Bargain Moose

On the Origin gaming store, that’s the EA online store, there’s a 40% sale on TODAY only! Plus, there’s a valid coupon code for a $10 discount on a $30 spend – combining these offers can make for some super deals!

Click here to use the Origin coupon code online

• Coupon Code: DECTEN
• Discount: $10 off $30+
• Expires: Unknown

Some of the prices of popular games in the 40% sale:

• Portal 2 – $18 (PC/Mac), $24 (PS3, X360)
• Batman Arkham City – $30 (PC)
• Battlefield 3 – $36 (All platforms)
• Harry Potter & Deathly Hallows Pt 2 – $18 (Wii), $10 (PC), $18 (PS3, DS)

Canadian shipping is only $3.50, which is really reasonable.

If you’re looking for some Christmas gifts for game lovers, this is a great day to get them!

Portal 2 is a brilliant game, one of the best I’ve played in the last year. It’s funny to think that it was only a little add-on game in the Half Life Orange Box, but it was so popular that Valve increased it to a full game in and of itself. My fiancé and I were playing it co-op when we got it a few months ago. It led to a few arguments across our home office… YOU stand there! YOU shoot! DON’T MOVE!!

I’m planning on getting Arkham City too. I played the Batman Arkham Asylum game on my PC, and I had a lot of fun with it. If I get Arkham City, I will be buying a joypad for use on the PC though, as I found the PC controls a little annoying when I was playing it. It’s designed for joypad fun.

Get the Xbox 360 – 250GB KINECT Holiday Bundle at Toys R Us Canada until 15th December, 2011 and get a free $100 Toys R Us Gift Card!

• Click here to shop at Toys R Us online

• Click here to find a Toys R Us near you

The Holiday Bundle is on sale for $359.97 (reg. $399.99). It includes a KINECT sensor, KINECT Adventure game, Carnival Games downloadable game, and a 3 month Xbox LIVE Gold membership.

The Special Edition Xbox 360 250GB Console with Kinect brings games and entertainment to life in extraordinary new ways-no controller required. Easy to use and instantly fun, Kinect gets everyone off the couch moving, laughing, and cheering. See a ball? Kick it. Control an HD movie with the wave of a hand. Want to join a friend in the fun? Simply jump in. Wi-Fi is built-in for easier connection to the world of entertainment on Xbox LIVE, where HD movies and TV stream in an instant. Xbox 360 is more games, entertainment, and fun.

Although the flyer doesn’t specify that this is an in store only deal, I couldn’t see any mention of it online and the Bundle is backordered for 2- 4 weeks online. The Bundle is also on sale at Future Shop for $349.99, a little cheaper, but doesn’t come with the added value of the $100 gift card.

Pick up a new Nintendo 3DS at Best Buy Canada and get a $40 reward!

• Click here to shop this deal at Best Buy

The 3DS is available in red, black or blue for $169.99.

The Nintendo 3DS puts the power of cool 3D gaming in the palm of your hand. Its dual screen design remains true to its predecessor, but the top screen can display 3D visuals without the need for special glasses. And with a great selection of games to choose from, you’ll enjoy an immersive experience anywhere you go.

You’ll get a free $40 Gift Card for in store orders and in-store pick up. For online orders, you’ll get $40 off any video game with purchase. Add the 3DS to your cart and then add any video came to your cart and you’ll see the discount applied automatically.

Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo 3DS) is available for pre-order (until it comes out 4th Dec. 2011) and you can use your $40 discount online to get it for free! Going to be a hot game for Christmas!

Saw this really good deal at Toys R Us Canada: buy one get one free on a whole bunch of video games and accessories (81 of them!)

• Check out the BOGO Free Video Game/Accessories Sale @ Toys R Us

This sale includes things like:

• Xbox 360 – Prince Persia Forgotten Sands- $19.99
• PlayStation 3 – Raven Motion Sensing Wireless Controller - $39.99
• Xbox 360 – Dead to Rights: Retribution – $19.99
• Wii – The Last Airbender – $19.99
• PlayStation 3 – Batarang Wireless Controller - $49.99

We have a PS3 in our house and either of those wireless controllers would be cool.. especially at a BOGO free price. We could get 2 Batman themed controllers for only $50… sweet!

I say buy soon because a lot is already out of stock… these deals are just flying off the shelves!

If video games are on someone’s wish list this year, stop by Zellers Canada where you can find all Value Software from various systems at buy one, get one for half price.

• Click here to locate a Zellers Store

The BOGO 50% off deal applies to:

• All Wii Value Software $29.99 and under
• All DS Value Software reg. $19.99 and under
• All PS3 Value Software $29.99 and under
• All XBOX 360 Value Software $29.99 and under

Some of the titles shown in the flyer are Nintendo DS Toy Story 3, XBOX 360 Iron Man 2, PS3 Kill Zone 3 and Wii Animal Crossing.  These are just some of the titles listed. There are many more titles in store.

If you shop from 18th-20th November, 2011 and use your HBC credit card or HBC Mastercard, you’ll save an extra 10% off almost everything in store.

Sale ends 24th November, 2011.

Future Shop has this PlayStation 3 bundle including the games Infamous 2, God Of War, and the ICO & Shadow of the Colossus collections. Buy this bundle and save $79.98 until 27th October, 2011.

• Click here to grab this deal

You can pick up this bundle for $299.99 (reg. $379.97). The bundle includes:

the PlayStation3 320GB system,  free PlayStation Network membership, built-in Wi-Fi, and 320GB of hard disk drive storage for games, music, videos and photos. And every PS3 system comes with a built-in Blu-ray player to give you pristine picture quality and the best high-definition viewing experience available.

This bundle will ship for free as Future Shop offers free shipping over $20.

Trade in five qualifying video games at Future Shop and get an 8GB 4th Generation  ipod touch for free! This is an in store only deal.

• Click here to see a list of qualifying games

• Click here to locate a Future Shop

A note on qualifying trade in games:

Valid on PLAYSTATION3, Wii, and Xbox360 games. Games must include boxes. No duplicate titles accepted, regardless of console. Some titles may be excluded. No dealers please. See in-store for details.

There is a limit of one free ipod touch per person and the offer only applies to the 8GB model (valued at $250). This offer can’t be combined with any other offers.

If you’ve got a bunch of games that you don’t play anymore, why not trade them in for something new?

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Trade in your old video games at Future Shop and be rewarded. If you trade in 2 select games, you’ll get a $20 Future Shop gift card to spend on more games or any other items in store.  This is an in store only promotion.

• Click here for more details on this trade in promotion.

You can click the link above to see the vast list of game titles that can be traded in for credit. The eligible games must be PLAYSTATION3, Wii, and Xbox360 games (must include boxes).

The fine print:

No duplicate titles accepted, regardless of console. Some titles may be excluded. No dealers please. See in-store for details.  One trade 2 promo redemption per customer. Excludes Vaughan, Nanaimo, and Kelowna locations.

It’s kind of cool that you can even shop for used games right from Future Shop’s website.

Thanks to Mooser alanna88 for suggesting this deal in our Community Forums!

Save $50 off Nintendo 3DS at Future Shop until 31st July, 2011.

• Click here to shop 3DS at Future Shop

You can choose from black or aqua blue for $199.99 (reg. $249.99). There is a limit of one per household.

The 3DS has a 3D screen and 3D depth slider so you can adjust the effect of 3D, even turning it off if you wish. There’s also a motion and gyro sensor, two screens, a 3D camera and more!

The 3DS is getting rave reviews, like this one from Rich,

You really gotta see the 3D for yourself to truly believe and appreciate its magic. 3D without glasses is a reality and this system proves it! If you don’t like 3D, you have the option to turn it off or adjust it to your liking. I personally love the effect and would recommend people buying the 3DS. You can play music, browse the web (starting in May), shop online for classic gameboy games (also in may), take 3D photographs, and even play old DS games on the system. I give this device a five out of five! Truly revolutionary.

You’ll get free shipping with this order since it’s over $20. Thanks to robotafterall on our Canadian deals forums!

Here’s a deal for those of you with iPhones or iPads. BigFishGames is having a summer solstice sale, offering 23 different games at discounted prices. The iPhone games are only $0.99, and the iPhone ones are $1.99.

• Click here to see the games @ Big Fish Games

These are mostly hidden object games, of which I am a big fan!

On my iPad or PC, I’ve played 3 out of the 23 shown on their list, Empress of the Deep: The Darkest Secret, Drawn: The Painted Tower, and PuppetShow: Mystery of Joyville. Out of those 3, I’d say Drawn was the best – it had beautiful artwork and a great story, it made for a very entertaining gaming experience.

These games tend to give you between 3 and 6 hours entertainment, depending on how fast you plough through them. So, I think $1 to $2 is good value for that entertainment.

I am tempted to buy a few more to have on my iPad for a rainy day, but it’s likely that I would crack them open and start to play them right away! I hear Azada is quite good, I think it’s next on my list… And in the middle of writing this paragraph, I’ve just bought it! Downloading now!

At IndieGamesPack.com, there’s a deal happening for 6 popular indie PC games for only $5 or $10!

• Click here to order your PC games

I am going to be super lazy now and post the first paragraph from their press release to explain the $5 / $10 promotion:

Indiegamespack.com, a collective of six independent game developers, today unveiled a unique limited promotion for game enthusiasts and casual gamers called “Indie-Games Summer Six Pack”.  This special offer is a collection of six indie-games for the PC for only US $10 dollars.  Because of the viral nature of the indie-game market, and to share the amazing value this collection offers, the “Summer Six Pack” is offered for only US $5 when customers “SHARE” this promotion on their Facebook page.

So if you share it on Facebook, the site then redirects you back to the indiegamespack.com domain, where you can complete the transaction for only $5.

If you’re really not happy about the sharing on Facebook aspect but still only want to pay $5, you could share it on Facebook then delete the update from your wall after you’ve made your payment. But I don’t really recommend doing this – the developers are giving you it for half price on the chance that you’ll share with your friends, and spread the word for them.

The games you get:

• Aztaka
• City Rain
• Puzzlegeddon
• Bob came in pieces
• Vizati
• Lylian paranoid friendship

I’m a big supporter of Indie game devs, having played many little gems that are absolutely astounding, like Osmos, Drawn, World of Goo. I will say that I haven’t played any of the 6 games in this pack though. A friend of mine has played “Bob came in pieces” and he says that it is really good and this pack is probably worth the money just for that game alone.

I’m blogging this one up as I have played the Puppetshow: Mystery of Joyville game on my iPad! I think I bought it back when BigFishGames was doing the Mother’s Day sale, offering all games for only $0.99. But right now, the special offer on this particular game is $0.99 for the iPhone version and $1.99 for the iPad version.

• Click here to get Puppetshow: Mystery of Joyville @  BigFishGames

The iPad version is normally $6.99, so it’s 80% off for a limited time.

I really like puzzle and hidden object games, which is the style in Puppetshow: Mystery of Joyville. The total gameplay time on it was about 3 hours for me, so that might be something to consider when you’re purchasing. The game artwork was really pretty, the puzzles were fun, and the hidden object sections were fairly difficult. I think it is well worth the $1.99 for a few hours of fun.

I didn’t try it on my iPhone though, but I am imagining that the screen must be very small on which to be playing a hidden object game. Have you tried any hidden object games on a small screen? What did you think?

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It’s good to be a gamer at Future Shop Canada. Get up to $60 off  when you pre-order E3 game titles!  This is an online only, on from 7th-9th June, 2011.

• Click here to shop at Future Shop Canada

The more games you pre-order, the better the deal gets. When you pre-order 1 E3 game title, get $10 off. Pre-order 2 E3 game titles and get $15 off each ($30 total), and when you pre-order 3 E3 game titles, you’ll get $20 off each ($60 total).

This deal applies to games over $49.99.  Games included in this promotion are select titles from Sony Playstation, XBOX, Nintendo and PC games.

• For all the details of this promotion, click here

You’ll get free shipping too from Future Shop with your order over $20.

(Expires 9th June, 2011)

For the month of June 2011, Telltale Games is celebrating their 7th anniversary by offering a 75% discount on almost everything on their site. I’m posting about it as they are the creator of one of my favourite ever series of games – Monkey Island.

• Click here to see the Telltale Games sale

They are offering 75% off various games (there are a couple of exclusions), and also a lot of the gaming merchandise too. The marked prices don’t yet include the discount – you must add them to your cart to see the discounted price.

For example, the Tales of Monkey Island blowout pack is half price, down from $80 to $40, and then it is $10 when you put it in your shopping cart. It includes an art portfolio, a drinking vessel, a voodoo card set and a poster print.

I know that Sam and Max is also a pretty popular gaming series, but I haven’t played it myself. You could get the full series of 5 episodes in the Devil’s PlayHouse for only $8.75!

Remember, if you’re buying any of the physical merchandise rather than the digital downloads, you’re probably going to have to pay extra on customs etc to get it to Canada, as they ship from the US. But if you’re just buying some of the games at the highly discounted price, you’re downloading it anyway so there’s nothing to worry about there.

BOGO free select PSP games at Best Buy. Just click on the link below and then click on the ‘Buy 1 Get 1 FREE’ tab. In there are 13 games that you can choose from. Each are only $9.99, so it works out to $5 a game! Sweet deal.

• Shop PSP Games at Best Buy

Some titles you will be eyeing up are:

• Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror
• Twisted Metal Head-On
• Patapon
• LocoRoco 2

All of those games currently have a 5/5 star rating!

Free shipping on $20+. You can also pick up in store for free. Remember, even if a title is sold out online… try adding it to your cart: often you can pick it up in store instead!