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SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition is $5 today on Steam

Jessica Conditt — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:30:00 EST

Today is a good day for a deal on Steam: SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition is $5 now through 10 a.m. PT tomorrow, April 29. That's 75 percent off, for those into contextual sales.

SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition includes EA's 2003 game SimCity 4 and its sole expansion pack, SimCity 4 Rush Hour. In more recent news, the Deluxe Edition of Sim City 4 was part of the free-game offer that EA handed out to everyone who purchased 2013's SimCity during its launch window.

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Steam Daily Deal: Sid Meier's Civilization franchise downsized 75%

Jessica Conditt — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:30:00 EST

Sunday is a great day to explore and conquer new lands, whether across the Mediterranean, throughout Asia, or around the fresh vegetable aisle of your local supermarket. Steam is here to help with this quest, offering Sid Meier's Civilization 3, 4 and 5 for 75 percent off.

Civilization 3 Complete is $1.25 today, Civilization 4 is $5 and 4: The Complete Edition is $7.50. The Civilization 5: Gold Edition bundle is $12.50 and includes the game, the Gods and Kings DLC pack, five scenario packs, four Cradle of Civilization packs, the Explorer map pack and the Babylon DLC pack. Each bit of content is 75 percent off on its lonesome, if you simply need to bulk out your Civilization library.

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Be part of The Next Big Thing for cheap on Steam today

Jessica Conditt — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:00:00 EST

Steam's Daily Deal has Pendulo's The Next Big Thing for 75 percent off on PC and Mac, at just $7.50. Pendulo is a veteran of the point-and-click adventure genre, known for its dark humor and cartoonish aesthetics, recently evident in Yesterday.

Today, you can play The Next Big Thing for cheap and - oh, who are we kidding? This is a game you can play while you wait for Borderlands 2 to go live on Steam. That's all you'll be doing tonight anyway, and you might as well spend your wait time having fun.

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A Valley Without Wind's impending art revamp in version 1.3, sale now

Jessica Conditt — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:00:00 EST

A Valley Without Wind is a massive PC and Mac game from a tiny development team, meaning it experiences the standard industry lifecycle in a unique way. Arcen Games launched two major updates to the initial release, appearing to be in the process of completing the game even after its launch, and now update 1.3 hopes to rework "the biggest thing that players who have not bought the game gripe about," Christopher Park says: the art.

A visual update isn't what Arcen Games initially planned on integrating, however. Update 1.3 is a reactionary measure to a few things, including the launch of Diablo 3.

A Valley Without Wind was selling three times better than Arcen Games' first title, AI War, when it first hit Steam on April 24. "Then a funny thing happened - Diablo 3 came out," Park writes. "Literally the next day, our sales plummeted to one-tenth the value they had been the day prior. The whole game industry saw a contraction, even on the iOS, for a week or two there, from what I could tell. Keith remarked that it was like 'a massive whale jumping out of the ocean and the ocean level falling for everyone else.'"

Now, to generate more interest from the press (you know us so well, Arcen) and to satisfy fan demand for better art, Arcen Games hired Heavy Cat Studios to rework the visuals. The team should be done with the reskin in November, along with a dozen new spells and more updates, making the final product A Valley Without Wind 2.0.

A Valley Without Wind is finishing a run as Steam's Daily Deal right now, with just a few hours left. Check it out for cheap here, and read about Arcen Games' update details and anti-Kickstarter philosophy in Park's blog post here.

A Valley Without Wind's impending art revamp in version 1.3, sale now originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Magicka is $2.50 today on Steam

Xav de Matos — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:00:00 EST

You probably haven't logged as many hours playing Magicka as we have, which makes us wonder what you've been doing all this time. Don't worry, the action-adventure jam with a nearly endless combination of mixable elements from indie dev Arrowhead Game Studios is 75 percent off today on Steam.

So, kick off your shoes and check out Magicka for $2.50 today (down from $9.99). Treat yourself. You work too hard not to.

Gallery: Magicka

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Steam has midweek madness in the beginning of the week, sales abound

Jessica Conditt — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:00:00 EST

Steam's midweek madness sale has Orcs Must Die! and a bunch of L.A. Noire goodies on sale through March 15. Orcs Must Die! is 75 percent off, for $3.75. L.A. Noire, L.A. Noire Complete Edition and the Brady Guide are all half off: Snag the standard title for $15, Complete Edition for $20 and the Brady Guide for $10. The Complete Edition and Brady Guide combo is also 50 percent off, for $25.

If that's not enough, today's Daily Deal is Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box, on sale for 75 percent off, or $5.

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The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom is today's Steam Daily Deal

Jessica Conditt — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:30:00 EST

Sunday's Steam Daily Deal makes perfect sense to us -- at the end of the weekend, we often find ourselves wishing for the power to control time, to perhaps make the day a little longer, or start it all over again, or to reverse it to that one wonderful spring afternoon in 1995. The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom is therefore the ideal game to get lost in right now, especially since it's 66 percent off (just $1.69) on Steam for the rest of the day, however long you decide that is.

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Sit down, relax and release some Rage tonight for $15 on Steam

Jessica Conditt — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:15:00 EST

It's the end of the day, you've set aside work for the night and just enjoyed a delicious dinner of something breaded, fried and dipped in a seasoned dairy product, and now you need something to do -- something that doesn't require too much movement. Steam has predicted your desires with today's Daily Deal, Rage at 50 percent off, for $15.

If you don't already own it and want to give id Software's shooter a try, now might be a good time to pick up Rage. It's not called the Daily Deal for nothing.

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Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please! for $1.25 on Steam today

JC Fletcher — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:40:00 EST

For less than the cost of one soda from a hotel vending machine, you could have two excellent, funny adventure games right now. Steam's Daily Deal is a bundle containing Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please! by developer Zombie Cow (now Size Five Games), for just $1.25, a savings of 75% over the already minuscule regular price of $5.

That $1.25 gets you time travel, space travel, and travel into some places we'd rather not mention. We'd definitely recommend the experience over that soda, unless you're really thirsty.

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Games for Windows Marketplace relaunches right on time

James Ransom-Wiley — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:00:00 EST

Just as planned, the new browser-based Games for Windows Marketplace launched today. "Definitely you should show up on day one, because we're going to have a great pre-order on a title you may care about," product manager Peter Orullian teased several weeks ago. Well, we're not seeing "it" aaand ... there's not even Call of Duty: Black Ops on offer (or even Modern Warfare 2 for that matter). A Steam-killer this not -- not yet, at least.

What the Marketplace does have going for it is a relatively user-friendly, if (for now) bare-bones interface, anchored by Live integration (squint and you'll see your faded-out, cross-platform Gamerscore in the upper right when you log in). Of course, Microsoft has stated its intent to vastly expand the site's catalog by offering plenty -- and there are plenty -- of PC games that are not Live-enabled. The new design also wisely highlights both the Deal of the Week (Osmos for $2.50) and new "DailyDeal" (GTA IV for $12), which are going to be key aspects of the new Marketplace.

Additionally, there's an option on the site to add Microsoft Points to your Gamertag (Windows Live ID) account, and, while not obvious until you proceed to "checkout," you can use points as a payment method to purchase Games for Windows content -- already a dangerous aspect of the new Marketplace.

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XBLM holiday deal of the day: Marvel vs Capcom 2 for $7

Richard Mitchell — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:15:00 EST

Now this, this is a deal. This isn't Avatar glasses or an episode of Stargate (seriously, that was yesterday's deal). No, this is a very good game at a very good price. Today, and today only, you can pick up Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for only 560, that's seven bucks. That's slightly more than fifty percent off the usual $15 price. So yeah, good luck resisting that.

Shortcut: Add Marvel vs Capcom 2 to your 360 download queue [Via Xbox.com]

[Via @majornelson]

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