The Weekend Steam - 28/11/09

PC News | Santa comes to Steam early this year.

With December just around the corner, the Steam 'Early Holiday Sale' has just kicked off, giving gamers some excellent one-day bargains on some of the top-flight titles on the digital distribution platform. The weekend Steam deal has been put on the backburner for now, with the Early Holiday sale whipping up new sales offers every day until next Monday (Tuesday for us Australian folk). On top of the daily deals, Steam is also offering two incredible bargain bundles of LucasArts and THQ games that will stay on special all the way through to Monday.

One title on sale today is the recently released zombie shooter from Valve, Left 4 Dead 2, which follows on from last year's hit Left 4 Dead. Be sure to keep your eyes posted to PALGN for our thoughts on Left 4 Dead 2 next week.

Don't forget to stay tuned in to the Early Holiday Sale page to check out the new specials each day.

All specials available today:

LucasArts Premier Pack: USD $49.99 / AUD $55.17 / GBP £34.99
THQ Complete Pack: USD $49.99 / AUD $55.17 / GBP £26.49
Cities XL: USD $19.99 / AUD $22.06 / GBP £14.99
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare: USD $29.99 / AUD $33.09 / GBP £17.99
Dead Space: USD $14.99 / AUD $16.54 / GBP £31.49
Football Manager Live: USD $21.99 / AUD $24.26 / GBP £14.99
Football Manager 2009: USD $29.99 / AUD $33.09 / GBP £14.99
King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame: USD $35.99 / AUD $39.71 / GBP £26.99
King's Bounty: Armored Princess: USD $35.99 / AUD $39.71 / GBP £26.99
Left 4 Dead 2: USD $37.49 / AUD $41.37 / GBP £22.49
Madballs in... Babo:Invasion : USD $2.00 / AUD $2.20 / GBP £2.00
Majesty 2: USD $9.99 / AUD $11.02 / GBP £6.24
Mini Ninjas: USD $2.99 / AUD $3.29 / GBP £1.79
Ninja Blade: USD $26.99 / AUD $29.78 / GBP £17.99
Railworks: USD $34.49 / AUD $38.61 / GBP £23.49
Rogue Warrior: USD $44.99 / AUD $49.65 / GBP £26.99
Sam & Max Complete Season One: USD $20.09 / AUD $22.17 / GBP £11.38
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl: USD $3.75 / AUD $4.13 / GBP £3.50
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic : USD $2.49 / AUD $2.74 / GBP £1.74
Tropico 3 - Steam Special Edition: USD $35.99 / AUD $39.29 / GBP £13.49
Wallace and Gromit's Grand Adventures: USD $20.00 / AUD $22.07 / GBP £19.00
Zombie Driver: USD $8.99 / AUD $9.92 / GBP £6.19

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23 Comments

The Truth

2 years ago

KoTOR is $2.50US at the moment for those interested.

matrix-cat

2 years ago

Argh, I couldn't help but buy KotOR, even though I have the disc version on my shelf. But, in my defence, my shelf is way over there on the other side of the room.

Curse you Steam! Curse you for being so fantastically awesome! Jade Empire for $2.50 would be nice, too, if you're listening!

Skiller

2 years ago

Steam is getting pretty ridiculous for me now, about 1 in 3 purchases on my credit card are from steam :O. But it's hard to complain when it has saved me literally thousands of dollars

. Long live steam!

MrAndyPuppy

2 years ago

That entire LucasArts pack looks awesome - I own more than half of them but have lost discs in various house moves, and I don't know if they would run on Win7 anyhow...

Someone talk me out of buying Dark Forces and KOTOR and Secret of Monkey Island!

G3ck0

2 years ago

These sales are so good. And I can just tell in the next few days, a game will be cheap and I won't be able to resist buying it, even though I am broke.

Marka

2 years ago

Mini Ninjas is $14.99 not $2.99.

Zhou

2 years ago

At first was MEH at KOTOR; but at $2.50 and finding out its unmetered on GA I decided maybe it was worth a go.

Downloading now. Hopefully it lives up to the hype.

A sale on Deus EX GOTY tomorrow would be awesome..

Mr Waffle

2 years ago

MrAndyPuppy wrote

Someone talk me out of buying Dark Forces and KOTOR and Secret of Monkey Island!

I'd recommend reading the forums for the older games, apparently a lot of people have problems not being able to get them to work, or at least work correctly (eg didn't update Jedi Knight to support modern video cards so the graphics are only at the lowest quality, and some games don't have music).

Island_Wolf

2 years ago

Luckily for steam, they provide a forum that helps. Take for example, Dark Forces. If you go to the steam page for it here, scroll down to the very end to find

Quote

Note: Due to the age of the title, users may run into a few compatibility issues from use of current hardware. Please see the forums for more information.

But thanks for that Mr Waffle, I almost forgot about older games may require extra reading

Sin Ogaris

2 years ago

Why can't steam be more like GoG?

Kimberley Ellis

2 years ago

New deals are up, are there are definitely some sweet specials on offer:

Borderlands - AUD $59.05
City of Heroes: Architect Edition - AUD $11
Ghostbusters - AUD $11
Left 4 Dead - AUD $8.25
Order of War - AUD $15.41
Resident Evil 5 - AUD $30.84
Spore - AUD $22.02

Left 4 Dead for eight bucks is just insane...

redemption

2 years ago

^ i think your missing Trine on that new list.

Zhou

2 years ago

Ghostbusters - AUD $11 doesnt seem to be up there. A search on steam only brings up 2 X trailers .___.

Mr Waffle

2 years ago

Borderlands is down from its inflated Australian price, and is now equal to what the Americans NORMALLY pay (who are currently getting a sale price of US$33)...

Itachi

2 years ago

^^^^^^ Yeah Mr Waffle i don't get that either hey. What does it cost us extra for shipping through steam hahah. I just don't get it....

A13x

2 years ago

Itachi wrote

^^^^^^ Yeah Mr Waffle i don't get that either hey. What does it cost us extra for shipping through steam hahah. I just don't get it....

Basically publishers can choose the price at which the game goes up on Steam, and they can decide different prices and availability for different parts of the world. It's a compromise which has meant more publishers are ready to get on board Steam.

Valve and several others are fine with having a worldwide price, but others keep the same RRP for their Retail and Electronic distributions as not to undercut brick and mortar stores.

EA's downloader distribution platform was a classic example of this also, being the only ones to charge full price for a lot of games you could get for $20-60 cheaper in stores, and once you download it, you have to buy it again if you delete it.

heatseeker

2 years ago

Also if you share around the l4d four pack its only $5.50.

G3ck0

2 years ago

New games! I kinda want Battlefield 2, but I have no money.

http://store.steampowered.com/early-holiday

Zhou

2 years ago

Battlefield 2 is so super tempting since I've heard nothing but good things about it.. but from the looks of it, I might be better off just playing mw2.

Island_Wolf

2 years ago

Yeah, same. Battlefield for me is only good on multiplayer... was going to get Lucidity but then looking at the score.... I might give today's steam sale a miss.

Still undecided on whether or not to get the LucasArts pack or just give it a miss. I guess I should calculate which games I will play and see if it weights up (doubt it though since I have KotOR, Dark Forces 2 and Jedi Academy on CD and Secret of Monkey Island on steam)

Sin Ogaris

2 years ago

GET LUCIDITY!

That game is all kinds of awesome. It's the perfect platformer, really easy to get the groove of it, but INSANELY hard to master. Also I play it on 360 with a gamepad, it would be a lot better on the PC with a mouse.

Zhou

2 years ago

Got Lucidity last night

Played 2 levels and definitely hooked on the style and music of the game..though when placing the little platforms and whatever, it seems a bit too lag.. but other than that; totally worth every cent.

In other news; new bargains up!

Call of Juarez; Bound in blood - 20.99
Secret of monkey island - SE- $2.49
Quantz - $2
Section 8 - $32.99
Mirror's Edge - $4.99
Dawn of discovery - $34.99
Evil Genius - $2.49
Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena - $9.99

*edit*

Quantz and Evil Genius aren't hosted on GA- FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU