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"Christmas Sales"

Bloomin' eck, they've started already.

That was my response when I saw the ads on my email for sales on Christmas eve. Soon we'll be having them in July.

And, probably due to my visting far too many games retail sites, many of the emails were about Games sales.

I was pleasantly surprised by the offers, too. Ok, so some of the games (Transformers and Spider-man 3 in particular) were on sale for good reason, it's the only way to shift them, but Assassin's Creed for £30? Nice. Plenty of other bargains to be had too.

Of course, I happen to have spent all my money I was due for Christmas on a 360 HD Drive, but I'm still tempted to delve into my emergency fund (which really exists to pay back what I already owe, so I shouldn't).

Anyone else managed to snag a bargain in the sales?

Damn, I bet Argos run out before I get back.

Looks like there are a few other good offers from them.

Amazon has Bioshock for £25, which isn't bad considering it's such a good game.

yup it's a great game and at a tenner it's a steal

Silent Thunder wrote:
> Argoose have Viva Pinata for a tenner now so I'll probably pick
> up a copy and find out what it's like. Is there a bad reason why
> it's so cheap though?

Absolutely none. Viva Pinata is a complete joy, every moment. At a tenner you'd be mad not to.

My best bargain buy was a Toshiba 1080p HD DVD Player for £149.99.

Trouble is, when I plugged it into my "1920 x 1080 Full HD Progressive Scan Toshiba TV" it told me that my TV is not 1080p compatible.

It's a long story. Toshiba are "considering the matter", and the retailer (RGB Direct) is er... unwilling to co-operate.

Argoose have Viva Pinata for a tenner now so I'll probably pick up a copy and find out what it's like. Is there a bad reason why it's so cheap though?

Opposite for me, loads of games, not enough money!

Which means trade-ins again.

Mind you, a new Gamestation has just opened in Exeter, so when I get back I'll go check out trade in on some of my older games...

The sales have been a bit 'meh' for me - the only bargain I got was TimeSplitters Future Perfect for original Xbox - 98p brand new at Game.

i have 150 quid on a gamestop gift card but nothing i really want to spend it on.

I was a little bit gutted t'other day. Went into town, which was heaving argh, popped to GAME, saw the queue and left immediately. Then went to Gamestation and picked up Assassin's Creed for £37.99.

Went back to GAME for some reason and saw it was something like £29.99.

Nooooo

Oh well!

I've not seen much as i rarely buy games but i picked up the Rome Total War Anthology for £10.