Bargain Moose

Get the puzzle game Portal free for your Mac or Pc computer for a couple more days! Usually portal would cost $19.99, but currently it is free!

• Get Portal from Steam

Thank you to robotafterall for posting about this on the community forum.

About the game:

Portal is a single player game from Valve. Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay. The game is designed to change the way players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment; similar to how Half-Life® 2′s Gravity Gun innovated new ways to leverage an object in any given situation. Players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals to maneuvering objects, and themselves, through space.

Portal is free through the 20th, September 2011. Get it while you can.

Steam has a huge Paradox Complete Pack with 90 games and DLC on sale for $99.99 USD! If you bought each of the games separately at their current sale price (50% off) you would be paying $393.39 USD. So you are saving over $300 (even at 50% off the games), and over $650 off their original value.

• Check out this amazing Paradox games deal @ Steam

I believe this deal ends Sunday night, latest Monday most likely. I’m not sure what else to say because I have never played any of these games! All I know is that this is an incredible deal… really. It includes games like Commander, Hearts of Iron, King Arthur… etc.

WOW! If you are a Steam fan you can get 34 games on Steam for a mere $69.99! You are saving 86%.. and getting the games for a mere $2.06 a piece if you break it down!

• Buy the Quakecon Package here

This pack Includes:

Quake III Arena, Quake IV, Wolfenstein 3D, The Ultimate Doom, Final DOOM, DOOM II, QUAKE, QUAKE II, QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning, QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, QUAKE III: Team Arena, HeXen: Beyond Heretic, HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Spear of Destiny, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity, QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon, DOOM 3, HeXen II, DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil, Master Levels for Doom II, Commander Keen, Rogue Warrior, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition, Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth, BRINK, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Fallout: New Vegas, Hunted: The Demon’s Forge™, Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money, Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts, Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues

I have no idea how long this sale will last as this pack was just released 2 days ago.

This deal got awesome ratings on our community forums: thanks to Mooser robotafterall for posting it! Get 75% Off Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition. originally $29.99, now only $7.50!

• Get your superhero on with Batman: Arkham Asylum

This game is rated 91/100. How is the game of the year edition different than other editions?

Critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham Asylum returns with a remastered Game of the Year Edition, featuring 4 extra Challenge Maps. The additional Challenge Maps are Crime Alley; Scarecrow Nightmare; Totally Insane and Nocturnal Hunter (both from the Insane Night Map Pack).

Sounds like a pretty cool trip. For $7.50 you really can’t go wrong!

If you are a fan of the Sid Meier’s Civilization series be sure to check out Civilization V, which is available on Steam. You can get it now for only $17, originally $49.99.

• Get Civ V on Steam for 66% off

Thank you to Mooser robotafterall for posting this on the Bargainmoose community forum.

I love Civilization IV, and play it almost every weekend! I am very big into building the wonders and enjoy going for cultural victories as well. My husband introduced me to it and I totally love it. We are just upgrading to Civ IV Complete now, I can’t wait. I am hoping that Civilization V will be as much fun, if not more!!

Playable on both the MAC and the PC.

Expiry unknown.

Right now, Steampowered.com is offering the Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack for only $4.99us! You can buy online, and download it right there and then – it includes episodes one to five.

• Click here to buy the monkeys @ Steam online

You can download each episode separately, so it’s not a huge download if you were worried about that.

I bought The  Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack a few weeks ago, and I’ve been having a go at it. I’ve only completed episode one so far, but I really enjoyed it, even though there was no insult sword-fighting!

I love guybrush though. I have always wondered if there was a Tales of Monkey Island movie, who would play Guybrush and Elaine? I’d like to put Nathon Fillion in as the world’s mightiest pirate, and perhaps someone like Angelina Jolie as Elaine. What do you think?

Over on Steam, they are having a sale on PC games from EA (Electronic Arts). Each day this week, they will be featuring a different game at a reduced price.

• Click here to see the games deals @ Steam

Here is the lineup, it doesn’t state exactly what game is on offer each day:

• Monday – Crysis day
• Tuesday – Military day
• Wednesday – Command & Conquer day
• Thursday – Racing day
• Friday – Mirror’s Edge, Dead Space, Spore day
• Saturday – Mass Effect
• Sunday – Dragon Age

So if you’re interested in any of those titles, check back on that day of the week.

I find that the deals on Steam are almost always a better price than you can purchase the game for in-store. This doesn’t apply to their regular priced titles though, I only mean when they have a special offer such as this one.

P.S. The image illustrating this deal is too big to post the whole thing, so I’ve saved a copy and you can see it by clicking the image below.

Right now on Steam, you can buy the excellent little PC game “Trine” for only $5!

• Click here to buy Trine @ Steam

Once you pay for it online, it is saved on your Steam account, and you can just download and play the game. It’s normally $20, so the $5 sale is a special price for an unknown time.

The price is shown in US dollars, so that works out at about the same in Canadian, according to today’s exchange rate!

I bought this little game a few months ago, when it was on a similar offer on Steam. I lost a whole weekend playing it. It’s a really excellent little game, with quite a unique gameplay aspect. You control 3 characters in the game, a thief, a knight and a wizard. You can choose to be any 1 of these 3 at any 1 point in time – but as each has different skills, you will need to use their different abilities to proceed in the game.

For example, maybe you need to levitate a box out of your way, so you would choose to be the wizard… or perhaps you need to fight some nasty enemies, in which case you could choose to be the knight. There are good fun puzzle aspects to the game which I really enjoyed too. It’s well worth the $5 cost!

The mid-week madness deal from Steam this week is on all the classic Quake PC games. You can purchase the whole PC game package for only $14.99us.

• Click here to get the Quake PC games @ Steam

For $14.99, you are getting all the games, right back to the original Quake! To be honest, when I first started playing first person shooters, Quake 2 was one of the first games I’ve ever played, and I remember enjoying it immensely.

To be honest, most of the games will be quite dated compared to today’s standards, but if you want a gore-filled trip down memory lane, then I recommend giving the Quake games a shot.

P.s. I’d have a read of the system requirements before you spend money, in case there are incompatibilities with the likes of Windows 7 etc…

One of the most fun games of last year is now only $24.99us on Steam to download for the PC – Left4Dead2!

• Click here to buy Left4Dead2 now for $24.99us @ Steam

I’m not sure how much this game is in real life shops, but Amazon Canada has it for $55, Best Buy sells it for $60 and Futureshop has Left 4 Dead 2 priced at $60 also.

For those of you who haven’t yet played it, it’s absolutely great fun! I got it a few weeks ago, and have lost some serious hours to it over the weekends. I have been playing co-op with my partner, which was a bundle of laughs (when we weren’t arguing). There were many screams of “YOU ARE LEAVING ME HERE TO DIE,”etc. I’ve also jumped in to try online play with strangers, but it is very difficult when you are a noobie on that front.

My fave weapon is the ninja sword!

Anyway, if you want some fun zombie killing time, I’d definitely recommend this game, as would the folks who scored it 89/100 on metacritic.

This is an excellent price for a really good game! I just noticed that you can download and buy Psychonauts PC game for only $2 on Steam!!

• Click here to get Psychonauts for $2 @ Steam

I don’t know how long the deal is running for, there is no expiry date on the Steam site.

The reviews of this game are really favourable. IGN give it a score of 8.7 out of 10, and Gamespot give it a rating of 8.4 out of 10.

I played this a few years ago when my other half gave it to me as a birthday gift. It is a pretty innovative game, and you can while away the hours!

Well worth a $2 spend!

Beware the cows! Not all milk is enriched!

In a few weeks, the eagerly anticipated sequel to Bioshock will be available! And the Steam online store is offering a special Bioshock bundle deal, which might be of interest!

• Click here to see the Bioshock deal @ Steampowered

Here’s the offer: if you pre-order the Bioshock 2 PC game for $44.99us, they will also give you the original Bioshock 1 totally for free!

Or for those of you with lots of gaming friends, you can actually order a 4 pack for a total of $135. This means if 4 of you are each willing to pay your share, you can get the bundle deal for only $33.75 each!

Just to price compare with a few major retailers, Amazon, Best Buy and FutureShop are each selling Bioshock 2 alone for $60.

This is a game that I am looking forward to! I really enjoyed the first one, the superb atmosphere, the excellent storyline. Have you played Bioshock? Did you save the girlies or harvest their ADAM??

This is a deal which is available to download from Steam, this weekend only. They’re offering a download of the popular PC multiplayer game for only $4.99us.

• Click here to download CS:S @ Steam

This game has been around for years, but still has a HUGE online playerbase.

I have to say that I’ve played counter-strike online a few times, but I FAILed hard. People were too good…. and I was just a n00b. I’m too used to the single player missions in half life… so playing against real life intelligence was pretty difficult!

Terrorists win!

If you like head shots and stealthy killing (in video games of course, not in real life), check out the weekend deal from Steam games. They are offering the 3 Hitman games for discounted prices.

• Click here for Hitman @ Steam Games

The price for Hitman Blood Money, Silent Assassin and Codename 47 is a total of only $9.99us.

Being a bit of  PC gamer, I’ve dabbled in a few games in the past, although Hitman has never been one to tickle my fancy. I’ve not tried it, as I think I am prejudiced against a game which makes me think of stealth and planning. I’d rather just run in all guns blazing, so Hitman maybe isn’t the title for me.

Avast me hearties! Steam’s special deal this weekend is a half price classic – The Secret Of Monkey Island for only $4.99us! Awesome!

• Click here to order The Secret Of Monkey Island PC game for $4.99

For those of you who don’t know, the Secret of Monkey Island is an early 1990′s point-and-click adventure from LucasArts. It was recently given a bit of an update and graphical makeover, and is really popular now with the Monkey Island fans.

I’ve played all the Monkey Island games, they were a favorite of mine, back in the day. They are a pleasure to play, really good fun, and laugh out loud hilarious. I’ve just bought this one for old-times-sake, and I’ve just lost half my day playing it!

It can get a bit frustrating at times when you cannot figure out a puzzle. However, in this edition, they’ve added a “hint” option. You press H and the game gives you a clue as what to do next. This might seem like a bit of a copout, but I’ve used it a few times already. I suck!

If you love Monkey Island, you gotta buy this!

P.S. You fight like a dairy farmer.