Multi Latest Steam & General Gaming Bargains: Read first post!

If you link your Microsoft/Xbox/Live account to a Mixer account and watch about 30mins of one of the E3 daily streams on the Xbox Mixer channel (starts about 21:00 BST) within 24hr hours or so you should get some DLC & games.

Rare Replay – full game download. Mature game – will not be awarded to accounts with content restrictions.
Halo Wars 2 Kinsano Leader Pack (with special bonus of 3 Blitz Packs for Xbox One players)
Minecraft Redstone Specialists Skin Pack (for Minecraft: Xbox One Edition)
Halo Warthog in Forza Horizon 3 (unique vehicle not available in the in-game store)
HAWKEN – Starter Pack
No Time to Explain – full game download
The Final Station – full game download. Mature game – will not be awarded to accounts with content restrictions.
Note The giveaways will not be awarded to accounts for users with family settings that block purchases.

http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/games/game-setup/Xbox-E3-MixPot-faq

 

Steam summer sale will start 22/06.

 

Worth getting that £5 off with paypal ready! Some useful info here if you want to use Steam wallet.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/get-5-off-from-paypal-when-spend-20-steam-2722022

 

This steam sale is killing my wallet..

 

<- Puts on tinfoil hat:

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How much did Valve pay to have bit-tech send us into temporary exile?

 

Bought hidden folks and Motorsport manager. Cannot stop playing both!

 

I've done ok so far, only bought Firewatch and Air/Land/Sea DLC for Just Cause 3.

Trying to limit my purchases till I've got through some of the new games I'm already playing,

 

the entirety of the new Hitman for £16 is a bargain. its ****ing huge!

 

Yeah I got Hitman. It's good to see it back to the gameplay that made it so popular, though a shame it's episodic and has no real narrative.

Bought more on GoG (pretty space games and an insult simulator) on the assumption Steam would keep trend with the past few years and not go lower, which was proven correct.

 

I have found the Steam Summer sale to be a great disappointment. I have bought 8 games and refunded 6 and to be honest the two that I kept were a mistake.
At these sale times I try to support the indie game makers and over the years have found some gems. Not so this year.

 

WTF?

 

Hollow Knight is a great game, now with 34% off.

Total War Warhammer is 66% off too, but i wont have the time to play that.


Oooh that Hitman franchise........ should i...................

 

First one is boring
Second one is in nearly everyone's top 2 but has erratic AI
Contracts is filler but decent
Blood Money is a milestone in gaming history
Absolution is 7/10 but moves away from the gameplay that made it great
2016 is return to form but episodic with no real story and just 5 missions.

 

im really looking at the episodic. ive played the first 4 and loved all of them, but somehow Absolution kinda turns me off with the "eazy mode glow in the dark stuff".

is the episodic worth the money?

 

I've not really seen anything on the steam sale that i'd consider bargainlicious. I did pick up dungeon of the endless and am enjoying that quite a bit.

 

I don't know how you value money or game content. 2016 has the same ability to see stuff glow, but as in Absolution it's optional as a button you press.

 

Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor free weekend on Steam and 80% discount (£3.20).

 

Resident Evil games and Dead Rising on Humble Bundle - quite a few I wanted to try but wasn't sure about paying a lot for so $12 for about 9 games seems a good deal to me!

https://www.humblebundle.com/capcom-rising-bundle

 

XCOM 2's new War of the Chosen expansion can be had for ~26 GBP right now at Green Man Gaming with voucher code 2017E318OFF

 

Holy hell that's a lot cheaper than the Steam price! They're listing it at €40!