OnLive celebrates Indie-pendence Day with an explosive sale

OnLive is celebrating "Indie-pendence" Day with a massive sale on -- you guessed it -- a random selection of mainstream blockbusters and popular underground games.

The sale includes Batman: Arkham Asylum, Darksiders, Just Cause 2, a pre-order deal on Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and of course an inundation of hit indie titles such as Braid, The Maw, Osmos and Amnesia: The Dark Descent. OnLive's "Indie-pendence" Day Sale runs through the completely unrelated day of July 4, so hurry and check out your options after the jump before this thing vanishes like smoke after a firework.

Update: OnLive is sending all PlayPack subscribers a free game of their choice this Tuesday, and as long as you sign up for the monthly unlimited-gaming service before midnight Pacific on July 4, you can snag a free game too. Thanks, Silent Killer01!

"Indie-pendence" Day Sale

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! $2.50
Amnesia: The Dark Descent $5.00
The Ball $5.00
Braid $2.50
Defense Grid Gold $3.50
Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time $1.25
Gene Labs $2.50
Madballs in Babo: Invasion $2.50
The Maw $2.50
Osmos $2.50
Trine $5.00
World of Goo $2.50

"Pop-pendence" Day Sale

Aliens vs. Predator $13.39
Alpha Protocol $20.09
Batman: Arkham Asylum $9.90
Darksiders $13.39
Fishdom 2 $5.00
Ghost Busters: The Video Game $9.99
Homefront $37.49
Just Cause 2 $19.99
MX vs ATV Reflex $13.39
Patrician IV: Conquest by Trade $20.09
Puzzle Chronicles $4.99
Red Faction: Guerrilla $13.39
Remington Super Slam Hunting: Africa $5.00
Royal Envoy $9.99
SAW $9.99

"Pre-order-pendence" Day Sale

Deus Ex: Human Revolution pre-order $44.99 (10 percent discount)
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine pre-order $49.99 (not discounted)

Reader Comments (13)

Just so everyone knows, the service is fantastic.

@AutobotIronhide
Not for those who have slow internet and a low bandwidth cap.
Ill stick to Steam , Gamers Gate and GoG.

@Silent Killer01
It's odd they posted this but missed the thank you part. Thats a better deal if you ask me. If I read that right I can get FEAR3 just for subscribing a month?

@DarkNightRJ looks that way. I know it's hard to believe but onlive does do some crazy deals. Just like the spend $10 and get 100% off code got mine and got the $99 micro console.

@Silent Killer01 thank you for pointing that out... i just recently fell in love with onlive (i have a perfectly capable gaming pc but just love how quick and easy onlive is) and subscribed to the playpack a few days ago. I have fallen in love all over again.

Ok I tried it and the Onlive service is decent ..... a bit of laitencey ... nothing too bad.

But when I tried it, it was streaming me ~1gb of video every ~30min or so.... most indie games are less than 1gb to download. It just doesn't make any sense to stream them.... when said stream will likely run you considerably more bandwidth than just downloading them from another retailer.

I understand for some games, and for Demos it works out really well since most modern game demos come in at over a gig each anyhow.

Nice that they are having a sale and all but the cost to benefit ratio is just skewed enough that its not something I'm personally interested in.

Somebody at onlive needs a promotion to head joke maker or head pun maker or something like that for indie pendence day BTW is bears of war tea on onlive yet

Even though I own a Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3, these deals just keep me coming back to OnLive. I agree that the quality can definitely be lower than what you get on an actual console along with the minute of lag, but you can't beat cheap and free games. I encourage anyone who hasn't tried the service out to go ahead and try it.

Another deal they are offering is if you sign up this weekend, you can get your first purchase 50% off by using the code NEWMEMBER50 (only applies to the non-sale items unfortunately). Existing members get 30% off using the code 4JULY30.

To avoid confusion, that's minute in the adjective sense, not the noun sense. It's not a full minute (60 seconds) of lag.

Great deals. Makes me think I should get the playpack, but for the sake of working I must not do it or else I do nothing but play games all day.

For some games it makes sense for people who otherwise couldn't play those games on their weak computers and have a decently fast net connection. However games like world of goo make no sense to me. That's a game that will play smoothly on the worst of netbooks, and can be bought for nearly nothing, played without a constant net connection, and won't be lost if/when the service is ever discontinued, plus you don't have to pay a service fee every month just to play it.

@aea0a095 Actually, there is no monthly service fee. The service itself is completely free, you just buy or rent the games themsleves. Unless you're talking about the PlayPack, which is where you pay $10 for for a bunch of games.

OnLive celebrates Indie-pendence Day with an explosive sale

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Posted: Jul 3rd 2011 1:59PM AutobotIronhide said

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