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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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Weekend Coupons: Months That End in "Y" [Dealtaku]

We close out the final weekend of the shortest month with a smattering of deals on new games and a helpful way for you to wring more value out of your old ones. Onward, Weekend Coupons! Hardware • Did your out-of-warranty 360 red ring? An Arcade through Dell Small Business is about the cost of a repair and you don’t have to hassle with shipping your bricked unit back (at your expense). Get it for $159 with free shipping. Other deals include an Arcade plus a Transport Pack for $200 through Tiger Direct, and an Elite plus a $50 gift card for $300 from Best Buy, a deal that ends tomorrow. [ Dealzon ] Software • This isn’t a deal per se but it is a valuable tool. Cheapy’s fired up his “Cagomatic” Trade-In Value Tracker, a searchable database providing current trade-in prices for used games at Amazon, Blockbuster, Game Crazy and Gamestop. This is especially handy considering GameStop’s 50 percent trade-in bonus campaign that began last Monday and ends March 14. [ Cheap Ass Gamer , must be a registered user.] • Preordering Just Cause 2 through Amazon gets you a $15 credit toward a future video game purchase. It also gets you into a jeep tethered to the back of a 747 as it lands on a highway overpass. OK, no it doesn’t. [ TechDealDigger ] • Preordering MLB 2K10 from Amazon gets you that game for $4 off ($55.99) plus a $10 video game credit. The game is out Monday.[ Dealzon ] • GoGamer.com’s latest Madness Sale ends Monday – it includes MAG (PS3), Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) and and Mass Effect 2 (360) for $10, $9, and $5 off their next best, respectively prices. You also get free shipping on orders $25+ with coupon SHIPFREE25. [ Dealzon ] • Batman: Arkham Asylum (PC) is $12.49 via Games for Windows LIVE. That is stupefying, down almost to an impulse purchase level. Next best price is $39. Hell, I already have it on PS3 and I don’t even own a Windows PC and I might buy it. Sale ends at 10 a.m. U.S. Pacific time on Monday. [ Dealzon ] • Target’s latest circular lists Dante’s Inferno for $20 off. Not sure if that is an MSRP drop (or if it’s a discount that includes one) but it’s the newest game on their list of sale titles. 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: 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: 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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Amazon Now Offering Cheap-O Xbox Live Subs [Dealtaku]

If your gold subscription to Xbox Live renews this month – or not, heck, this is a card with a code – Amazon is offering 12-month subscriptions for $34.99 which is 30 percent off. That means if you have the dough now, you can save yourself $15 later. I’d say this is a run-go-get it deal. No telling when it expires, or when they run out of stock at this price. Xbox 360 Live Subscription Gold Card [Amazon, seen via Blast ]

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New Year’s Theme is Free on Xbox Live [Free]

Xbox Live Marketplace has been running Deal of the Day promotions since Friday; today’s is completely free. Pick up a New Year’s Theme for the rock bottom price of zero Microsoft points. There it is, pictured above. The free offer is good through the end of today, but I believe that clocks in at Pacific time, so it means folks on the U.S. east coast have to 3 a.m. if they want it. However, yesterday’s Deal of the Day, Worms 2: Armageddon for 400 Microsoft Points , was still live when I posted this at 6 p.m. Mountain time. But the 2010 Avatar party glasses had gone back to 40 MS points. So who knows. The DotD promos – which Microsoft is not announcing in advance – last through Dec. 31, and if you’re keeping track of this sort of thing, Cheap Ass Gamer has been archiving the giveaways here . New Year’s Theme [ Xbox Live Marketplace via Gay Gamer ]

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Weekend Coupons: Hardware Store [Dealtaku]

Weekend Coupons is noticing a definite swing toward console deals and bundles as the holiday shopping season wears on. Might want to consider snapping them up this week, as they’re certain not to last much past Christmas. Hardware • Amazon is going used-car-dealer nuts with the prices on Xbox 360s. The arcade is $179 ; the Elite is less than $100 more, $274.99 . The Elite is the Holiday Bundle, too, so you get a couple games with it. [Dealzon] • Walmart sees that and says “Allow me to retort.” It’s dishing up the Elite bundle, plus a 12-month Xbox Live sub, plus your choice of two games – and Modern Warfare 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, and Left 4 Dead 2 are on the list – for only $349. Now, you’ll have to pay about $15 in shipping, and sales tax. But it’s still a good value that normally would run $440. [ Dealzon ] • The Guitar Hero Store is offering a buttload of Guitar Hero for a hundred bucks. You get Guitar Hero 5, a git-tar, and then Guitar Hero III and Guitar Hero II, plus Band Hero, for $99.99. [ TechDealDigger ] • Target’s offering a $10 gift card if you buy a DS. See the circular for details [ Target ] • SonyStyle is offering $50 off the PS3 Slim, if you buy an accessory with it. A remote control is $24.99, making this effectively a $25 discount. Or you can look on it as a console with an extra controller for free. [ TDD ] • Toys ‘R Us will give you any controller for 30 percent off if you buy a console. Not as good as the PS3 deal, but it covers Xbox 360 and Wii. [ Toys 'R Us ] • Amazon’s hoping that, if you’re in the market for a new DualShock, you might be willing to pick up Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune along with it. Both are bundled for $58.99, $12 less than bought separately, and the controller comes in four fun flavors, red, black, silver or blue.[ Dealzon ] • Dell’s selling the PSP-3000 Assassin’s Creed model for $169.99. That’s $30 less than elsewhere. [ Dealzon ] Software • Steam’s deal is Torchlight, half off. That’s $9.99. [ Steam ] • At GamersGate, Trine is half off. So is the Battlefield 2 Complete Collection (it’s down to $14.95), in North America only though, until Wednesday. Saint’s Row 2 is 30 percent off ($19.95) through Dec. 28. [ GamersGate ] • And finally, Gamefly is offering two months for the price of one to new customers who sign up by this Sunday. You can also get 14 free issues of Sports Illustrated or Entertainment Weekly with the sub. [ 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: Sweet Sixteen [Dealtaku]

Sixteen shopping days are left until Christmas, dragging out more deals this week on games, hardware and bundles. See inside for the latest inducements and enticements, or see what otther readers are touting in the comments. Hardware • Amazon is bundling the Xbox 360 Arcade with free Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. The $256 value is yours for the regular console price of $199. [ Dealzon ] • Amazon’s also bundling the 250GB PS3 configuration for $350, with two free Blu-Ray movies, until Thursday - or “while supplies last.” You heard the giant online retailer, move it! [ Dealzon ] • And Buy.com has a weird bundle that begins Monday – three games, Crackdown, Perfect Dark Zero and Project Sylpheed, plus two rechargable controller battery packs, all for $29.99, plus free shipping. Basically, should you have need for the battery packs, you can get some free games tossed in. [ Dealzon ] Software • Through Thursday, that coupon (above) gets you 30 percent more trade-in value at GameStop, limit two titles. • Also, the code: B2G1FREE gets you a free third used game when you buy two online at GameStop. [ GameStop ] • Any game offered by the EA Store is 30 percent off when you use the coupon code EAPARTNERS2009. There’s also a Saturday-only sale there offering titles for less than $15. [ TechDealDigger ] • I gotta like what Cheap Ass Gamer suggests here. Amazon’s giving you 50 percent off any title on a list of Xbox 360 “family games” if you buy one game full price. So that means you can get your Dead Space, and your Brütal Legend, or any other M-rated title and still pick up Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection for ten bucks, among others. [ Cheap Ass Gamer ] • Steam’s weekend deal is Counter Strike: Source for $5. Of course they’re hoping you’ll decide instead to buy a $29.99 Counter Strike bundle (six games) or the $99.99 Valve bundle, which as it gets you Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2’s Episodes 1 and 2, is not such a bad bargain – if you don’t own these already. [ Steam ] • Two years later, it still makes a good gift. The Halo 3 Legendary Edition is $29.99 with free shipping on NewEgg. Or, you can consider it a $29.99 unwearable Spartan helmet for yourself. [ TDD ] • GoGamer’s usual 48-Hour Madness Sale is now called White Friday, which includes the usual $10 bargain-bin stuff, but also savings on Prototype, Assassin’s Creed II, Avatar, Left 4 Dead 2 (all $49.90) plus Prototype ($19.90) and Wolfenstein ($22.90) both on the PC. Wireless Xbox 360 controllers also are going for $18.90 (white) or $22.90 (black) [ GoGamer ] • Dealzon points out GoGamer reduced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to $49.90, the most reliably low price through an online retailer out there right now. If that changes, they’ll post the best deal on this game at the link. [ 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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Toys ‘R Us Enters Holiday Sales Fray [Dealtaku]

Toys ‘R Us has kicked off a buy 1, get one half-off promotion – so, two AAAs for $90, basically. While not as eyepopping as the price war between Walmart and Gamestop , it does cover the retailer’s entire game stock. It’s also running a free-shipping promo that isn’t all that glamorous, but is worth a mention: Free shipping on The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks for the DS, and free shipping on all pre-ordered games. You can check out the deals here . Alert reader bjorked noticed in yesterday’s Weekend Coupons that the sale was announced in this weekend’s Toys ‘R Us circular. Toys ‘R Us: Video Games [site]

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