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Shine a light on Alan Wake for $49, get $10 bonus credit

by Richard Mitchell on May 21st 2010 3:00PM

Excerpt from Alan Wake's technological thriller, It Came from Amazon:

I sat there staring at the screen, unable to believe my aching eyes. Had I had too much to drink, or was this real? The Amazon checkout cart read $49.99, and it was definitely Alan Wake sitting in the basket. That alone didn't really frighten me. What tipped me over the edge was the $10 bonus credit on a future video game purchase.

The site had similar deals on other games. Super Street Fighter IV for $30, God of War 3 for $45, Splinter Cell Conviction ... again $45. All of these and more, like Super Mario Galaxy 2, with at least $10 bonus credit. Was that even possible? Or, had the Darkness managed to infiltrate my computer?

Unsure of itself, my shaking index finger finally clicked true. The purchase was made -- with free Super Saver shipping -- and now all I could do was wait, wait and contemplate how to spend that $10 credit. Red Dead Redemption was supposed to be pretty good.

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Reader Comments (39)

Man, it would have been nice to get that deal.. but I'm also glad I picked it up already.

Alan Wake is a must buy. I'm about half way through it and enjoying it very much. (in fact, my g/f won't let me play unless she's sitting next to me to see it play out. lol)

Great game.

I am hoping my girlfriend has the same reaction to it. We love horror/suspense movies and I hope she enjoys this game.

My wife is doing the same thing with me. She wants to watch me play every second of Alan Wake and SMG2.

P.S. It is semi-annoying to buy the game at full price one day and then three days later see a deal that gives $20 in savings...

Good thing she doesn't enjoy Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer.. Heh!

as of noon this deal is no longer available as i looked yesterday and it was there, i waited till today and it was gone...still got it for $45 and free shipping tho
and a $5 music download credit
don't wait with amazon!

I just ordered it and I got the $10 promo.

The deal looks like it is still there to me, you just need to scroll down to the Special Offers and Product Promotions section on the web page to see it.

ok i did get it, sorry all

disregard this you do get the credit....how do you edit or remove a post???

I just ordered it and I got the $10 promo too... it's 2:46 PM Pacific here.

'Then Barry entered the room.

"Hey, Alan! You getting Red Dead Redemtion? Sweet! We can play online together! Wouldn't that be great? Hey, Alan! I said, wouldn't that be great? Whatsa matter Alan, why is your face in your palm like that?"

Slowly, I drew out my flashlight and revolver...'

It is currently sitting in my Amazon cart with my mouse hovering over the checkout button.

I just told myself I would be spending less money. SMG2 was supposed to be my last purchase for a long, long time. Why must you tempt me Alan Wake, why?

That. was. intense.

And just a little extra props for Amazon... I had ordered Alan Wake back when it was still listed at $59.99. Apart from getting the $10 bonus credit, they unexpectedly emailed me on Wednesday to inform me they were crediting an additional $10 back to my card since the price had come down to $49.99.

$10 off... pass. I'll wait till I see it for $20 used, you know MS is gonna rip off the consumers with the DLC, expect 1200 to for each episode.

Well you have to keep in mind that one of the episodes comes free when you buy it new. When you buy it used you'll have to buy that DLC yourself.

I just got my pre-order copy from Amazon today. They already credited my account the 10 bucks extra I spent and I used the 10 dollar bonus credit toward Super Mario Galaxy 2 which netted me a 20 dollar credit toward my next game purchase. I guess I should have known this but it's Amazon for game purchases from here on out for me.

I did sort of the same thing - ten dollar credit for NSMBW, used it to get Super Mario Galaxy 2 (twenty dollar credit), and used the twenty dollar credit to pre-order Gears of War 3 (which also has a twenty dollar credit). Total Amazon credit = $50.00

Pretty nice.

Let me correct myself - the second $20 promo was for Halo: Reach, not Gears of War 3.

What an appropriately amusing way to post this deal. Kudos to you.

So, does amazon.com ship to Canada?
amazon.ca doesnt really have such deals, wonder if I could use it as a print out and do price matching in a store..

Nah, that prolly be fraud on some level. =/

If you work for a store like Target or Best Buy that sells Microsoft products you can get Alan Wake for $19.90 from Microsoft Expertzone. They have to verify you work there, and once you do you just take quizzes to get points and use points on discounted merchandise. They have an Elite console for 70 off, a list of games mostly 20 and less, controllers and accessories. They finally added the 250G hard drive but that went out pretty fast. Also some PC accessories and Zunes discounted. I bought a few 4000 point cards recently for 24, half off, and the 12 month gold card is half off as well. Best website I've ever signed up for, although once you get around to getting all you want, they are pretty slow about adding new content.

Red Dead Redemption is currently $50 on Amazon as well.

I've been pondering this deal now for days. Finally bit the bullet. Used a free trial of Amazon Prime while I was at it. Of course this had to be a holiday weekend so that it's still delayed by half a week with "2 day" shipping.

I figure this essentially makes things $40 for Alan Wake and another $40 for Persona 3 Portable.

Wow this is so awesome! I am so glad that Nintendo and Playstation are tagged in this post, I didn't know Alan Wake was coming to those systems! Thanks Joystiq for quality blogging!

Quality commenting

"The site had similar deals on other games. Super Street Fighter IV for $30, God of War 3 for $45, Splinter Cell Conviction ... again $45. All of these and more, like Super Mario Galaxy 2, with at least $10 bonus credit. "

I've been getting a lot of info about alan wake on this "playstation" blog. I don't really understand it, but it's very irritating.

Unless you're in California, that $10 will expire sometime.

That's good, except last time I tried to order something with super saver shipping, a week later it still hadn't shipped. The shipping is really slow.

Oh my god! I need your help guys:

Red Dead Redemption is the game I'm gonna get second and use the $10 for (I'm so looking forward to that. maybe next month), so what game do you think I should get first? Splinter Cell or Alan Wake? I've been looking forward to all 3 games since forever and I can't decide which one should I get first. (and the one I don't choose will be the third game). Oh damn it, this is so hard.

Having played all three, I would rank them as such:

1)Alan Wake
2)RDR
3)Conviction

As a huge splinter cell fan from the beginning, I was really dissapointed with Conviction. Its a decent action game, but its just not splinter cell. Play Wake first.

Thanks Logan! I'll do just that.

amazing game. no reason not to pick it up if you didn't already.

Damn you Joystiq!!

I saw the Alan Wake title and the Playstation logo next to it and was joyful for a fleeting moment that it was coming to PS3... >:(

why is this post on the ps3 blog?

Amazon Prime for game purchases= the only way to buy video games. Period.
Even if you want the game the day it comes out- Day of release shipping for free with Prime. Almost always a $10 credit towards another game, and prices are lower than any Gamestop I've been to.

An absolutely superb game. And Barry is the best comedy relief sidekick ever in a game. Buy it.

Alan Wake comes to the PS3 and Wii? Better watch those tags Joystiq.

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