black-friday-2009 posts

Today is officially Black Friday but it's also the third day in the big Steam holiday sales event. Valve has now switched up the games that have price cuts during their Thanksgiving-related sale. For 23 more hours you can purchase and download their just released zombie shooter sequel Left 4 Dead 2 for just $37.49, a 25 percent discount from its normal price.

Here are the other games with price cuts that will dissapear tomorrow morning. The LucasArts and THQ $49.99 game bundle deals are still in effect until Monday:

Cities XL - $24.99
Dead Space - $14.99
Mini Ninjas - $14.99
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - $2.49
Madballs in Babo:Invasion - $2
Majesty 2 - $9.99

Technically tomorrow begins the busiest shopping day of the year but as some of you know many retailers and a lot of online sites and download services have already begun cutting prices on their products. Just to give you a quick overview of all the Black Friday-related sales we have mentioned in the past few weeks here's a recap:

GameStop Black Friday sales include Left 4 Dead 2 at $29.99
Best Buy to have $4.99 PC games for Black Friday sale
Direct2Drive and Impulse serve up some Thanksgiving PC game sales
Steam breaks out lots of holiday PC game download sales
EA cuts prices 30 percent from all downloadable PC games until Monday
GamersGate has new weekend sales
GoGamer has its own massive Black Friday sale

Of course we will keep you update on any new sales that pop up during the weekend. In fact we have one already; Steam managed to sneak in a sale of the first season of Telltale's Sam and Max series. You can get the season for 33 percent off its normal price until Tuesday. Our sister site Joystiq also has a extensive look at all of the console game-based Black Friday 2009 deals. Another sister site, the MMO-themed Massively, has their own Black Friday 2009 deals. Finally for all of the Black Friday 2009 sales for every store and web site, period, make sure to head to bfads.net, the best such site on the net.

It's just over a week until Black Friday 2009 hits and tons of retailers are cutting prices to the bone for the biggest sales day of the year. If you happen to find yourself at a GameStop store on that day you will be able to get a few PC game bargains. The biggest one has to be for the just released Left 4 Dead 2. Valve's zombie shooter sequel will be on sale during Black Friday for just $29.99. That's a massive $20 price cut on a game that was just released this week.

The entire GameStop Black Friday PC game sales list, as provided by bfads.net, is as follows. Keep in mind that GameStop's stores open at 6 am on that day and the sales are for just two days only.

Guild Wars Trilogy - $24.99
Left 4 Dead 2 PC - $29.99
World of Warcraft - $4.99
World of Warcraft Battle Chest - $19.99
The Sims 3 World Adventures - $29.99