EA have offered those kinds of upgrades through their store for a while now. I don't know if they work with non EA Store copies though.

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/bestof2010/ 50% off BioShock 2, Age of Empires 3, Batman, Borderlands, Osmos, Section 8, Football Manager 2011, Borderlands, Zuma's Revenge (I don't mention Blacklight because it's a horrible piece of ported crap)

Wasn't this 10 cents about a month ago? Who's going to pay $10 for it now?

The people who didn't get it a month ago?

Can someone please explain to me in simple terms the DRM used in games for windows store and any limitations with it?

I loved D2 and awaited the sequel eagerly unfortunately I found it to be dire.

gamersgate: http://www.gamersgate.com/offers?q=armaweekend

ArmA 1: Gold Edition (not available on steam) $4.99.

ArmA 2: Combined Operations $24.98 (IIRC the lowest on steam was $22.50, so not a bad price).

Borderlands and Borderlands. Although none of them are the goty.

The only decent price is BioShock for $10.

You're probably right. The 10c version was to get people hooked on it (psst, the first one is free, man). The $10 version is for folks that want to play it with those that have had it from before (10centers included).

Kind of like Steam, except you must be online to start playing (no offline mode that I've found), and game patches are delivered through that service. Their downloading client is abysmal, requiring a re-download of everything even if one of the package files is corrupted. I guess they don't believe in sha1/md5sums.

Package files download to a temp file in your users/doc and settings/home directory, and must install to C:\Program Files (x86). This is hardcoded - If your C: happens to be N: or whatever else, you are SOL. From what I understand, MS does not consider this a bug. So, if you are like me, with a small fast HD for Windows, and a big slow HD for everything else, you are hosed if the game's too big. Unless you've done some unsupported stuff like mount your Program Files directory on another drive/partition.

Oh, and I've heard patches have to be downloaded from the GfWL client - none are provided from the game companies outside of it. Batman is a GfWL game with patches that sticks in my head. Hope that helps.

oh my... thank you.

No wonder everyone hates that service. This is the first full explanation I have heard.

There is an offline mode..automatic like Steam or you can manually sign in with an offline account..you don't get access to features like achievements though.

That's not entirely correct. You can go into Settings in the GFWM client and specify both the download and installation directories. Further to that, you can bypass the client altogether by going to the temp download location and unraring the .cab files.

You can then use the setup.exe file in the Content directory to install the game directly from that. Thus you only technically need the client to download the game once.

For those of you with younger kids - or bigger kids for that matter - Games for Windows - Game of the Week is Where' Waldo - The Fantastic Journey

I had a heck of a time with a Prince of Persia that I purchased from them. I never did find a setup.exe file, and when the game had an activation of some type (limited, I assume) - I just couldn't find anything to like. But thanks for correcting me - I like knowing where I'm wrong.

Back OT:
Impulse Weekend Deals: (Assume $ = Euro)
Bookworm Adventures Volume 2 ($7.46) 25% off
Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness ($4.99) 50% off
Scorpion Disfigured ($9.99) 50% off
Drakensang The River of Time ($17.99 preorder) 10% off
Madden 2008 ($4.99) 50% off - If you have a console I bet you could beat this
Full Spectrum Warrior - Complete Pack ($7.46) 25% off

Gamer's Gate:
Other than the Arma deals mentioned,
There's an RPG called Vampire Hunters, $8.47 - 50% off, DRM free
anyone heard of it?

There's one pretty harsh review on GG: He complains the game is unplayable and doesn't have an uninstaller (pretty unforgivable for any app done today- it is dead easy to do with NSIS - thanks Nullsoft!) Now if only I could find that free registry diff tool I used to use way back when...

But he ought to have some idea of where the game lives. It is not like the game is going to install to C:\Windows (unless it is Windows Entertainment Pack 1.0)

It's not a deal, but it seems that most of old Rockstar games on Steam is now available for Australians.