Video Game Deals on Amazon [May 5, 2010 Edition]: Aliens vs. Predator, Splinter Cell: Conviction

                         

This week’s highlights include Aliens vs Predator for the Xbox 360 and PS3, which you can grab for $20 off each. The PC edition is nearly $10 off. There’s also Splinter Cell Conviction: Limited Edition, also for the 360, which is $14 off.

VGDs feature on AAA once or twice a week with deals at least $7.00 [R50] or more making the big list. Deals which are $10 or more make the best deals list.

Best Deals:

Aliens vs Predator - $39.99 - Save $20.00 [PS3, 360]

Alice in Wonderland - $35.54 - Save $14.45 [Wii]
Splinter Cell Conviction: Limited Edition - $55.99- Save $14.00 [360]

Iron Warriors - $9.33 - Save $14.00 [PC]
3D Xango Tango - $9.06 - Save $10.93 [PC]
WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2010 - $29.96 - Save $10.03 [360]

[PC]

Iron Warriors - $9.33 - Save $14.00
3D Xango Tango - $9.06 - Save $10.93
Aliens vs Predator - $40.69 - Save $9.26

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction - $49.96 - $10.03

Restricted Area - $11.61 - Save $8.38 
OMG! High School - $9.06 - Save $7.70

[PS3]

Aliens vs Predator - $39.99 - Save $20.00

[PS2]

Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots - $9.90 - Save $8.09 

[Xbox 360]

Aliens vs Predator - $39.99 - Save $20.00
WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2010 - $29.96 - Save $10.03
Splinter Cell Conviction: Limited Edition - $55.99- Save $14.00

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction - $50.19 - $9.80

[Nintendo DS]

WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2010 - $19.99 - Save $8.00

[Nintendo Wii]

Alice in Wonderland - $35.54 - Save $14.45
Let's Play Ballerina - $19.99 - Save $10.00
Veggy World - $19.99 - Save $10.00
Burger Bot - $19.99 - Save $10.00

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Sources: Amazon - Nowinstock

Video Game Deals on Amazon [May 5, 2010 Edition]: Aliens vs. Predator, Splinter Cell: Conviction

AAA: My Birthday

It was my birthday this week, and I’m going to tell you all about what I got.

A got a new printer. Last month I went to Incredible Connection and traded in my old Lexmark for a new Hewlett Packard one. This one’s better than because it’s black, it’s light, and it actually works. That Lexmark gave me problems from day one. Good riddance. The trade-in occurred last month, and I got one third of the price off. I had to have it wrapped up and given to me on the day, and I actually forgot I was getting it.

The only thing that sucked is that there’s a USB cable that should have been bundled in the box. When I phoned the store however, they said it had to be bought separately. They wanted R70 for a cable. I went down to Chaos Computers and bought one for R30.

I got a new watch. Seriously, I’ve been without a watch for years now. And the watches I do have are merely just for show, and don’t work. This one has a proper leather strap, and not the cheap plastic ones that split and break after a few months.

I got a new jacket. I get new clothes as presents every year, and this birthday was no different. I got a jacket that makes me look and feel like a pimp. It’s black, but with blue and pink on it, and has a hood.

I got some new games. For my birthday I got S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Aliens vs. Predator, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I immediately put CoP in an installed it. So I’ve been playing that for a few days all ready. AvP will likely be my next game to play, as it looks properly scary, despite some negative reviews. I bet the critics were too scared to even play it, anyway.

I also wanted Assassin’s Creed II and Metro 2033, but not only was it getting a bit expensive, but the DRM in AC II put me off.

I got a free pizza. Ha! This one was the one to top it all off. I ordered a pizza, and waited in the kitchen. Then I waited on the porch. Then I waited in the driveway. Eventually I was waiting in the bloody road for the pizza delivery guy, who got lost apparently. He rocked up, and I gave him the tip, but I said he was late, and that I wasn’t paying for the pizza seeing as he left me there to wait for nearly an hour, and my pizza was warm – not hot. Not cool.

It was well within my rights, because it says right on the box “if it’s late it’s free”.

No pizza tastes as sweet as a free pizza.

Something else I wanted for my birthday was an upgrade for my PC. I just put in a new graphics card, but I sometime want an even better one, and that means I’ll likely have to upgrade everything else just to accommodate it.

We ended off the night with friends and family, and watched a movie, District 9. Crappy dialogue, too much swearing, but awesome CGI and weapon effects. Especially the alien weaponry. Those things just completely vaporise people into a red mist.

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AAA: My Birthday

Gearbox Talks About Aliens: Colonial Marines

                                                           “I’m back!”

Now that the first Aliens title of the year, Aliens vs. Predator, has come out this month (and to a bit of a mixed reaction, too), it’s time to dig up that other Aliens title that was supposed to come out first in the first place: Aliens: Colonial Marines.

The title is still in development at Gearbox, the makers of the majorly successful Borderlands, which has seen its third DLC pack, The Secret Armory of General Knoxx, come out this week for all major consoles and the PC (and it’s done quite well too.).

Gearbox CEO, Randy Pitchford:

“We have an Aliens game with Sega and 20th Century Fox which we’re really excited about. It’s the thing I’ve been stealing from all my career. Now I’m really working on it, but we’ve been quiet about that so far.”

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Source: [1] MCVUK

Gearbox Talks About Aliens: Colonial Marines