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Capcom has just announced a five week sale on several of their Playstation Network titles.

To kick off the sale, Marvel VS Capcom 2 will be reduced by 50%. This lowers the cost of the game to a mere $7.49. Not bad considering a disc copy for the PS2 still goes for around $50.

Here is the schedule for the rest of the sale:

February 18 – Marvel vs. Capcom 2 for $7.49
February 25 – Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix for $7.49
March 4 – Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix for $4.99
March 11 – Age of Booty for $4.99
March 18 – 1942: Joint Strike for $4.99

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Once again, Steam has a critically acclaimed game for a price so low, you’ll wonder how they get their prices so low.

Now through Thursday, you can pick up Double Fine’s media darling Psychonauts for only two of your earth dollars.

Here is the rundown:

“For years, the Psychonauts have deployed their psychically-armed operatives all over the world, but this time trouble is brewing in their own backyard. Someone is abducting students from the Psychonaut boot camp—a deranged scientist who only wants their brains. A powerful new cadet named Raz stands alone against the lunatic. He must develop and unleash an arsenal of paranormal powers, including telekinesis, pyrokinesis, clairvoyance, and his most powerful weapon of all—the ability to launch himself telepathically into someone’s mind. Ultimately he must enter the mind of his worst enemy and destroy his dark plans at their source, while trying… … Psychonauts $2 on Steam

Looks like Steam is up to it’s Holiday tricks once again. If you didn’t get a chance to take advantage of their Thanksgiving or Black Friday deals, have no fear. From now until January 3rd, over 800 games on Steam are on sale for up to 80% off.

As if that weren’t enough, they are also doing daily deals throughout this event with games like Grand Theft Auto IV for only $7.49 and Mirror’s Edge for $4.99.

So don’t wait. If you have even a fleeting interest in PC gaming, you really need to check out the Steam store and catch some of these deals.

Several of us on the Funk have been having a great time with Runic Game’s dungeon crawler loot-fest, Torchlight.

Well good news for those of you that have been holding out on picking up this great title. Steam has just put it on sale for 50% off, making it only $9.99!

So what are you waiting for? Go find yourself some ember, make your dog/cat summons zombies, and fight off the hordes for those fat stacks of gear!

Click here to be taken to Torchlight’s Steam page.

Been holding off awhile on some of this season’s biggest games? Today is yet another great day to shop at Amazon, as they have multiple titles from the past few months on sale. Notable titles include Brutal Legend, Need For Speed: Shift, Dragon Age: Origins, and Assassin’s Creed II. Some other games will also be available in the lightning deals section, so be sure to check those for your personal gift bag as well.

With $15-20 off such great titles, Amazon makes it hard to say no. Damn them Bless their hearts.

Not to be content with only a week of “Black Friday” deals, Amazon will be running even more deals all day long for the latest of the made up holidays, “Cyber Monday”.

Gold box deals are running all day on the Cyber Monday page, and there are several other deals that will run all day long. Because some products are in high demand, they have conveniently added a little tracking bar to show you how many of each product they have left.

As we reach day five of Steam’s early holiday sale we are given another set of dramatic discounts on a myriad of titles from now until 11A.M. EST on Tuesday. December 1 (That’s tomorrow, folks!).

This batch of sales is selling several titles for 30% off the standard price, such as Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood ($20.99) and Dawn of Discovery ($34.99). Several other titles are on sale for 50% off, such as Section 8 ($24.99) and The Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena ($9.99).

Other deals include 75% off Mirror’s Edge ($5.00), Evil Genius ($2.49), The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition ($2.49) and 80% off the puzzler Quantz ($2.00).

Steam is once again bringing some awesome sales to the PC gaming community. Every day for the next five days, a different set of deals will be going up for savings up to 80% off. This includes such games as Farcry 2: Fortune’s Edition, Batman Arkham Asylum, and Champions Online.

In addition to the daily sales, there is a LucasArts Premier Pack ($127.84 dollars worth of classic action and adventure games for only $49.99) and a THQ Complete Pack (a $99 value for only $49.99). Both of these game pack deals are valid through Monday.

Be sure to check each day for what new stuff they are putting on sale!

Steam and Valve have a small treat for your Halloween sack. Right now—and we mean right now—you can get Team Fortress 2, one of the best cooperative shooters EVAR!, for $2.49 until 2:00PM Pacific/4:00 Central this afternoon.

If you haven’t given this game a chance, now’s the time. The system requirements (1.7 GHz Processor, 512MB RAM, DirectX® 8.1 level Graphics Card) are pretty spare, so there’s almost no excuse to not have this on your PC.

The sale helps promote the TF2 Halloween Special. For details, check out this “pumpkin patch.”

Today, Amazon has dropped the price of the latest Wolfenstein game on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC. The console versions dropped from $59.99 to $39.98; the PC version dropped from $49.99 to $29.98. While there have been some fairly lackluster reviews of the title, some seem to be getting $39.98/$29.98 fun out of it.

Those interested in purchasing should hit the source link to be whisked away to Amazon.

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