If you are approaching the due date for your yearly Xbox Live tribute to your Microsoft overlords or are just in the market to extend your subscription, today you've got a rare opportunity to save a few dollars via Best Buy . They are offering 12 month Gold cards for $39.99 plus tax, and you can have them shipped directly to your door or elect for in-store pickup if you're the impatient type (assuming all of your local Best Buy stores have not closed down as the company tries to stave off declaring bankruptcy). These Live Gold deals have a tendency to sell out quickly when available, so act fast if you are interested! Update : Ebay (through NewEgg) is also offering the 12 month cards at the moment for $37.99 . This deal includes free shipping and no tax, so you save roughly five more dollars compared to Best Buy's offering. This is probably as good as it gets on discounts for a Live subscription.
We are now officially a full holiday weekend into the Steam Winter sale, and I can say that I've exercised a great deal of restraint up to this point (relatively speaking of course). At times the discounts have proven to be just a bit too enticing. When titles are being offered at a price less than the cost of lunch at work, it's easy for me to justify starving myself throughout the day in order to fund the purchase of a new game. As a direct result of my own twisted logic, Steam gets a sale, developers and publishers make some dough, and I get a shiny new game at an exceedingly reasonable price. Everyone wins! Except my decidedly malnourished body and digestive system of course. Let's get on with the list. Winter Sale Purchases (so far): Intrusion 2 - I briefly mentioned this game in my previous blog entry. Apparently, it lets me re-enact my childhood He-Man fantasies by granting me the ability to ride giant wolves into battle. Granted, wolves are not BattleCat,