cyber-monday posts

The advent of Cyber Monday is also the last day for Steam to offer some PC games for big price cuts. Here's the list for the final day of sales which ends at 1 pm Eastern time on Tuesday:

One day game sales

Mafia II - $37.49
Aliens Vs Predator (2010) - $6.80
Beat Hazard - $2.50
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - $2.50
Metro 2033 - $10
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition - $2.50
Peggle Deluxe - $4.99
Dirt 2 - $5
Indie Air Pack (Altitude, DogFighter, Flotilla, Gratuitous Space Battles and Plain Sight) - $4.99

One day gift pack deals

Lead and Gold - $19.99 for 10 copies
Trine - $19.99 for eight copies
Aliens Vs Predator - $29.99 for six games
World of Goo - $19.99 for 12 games

We've heard from all of the other major PC game download sites for their Cyber Monday 2009 price cuts and now it's time to see what the Impulse download store has in mind for gamers today. There's quite a few PC games and even some non-gaming applications that can be had for a few bucks off their normal Impulse price.

Among the games on sale today are Elven Legacy for just $14.99 (a 50 percent savings) and Warlords Battlecry 3 for $9.99. There's also a selection of games that can be downloaded and purchase for just $1.99 each including Bullet Candy, The Political Machine 2008, The Corporate Machine and Lightweight Ninja.

GameStop is not known for their digital download offerings but for today's Cyber Monday 2009 promotion the gaming retailer is offering 50 percent off of 50 downloadable PC game titles. While the game's prices appear to be normal at first when you put them in the site's online checkout page they go down to the promised 50 percent amount.

Some of the more recent games that are a part of this promotion include Fallen Earth, Section 8, and Sacred 2, all of which can be purchased for $24.99 each. Other games on sale include Assassin's Creed for $9.99 and Port Royale 2 for a mere $2.59.

When the folks that run Direct2Drive posted up their Thanksgiving-themed PC game download sale, they held out on one game that would be revealed today to "celebrate" Cyber Monday 2009. Now that game has been revealed and will be sold at 75 percent off its normal price for the next 12 hours.

And just what is that mystery game? As it turns out it happens to be the original Mass Effect. BioWare's first game in their sci-fi RPG series can be yours for a mere $5 if you act quickly. Five bucks is a pretty tiny amount to pay for one of the best games in the last few years.

Today is the totally made up "Cyber Monday" holiday were supposedly folks at work do a ton of shopping online after the normal Thanksgiving weekend. The PC game download site GamersGate has wasted no time in launching their Cyber Monday 2009 price cuts this morning.

Among the games on sale for today online at the site are recently released games like Tropico 3 for $29.95, Section 8 for $24.95, Hearts of Iron 3 for $11.98 and Risen for $29.95. There are also a ton of Electronic Arts-published games on sale (way to many to be listed here) for 20 percent off their normal prices on GamersGate.

Technically Steam's final day of PC game price cut sales has nothing to do with Cyber Monday but if it makes you feel any better you can call it Steam's Cyber Monday 2009 sales event if you want to. For the next 23 hours Steam has priced a bunch of titles, from major publisher hits to small indie games, at well below their regular Steam prices.

This is also the last day you can take atvanage of the LucasArts and THQ game bundle packs. You can still grab a ton of games all at once for just $49.99 for each bundle.

Quantz - $2
Evil Genius - $2.49
The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - $9.99
Mirror's Edge - $5
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood - $20.99
Section 8 - $24.99
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition - $2.49
Dawn of Discovery - $34.99

Much like Gamestop is doing today, IGN's Direct2Drive game download service is offering a select number of downloadable games for a one-day discount for this year's Cyber Monday online shopping event. While not as extensive a collection of games as Gamestop, they are offering discounts of between 25 to 50 percent off their normal prices.

Call of Duty, Call of Duty: United Offensive and Call of Duty 2 are all just $14.95 as is The Movies. Games that are $9.95 today are Gun, Empire Earth II and a number of Sierra Online game collections (Leisure Suite Larry Collection, King's Quest Collection, Police Quest Collection, Space Quest Collection). Finally World in Conflict is being offered today at $22.50 at Direct2Drive.

We've reported on the many PC game deals that were revealed last week for the big Black Friday shopping weekend. The good news is that some of those deals have been extended until today. The bad news is that the so-called "Cyber Monday" event for online shopping deals has few PC games on the list.

Amazon.com has a number of Cyber Monday deals for console titles but only one for the PC gamer; Spore is being sold for $19.95 today only. Gamersgate has a Cyber Monday downloadable game deal today as well; it has a package deal of the two Runaway adventure games for $29.99. If there are any other Cyber Monday exclusive PC game deals out there that we have missed, let us know and we will add their listings to this post. Otherwise it looks pretty barren out there.

Update: Gamestop's Cyber Monday sales are up and surprise, surprise, surprise: They have some decent PC game deals out there. They are offering a free copy of the $19.99 Spore Creepy and Cute Parts Pack when you buy the original Spore game. Here's a list of the other deals:

• Red Alert 3: $39.99 (regular), $54.99 (premium)
• Warhammer Online : $39.99
• Unreal Tournament 3 : $14.99
• Tomb Raider Underworld: $29.99

They are also offering a boatload of downloadable titles at 25 to 50 percent off. Among the highlights: World in Conflict for $22.49, Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War Soulstorm for $29.99 and Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts for $14.99.