Weekend Coupons: Bundles of Joy [Dealtaku]

Big-ticket items lead the latest roundup of values and savings, but if you’re just here for the games, we’ve got plenty of deals there, too. Onward Weekend Coupons! Hardware • As McWhertor pointed out yesterday , Amazon’s cranking out a value-added Xbox 360 Elite bundle on Tuesday; it gives you the console plus Halo 3: ODST and Forza Motorsport III for $299. • Also arriving at Amazon on Tuesday is an Xbox 360 Final Fantasy XIII bundle for $399.99, which comes with a free faceplate (said to be a $50 value.) console bundle ($399.99, free ship) finally comes with a free faceplate (supposedly $49.99) from Amazon. [ Dealzon ] Software • Fallout 3 for the PS3 is $18 through Amazon.com. That’s essentially it’s used price on Half.com and Glyde, yet this of course is brand new. Nearly two years later it’s still an absolutely engrossing game. [ TechDealDigger ] • Also from Amazon, the $20 credits it offered for preorders of Battlefield Bad Company 2 are still valid. You still pay full price, $59.95 ($44.99 on PC) but other online retailers are only offering it for $5 less with no credit. [ Dealzon ] • You can also get $15 credited toward a future purchase if you pick up Supreme Commander 2 on the PC from Amazon. It’s $46.99. Preorder the Xbox 360 version (releases March 16) and get a $15 credit, too. [ Dealzon ] • The Tony Hawk Ride Skateboard Bundle for Xbox 360 is $69 (plus shipping) at J&R. This package is normally $95. [ TDD ] • Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is Steam’s weekend deal; pick it up for $7.49 (regularly $29.99) [ Steam ] • Capcom’s Flock is Direct2Drive’s deal of the week, for $3.95 (regularly $15). It’s a fun toy of a game, worth it at an impulse-buy price. [ Direct2Drive • This weekend only, you can buy Global Agenda (PC) for $39.99, with deeper discounts if you buy a two- ($69.99) or four- ($119.99) pack of the game. Round up three friends and it's yours for $30. [ Cheap Ass Gamer ] • Buy.com has the Limited Collector’s Edition of Halo Wars for $29.99 plus free shipping. Next best price elsewhere is $35. [ Dealzon ] As always, smart gamers can find values any day of the week, so if you’ve run across a deal, share it with us in the comments.

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Weekend Coupons: Bundles of Joy [Dealtaku]

Big-ticket items lead the latest roundup of values and savings, but if you’re just here for the games, we’ve got plenty of deals there, too. Onward Weekend Coupons! Hardware • As McWhertor pointed out yesterday , Amazon’s cranking out a value-added Xbox 360 Elite bundle on Tuesday; it gives you the console plus Halo 3: ODST and Forza Motorsport III for $299. • Also arriving at Amazon on Tuesday is an Xbox 360 Final Fantasy XIII bundle for $399.99, which comes with a free faceplate (said to be a $50 value.) console bundle ($399.99, free ship) finally comes with a free faceplate (supposedly $49.99) from Amazon. [ Dealzon ] Software • Fallout 3 for the PS3 is $18 through Amazon.com. That’s essentially it’s used price on Half.com and Glyde, yet this of course is brand new. Nearly two years later it’s still an absolutely engrossing game. [ TechDealDigger ] • Also from Amazon, the $20 credits it offered for preorders of Battlefield Bad Company 2 are still valid. You still pay full price, $59.95 ($44.99 on PC) but other online retailers are only offering it for $5 less with no credit. [ Dealzon ] • You can also get $15 credited toward a future purchase if you pick up Supreme Commander 2 on the PC from Amazon. It’s $46.99. Preorder the Xbox 360 version (releases March 16) and get a $15 credit, too. [ Dealzon ] • The Tony Hawk Ride Skateboard Bundle for Xbox 360 is $69 (plus shipping) at J&R. This package is normally $95. [ TDD ] • Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is Steam’s weekend deal; pick it up for $7.49 (regularly $29.99) [ Steam ] • Capcom’s Flock is Direct2Drive’s deal of the week, for $3.95 (regularly $15). It’s a fun toy of a game, worth it at an impulse-buy price. [ Direct2Drive • This weekend only, you can buy Global Agenda (PC) for $39.99, with deeper discounts if you buy a two- ($69.99) or four- ($119.99) pack of the game. Round up three friends and it's yours for $30. [ Cheap Ass Gamer ] • Buy.com has the Limited Collector’s Edition of Halo Wars for $29.99 plus free shipping. Next best price elsewhere is $35. [ Dealzon ] As always, smart gamers can find values any day of the week, so if you’ve run across a deal, share it with us in the comments.

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EA Cuts Deal To Publish Shank, Deathspank [Ea Partners]

Electronic Arts today announced a deal with the developers of Shank and Deathspank to bring the downloadable games to multiple platforms. The publishing deals are part of agreements that Klei and Hothead Games recently signed with EA Partners. While no specific release dates have yet been announced, Shank will be coming to the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 this summer, and the current deal includes bringing Deathspank to the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2010. Both Deathspank and Shank were showcased at last year’s Penny Arcade Expo and Shank is currently a finalist for “Excellence in Visual Art” at this year’s Independent Games Festival. Taking place in a stylized, modern-Western setting, Shank tells a classic betrayal story directed through a sophisticated cinematic lens, with addictive action gameplay found in classic 2D side-scrolling games, according to EA. In Deathspank, designed by Ron Gilbert, players take on the role of DeathSpank, the Hero to the Downtrodden, a Vanquisher of Evil and Defender of Justice as he fulfills his life-long destiny and searches for a mysterious and magical item only known as “The Artifact”, according to EA. Both deals were finalized under Jamil Moledina, Outreach Director, Business Development at EA Partners, and former executive director of the Game Developers Conference. “This is something we have been working on for a very long time,” Moledina told Kotaku. “Our mission at EA Partners is to work with the best talent across the game industry, and we are thrilled to extend our expertise to the leading creative developers in downloadable indie games.” “The opportunity at the indie development level is extraordinary. There is an opportunity in downloadable games in creativity and freedom to innovate because the don’t have to sell a lot of units and can be more impulse purchase.” Shank developer Jamie Cheng, CEO of Klei Entertainment, said Shank was a work of passion, something that nearly didn’t work out when last December a publisher they had lined up backed out. “We spent nine months creating this and the engine,” Cheng said. “We showed it to the public. Demoed at PAX and I thought people would like it, but I had no idea people would love it the way they did.” He said he was very happy with the deal to publish the game through EA Partners. “They allow us creative control on this game, they trust us to make the game we want to make and get them to a wide audience,” he said. Ian Wilkinson, CEO of Hothead Games, said they decided to work with EA Partners on Deathspank because they “needed more traction” in the digital download space. “We want millions to play this game,” Wilkinson said, “not a million.” Both the deals and Electronic Arts decision to so aggressively expand into digital downloads by bringing big games to the space were, in part, made possible by last year’s tremendous success with DICE’s Battlefield 1943. EA CEO John Riccitiello told our Stephen Totilo at the time that the game’s commercial and critical successes led to EA reexamining that market . Battlefield 1943 resulted in EA delivering a great game that was highly profitable and fun, he said. “We’re learning from that and there will be more like that.” Speaking with Kotaku yesterday, Moledina reaffirmed the game’s impact on this renewed effort. “It played a role in building momentum for this,” he said. “The success of Battlefield 1943 helped prove that you can field a triple-A product game in the impulse category and achieve extraordinary unit sales and do it with a great deal of passion.” You just need to make sure you start with a great game, he added. And a good place to look for some of those great games include places like Penny Arcade Expo, Indicade and the IGF. While Moledina said he couldn’t go into the details of these two latest deals, he did say that there is a desire for EA Partners to be able to publish more than just the single game from each studio.

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Square Enix iPhone Games Go On Sale [Deals]

In honor of the release of Final Fantasy I and II for the iPhone , Square Enix has dropped prices on the rest of its iPhone offerings, in case you wanted something new with your ancient remakes. Square Enix has been quite busy on the iPhone front leading up to today’s release of Final Fantasy I and II. With both of those classic titles selling for $8.99 a pop, the company is dropping the price on the rest of its iPhone lineup through March 3rd, so if you’ve been considering picking up Song Summoner, Hills and Rivers Remain, or Sliding Heroes, now would be a good time to grab them. The full list of discounted titles is as follows: CRYSTAL DEFENDERS Usually $7.99 / now $5.99 VANGUARD STORM Usually $4.99 /now $3.99 SLIDING HEROES Usually $2.99 / now $0.99 HILLS AND RIVERS REMAIN Usually $6.99 / now $4.99 SONG SUMMONER: The Unsung Heroes – Encore Usually $9.99 / now $7.99 Happy shopping!

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PopCap Just Handing Out Peggle Nights Like It Grows On Trees [Popcap Games]

PopCap Games is practically giving away Peggle Nights, offering the PC and Mac nighttime sequel to the amazing Peggle for little more than signing up for a PopCap Passport account. That’s just a few keystrokes and checkbox clicks! Yes, if you would like to save $19.95 USD off the regular price of Peggle Nights, the casual, unusually fun peg-smashing addiction, you can do so right now. You’re only one account creation and one PopCap newsletter opt-in away from owning the game that absorbed at least two weekends of my life. Having just gone through the sign-up process, it’s pretty straightforward. After signing up, you can choose to gift Peggle Nights to a friend or, if you’re like me, selfishly gift it to yourself. Everybody wins! Specifically me! PopCap Passport [PopCap - thanks, Scott!]

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Free Copies Of Red Faction For Every* Darksiders Owner [Thq]

Even if Darksiders owners didn’t have that special “mystery” coupon that was previously required to secure a free copy of Red Faction Guerrilla, they can still snag a complementary copy of THQ’s Martian shooter. There is, of course, an asterisk. THQ and Vigil are opening up the free copy of Red Faction Guerrilla floodgates to anyone who purchased a new copy of Darksiders. It also requires sending in your Darksiders UPC code, your original purchase receipt and some shipping and handling cash. But, hey, free-ish Red Faction! Oh, one more asterisk. The offer is only available to US residents. And make it snappy. You have until March 7 to get this all done. Additional details at the Darksiders blog. The Codeless are Not Forgotten [Darksiders blog - thanks, Hasani!]

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Weekend Coupons: The Make Good [Dealtaku]

Remember that profile we ran Thursday about the newly launched reselling marketplace ? The one that got, as we say around here, Kotaku’d by all the traffic? All’s well now and they’ve thrown our readers a coupon as a goodwill gesture. Glyde , the site that’s been a big hit with gamers since well before its official launch in November, is offering $3 off any single game purchase with the promo code KOTAKU. You’ll need to create an account there, of course. This is important: There’s gray text that says “Have a coupon code?” underneath the total price. Click that and enter the code there and hit “apply code” before you hit the big blue “buy” button. Otherwise, you’ll have 30 seconds to cancel the transaction, then go back and enter the code to get your discount. And with that, let’s get to the rest of the deals: Hardware • The plain, yet still mysterious Final Fantasy XIII 360 console bundle is now up for sale at Amazon. Comes with a 250GB drive, 2 controllers, and the FF13 game for $399.99. Release date is March 9. [ Dealzon ] Software • Trine is $9.99 (usually $19.99) on both PSN and with a download code bought from Amazon. Not sure how long that sale will last. [ Cheap Ass Gamer ] • This Saturday is the last day of Amazon’s “Buy 2, Get 1 Free” sale on Xbox 360 Platinum Hits. Includes original titles that spawned recent hot sequels like Bioshock, Mass Effect, Assassin’s Creed, and Army of Two among 36 total – mostly priced at $20, $28, and $30. [ Dealzon ] • The coupon code FEB10OFF at GameStop gets you strong savings on a couple of games. With it, Darksiders is $35.99 with free shipping – and a $10 store credit. And use it on Valkyria Chronicles to get it for $17.99 plus $2.99 shipping. These are new games, not used. [TechDealDigger] • Assassin’s Creed II: Discovery for iPhone, iTouch, and (soon) Pad has been slashed 30 percent in the App(le) Store. Usually $9.99, now $6.99, so I guess that’s just three dollars. Free shipping, though! [ Dealzon ] • Steam’s weekend deal: The RPG Mount & Blade is $4.99 (normally $29.99) Reader Jump4816 also reminds that the entire Total War series is 66 percent off until Monday, and the THQ Complete Pack is half off through Friday. [ Steam ] • PC gamers: Newegg has Street Fighter IV bundled with the Mad Catz “FightPad” for $34.99 (plus free shipping). That’s $20 off the next lowest (GoGamer). [ Dealzon ] • Direct2Drive’s deal (ends Feb. 19): Hammerfight, for $4.95 (normally $9.95). [ Direct2Drive ] • Pitchers and catchers report in a week and the Super Bowl was last Sunday. But if you’ve still got a football jones, Blitz: The League II on PS3 is $9.99 shipped from Newegg. Next best is $21. [ Dealzon ] As always, smart gamers can find values any day of the week, so if you’ve run across a deal, share it with us in the comments.

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Weekend Coupons: Preeeee-cola! [Dealtaku]

My lord, they’ve already started preorder bonuses on Madden NFL 11. And of course, Tuesday’s big releases also get inducements. Clear your throats and hit the jump for Weekend Coupons . RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-COLA! Software • Amazon offers $10 credits with pre-orders of two games launching this Tuesday: Dante’s Inferno (PS3/360 $57) and Bioshock 2 , which is $5, $4, and $3 off for 360, PS3, and PC, respectively. [Dealzon] • Amazon and Walmart.com have kicked off six months of pre-order Maddeness, offering $20 credits with Madden NFL 11 . And the shelf-clearing begins with a Madden NFL 10 + NCAA Football 10 360 combo, $65 shipped from the Microsoft Store. Best prices elsewhere are $45 and $47, $92 for the both. [Dealzon] • Here’s a post-order, but a good deal if you’ve yet to grab Mass Effect 2 for the PC. GoGamer has it for $39.90, use coupon SHIPFREE25 to get free shipping [ TechDealDigger ] • GamersGate says it’s added servers and quadrupled download speeds. Further, it’s offering Bioshock half off through Sunday in anticipation of BioShock 2’s release on Tuesday. They’ve also got a new sales partner, Telltale Games, and so have 10 percent discounts on Tales of Monkey Island, Sam & Max Season 1 and 2, and Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People. Also, tomorrow only, Red Faction 1 and 2 will be half off. [ GamersGate ] • Steam’s Weekend Deal: Far Cry is $4.99, Far Cry 2: Fortune’s Edition is $9.99. [ Steam ] • GameFly subscribers can take advantage of some rockbottom used game prices with free shipping. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Ghostbusters and X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Uncaged Edition are each $9.99, Call of Duty: World at War is $14.99 and Prototype is $17.99. All games are Xbox 360. [ Cheap Ass Gamer ] Hardware • Xbox 360 consoles continue 360-deals-a-year pace as PS3s continue to command MSRP. The Xbox 360 Arcade with a $25 Gift Card deal ends at Amazon today. Then on Sunday Best Buy will take the torch (plus tax) for the coming week. Elite is $294 + free extra controller at Amazon today and Dell has the Elite for $269.99 + tax. [ Dealzon ] • The 11-inch Alienware M11x gaming laptop that we said is “worth looking into once it hits the market” has hit the market. Starts at $799 + some nickel-and-dime $1.95 shipping [ Dealzon ] • Deanbmmv points out an interesting sale that I guess qualifies as hardware. The Valve Store – this is their merch shop, t-shits and stuff, not games, features a 10 to 50 percent of sale on all Valve branded items until Feb. 14. Left 4 Dead hats, Aperture Labs parking passes, headcrabs, go for it. [ Valve Store ] As always, smart gamers can find values any day of the week, so if you’ve run across a deal, share it with us in the comments.

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Get Titan Quest Gold For Copper Prices [Deals]

While waiting for Blizzard to get Diablo III done, why not play the capable clone Titan Quest on the cheap, now just $4.99 USD, including the Immortal Throne expansion, on Steam. Iron Lore would’ve wanted it that way. [ Steam ]

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Weekend Coupons: The Hold Steady [Dealtaku]

Not too many jaw-dropping deals, as we seem to have cleared not only the Christmas sales period, but also the post-Christmas clearance window. But with the first big wave of new releases coming up, some new values can be found. Hardware • Amazon’s Xbox Elite 120GB plus $50 Gift Card deal for $293.99 ends today. Looks like the last, and best, 360 Elite + GC deal of the post-holiday retail merry-go-round … for now. [ Dealzon ] • This is the best second-guitar sale I’ve seen in a while: From Buy.com, $26.99 gets you a Rock Band Fender Stratocaster, which is always handy as a spare (or a new axe), and it gives you AC/DC Live Rock Band. It also gives you the craptacular Rock Revolution. But the point here is, new second guitar controller (and yes, it’s wireless) and then the AC/DC tunes if you wanted an excuse for that. [ TechDealDigger ] • Amazon finally caught up with old times and is stocking the Retrolink USB Nintendo (NES) Classic Controller for a Feb. 1 ship date. It’s $7.99 and qualifies for free Super Saver or Prime shipping. Normally $30 shipped elsewhere, except on the rare occasion that GoGamer has it in stock for $16-$20. [ Dealzon ] Software • Steam’s weekend sale is the Company of Heroes series. Get Company of Heroes, or Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts for $4.99; Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor is $7.49. The whole shootin’ match (literally) is $12.49. These discounts amount to 75 percent off. [ Steam ] • If you’re looking to buy BioShock 2 on the PC and can find three other friends, four copies of that game plus four free copies of the first BioShock can be had for $134.97 if you pre-order on Steam, making the per-person cost $33.74. If you can’t find three other friends or don’t want the hassle, you can buy a single copy of BioShock 2 for $44.99 (10 percent off) and still get the free BioShock. [ Cheap Ass Gamer ] • Amazon started selling PlayStation Network access codes back in October but to this point it’s mainly just offered convenience. Well, Friday they finally launched a decent little sale – 50 percent off five popular PS3 downloadable games ($3.49 to $7.49, were $6.99 to $14.99). The sale includes Braid, Critter Crunch, Burn Zombie Burn and a token PSP title, Kurulin Fusion. [ Dealzon ] • For two new games launching on Tuesday, January 26 – Mass Effect 2 (360, PC) and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars (Wii) – Amazon has the best price ($3 off lists $60/50/50, respectively) plus they’re throwing in $10 credits for future game purchases if you pre-order through Monday. [Dealzon] As always, smart gamers can find values any day of the week, so if you’ve run across a deal, share it with us in the comments.

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