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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Got a dime? Today’s Games For Windows Live deal is a high-value target: Age of Empires III is just 10 cents. That’s for today only, so run go get it while you can.
A handful of Xbox Live Arcade‘s critical successes are now vying for commercial accessibility. Defense Grid, P.B. Winterbottom, Rocket Riot and Poker Smash are just 400 Microsoft Points. Darwinia+ is now 800 Points, Chime a mere 240 Points. [Major Nelson]
Steam kicks off its massive “Perils of Summer” sale today, with daily sales, ridiculous discounts on game bundles,and slashed prices in every genre, all aimed at making sure you don’t go to the beach and get eaten by sharks.
EA’s running an online holiday special for the Xbox 360 beginning Christmas that takes a quick cost-benefit analysis to figure out, but as it returns you 800 Microsoft Points might be worth considering.
Even Steam isn’t immune to the lure of post-holiday surplus cash, launching a massive Holiday Sale during which every single game in the store is marked down 10 to 75%.
