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Spooky Savings: Amazon's 'Un-BOO-lievable' Halloween sale

by Jordan Mallory on Oct 23rd 2011 11:30AM

Autumnal consumerism is usually linked with holidays based around turkeys and/or trees, but that hasn't stopped Amazon from conjuring up some scary-good deals to celebrate All Hallow's Eve.

The available gambit of creepy-eepy savings is fairly all-inclusive, ranging from Halloweenish gore-fests like Dead Island, Rise of Nightmares and Left 4 Dead, to the more subtle, yet still emotionally horrifying Catherine. There are a few odd-balls in there like Dead or Alive Dimensions and Duke Nukem Forever, although we suppose Duke is terrifying in a more abstract sense of the word.

Source: Amazon

Tags: 3ds, amazon, catherine, dead-island, Dead-or-Alive-Dimensions, ds, duke-nukem-forever, halloween, left-4-dead, microsoft, nintendo, pc, playstation, ps3, rise-of-nightmares, wii, xbox

Reader Comments (35)

Holy sh*t! It actually linked to amazon.

@MystcLazrDragon

You know that's what the source link is for, right? Stop complaining that they don't link to stuff in the actual article, the source link is always there...

@beano311 A lot of the time the source link is only marginally useful, especially if they talk about several things in one post... because then there are several links, but they all go to a tags page on Joystiq.

It happens a lot and is rarely intuitive. So yeah, I'm surprised when the link in the post actually does that too.

Aliens GET!

Catherine GOTY!

Anoyone? Guys???

@TurbineTech

Hell yeah! If anybody's interested, another Catherine versus mode tournament will be streamed live at 2:30 PST today.
http://www.twitch.tv/finestko

@TurbineTech

I'm having a tough time deciding between Catherine and Deus Ex, but I think I have to side with Catherine. That game wins in presentation, originality and in emotional impact. If you're a gamer that seeks a connection to a game's world and makes you feel for its characters, Catherine is top tier.

Dead Island for $40 is tempting

@(Unverified) I personally thought Dead Island was super fun. Maybe could have used a tad more polish, but worth picking up IMO.

@MEMgrizzlies7

If you own a PC none of these deals are Steam competitive except for the direct downloads.

Dead Island key was only $40 on release date and is only $30 now. Still, I'll wait for the Steam sale that's due in a month or so. Amazon just can't compete with games selling for $2 or $3.

Aliens vs Predator for $12.99, I'll pick that up.

But WTF is Deathsmiles for 360?? Never even heard of it.

@whylekat It's a side-scrolling shoot em up. It's quite good if you're into that sort of thing.

@whylekat
Deathsmiles is an underrated gem. The boss of the game is Tyrannosatan; surely that's worth at least a couple of points in everyone's book.

Well then I'll pick that up as well. Thanks fellas!

No Arkham City? Bats is fear manifested!

It's kind of been lame that Amazon still has Love Is Over editions of Catherine when supposedly it was only made for "preorder demand".

@Softserve I dunno Softserve, something in my head is telling me I NEED those boxer shorts...

Also, I wish there was some super special deal on Splatterhouse. I've been wanting to play it, but I've been hoping it'd hit $10 eventually lol

If that Rock of the Dead had been available for 360 I would have bought the shit out of it.

No 'Shadows of the Damned'?

@supermarioman50

It's like the world wants no one to buy that game.

Ghost Trick for $15 is a great deal though. One of the best game sof the year.

@supermarioman50

I thought the exact same thing!! I'm dying to play that game.... But only if it's on sale.

Fallout 3 for PS3 but not 360? No good.

Ow, my wallet.

3DS games really need to leave the $40 range because $30 isn't feeling like much of a sale (I know, I know, I've owned a PSP, but step 2 of Nintendo getting a 3DS in everyone's hands should be influencing a trend of price drops in games).