I’ve recently found out (thanks to many user reports) that some CD-Key stores are requesting ID scans from their users after you purchase a game. They want users to send a passport, driver license or ID card scans or even pictures of buyers holding their ID card (with face visible)!

Do not send them anything, never do that! You have a right to protect your identity online and you should be keeping your IDs and documents for yourself or very trusted stores and institutions. Especially when you’re using PayPal. It’s basically against PayPal’s policy to request those things from buyers. The online seller has no right to ask for and ID not even mentioning the scans. Period. Always request a full, immidiete refund if any shops requires an ID, unless you’re ok with it.

These CD-Key shops request ID scans:

• G2Play
• GameKeyDistrict
• OnlineKeyStore

From now on the Steam Alternatives section will have a separate section for stores which require ID scans.

It’s unacceptable that these stores don’t even mention of ID scans before the purchase! So gamers out there, watch out!

You can discuss this problem here or by leaving a comment below.

So you all hoped that there will be no weekend deal report again and you don’t have to spend money on this weekend? You thought wrong! :D

Don’t be afraid, take out your credit card and read on :)

GamersGate presents this weekend deal: Painkiller: Resurrection for 29.95€ 17.97€ (-40%) (Steam price: $29.99/£19.99/29.99€). GamersGate has always other (daily) deals running, so check them all out here or just follow them on Twitter :)

Steam is teasing with Aliens vs. Predator selling with 33% discount. (US: $49.99 $33.49 / UK: £24.99 £16.74 (25% lower) / EU: 49,99€ 33,49€ (35% higher)). And also it has 68 metascore points, so it’s all up2u :)

GameTap is offering Mass Effect 2 with discount – $49.95 $29.95 (Steam price: $49.99/£29.99 / 49.99€). Beware, offer ends @ 20. March 2009 as they said in their newsletter :D Also they are offering Universe At War: Earth Assault 75% off – $4.95 (Steam price: $19.99/£14.99/19.99€).

Impulse is offering 13 titles (including nice software), unfortunately EA games have geo-restriction. But still, you can see the list here.

X-fire has a good price for Empire: Total War text-011″>€49.99 €16.99. (Steam price: $29.99/£29.99/49.99€)

GamesPlanet has slightly better deal for Empire: Total War –66% = £29.99 £9.59 (10.68€) (Steam price: $29.99/£29.99/49.99€). PS! Offer is available until 30th March, so take your time :)

GetGames are offering also games for good price: Universe At War –75% – $19.95 $4.99, Commandos Complete –33% – $19.99 $13.33, Serious Sam HD (with deathmatch multiplayer!) 50% – $14.99 $7.49. About SSHD DM read more here.

G2Play is offering too-good-to-be-true deals :) Recently released games (ie C&C4, DAO: Awakening, Assassins Creed 2, BFBC2 etc) for nice prices. Check them out here.

Microsoft ;) is offering Kane & Lynch: Dead Men for 50% less price – 800points. They reveal next deal on my birthday :)

So have fun and don’t spend too much :)

Good early morning. Let’s make it quick.

Steam Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is available for 75% off until Monday! ($7.49/£5.49/6.99€). Steam added Toki Tori also on sale with 50% discount ($2.45/£1.62/2,23€).

GamersGate Condemned: Criminal Origins, Elliptic Twist (also available on Mac). And more here (total 23 titles)!

Impulse is offering 22 titles this time! Check the list here like: Spore, Hearts of Iron series, Street Fighter IV, Patrician III etc!

GetGames are offering also discount, for Napoleon: Total War (-20%) & Condemned: Criminal Origins (-75%).

G2Play has also some items on sale with discount, but not sure, if there is a weekend deal also :) Anyways, check it out here. They are active in our forums, so if any questions, feel free to ask.

Don’t spend too much and have fun! :)

Also Steam is offering 75% discount for Spellforce (RPG/RTS) series. It is a good serie with excellent story and bare naked ladies and dragons ;) Loved it totally! Heard that they are working on Spellforce 2 addon Faith in Destiny, so need to buy first version or something, maybe there will be”loyality” deal like with Stalker Call of Pripyat.

Direct2Drive suprises with “Amazing Strategy Titles on sale!” by offering 60-75% discount for: Supreme Commander Gold, Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim Gold Edition, Tropico 3, Hearts of Iron III with Sprite Packs Bundle, Hearts Of Iron III, Hearts Of Iron II Collection, East India Company and more! Whole UK list here. EU deals are here. US list is here. Fortunately the deal is not ending on 1st March, it lasts almost a week, til 4th March. Unfortunately some are geo-restricted and some prices are crap, like Supreme Commander Gold – 14.95$/£4.95/19.95€. Come on!

PS. Don’t forget to check out the D2D EU “Join the party” celebration here.

Impulse has 14 titles on sale, some are geo-restricted. Check them out here.

Good Old Games has Activision month running (last week!) and lately were Kings Quest 4+5+6 and Call to power 2 added, so if you want, check them out hzere.

G2Play key store has also some deals, like Source Multiplayer Pack 25% off and other deals. Check it out here. G2Play is active in our forums, if any questions, ask away.

NB! There is deal, where you can buy Dawn of War II for £5!!! Check the comments!

Don’t spend too much :) And have fun!

Good Old Games is back from expanding their titles and are offering RPGs from Divinity games (Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity) with 50% discount. Yay! I remember playing those games long time ago. Loved Divine Divinity title theme song. Get them both for $7.98 and save $8.00! Link here.

Steam gives away THQ Complete Pack for 50% less price (49.99€). And don’t forget Shattered Horizon free weekend and 50% discount (9.99€). Check the Shattered Horizon post here.

Warning: both deals suffer 1$=1€ terror, making price 35% higher than in US!

Impulse showed already yesterday some titles as Weekend Deals, but today the list has been updated. Impulse is offering now 12 titles including Tropico 3, THQ Ultimate Bundle (70% discount!) etc. Check them out here!

NB! Some items Like Star Trek Online and Savage 2 is available only for US and Canada :(

GamersGate has Mac week running and forgot to offer something for real gamers, so no weekend deal for normal people :) Check the difference picture here (opens in lightbox).

G2Play is offering L4D2, Orange Box among other things. G2Play is active in our forums, so you can always ask them questions if needed.

PS. The list probably will be updated, is something new pops up.

This one is a happier one because Good Old Games is offering also weekend deal – Red Baron Pack & The Incredible Machines 50% off!

GamersGate: Fort Zombie -75%, Armada 2526 -40%, Battlestation Pacific & Midway -40%, Max & The Magic Marker -10%.

Steam – Mount & Blade is available for 85% off until Monday! 29,99€ 4,99€. Steam also has Total War week running. Save 66% on Total War™ games and 10% on all Empire Downloadable Content (EU price 2% lower than US). And whole THQ Pack 50% off – US: $49.99 / UK: £26.49 (17% lower) / EU: 49,99€ (36% higher)

Impulse is offering 9 items as a weekend deal here –THQ Ultimate Bundle, Sword of the Stars Ultimate 75% off, Sherlock Holmes Sleuth Pack 50% off and so on.

Direct2Drive has strange 2D indie game Hammerfight about flying machines 50% off.

GamesPlanet has still some items from Winter Sale left, so maybe you want them :)

G2Play is offering Left4Dead2 for 19.99€, Aion for 30.99€ & WoW promo. Check tem all out here. PS. You can use Valentine’s Day promo code to get 5% discount. Check the forums!

Buy I guess that you have already found your Weekend deals :) So here is short gathering results:

• Impulse has 12 good offers – http://www.impulsedriven.com/explore/onsale like Trine, Light of Altair and space turn-based strategy Armada 2526 .. could it be so good as Master of Orion? And 1C company games are now everywhere with discount :)
• Steam has Freedom Force Pack and X-COM Complete Pack $2/€2/£2 and Tropico 3 66% off.
• GamersGate has week deals – World War 2 series (also polish versions), Men of War Gold, Osmos (also Mac version), Zombilution (also Mac version) and Weekend deal Planet Alcatraz. Also Wings of Prey - 10% & 1C Mega Racing Pack - 80%. Find them.
• GamesPlanet has still Wintersale going on, refer please previous post
• Who missed Red Faction: Guerilla, then here is your chance, in Direct2Drive – EU, UK, US.
• DL Gamer has still 15€ discount for Borderlands.
• XFire has also 11 games with discount on Winter deals – http://eu.xfirestore.com/pc-games/Xfire_deals.html
• G2Play has too some nice offers. And if any questions to them, you can ask from forum, G2Play is active member in our forums :)
• Newcomer GameKeyDistrict has also 2 deals for CoD4 and Dirt 2. Check it out here. But, use with your own risk. They are also reachable through our forums, so it’s okay I guess :)

Have fun and don’t spend too much :)

And here it is, another weekend, last one was like just yesterday…

GamersGate – Napoleon’s Campaigns, World War One, American Civil War, Birth of America II: Wars in America, Birth of America. GamersGate offers Steam-like overlay system called PlayXpert for free!

Good Old Games – Tex Murphy games 50% off!

Steam offers Dirt 2 with 50% discount. EU users beware, European price is 80% higher than US price!

Impulse is offering 7 items here.

DLGamer sells Borderlands 15€ cheaper, for 34.99€.

Also G2Play has some offers here, use at your own risk.

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

GamersGate

GamersGate started early again with America and War themes: Napoleon’s Campaigns, World War One, American Civil War, Birth of America II: Wars in America, Birth of America. And probably more. Check them all out here.

But what’s important, I think, is the new overlay system called PlayXpert. It is transparent overlay that supports any game and doesn’t slow games down. It is possible to surf in internet with full CSS & Javascript support, tabbed browsing, bookmarks (that I miss most in Steam, not to mention search on page) and so on. Also you can control winamp, iTunes, MediaPlayer and so on, so you don’t have to alt+tab out the game.

It’s definitely worth to check this out. Now as Steam has some competition, maybe they start improve their medieval overlay system.

Steam

Steam offers Dirt 2 with 50% discount. EU users beware, our price is 80% higher than US price! But it’s still better than usual price.

US: $39.99 $19.99
UK: £29.99 £14.99 (22% higher)
EU Tier1: 49,99€ 24,99€ (80% higher)

Good Old Games is offering 50% discount for all Tex Murphy games. So if you didn’t get them for free during Christmas promo, then her is your chance.

GamesPlanet

GamesPlanet continues with their Winter Promo! This time until 13th February.

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

Impulse has 7 offers. Check them out here: http://www.impulsedriven.com/explore/onsale

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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.

This week is started by GamersGate by offering 40% discount for arcade puzzle game PikGem. Steam also started early this time and is offering entire King’s Bounty franchise 75% off! Offer is valid til Thursday, so hurry up. Direct2Drive (all of them) offers Aaaaa! with 50% discount. G2Play announces that they will give free keys away, at 19:00 CET. And also they have deals on their page.

PS. The list will be updated as more deals pop up :)

BASE jump through a floating city, creating your own stunts to delight your fans.

You dive off a skyscraper, relying on quick reflexes to negotiate the intricate tangle of girders that make up the floating city. All eyes are on you as the judges mark your score. One hundred points for hugging those exposed struts as you fall. A thousand for planting a kiss on the side of that building. Twisting and turning, you thread the needle between two billboards, earning cheers from your fans. Price: $4.95/£3.30/4.95€, but you can choose the store that you like.

GamesPlanet

GamesPlanet has Winter Promo deals, which lasts until 16th January.

Click on the pictures to follow the deal

Cities XL Limited Edition – £34,99 £17,49
Avatar + Assassin’s Creed Pack £34,99 £29,99
Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures £19,99 £9,99
Sam and Max Season 1 £14,99 £7,49

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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.

expired: D2D UK/US, Amanita Design, Rake in Grass deals, Steam, GoG

Note. D2D US and GamersGate daily deals start at the evening (ie 9th December deal starts on 9th December, 19:00 (SteamUnpowered time) and ends in 10th December @18:59 (SteamUnpowered time)). D2D UK and EA UK daily deals start at 1am SteamUnpowered time. Impulse updates at the morning, 8-9am or so.

Steam

As you all know from here, Steam has huge offer, which contains Premium Deals and Special Daily Deals. So check it out!

Today, 3-4th January: BioShock (75% off), Grand Theft Auto IV (75% off), Torchlight (75% off), Left 4 Dead 2 (33% off), Killing Floor (75% off), Defense Grid: The Awakening (75% off), S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2$/£/€). Detailed and compared prices, check forum post by Rad86N here.

2nd January: Trine (43% higher than US), All Command & Conquer Games (19% higher than US), The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition (43% higher US), Counter-Strike: Source (43% / 7% higher than US), Painkiller: Collectors Pack (fixed link thanks to Rad86N) (43% higher than US). Detailed and compared prices, check forum post by Rad86N here.

1st January: All things DOOM, Including the Complete Pack – 66% Off (43% higher than US), Sam & Max Complete Seasons 1 & 2 – 75% Off (43% higher than US), Mass Effect – 75% Off (here is your chance :)) (8% higher than US), Portal – 75% Off (recommended) (8% higher/14% lower than US), RedLynx Trials 2: Second Edition – 75% Off (43% higher than US), Devil May Cry 4 – 25% Off (5% lower than US). Detailed and compared prices check forum post by Rad86N here.

31st December: Medieval II: Total War – 75% Off (28% lower of US price), Crysis Maximum Edition – 66% Off, Half-Life: Source – 75% Off (46%/15% higher US price), Street Fighter IV – 75% Off (36% higher than US price), Multiwinia + Darwinia – 80% Off (43% higher than US price), Shattered Horizon – 75% Off (43% higher than US price). PS. for me Crysis working link is here.

Impulse

Impulse deals, 50% off. Must use coupons to get good price :)

DeskScapes (-25%) until 4th January. Coupon code: DESK25

Sins of a Solar Empire until 4th January. Coupon code: SOSE50

Supreme Commander until 31st December. Coupon code: SUPCOM50

Demigod until 30th December. Coupon code: DEMI50

NB! Impulse has HUGE Christmas sale! – 54 items!

Check them out here! Samples: EVE Online: Dominion, Tropico 3, Trine, Europa Universalis III Complete, Meridian4 Complete Pack, Space Trader – Merchant Marine and more!

Rake In Grass Christmas sale – all games 50% off

Single package for only $30 (normal price: $75): Windows, MAC OS X

Separately: Archibald’s Adventures, Crystal Cave Classic, Jets’n'Guns Gold, Larva Mortus, Styrateg

Amanita Design Christmas Pack

Get it now!

Our Christmas Sale starts Dec 17th and ends Dec 25th, in that period you can buy the bundle with Machinarium and Samorost2 only for $10 which is 60% discount from it’s regular price ($25).

Amanita Design Christmas Pack includes:
Machinarium (Win + Mac + Linux versions) + Soundtrack (MP3)
Samorost2 (Win + Mac + Linux versions) + Soundtrack (MP3)
Hi-res Cover Pictures for Machinarium and Samorost2

Good Old Games

Check this one out:

G2Play

Christmas is just around the corner and its time for some serious discounts! G2PLAY now 34% cheaper than Steam with the top game Left 4 Dead 2 complete uncut version for unbelievable 24,99 EUR! Check it out here! Left 4 Dead 2 UNCUT VERSION Steam Key.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 UNCUT VERSION Steam Key The best game of 2009 according to TIME! Check the best price for this cool game! Now for only 34,49 EUR lowest price worldwide.

And here is more:
Counter Strike Source and Day of Defeat Source Steam Key now for only 16,49 EUR!
World of Warcraft The Wrath of The Lich King EU Digital Download still for very low price of 18,99 EUR!

Our support can supply you with the original retail box key scans for L4D2 / CoD6 / CSS / WOTLK to prove your original ownership whenever needed!

Restocked items: Xbox LIVE EU 2100 Points, Xbox LIVE EU 4200 Points, Age of Conan 60 DAYS TIME CARD EU, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade EU Digital Download, Need For Speed Shift EA Download Manager, World of Warcraft 60 DAYS Pre-Paid Time Card US, World of Warcraft Classic US Digital Download, World of Warcraft The Wrath of The Lich King US Digital Download, World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade US Digital Download.

Just visit the store to get them all!

exoSyphen Studios

Direct2Drive UK

UK D2D’s 24 Days of Christmas has ended:

Today, HUGE SALE – 35 items listed! Check it out here! Also old deals are working still!

Samples: Torchlight UK – £14.95£7.50, Street Fighter IV UK – £29.95£14.95, Resident Evil 5 UK – £29.95£14.95, Trine UK – £16.95£8.50, Prototype UK – £24.95£12.50, Machinarium UK – £14.95£7.50, Caesar™ IV – £14.95£7.50, Osmos UK – £5.95£2.95, Space Siege – £14.95£11.50, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II UK – £29.95 £14.95

25th December: Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition UK – £39.95 £29.95 (-25%) (recommended buy) (same as yesterdays, seems like D2D UK is celebrating Christmas :))

24th December, Christmas Eve: Dragon Age: Origins Digital Deluxe Edition UK – £39.95 £29.95 (-25%) (recommended buy) (had to wait 9 minutes for new deal…)

23th December: Prototype – £24.95 £12.50 (-50%)

Check the ALL games pictures here :) (sorry, I am a web-monkey :))

Direct2Drive US

US D2D’s 24 Days of Christmas (will add only worldwide deals as links here):

Today, HUGE SALE – 54 items listed! Check here! Also old deals are working still!

DLGamer

Our special 10% off discount is already included when you click on those links!

They have also 7 items with discount on sale, check it out HERE.

GamersGate

GamersGate Advent calendar deals ended. But they still have discounts on games listed here and all of them here (HUGE list).

GamesPlanet

GamesPlanet has total 18 Christmas special deals! NEW! Buy Avatar and get Assassin’s Creed for free! Also Bioshock is 25% discounted!

Other deals: Company of Heroes Pack – £24.99 £12.49 (-50%), Tropico 3 – £29.99 £20.99 (-30%), Red Faction Guerilla + Saints Row 2 for free! – £49.99 £19.99, Borderlands – £34.99 £24.49 (-30%), NBA 2K10 – 29.99 14.99 (-30%)

And more! Check them all out here: http://www.gamesplanet.com/UK/xmasspecials.html

The offer is available until end of the year!

EA Games UK

EA Games UK advent offers has ended :(

Today, 26th December: same as yesterday – Get 30% off your basket!! Buy anything you wish! Like: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 or Dragon Age Origins or Saboteur or Mass Effect 2 or NFS Shift or C&C 4 Tiberian Twilight!

25th December: Get 30% off your basket!! Buy anything you wish! Like: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 or Dragon Age Origins or Saboteur or Mass Effect 2 or NFS Shift or C&C 4 Tiberian Twilight!

Note. EA Games uses copy protection system and may not be available for some countries (read: will redirected). But they have good deals, so why not to inform everybody.

Note 2. Use coupons with EA Store! Get up to 25% discount! Check them out here: http://www.vouchercodes.com/vouchers/eastore.htm. I bought Mass Effect 2 and other stuff with those coupons, so it works! :)

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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.

Giveaways

That’s right kids! Here we go, our first big lottery. You need to be registered on our website to participate. Click on that button below to participate! Now everyone can participate.

Most games sponsored by:

Other titles sponsored by:

Discounts

And if the lottery isn’t enough for you go ahead and use those discount offers created especially for our 1 Year Anniversary:

Simply go here and get 10% off everything until December 27th (all over Europe)!

http://www.unpowered.dlgamer.com

Visit Direct4Drive (former OnlineKeyStore) and use this coupon code to get 10% off everything!

STEAMUNPOWD235

The code is valid for 1 year for 100.000 uses.

PLEASE READ (TO ALL HATERS): STEAM UNPOWERED IS NOT CONNECTED IN ANY WAY WITH CDKEY STORES OR DIGITAL STORES, WE ASKED THEM IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO SPONSOR FEW GAMES FOR OUR ANNIVERSARY, THEY AGREED AND IN RETURN WE ARE OBLIGED TO SHOW THEIR BANNERS ON OUR SITE FOR AROUND A MONTH. IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT THEN WE DON’T CARE. ANYONE CAN JOIN THE LOTTERY (NO AGE RESTRICTIONS). ONLY REGISTERED USERS CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE LOTTERY.

SOME GAMES/GIFTS ARE FUNDED WITH OUR OWN MONEY.

THE RESULTS WILL BE POSTED SHORTLY AFTER  DECEMBER 21ST (MONDAY).

Join the forum discussion on this post

Also G2Play is refunding (according to their response on Twitter):

http://twitter.com/G2PLAYSHOP/status/5916068001

So if you bought your key somewhere else and you’ve lost your game please do not hesitate and ask for a refund or a new key. And do not be afraid to use online key stores in the future – things like that happen but we cannot let Valve threat people with removing games and such.

Have fun playing!

Update:

Here’s a cool screenshot thanks to Rad86N:

According to SavyGamer G2Play.net is selling stolen CD-Keys…at least for the game called Blood Bowl.

Another thing about G2Play.net. In the past (like two or a year ago) their prices were really attractive, but since Valve changed the currency for countries around the world G2Play’s prices went up high…I mean it looks like they are trying to rip off some people by setting the price higher than it really is.

I have removed G2Play.net from the alternative shops (approved sellers list) – at least for now.

Edit: CDkey-Game.com was also removed due to this.