{"id":2148,"date":"2013-12-23T14:25:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T22:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2013-12-23T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T22:25:36","slug":"gaming-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"Gaming Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure some of you have already caught that the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/\">Steam Sale<\/a> is happening. I picked up some copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monacoismine.com\/\">Monaco<\/a> for Matt and myself on the first day of the sale when it was 80% off, and since it was a four pack it didn&#8217;t take much effort to find two more people to give copies away to.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This Steam Sale is running until January 3rd. Just in case you&#8217;re new to the whole Steam Sale routine, which features a vareity of sales over the course that it runs, you may wish to keep the following flowchart in mind to help you decide whether or not you&#8217;re getting the best price for what you&#8217;re buying:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/unzDD5K.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/unzDD5K.jpg\" width=\"715\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth keeping in mind that Steam isn&#8217;t the only place running holiday sales. You&#8217;re obviously likely to find stuff on sale in any brick and morter store you head into over the next couple of weeks. Last year I managed to pick up a Nintendo 3DS XL along with Kingdom Hearts 3D for $120 at Futureshop.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only recently started using reddit, so I wish I&#8217;d been aware of this subreddit earlier in life&#8230; but you might want to keep an eye out on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GameDeals\/\">http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GameDeals\/<\/a> year round.\u00a0 Sometimes the Steam Sale isn&#8217;t the best place to pick up a game, and searching for what you&#8217;re looking for using ctrl + f on a page like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GameDeals\/wiki\/stores\/amazon\/holidaysale\">http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GameDeals\/wiki\/stores\/amazon\/holidaysale<\/a> might help you sort out whether it&#8217;s best to buy the latest Tomb Raider as a <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/203160\/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_2\">daily deal <em>today<\/em> on Steam for $10<\/a>, or if it might be worth waiting to pick it up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B007VFHGZ4\/ref=cm_sw_su_dp?tag=childsplaycha-20\">between December 24th and 26th at Amazon for $5<\/a>&#8230; also as a steam download.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you&#8217;d like a free copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/107100\/\">Bastion<\/a>, let me know in the comments. I&#8217;ve had a spare key kicking around for a while that I&#8217;m sure would love to find a home. Perhaps a Christmas draw is in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure some of you have already caught that the latest Steam Sale is happening. I picked up some copies of Monaco for Matt and myself on the first day of the sale when it was 80% off, and since it was a four pack it didn&#8217;t take much effort to find two more people to give copies away to. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cool-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}