + old scarechievements – http://www.teamfortress.com/screamfortress/

And second one is celebration of DogFighter free addon Call to Arms with 85% discount. Discount applies also to 4-pack!

And third one is Puzzle Dimension, 50% discount. But beware unfair 1$ = 1€ pricing

Impulse

Halloween sale! 31 titles available with discount. Click on picture.

Some titles: Penumbra: Collection, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Sins of a Solar Empire, Devil May Cry 4, Resident Evil 5, Galactic Civilization I: Ultimate Edition and more!

GamersGate

Some titles from 30 items total: Cryostasis – Sleep of Reason, NecroVision, NecroVisioN: Lost Company, Resident Evil 5, Ghostbusters the Videogame, Penumbra & Amnesia Bundle, Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

GetGames

GetGames has also Halloween sale – “daddy of all bundles” –  1C bundle, some more discounts: Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, The Complete Stronghold Collection,  Civ City: Rome. And even more, just look at their “Prices slashed” page. Bioshock 2 is now 50% off, Alien Vs. Predator is also half price, and Condemned and the Club are now 75% off! Finally it is your last chance to get Commandos Complete for £2 and Railworks 2 for £14.99, as both offers end at the end of October.

EA Store

Mass Effect

Mass Effect™ 2

Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Mass Effect™ 2 Digital Deluxe Edition

Dead Space™

PS. Don’t forget the coupon which you can get -25%

Good Old Games

Games -40% when buying all in once and -20% when buying only selected games – Halloween 2010

Gabriel Knight series, Phantasmagoria series and Vampire, the Masquerade

Green Man Gaming

8 games total + -50% discount for Clever Kids bundle

GamesPlanet

GamesPlanet is also offering 18 discounts , check them out here: Bioshock bundle, Atari Halloween pack, Dead Rising 2, Cursed Mountain, Alien Vs Predator, Ghostbusters, CSI 5, Resident Evil 5, Dead Space, Alone in the Dark 5, The Club. Also some nice bundle deals, like Fallout trilogy, Flatout pack, Sacred 2 Gold etc. All here.

Games on Demand

Deal of the week – F.E.A.R. 2 -75% discount!!!

Found something more?

Let us know!

Sorry guys for late post, I was in Latvia til Friday late evening.

Few handpicked news:
Steam has over 30 million users; CoD: Black Ops with Steamworks; Civ 5 DLC coming on 25th Oct; Trine 2 coming in spring 2011; 80% willing to play with 3D glasses; WoW Cataclysm min. requirements; Microsoft brings out “Steam rival”, it looks more like GoG + EA new EADM hybrid; Fallout Online on second half of 2012;

But now let’s see what our friends have to offer.

-66% on Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition (beware, unfair pricing $13.60 (10€) vs 17€, but still.. better than 50€)
All special discounts here
I recommend the funny RPG parody Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes, if you hurry, you could get 20% discount
And looks like RPG Numen (similar to Titan Quest) is being sold with 80% discount: $2 / £1.60 / 2€

Total 25 discounts here

On sale:
4 items in UK: Dungeon Defenders, Sega Genesis Collections
6 items in EU: same things as in UK

Anuman games 50% off when all games, 30% off when selected
Find your game in the  list

Double your money – trade in and get twice the payout
Hot deals here

Multiplayer week – buy 4, pay 2 or buy 2, pay 1
EA week
Lots of discounts here

Pro Evolution Soccer 2011
Pre-order Football Manager 2011 and get 20 classic SEGA games for free
Price drops and sales, all here including Mafia II, Civ V

Anything else?

Games for Windows aka Games on Demand has 75% discount for GTA San Andreas as a Deal of the Week.

Game.co.uk has also several discounted games (Empire: Total War, FM2010, BC2, Kane & Lynch 2. Sims 3 etc) for digital download. Check here

THQ official shop lowered prices for some games too. Check here

GetGames started with Halloween sale – 1C bundle, Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, The Complete Stronghold Collection,  Civ City: Rome. And even more, just look at their page
EA is selling Crysis 2 Nano edition for £119.99 (135€, don’t you want this?) (It includes the Limited Edition housed in a SteelBook™ plus exclusives including an 11″ statue of Prophet on top of a New York taxi cab and a high-quality art book, all packaged inside a special backpack modelled on the Nanosuit itself.)

Have more info? Post a comment if you dare!

APB Steam refund update

25/09/2010 in Digital Distribution, News

If you bought APB from Steam, apparently EA are now offering a free game as a refund. Valve put up a brick wall, but EA are making up for the fact that customer who bought their game ended up with nothing to show for it.

If you contact them through this site, and tell them you’d like another game to replace APB, they will give you any game currently available on the EA Store. I don’t think that they will let you get preorders, but it’s worth a shot.

You can pick from the likes of Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Spore, The Saboteur, Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and all sorts of other stuff.

Thanks to CHooligans for the heads up.

SavyGamer » APB Steam refund update

It’s pretty fun, it opens in a browser, runs very smoothly and looks decent.

Recently the multiplayer mode of Medal of Honor faced criticism for allowing the player to take the Taliban side, thus killing US soldiers.

I won’t comment the moral ethics to portray an ongoing conflict nor if it wise too, but interesting to read is what real soldiers think that have to face the Taliban everyday.

GamrFeed interviewed 9 fighting soldiers, men and women alike  about their opinion and how they feel about it.

Hello everybody on this wonderful day, on Friday, the 13th! Well, even if it was yesterday.. :)

Let’s have look on deals that our best friends have to offer.

Free weekend for Booster Trooper!
Huge QuakeCon sale (13 – 15 August)

Disciples III
Devil May Cry 4

Men Of War
All Ubisoft games on sale with discount.
Also some other titles like Just Cause 2 etc. Total games: 27(EU) / 28(UK)
EU link here. UK link here.

Phantasmagoria bundle!

Greeman is still offering nice deal – buy 1 and get 1 for free!
Cryostasis
Painkiller Black Edition – save 70%
UFO: Afterlight – save 70%
Necrovision: Lost Company – save 92%
and more …

Summersale! Here.
Borderlands – save 66%!
Batman, GOTY – -60%
Legendary – -75%
NecroVision + Necrovision: Lost Company – -75%
Red Faction Guerilla – -75%
Saints Row 2 – -75%
Unreal Complete Pack – -50% / Unreal Tournament 3 Black – -75%

 Mafia II – -10£ (get Mafia 1 for free!)
Battlefield Bad Company 2 – 15£!
Kane & Lynch 2 – -10£
Rockstar games discount – Max Payne, GTA etc
Also lots (85) of price drops and sales.
And Metaboli, their game rental system is giving good price for 6 months.
Play over 500 games whenever or wherever you want! Offer is here.

Anything else?

EA UK is having Battlefield promotion, selling Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for 23.44£ (with voucher you can get price down to 17.58£, which is 21.40€) and Battlefield 2: Complete Edition. PS. EA has DRM and also georestricted. So use caution :)

DLGamer has Ubisoft week going. If anyone is interested, check here.

GameTap has price drops for Dragon Age, Dawn of War 2, Mass Effect 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2. If interested, check here.

Have more info? Post a comment if you dare!