This week's best deals  ►  Mass Effect 3, Trine 2, and 25% off at GMG
The tastiest specials on this week's menu include Mass Effect 3 Digital Deluxe for $20 during Amazon's big Labor Day sale, 75% off the Trine Complete Collection on Steam, and a new Green Man Gaming voucher code for deals on whatever you want deals on.


60% off Mass Effect 3 Digital Deluxe Edition on Amazon - $19.99
67% off Max Payne 3 and LA Noire bundle on Amazon - $29.99
75% off Trine Complete Collection on Steam - $8.74
50% off Resonance on GOG - $4.99
25% off any PC download at Green Man Gaming with code: GMG25-1BW0K-K1A3G
30% off Sleeping Dogs at Green Man Gaming with code: SDOGS-E1V8A-9R1HX



Steam  ►  Trine and Crysis
Everything Trine is on sale at Steam, including the new Trine 2: Goblin Menace DLC. There's also Crysis, but when isn't it on sale?

75% off Trine Complete Collection - $8.74
75% off Crysis Collection - $17.49
33% off Vessel - $9.99
50% off Age of Empires Online DLC: Steam Starter Pack - $9.99 (Friday only)
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Amazon  ►  Labor Day sale
Amazon's big Labor Day sale ends Sunday, so you don't have much longer to get, say, Mass Effect 3 Digital Deluxe Edition for $20.

60% off Mass Effect 3 Digital Deluxe Edition - $19.99
50% off Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition - $14.99
50% off Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - $29.99
75% off Crysis 2 - Maximum Edition - $9.99
54% off Deus Ex: Human Revolution - $13.81
60% off Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - $15.99
68% off Mount & Blade - $4.77
60% off Psychonauts - $3.99
50% off Stacking - $7.49
75% off Assassin's Creed bundle - $19.99
67% off Grand Theft Auto IV and Max Payne 3 bundle - $29.99
78% off Spec Ops: The Line and BioShock 1 & 2 bundle - $19.99
67% off Max Payne 3 and LA Noire bundle - $29.99
90% off Square Enix Ultimate Collection - $9.50
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Green Man Gaming   ► 25% off everything

There are a couple of new voucher codes at GMG. Ending Monday, use GMG25-1BW0K-K1A3G to get 25% off any PC game download or SDOGS-E1V8A-9R1HX for 30% off Sleeping Dogs specifically.

You can't stack them for 55% off Sleeping Dogs, but you could buy Stacking for 25% off. Actually, you can't. It isn't in GMG's catalog. It is 50% off at Amazon, but that doesn't stop my joke from being ruined.

GOG  ►  Point-and-Click Mix
Point your browser to GOG's adventure-themed weekend deals and click on games like Machinarium, Resonance, and Botanicula. Wow. Did I go too far that time?

50% off Machinarium: Collector's Edition - $4.99
50% off Resonance - $4.99
50% off Gemini Rue - $4.99
50% off Blackwell Bundle - $7.49
50% off The Whispered World - $7.49
50% off Botanicula - $4.99


Get Games  ►  Total War
Nothing huge to report from Get Games. Sleeping Dogs is back up to 25% off, and the perennially on sale Total War series is on sale.


25% off Sleeping Dogs - $37.49
50% off Borderlands - $9.99
75% off Empire: Total War - $4.99
75% off Napoleon: Total War - $4.99
75% off Total War Shogun 2 - $9.99
70% off Total War Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai - $8.99
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GameStop   ► Saints Row and Might & Magic
GameStop's silly long list of deals is largely populated by Saints Row The Third's expansive DLC library and Might & Magic.

GamersGate  ► A bin of bargains

Why can't I hold all these deals? At least GamersGate has gone from 10 pages of scattershot discounts to just two, but there's still a lot to cover. Here's the short version: it has same Trine bundle deal as Steam, 75% off Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY, and tons of kings, crusades, and iron hearts.

GameFly   ► Bulletstorm and Stronghold 3
GameFly is pretty light on sales this weekend, so I'll just use this space to think about the idea of a real bullet storm. It would be terrible. All those bullets plummeting from angry thunder-shots above. Clearly, we can never allow the gods to acquire firearms.

75% off Bulletstorm - $5.00
50% off Stronghold 3 Gold - $19.99


Let us know in the comments if you find any more great deals, and if you feel like sharing: what are you playing this weekend? I'll continue thieving in Guild Wars 2 on the Tarnished Coast server, though I am disappointed that the Thief class steals abilities instead of what I really want: money. I want to be the richest low-level scoundrel on the server, dammit.

Rockstar have released an update for Max Payne 3, introducing the Multiplayer Card feature, improved load times and anti-cheat measures.

The Multiplayer Card feature displays player stats, while improvements to the party system mean party leaders can now pull their friends out of existing games and into new ones. According to Rockstar this update also "enables Payne Thresholds, which will go live next week across all three platforms following the release of the free Disorganized Crime Pack DLC".

Here's the full list of Max Payne 3 updates:

The new Multiplayer Player Card, which allows you and your friends to track multiplayer stats including current amount of XP, total kills, favorite weapon and more.
New Automated cheat protection and lag protection measures.
Improvements to multiplayer load times
Players can now spawn with dual wield if they have two sidearms and no two-handed weapon equipped
Polish language support has been added
Party leader now has the option of taking entire party with them when they back out of a match
Weapon rank in the Arsenal is now visible on the left side of the screen, not just the right
The Crew menu is now available inside lobbies
XP gained for completing Grinds no longer contributes to rankings in Gang Wars matches
Improvements to the spectator camera in Gang Wars
Gang Wars wager system improved to better show betting results

 

Rockstar Games have announced that the next DLC pack for Max Payne 3 will see the grizzled, alcoholic gunman rendered in noir-ish black and white. The new Disorganized Crime Pack will give an even moodier look to the game, which is hardly sunshine and rainbows as it is.

Visuals aside, the free DLC will leave the single player campaign unchanged while adding the Hoboken Rooftops map, new multipliers for Score Attack mode, Lone Wolf AI (more aggressive enemies) and Headshots Only mode to the game's multiplayer.

The Disorganized Crime Pack will be available on August 28, and will look like this:

Rockstar Games has given us a gym bag of shattered memories and lost dreams... shattered memories being a Zotac Amp Edition GeForce GTX 670, and lost dreams a collection of Max Payne 3 loot: stickers, patches, an ash tray, "pain killers," a gun magazine flask, a t-shirt, and a logo-emblazoned bullet. We love giving you stuff, so here's your chance to dig inside this bag and scrape out the pain (totally great prizes).

How to enter
You'll need to be at least 18 years old and a US resident (sorry guys, lawyers). When you've confirmed your identity, walk straight in (to the comment field of this post), playing it Bogart (and leave a comment), like you've done a hundred times before (but only comment once).

UK readers: Our friends at TechRadar are running a UK-only contest with the very same prize!

Selection and prizes
One grand prize winner will receive the bag of swag and Zotac Amp Edition GeForce GTX 670 (lucky), and one runner-up will be consoled with a large Rockstar t-shirt and a Max Payne 3 bullet keychain. Both winners will be selected randomly from the comments in this post. If you win, notification will be e-mailed to the address you used to register for pcgamer.com, so please make sure you still use it.

Deadline
Post your comment by this Sunday (before 12:01 am PDT, Monday, August 6th). And remember: it's not about how good you are. It's chaos and luck and anyone who thinks differently is a fool.

NOTE: No more entries! Winners will be contacted this week. Thanks for entering!

STEAM
It's a sequel hype-up weekend on Steam: Borderlands and its GOTY edition are both 75% off, as is Orcs Must Die! (There's also an Orcs Must Die! 2 demo available now, so have some of that.)


75% off Borderlands: Game of the Year - $7.49
75% off Orcs Must Die! Game of the Year - $3.24
82% off Civilization Collection - $24.99
66% off Ys The Oath in Felghana - $5.09




AMAZON
Amazon is running the same Borderlands deal as Steam, and many of the usuals are on sale as...usual.


75% off Borderlands Game of the Year Edition - $7.49
80% off Burning Hot Bundle - $7.99
72% off Mount & Blade - $4.17
50% off Mount & Blade: Warband - $10.03
61% off Dragon Age 2 - $7.81
25% off Mass Effect 2 - $14.92
71% off Trine - $5.83
50% off Mount & Blade: Warband - $9.95
27% off Dungeon Siege 3 - $14.68
52% off Tropico 4 - $19.17
26% off Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - $14.84
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GAMEFLY
GameFly returns to the list this week with 50% off Max Payne 3 and 75% off Mirror's Edge. Nice!


50% off Max Payne 3 - $29.99
75% off Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction - $5.00
75% off Mirror's Edge - $5.00
50% off Nexuiz - $5.00
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GAMESTOP
Bethesda games are up to 50% off this weekend on GameStop.


33% off The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - $40.19
50% off RAGE - $9.99
50% off Hunted: The Demon's Forge - $9.99
50% off The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind GOTY Edition - $9.99
50% off The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion GOTY Deluxe Edition - $12.49



GOG
"Awesome Adventure Games" are 50% off on GOG this weekend. The list includes some personal favorites: The 11th Hour, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, and Little Big Adventure (a.k.a Twinsen's Odyssey).

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Green Man Gaming's Summ...oh wait, Winter Sale
Update: I don't usually add pre-order deals, but it has come to my attention (thanks commenters!) that Green Man is offering Borderlands 2 pre-orders for $40 with the voucher: PARTP-ALCNO-TIESU.


If you find any great deals we missed, the comments are a lovely place to share them.

STEAM
The Summer Sale remains absent, but Valve has confirmed that there will be a sale which will take place during the summer. Just later. For now, how about 50% off Wargame: European Escalation and a bunch of CoD DLC?


50% off Wargame: European Escalation - $19.99
50% off Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Collection 2 - $7.49
50% off Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Collection 1 - $7.49
50% off Call of Duty: Black Ops - Rezurrection Content Pack - $7.49
50% off Call of Duty: Black Ops Annihilation Content Pack - $7.49
50% off Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation Content Pack - $7.49
50% off Call of Duty: Black Ops First Strike Content Pack - $7.49
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AMAZON
Oh, hi Amazon. Didn't see you there. What's that? You've got a big sale going on? 50% off Spec Ops: The Line, you say? Neat. And you've got 33% off Max Payne 3, 75% off Binary Domain, 75% Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai, and big discounts on bundles like the Square Enix Ultimate Collection? Shh, I don't know where I was going with this either Amazon, so let's just relax and enjoy your deals:


50% off Spec Ops: The Line - $24.99
33% off Max Payne 3 - $39.99
75% off Binary Domain - $9.99
50% off Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - $29.99
75% off Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai - $7.49
92% off Square Enix Ultimate Collection - $7.49
81% off Bioshock Dual Pack - $7.49
80% off X-COM: Collection - $2.99
91% off Plentiful Paradox Package - $12.49
43% off Battlefield 3 - $34.45
75% off Dead Space 2 - $4.99
25% off Mass Effect - $15.00
29% off Mass Effect 2 - $14.17
75% off Borderlands - $7.49
50% off Sid Meier's Civilization V - $14.99
75% off PAYDAY The Heist - $4.99
26% off Saints Row: The Third - $36.91
71% off Trine - $5.83
39% off Metro 2033 - $12.26
50% off Mount & Blade: Warband - $9.95
27% off Dungeon Siege 3 - $14.68
50% off Tropico 4 - $19.99
75% off Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - $4.99
More Amazon PC game downloads

 
GOG
GOG's weekend promo theme is Strategy First Global. As usual, all of the games are either $2.99 or $4.99. This week's selection is big, and includes FlatOut, Jagged Alliance 2, Disciples 2 Gold, Apache vs. Havoc, and more.

MORE GAME DEALS
Usually I list out the best from these sites, but A. some of the sales are currently cheaper elsewhere (e.g. Max Payne 3 is 30% off at GamersGate, but 33% off on Amazon) and B. I'm really, really busy today. It's mostly that second thing, so let us know in the comments if I missed anything big this week.


GamersGate deals
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