We seem to be entering another lean period. Play is the only retailer to start a sale that will last for longer than a week. Zavvi continues with the long-running random offers. Discount codes and points promotions are still being run by Tesco and Zavvi. As for weekly deals, those belong to GAME and Shopto. The good news is that the consoles make their monthly appearance.
As usual you need to click on the name of the retailer or the name of the deal to be taken straight to the retailer’s offer page. Further details on the deals, including the best pick of the sale items, can be found in the ‘details here’ link, which will take you back to the relevant UK deal roundup that described the sale in more detail. Clicking on the name of a game will take you to the achievement list. All prices were correct at the time of writing.
To start off the new and weekly offers of this period,
GAME’s extra incentive added on to their Deals of the Week this time is 400 MSP for just £1.75 if a buyer purchases any of the Xbox 360 deals of the week. Unfortunately, they’re all more expensive than elsewhere.
Play has restarted their Hundreds of Items for Under £10 offer. These are the best picks:
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Call of Juarez: The Cartel - £5.99
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Awakening in Dragon Age: Origins - £7.99
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http://www.trueachievements.com/Dragon-Age-II-xbox-360.htm - £8.99
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Far Cry 2 - £7.99
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Fight Night Round 4 - £9.99
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Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 - £8.99
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Legend of the Guardians - £9.99
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My Self Defence Coach - £6.99
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nail'd - £5.99
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Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (EU Ver) - £3.99
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Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 Legacy Edition - £5.99
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Viva Piñata: Party Animals - £4.99
Shopto have renamed their Star Buys. Now known as Hot Deals, we see
Prototype and
The Sims 3 Pets at £8.86 each. Their newly reintroduced
Weekly Specials include a few more noteworthy titles though:
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Brink - £3.85
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - £24.85
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 Collector’s Edition - £22.85
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Mass Effect 3 - £19.85
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Street Fighter x Tekken - £21.85
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UFC Undisputed 3 - £19.85
Tesco still has an offer where buyers can save £5 on the price of pre-order games when the code GAMES5 is entered at the checkout.
Zavvi’s first random offer of the week still sees 10% off pre-orders of the
Spec Ops: The Line and
Apocalypse Now /
Apocalypse Now Redux blu-ray bundle when the code SPECOPSG is entered at the checkout. We also still have a list of random cheap games – links to these are in the prices for this list:
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LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean –
£19.95•
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Starter Pack –
£37.95•
SoulCalibur V –
£24.95 •
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 13 –
£23.85Here are the continuing sales:
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Amazon’s Xbox 360 Bargains
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Base’s offer where buyers can get two games for £25
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Bee’s Special Offers
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HMV’s Sale
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HMV’s Pure Double Points promotion
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Play’s offer where buyers can get two games for £20.
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Sainsbury’s Games Extravaganza.
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TheHut’s Stock Clearance
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TheHut’s Action Games offer
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TheHut’s ‘Games for Under £5’ promotion
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TheHut’s two games for £20 offer
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TheHut’s Red Hot Deals
• The Fitness sale at
TheHut and
Zavvi•
TheHut.com are still running their three games for £18 offer, as is sister store
Zavvi• The Value Gaming sale at
TheHut.com, also known as Great Value Games at sister store
Zavvi•
TheHut.com are still running their two games for £25 offer, as is sister store
Zavvi•
Zavvi’s Red Hot Deals
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Zavvi’s Clearance sale
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Zavvi’s Price Drop
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Zavvi’s American Sports promotion
ConsolesThose of you who want a console without adding the complication of games will need to set your sights on a few websites this week. Here are the cheapest prices:
• 4GB Console –
Zavvi - £117.95
• 250GB Console –
Zavvi - £149.95
• 4GB Console + Kinect Sensor +
Kinect Adventures –
Amazon /
ASDA - £209.00
• 250GB Console + Kinect Sensor +
Kinect Adventures –
Amazon /
ASDA - £279.00
• Star Wars Limited Edition 320GB Console + Kinect Sensor +
Kinect Adventures +
Kinect Star Wars –
Shopto - £294.85
Amazon’s current offer sees buyers start with a choice of base package between the 250GB Slim console (£159.85), the 250GB Slim console with Kinect (£279.00), the 4GB Slim console (£129.98), the 4GB Slim console with Kinect (£209.00), the 250GB Slim
Batman: Arkham City bundle (£249.99)** or the 320GB Star Wars Slim console with Kinect (£295.00). The bundle comes with a free three-month subscription to LOVEFiLM and, for an extra £20, buyers can add one of the following games:
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Battlefield 3•
Kinect: Disneyland Adventures•
FIFA 12•
FIFA Street•
Forza Motorsport 4•
Gears of War 3•
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning•
Mass Effect 3•
Prototype 2•
http://www.trueachievements.com/TW-PGA-TOUR13-xbox-360.htm• Xbox LIVE 12 Month Gold Subscription
** The 250GB Slim
Batman: Arkham City bundle includes a 250GB Slim console,
Batman: Arkham City,
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters,
Green Lantern DVD and
Batman: Gotham Knight DVD.
ASDA has a decent 250GB Slim Kinect bundle with
FIFA Street for £294.00.
GAME and
Gamestation have some decent 250GB Slim Kinect bundles too. Each of the games listed below are included in a 250GB Slim Kinect bundle, with the price of the bundle to follow:
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Dance Central - £289.99
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Kinect Sports - £289.99
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Kinect Sports +
http://www.trueachievements.com/KS-Season-Two-xbox-360.htm - £299.99
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http://www.trueachievements.com/KS-Season-Two-xbox-360.htm - £294.99
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Mass Effect 3 - £289.99
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http://www.trueachievements.com/TW-PGA-TOUR13-xbox-360.htm - £289.99
Both retailers also have a number bundles for the 4GB Slim, 250GB Slim, 4GB Slim with Kinect and Star Wars 320GB Limited Edition Kinect bundle, but these are more expensive than can be found elsewhere.
HMV is doing a decent 250GB Slim bundle with
Mass Effect 3 and
Forza Motorsport 4 for £199.99.
Shopto has some decent 250GB Slim console bundles at the moment:
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Assassin's Creed: Revelations - £179.86
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SSX - £184.85
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Street Fighter x Tekken - £189.85
Toys R Us have two decent 250GB Slim Kinect bundles. The first bundle comes with
FIFA 12 and
Kinect Sports ; the second comes with
Kinect Joy Ride and
Kinect Sports. Both bundles cost £299.99.
It may be worth noting that
Play,
TheHut and
Zavvi also have console bundles available, but they are generally more expensive than can be found elsewhere.