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  • Blur, Xbox 360 – £24.99

    Blur, Xbox 360 – £24.99 delivered

  • Blur, PS3 – £24.99

    Blur, PS3 – £24.99 delivered

  • Gears of War 2, Xbox 360 – £6.99

    Gears of War 2, Xbox 360 – £6.99 delivered

  • The SavyGamer Podcast, Episode 17

    We’ve got a big show for you this week – there’s an interview with Sean Noonan of Ruffian Games about Crackdown 2, and we get angry at The Hut. There’s also a lot of talk about whether or not every game ever is a platformer.

    Click here to begin playback or download the show directly.

    Don’t forget that you can subscribe to the podcast, and get a new episode delivered to you as soon as it’s available!
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    This week’s Game Night will be Left 4 Dead 2’s Chainsaw Massacre on the 360 and PC. Add We R SavyGamers on Xbox Live, and join in on Friday.

    If you’re on PC, play with us usingthe SavyGamer Steam group.

    Also, don’t forget to follow us on Twitter! The account for the site is @SavyGamer, and you can find tweets from Lewie and Will at @LewieP and @Willeth respectively. Also, don’t forget to send us your suggestions for what you want to hear about in next week’s show with the hashtag #sgpodcast – we’ll pick the best to talk about in every show.

    We’ll be back here before you know it.

  • SavyGamer Game Night: L4D2 – Chainsaw Massacre

    Tonight is the second L4D2 night in a series of gaming nights with SavyGamer. We’ll be playing the newly-released Mutation in Left 4 Dead 2, entitled Chainsaw Massacre, and no matter if you’ve got L4D2 on PC or 360, you can jump into a game with us.

    If you’re playing on PC, simply join the Steam group for SavyGamer and jump into Lewie’s lobby, or any of the many lobbies the community will be running.

    If you’re playing on 360, add the Gamertag We R SavyGamers and use the friends-of-friends feature to find other people on that list to play with. In addition, if you’re on the 360 and you’ve played every Mutation so far, you’ll unlock a Gnome Chompski avatar item to show off.

    Remember that you’ll need The Passing in order to play the Mutations in L4D2, so make sure that your game has updated through Steam or that you’ve purchased the game add-on on the 360 if you want to play with us. While the event starts officially at 7:30, feel free to get a group together earlier and chop up some guts.

  • Demon's Souls, PS3 – £29.58

    Demon’s Souls, PS3 – £29.58 delivered

    Apply coupon “FTSL15-1”

    There is no info on the site, but presumably this is the “Black Phantom Edition”? As far as I am aware, that is the only UK release?

  • Shattered Horizon, PC – £7.49

    Shattered Horizon, PC – £7.49

    I’ve asked them if they are going to discount the Clan Pack too, since at the minute it is more expensive then buying them individually.

    Free to play this weekend too.

    Update:
    They changed the clan pack to be cheaper too.

  • Supreme Commander 2, PC – £9.98

    Supreme Commander 2, PC – £9.98 delivered

    Registers on Steam, ignore the Steam “Weekend Deal”.

  • Doctor Who: City of the Daleks, PC – Free

    Doctor Who: City of the Daleks, PC – Free

    Mac version out on the 15th of June.

  • £20 PSN credit – £15.95

    £20 PSN credit – £15.95 delivered

  • MX vs ATV: Reflex, Xbox 360 – £12.28

    MX vs ATV: Reflex, Xbox 360 – £12.28 delivered

  • Prince of Persia: Classic, XBLA – 400 MS points

    Prince of Persia: Classic, XBLA – 400 MS points

    Goes live later on today. Gold subscribers only.

  • C&C4: Tiberian Twilight, PC – £12.99

    C&C4: Tiberian Twilight, PC – £12.99 delivered

    Is this one of those “Horrible DRM’d” games, I’ve not really followed it.

  • Dead Space: Extraction, Wii – £9.86

    Dead Space: Extraction, Wii – £9.86 delivered

    Apple coupon “VoucherCodes.com25%” to get this price.

  • Half Life 2: The Orange Box, Xbox 360 – £9.86

    Half Life 2: The Orange Box, Xbox 360 – £9.86 delivered

    Apple coupon “VoucherCodes.com25%” to get this price.

  • Half Life 2: The Orange Box, PS3 – £9.86

    Half Life 2: The Orange Box, PS3 – £9.86 delivered

    Apple coupon “VoucherCodes.com25%” to get this price.

  • Skate 3, Xbox 360 – £28.23

    Skate 3, Xbox 360 – £28.23 delivered

    Apple coupon “VoucherCodes.com25%” to get this price.

    Straight from the horse’s mouth. Expect to see more of this from the likes of EA in the future. There are healthy margins in selling your games direct to your customers. For indies and large publishers alike.

  • The Saboteur, PC – £7.87

    The Saboteur, PC – £7.87

    Apple coupon “VoucherCodes.com25%” to get this price.

  • Dragon Age: Origins, PC – £7.87

    Dragon Age: Origins, PC – £7.87

    Or £10.49 for the Digital Deluxe Edition.

    Apple coupon “VoucherCodes.com25%” to get this price. Cheers Shadowmancer.

  • 1,200 MS points, Xbox 360 – 99p with a trade in.

    Gamestation have now got their take on the 99p 1,200 MS Points deal that GAME already have.

    You get a MW2 themes 1,200 MS points card for 99p, and a trade in of either:
    Dead Rising, Saints Row 2, Bioshock, Half Life 2:The Orange Box or Left4Dead.

    None of these games are available for less than Far Cry 2 for a fiver, so you are likely best sticking to the GAME deal, unless you already have copies of these you want to trade in.

  • Just Cause 2, PC – £12.95

    Just Cause 2, PC – £12.95 delivered

    Registers on Steam.

  • unSavyGamer: A thing I am doing on twitter

    I’m going to be using @unSavyGamer to track all the gaming rip offs and bad deals. Think of it as the opposite of SavyGamer.

  • Blazblue, PS3 – £14.99

    Blazblue, PS3 – £14.99 delivered

    Although “Availability: usually dispatched in 7 to 10 days” is often code for “never going to be back in stock ever again, at HMV.

  • Blazblue, Xbox 360 – £14.99

    Blazblue, Xbox 360 – £14.99 delivered

    Although “Availability: usually dispatched in 7 to 10 days” is often code for “never going to be back in stock ever again, at HMV.

  • The Hut are very dishonest

    Update: You can find a rather unsatisfactory update to this post here.

    As an affiliate of lots of retailers, I get frequent emails from them telling me about their amazing offers. Sometimes they aren’t particularly good, sometimes they are, and I have to sort through them to find the best deals.

    I got an email from The Hut telling me this:

    Come celebrate your bank holiday weekend with www.thehut.com/home as we have gone voucher code crazy! These codes are available on EVERYTHING so don’t miss out this weekend! Massive savings and commissions are to be made!

    So then I spent ages sorting through the games that they sell, and finding which ones were already a good price, so that they could be made even better by using the coupons. My policy with SavyGamer is that I never ever want to link to somewhere that isn’t the cheapest place to get a game from.

    I found a bunch of great deals on games that they were already selling for cheap. Posted them up on SavyGamer along with the instructions of how to use the coupons. These offers were available for a short amount of time when I first posted them. Then, because they are dishonest, The Hut increased the prices of most of the games that were actually good deals when using those coupons. Here’s what they did:
    Halo: Reach, Xbox 360 – was £37.93, £35.93 with coupon. Increased to £39.93, £37.93 with coupon.
    Halo: Reach [Limited Edition], Xbox 360 – was £55.93, £51.93 with coupon. Increased to £59.93, £55.93 with coupon.
    Brink, PC – was £24.93, £22.93 with coupon. Increased to £26.93, £24.93 with coupon.
    Nier, Xbox 360 – was £17.93, £16.93 with coupon. Increased to £29.93, £27.93 with coupon.
    Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Wii – was £17.93, £16.93 with coupon. Increased to £23.93, £21.93 with coupon.
    Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Xbox 360 – was £23.93, £21.93 with coupon. Increased to £39.93, £37.93 with coupon.
    Battlefield: Bad Company 2, PS3 – was £23.93, £21.93 with coupon. Increased to £39.93, £37.93 with coupon.
    Battlefield: Bad Company 2, PC – was £14.93, was £13.93. Increased to £29.93, £27.93 with coupon.
    Batman: Arkham Asylum [GOTY], Xbox 360 – was £16.93, £15.93 with coupon. Increased to £17.93, £16.93 with coupon.
    Napoleon: Total War [Imperial Edition], PC – was £12.93, £11.93 with coupon. Increased to £17.93, £16.93 with coupon.
    Legend Of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, DS – was £17.93, £16.93 with coupon. Increased to £24.93, £22.93 with coupon.
    GTA: Episodes From Liberty City, Xbox 360 – was £13.93, £12.93 with coupon. Increased to £29.93, £27.93 with coupon.
    Forza Motorsport 3, Xbox 360 – was £12.93, £11.93 with coupon. Increased to £14.93, £13.93 with coupon.

    As you can see, for the most part their prices were far better before the ‘discount’ coupon was made available. If I were cynical, which I definitely am, I’d say that this was a deliberate deception to increase traffic to their site without actually offering any discount at all. Some of these are preorders, so it’s hardly like there would have been issues with them running out of stock forcing them to increase the price.

    I’m going to speak to them on Monday and see what they have to say for themselves. But from now on I am definitely going to keep an eye on how they fiddle with their prices whenever they do have discount coupons.