Grand Theft Auto 4, Xbox 360 - £34.99 delivered
Apply code "dt7aquwhf" for £5 off
It's going to be pretty hard to get this game for any less than this in a while. Or indeed at any price under £40. It's in stock now, but it won't be for long, so get on it quick if you're interested.
Grand Theft Auto 4, Xbox 360 - £34.99
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Xbox 360 - £19.56
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Xbox 360 - £19.56 delivered
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, PS3 - £34.49
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, PS3 - £34.49 delivered
Sid Meier's Civilisation IV - Complete, PC - £7.93
Sid Meier's Civilisation IV - Complete, PC - £7.93 delivered
Demo of new Wii Homebrew Channel shown
Check this video out, and be amazed at how quickly the collective hard work of a bunch of really talented bedroom programmers have put together a fantastic solution for Wii homebrew:
It looks slick as hell, certainly on par with a lot of commercial software, and it's still in beta.
I can't wait for the public release.
All these applications are being loaded of an SD card, and the channel also has support for loading software from a USBGecko or even TCP/IP (which you actually see in action when linux is loaded).
For those interested in the technical details, this channel is powered by devkitPPC/libOGC.
I will be posting, with impressions, as soon as it is publicly released.
New Free NIN album
Regular readers will probably have picked up on how much of a Nine Inch Nails fan I am. Trent Reznor (the man behind NIN) seems to be spearheading the free music revolution. Their last album "Ghosts", was an experimental instrumental album, in four parts. The first part was completely free, and the rest was only $5 to download, as well as being available in a range of physical formats. He's gone one step further now.
As of today, their new album "The Slip" is available in a range of DRM free formats, completely free of charge. If you've never listened to them before, now is a great time to start.
The production is fantastic, and it is better than the vast majority of music for sale right now. The really cool thing about this is that by taking the record label out of the equation, not only is music getting cheaper, we are also getting more of it, this is the first time we have ever had 2 albums from NIN in the same year.
Viva La Revolution!
Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive - £13
Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive - £13 delivered
You have to go through Amazon.de, but a UK Amazon account will work, and the menus are pretty intuitive. The HD-DVD drive is region free, although you will need to get a new power supply, or an adapter.
It won't work with Maestro cards (sadly) otherwise I would have ordered one at this price.
Let me know if you have any problems with the process.
Thanks to Mike for the tip off.
Scarface: The World Is Yours, Wii - £14.99
Scarface: The World Is Yours, Wii - £14.99 delivered
This was a real guilty pleasure of mine on the Xbox. I've not even seen the film but I had a lot of fun with this game. It felt like a streamlined version of GTA, in fact, a lot of the cool new features from GTA4 were in this game first. From what I hear the Wii controls are great too. I didn't realise at the time, but this is from the same developer as Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, and they really know how to make open world games. The graphics and music are fantastic too. Don't forget that if you have an HMV student card, you can use it online too, bringing this down to £13.49.
Buy it you cock-a-roach.
R-Type Final, PS2 - £2.50
R-Type Final, PS2 - £2.50 delivered
Nice Shmup, if a little dated now. Only one in stock, so be quick!
Syphon Filter - The Omega Strain, PS2 - £9.93
Syphon Filter - The Omega Strain, PS2 - £9.93 delivered
What is Nintendo doing with all their money?
Nintendo have been having a lot of success recently, with huge international sales of both the DS and the Wii consoles, and great software sales.
You have to wonder what they are doing with that money. It turns out, they have thrown a bunch of money at Wallmart.
Take a look at the Wallmart homepage (as of 03/05/08) -
More about it here
Wii Fit, Wii - £69.99
Wii Fit, Wii - £69.99 delivered
It's at RRP, but as I'm sure most of you know, it's hard to find stock anywhere.
New NIN song leaked
Click here to download the great new Nine Inch Nails song "Echoplex"
Trent released this song Via Facebook, and reiterated the message of "Go to www.nin.com May 5"
Shadow Of The Colossus, PS2 - £9.93
Shadow Of The Colossus, PS2 - £9.93 delivered
Pretty much one of the most perfectly crafted games ever.
Games are (sometimes) art, and if you disagree you've either not played this or you you have yoghurt for brains.
It's under a tenner. Buy it, buy it now.
PS3 40gb console, GTA4, Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction & Uncharted: Drakes Fortune - £316.97
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen And The Tower Of Mirrors, Wii - £24.99
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen And The Tower Of Mirrors, Wii - £24.99 delivered
Holy subtitle Batman!
Xbox 360 Premium, Halo 3 & GTA4 - £208.71
Xbox 360 Premium, Halo 3 & GTA4 - £208.71 collect in store.
Nintendo Wii Console - £172.98
Nintendo Wii Console - £172.98 delivered
As always comes with Wii sports.
I really didn't expect any retailers to have discounts on the Wii any time soon, Shopto pulls through again!
Grand Theft Auto 4
I've had quite a few requests for GTA4 on both 360 and PS3, sadly there's no retailers selling it at even a half decent price that have it in stock.
The best option is to probably head to the highstreet, and you should be able to get it for £40 or under. Asda are selling the 360 version for £34, and if you are a student you can get 10% off at Zavvi, HMV and some Gamestation branches, and if you have a GAME card student discount is available at some branches too.
As soon as it is available for a good price online I will post it, but it'll probably be a while.
Get into festivals for free with Oxfam
I'm going to be going to Leeds and Glastonbury festival this year (as I did last year) as an Oxfam steward. I can't recommend it enough, you meet a great bunch of people, and everyone you meet is going to be friendly to someone with an Oxfam Tabard on (and it makes it really to blag free booze).
Anyway, Oxfam are looking for people to steward and campaign for them. Stewarding involves a range of tasks, I have had - operating gates, running a Barbecue, driving around Glastonbury delivering coffee to people. If could be anything.
Campaigning basically means walking around the festivals with a clipboard and encouraging people to sign up for newsletters. You work 3 shifts, but will have plenty of time to see lots of bands, and take in the festival atmosphere.
You do have to pay a £165 deposit, which will be refunded, but in return you get free entrance into the festivals, free camping, and food vouchers for when you are on shift.
It's a really good cause, and you will have a lot of fun.
Head here to apply.
They need stewards for -
Glastonbury
Cornbury
Glade
Womad
Summer Sundae
Bloom Festival
Leeds
Reading
Bestival
And campaigners for -
Isle of Wight
Glastonbury
Latitude
Womad
V (Chelmsford/Staffordshire)
Leeds
Reading
Bestival
Love Box
Let me know if you are going to any. As I said I'll be at Leeds (Fuck you I won't do what you tell me) and Glastonbury this year.
Devil May Cry 4, Xbox 360 - £19.99
Devil May Cry 4, Xbox 360 - £19.99 delivered
Apply code "K775GDM" for that price.
Update: This deal has now expired.
Devil May Cry 4, PS3 - £19.99
Devil May Cry 4, PS3 - £19.99 delivered
Apply code "GYWWWHE" for that price.
Update: This deal has now expired.
Bully: Scholarship Edition, Xbox 360 - £19.99
Bully: Scholarship Edition, Xbox 360 - £19.99 delivered
Apply code "YKJGPYA" for that price.
Update: This deal has now expired.
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness, PSP - £17.63
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness, PSP - £17.63 delivered
Apply code "PP-02-DISCOUNT" for 2% off.
Bladestorm: The Hundred Year War, Xbox 360 - £17.99
Bladestorm: The Hundred Year War, Xbox 360 - £17.99 delivered
Bladestorm: The Hundred Year War, PS3 - £17.99
Bladestorm: The Hundred Year War, PS3 - £17.99 delivered
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, PS3 - £22.49
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, PS3 - £22.49 delivered
Silent Hill: Origins, PSP - £15.57
Silent Hill: Origins, PSP - £15.57 delivered
Apply code "PP-02-DISCOUNT" for 2% off.
ScummVM Wii - Wiimote Edition Released
The ScummVM interpretor is a piece of software that allow you to play a bunch of classic Adventure games on a range of platforms. It has now been ported to the Wii, with Wiimote support, meaning you can use the Wiimote pointer to replace the functionality of the mouse.
You can download it here.
The Scumm engine was originally made for Lucasarts Maniac Mansion, but it was used for a whole host of fantastic games. My personal favourites are Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max Hit the Road and Beneath a Steel Sky.
There is some fantastic homebrew coming out for the Wii, and it's only just getting started, I can't wait to see what's down the line. You will need some way of launching .dol files to use this, Wiibrew should have all the advice you need for that.
I strongly suggest you head over to ScummVM.org and download the charming and hilarious Beneath a Steel Sky.
Update: here's a video of it in action, playing Full Throttle. Cheers to hideous_enigma for the link.
Prototype, Xbox 360 - £29.99
Prototype, Xbox 360 - £29.99 delivered
This game looks fantastic. It's from Radical entertainment, the developers behind "Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction". It's their first original IP, and it really looks like they are going all out there. Not for the squeamish. Check out this new trailer.
Blackthorne, GBA - £6.26
Blackthorne, GBA - £6.26 delivered
Port of a really fantastic old Blizzard game, it plays a bit like Prince of Persia, but with a shotgun and orcs. Great 2D art and surprisingly funny. You might have played it as "Blackhawk". Highly recomended.
Sonic 2 HD fan remake on the way.
Update: I just noticed a bunch of traffic coming from a range of places over the internet, so this is probably a lot of peoples first time visiting SavyGamer. If you head to the homepage you'll get a good idea of what this blog typically is. I track all the best deals for video games in the UK, and update regularly. I occasionally write longer articles whenever I feel there is anything important I want to write about. Thanks, and on to the Sonic 2 HD goodness -
This right here is why bedroom development is such a good thing.
A while back, there was an artists impression of what an HD remake of the Mega Drive classic Sonic 2 would look like doing the rounds, you may have seen it -
Hot, no?
Well, a bunch of highly talented people from the 'sonic community' have decided that they want to make this artists impression a reality.
The team consists of TheSonicRetard (author of the NeedleMouse Engine, and responsible for the graphics engine of Sonic 2 HD), Tweaker (the creator of Sonic Megamix), BlazeHedgehog and Cinossu (who have already put together the remixed soundtrack), Jman2050, the lead game engine programmer and Vincent who is contributing a lot of the art.
Work so far is in early stages, but still looking incredible so far.
This will be using TheSonicRetard's NeedleMouse engine.
The engine is going to be using a colour palette system with 256 simultaneous colours on screen at once, and all the spites are going to be based on the original games colours, but with four levels of lighting.
No plans for how it's going to be distributed as of yet, they aren't looking that far ahead. They really are just doing it out of love for the game.
Sega have a history for looking at fan-made projects like this and hiring teams based on it. Really, this type of thing would sell bucketloads on the various digital distribution platforms, it would be crazy to not give these guys jobs in this humble bloggers opinion.
The end goal is to remake the entire game, and with the passion and talent shown so far, I cannot wait to see the end result.
Head to SonicRetro forums for more. Here's a bunch more WIP art -
Prototype, Xbox 360 - £32.34
Prototype, Xbox 360 - £32.34 delivered
Apply code "APR10" for 10% off.
Almost certainly the best pre-order price you will find for this fantastic looking game from the makers of Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, one of the best hidden gems of last generation.
Digital Devil Saga 2, PS2 - £8.03
Digital Devil Saga 2, PS2 - £8.03 delivered
Apply code "APR10" for 10% off.
Geometry Wars: Galaxies, Wii - £14.33
Geometry Wars: Galaxies, Wii - £14.33 delivered
Apply code "APR10" for 10% off.
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Wii - £24.68
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Wii - £24.68 delivered
Apply code "APR10" for 10% off.
Freshly Picked - Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, DS - £19.99
Freshly Picked - Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, DS - £19.99 delivered
10% off at TheHut.com
TheHut.com are having one of their 24hour 10% off everything sales.
Apply code "APR10" for 10% off.
The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, DS - £16.93
The Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, DS - £16.93 delivered
King Of Fighters NeoWave, PS2 - £4.99
King Of Fighters NeoWave, PS2 - £4.99 delivered
Seems to be showing the Xbox artwork, but it's definitely the PS2 version.
People need to stop using rapidshare.com for anything
A friend of mine wanted to send me a bunch of files in a .rar archive. He uploaded it to rapidshare.com and then emailed me the link.
Now, the 2 minute wait was annoying, but I could deal with it. The fact that the counter measured time in decimal minutes (ie, It went from 2.0 minutes to 1.9 minutes) irked me, but I could get past it. The fact that the download page timed out several times because I forgot to go right back to it after exactly 2.1 minutes because *gasp* I was doing something on another page was just an example of bad web design.
After that came the final straw:
Does it hurt anyone else's brains? It certainly hurts mine. Maybe it's because I am dyslexic, but whatever, this is inconvenient and in my opinion flat out stupid. This is the year 2008, the internet should be way beyond this kind of thing by now. Megaupload might have a lot of advertising, but around 30-60 second waiting times and a simple 3 letter captcha make it far more usable, and I have never had any problems with it.
I implore you to never upload anything to Rapidshare, and if anyone knows of any better sites for uploading files I would love to hear some suggestions.
We have a winner!
Congratulations to Stephen Parker, the lucky winner of the Final Fantasy inspired artwork.
Never mind everyone else, better luck next time.
A bunch of people have contacted me about the possibility of buying a painting off my Mum (which she was thrilled at the idea of), she's actually recently broken her arm, and so is struggling to paint at all. If and when she decides she would like to sell any artwork I will post here to let you all know.
Thanks to everyone for entering, and I'll be arranging the painting being sent to you tomorrow Stephen, enjoy it!
Competition closes tonight
It's your last chance to enter the Final Fantasy competition as it closes tonight at midnight, so get your entries in fast. I'll be announcing the winner tomorrow.
Good Luck!
£2 off Play.com
Head over to play.com and enter the code "SUNDAYMAIL" along with your email address, and they'll email you a £2 off voucher next week.
Grand Theft Auto IV: Special Edition, Xbox 360 - £58
Grand Theft Auto IV: Special Edition, Xbox 360 - £58 delivered
Mass Effect, Xbox 360 - £18.61
Mass Effect, Xbox 360 - £18.61 delivered
Apply code "PP-02-DISCOUNT" for 2% off.
House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return, Wii - £21.06
House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return, Wii - £21.06 delivered
Apply code "PP-02-DISCOUNT" for 2% off.
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