There are not many hours left so if you haven’t seen it yet this is almost a steal. The full Rockstar Games Collection is 50% off this weekend at just $29.99 U.S. You can get it via the Valve download service Steam which means while you don’t get a big box to put on your shelf there is the bonus of getting the games just as fast as your net connection. It’s quite a perk all this digital downloading from Steam as it even patches the games when required automatically so those who haven’t taken a look at the service should do so. The collection includes the GTA’s, Max Payne’s and Manhunt among others.
Be aware though this offer is doubtful to be available to those outside the US so bad luck for most of the world. It’s very unfair for those of US who are outside the US but on occasion we do get offers that our American counterparts don’t so there is some balance in the world.
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Holy shit, did anything even remotely think of this? The Inquirer reports a breaking that Google may be buying Valve any second. And why this seemingly random move? Google most probably wants to acquire Steam, Valve’s trusty and super-successful content distribution service. So is Google taking it’s first step in the video game industry by bridging the Internet and video games?
There is no doubt that Steam is the greatest, most effective and most awesome content distribution ever. It looks like Google is interested in distributing content around. Owning Steam would definitely be profitable for Google, but it would only enforce peoples’ opinions that Google is turning into a Microsoft-ish monopoly with their webby hands over everything related to the Internet.
I personally think that the acquisition will still give Valve some space, a bit like the Activision-Blizzard merger, I’m thinking. But Google will definitely want Steam for itself. I just hope they don’t change the default theme to their boring white-blue nonsense, that just sucks.
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Anyone who has used the online auction service can tell you about how many one cent items there are. The catch always is they are attached to $30 or more delivery charges.
With the right amount of tweaking it’s possible to arrange items by price and location yet it is impossible to organise items by their postage cost. It’s hard to understand why such a service is not a standard feature as it would be a fantastic way to disrupt the services of scammers and those users who prey on others looking for a bargain. Imagine from your own point of view as a buyer seeing 200 copies of the same DVD listed for the same price over several pages. Instead of having to search through every single page looking for the one with the cheapest delivery price just choosing to arrange by that cost? It’s something long overdue on eBay and we hope it happens for the benefit of all you buyers out there.
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