Category: Steam Alternatives
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GetGames now expanded!
The long wait has paid now off. Get Games is now live and offering more games than simply just one! Following our fantastic Serious Sam launch offer, we’ve expanded our gaming catalogue to include a stellar selection of independent and publisher titles, details of which are listed below. And that’s not all – over the…
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Microsoft has 30 days to answer Polish players
Microsoft encouraged Polish players to buy original games (without multiplayer support and Live features) and stop modding their consoles. XboX players who are responsible for the revolt-ish website contacted Microsoft Poland and… Here’s what the kontrakcja.pl site owner posted on their site (translated freely by me): “We’re after talking to Microsoft Poland. (…) We live,…
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Weekend Deals (22.01.10)
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…
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Steam Alternatives: Green Man Gaming
Green Man Gaming, a company located in the United Kingdom, is about to launch a digital download store for the PC with a difference, claiming its store will be able to offer "pre-owned" digital sales. "Previously the minute you had paid and downloaded your game it had no resale value", says Gian Luzio, Green Man’s…
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Microsoft sells partially functional games in Poland
Some really interesting stuff is going on in Poland right now, Microsoft started a really weird action in which they promote the original games for XboX 360…but XboX Live service (and Games For Windows Live) doesn’t work in Poland which is absurd because Polish gamers pay for their games the same amounts of money like…
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Weekend Deals (15.01.10)
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…
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Week 2 deals
Weekend deals are not enough :) And that’s true. We need deals all the time! Constantly! 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…
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Weekend Deals (08.01.10)
SteamUnpowered proudly presents: Pilot of “Weekend Deals” new series, episode 1 Enjoy yourself! 9th Jan – added GamesPlanet Winter Promo deals. Current deals: GamersGate, Steam, Impulse, EA UK, GamesPlanet. PS. The list will be updated when new offers will pop up.
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Uplay – it’s all about you!
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…
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Games For Windows Live store is up!
You can now buy several Games For Windows Live games using the official Microsoft Games For Windows Live application. The prices are in dollars which is ok but they aren’t really very different from other stores around the globe. Check out the Microsoft store!
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Direct2Drive: 24 Days of Christmas
In today’s deal: BioShock UK (£19.50 £9.95) 4th December deal: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut (£24.95 £12.50) 3rd December deal: Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim Check out this page tomorrow for new deal! Everyday until December 24th there will be new deal available, additionally a competition called Name That Game Giveaway – basically…
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Microsoft to sell PC games over Games For Windows
Microsoft has announced that on December 15th, Games on Demand comes to Games for Windows Live, which means they are going to start digitally distributing PC games. The Xbox 360 Games on Demand program has been doing well enough, and services like Stardock’s Impulse and Steam have already proven the viability of the digital download…
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Steam Alternatives: Xfire Game Store
European store: http://eu.xfirestore.com American store: http://us.xfirestore.com 1: Get the Downloader Once your payment has been completed, you can get the Downloader from the Confirmation Page, your Account Page or the Confirmation e-mail. This installs our Downloader (DLM.exe) on your PC, simplifying the game download process. 2: Install the Downloader Launch the Downloader by double-clicking…
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Steam Alternatives: Green House
The Greenhouse is a game store brought together by Penny Arcade and Hothead Games. It launched in April 2008 to support the launch of our first title, Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. They have bigger plans, but they’re not ready to talk about them yet. How does it work? At Green…
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Gamers Gate: Holiday Gift Guide
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Impulse: Cyber Monday Sale
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Weekend Deals (27.11.09)
28th Nov – added Good Old Games, X-Fire and GamesPlanet deals. Seems like GamersGate is always the first with deals :) They are offering Serious Sam 2, Gothic III Gold Edition and The Guild 2 Platinum. And also they informed, that Tropico 3 will be 25% off and 10% discount for Fort Zombie. Seems like…
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Week 48 deals
Deals of the week 48 Weekend deals are not enough! And that’s true. We need deals all the time! :) 26th Nov – added GamesPlanet new week deal – Light of Altair This week is started again by GamersGate with 5 deals! And Impulse is offering massive discount 35%-75% off of 10!! deals, thank you,…
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Get Games launches!
Get Games is the brand new digital download service from the team that created Eurogamer. They have a very special offer: Serious Sam HD for £9.99! Get it now! Over the coming weeks they will be adding a fantastic range of new releases, indie games, classic titles and free-to-play games to the site. So make…
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Modern Warfare 2: Get your game or money back!
As we find out recently Online Key Store is sending out new sets of cd-keys for the game so that people who bought it from their store can easily re-activate their game once more on Steam. Also G2Play is refunding (according to their response on Twitter): http://twitter.com/G2PLAYSHOP/status/5916068001 So if you bought your key somewhere else…
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Weekend Deals (20.11.09)
21th Nov – added GamesPlanet weekend deal *20th Nov – added Good Old Games weekend deal Early start by GamersGate with 3 games 50% off – King’s Bounty The Legend, Rush for Berlin Gold and Sango 2 & Takeda 3 bundle. Then comes Steam with super deal! – 75% discount Frontlines™: Fuel of War™ and…
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Online Retailers Refusing To Sell Modern Warfare 2
Kotaku just posted that Direct2Drive won’t be selling Modern Warfare 2 on their PC digital delivery service. Why? Because of rival platform – Steam. The game includes mandatory installation of Valve’s Steamworks, which the game uses for stuff like installation, DRM and save-game management. Something Direct2Drive (which is owned by website IGN) are having none…
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Direct2Drive: Win 5 free games!
You can win 5 free games (you can pick them if you win) by completing this suvery: CLICK HERE The most interesting thing about it is the part with question about…Steam: And more:
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DLGamer: Discount coupon for our readers!
Thanks to DLGamer we received a 10% (5€) off discount coupon on the upcoming hit Borderlands. The game is already 10% off in pre-order which gives us a total of 20% off. Here’s the coupon: 5ER719935 And here’s a link to buy the game: http://www.dlgamer.eu/buy-borderlands-p-5899.html NOTE: STEAM UNPOWERED IS NOT CONNECTED IN ANY WAY WITH…