Sega has just heavily discounted a number of their mobile apps, including Sonic 4. Sadly, most of the discounting seems to be iOS-centric, but there are a few Android price cuts as well. Prices are valid from now until the end of the day on 2/14, so get crackin’!

Personally, I can recommend Sonic 4 and Sonic CD, but your mileage my vary on the other titles; mostly due to the oddly designed control schemes. Hit the jump for a full list of titles.

iOS

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 (iPad) – $2.99/£1.99 was $4.99/£2.99

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 (iPhone) – $1.99/£1.49 was $3.99/£2.49

Sonic CD -$2.99/£1.99 was $4.99/£2.99

Streets of Rage 2 -$0.99/£0.69 was $2.99/£1.99

Streets of Rage 3 – $0.99/£0.69 was $2.99/£1.99

Altered Beast -$0.99/£0.69 was $2.99/£1.99

Golden Axe 2 -$0.99/£0.69 was $2.99/£1.99

Golden Axe 3 -$0.99/£0.69 was $2.99/£1.99

Gunstar Hero -$0.99/£0.69 was $2.99/£1.99

Virtua Fighter 2 - $0.99/£0.69 was $1.99/£1.49

Super Monkey Ball- $0.99/£0.69 was $1.99/£1.49

Super Monkey Ball 2 - $0.99/£0.69 was $1.99/£1.49

Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition - $0.99/£0.69 was $2.99/£2.99

Android

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 – $1.99/£1.28 was $3.99/£2.56

Sonic CD – $2.99/£1.92 was $4.99/£3.20

[Source: Sega]

[Update: Target has followed Walmart's lead and begun selling the 3DS at $170 early.]

Stop what you’re doing, go to Walmart and buy a 3DS. While Nintendo’s portable console will be receiving an official $80 price cut this Friday, Walmart has jumped the gun and started selling them for $170 early. Apparently, the evil big box isn’t only keen on killing off small businesses in your town, but beating its competitors to the punch.

Fearing the wrath of scorned early adopters, Nintendo is offering 20 free downloadable games to 3DS owners who connect to the eShop by August 12th.  So if you’re planning on picking a 3DS up anyway, why not do it before Friday at the attractive new price point and nab yourself 10 free Gameboy Advance titles in addition to 10 free NES ones?

The Steam Summer Camp event is coming to a close – and that doesn’t just mean the end of sick daily sales events. Along with 10 days of discounted games, the “Summer Camp” event itself allows you to hunt for achievements within Steam games (and Steam itself) for exclusive Steam DLC, and even one free game!

The event is pretty simple – for each listed Camp achievement you complete, you get a ticket. You can redeem three tickets for a prize, such as Alien Breed 2 , Team Fortress 2 summer glasses, and Portal 2 costumes. Even if you’re not interested in achievement hunting, personally I’d go for three super easy ones, and nab Alien Breed 2 - I mean, it is a full, free game.

In my opinion, the easiest tickets are “Join the Summer Camp Official Group”, “post a comment on a friend’s Steam page”, and “recommend a game to your friends”. See, that was easy, wasn’t it? Follow this link for a full list of rewards, and get going!

Bomberman ULTRA is free with with your Plus membership this week…which pretty much everyone should have unless they missed out on the Welcome Back deal. If you like 3D fighters, the Powerstone Collection is currently half price at $4.99. In other news, the Uncharted 3 Beta opened up to the public if you want to check that out.

Other than that, the week’s full update awaits after the break.

PlayStation Plus

• Bomberman ULTRA (Free with Plus, a $9.99 value)
• Me Monstar: Hear Me Roar (Free and Exclusive Plus)
• Medievil PS one title (Free with Plus, a $5.99 value)
• Alien Zombie Death mini (Free with Plus, $3.99 value)
• MotorStorm Apocalypse Outlaw Vehicle Pack (PlayStation Plus price $1.99; a 20% discount)
• Mega Man Powered Up – Avatar Bundle (x14) (Plus Exclusive, $1.49)
• PlayStation Plus Clock Dynamic Theme (Free and exclusive to Plus)
• Qore July Episode 38 – Single Episode (Free with Plus, a $2 .99 value)
• Burnout Paradise Party Pack – Sale (PS3) (now $1.99, original price $4.99)
• Burnout Paradise Toy Car Collection – Sale (now $1.99, original price $6.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Big Surf Island – Sale (now $2.99, original price $6.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Cops And Robbers – Sale (now $1.99, original price $4.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Legendary Car Pack – Sale (now $1.99, original price $4.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Boost Specials Car Pack – Sale (now $1.99, original price $4.99)
• Burnout Paradise: Time Savers Pack – Sale (now $1.99, original price $4.99)
• Need For Speed Hot Pursuit – Armed And Dangerous Pack – Sale (now $3.99, original price $6.99)
• Need For Speed Hot Pursuit – Lamborghini Untamed Pack – Sale (now $3.99, original price $6.99)
• Need For Speed Hot Pursuit – Porsche Unleashed Pack – Sale (now $3.99, original price $6.99)
• Need For Speed Hot Pursuit – Super Sports Pack – Sale (now $3.99, original price $6.99)
• Need For Speed Hot Pursuit – Three For All Bundle – Sale (now $10.99, original price $19.99)
• Need For Speed Pro Street Add-On Content Collector’s Upgrade – Sale (now $2.99, original price $9.99)
• Need For Speed Pro Street Add-On Content Extender Pack Bundle 1 – Sale (now $1.99, original price $5.99)
• Need For Speed Pro Street Add-On Content Extender Pack Bundle 2 – Sale (now $3.99, original price $6.99)
• Need For Speed Pro Street Add-On Content Muscle Car Bundle – Sale (now $1.99, original price $4.99)
• Need For Speed Pro Street Add-On Content Sport Car Bundle – Sale (now $3.99, original price $6.99)
• Need For Speed Pro Street Add-On Content Tuner Car Bundle – Sale (now $3.99, original price $6.99)
• Need For Speed Pro Street Add-On Content Ultimate Bundle – Sale (now $2.99, original price $9.99)
• Need For Speed: Shift: Exotic Racing Series – Sale (now $2.99, original price $9.99)
• Need For Speed: Undercover Collector’s Edition Upgrade – Sale (now $2.99, original price $10.00)
• Need For Speed: Undercover Exotic Car Bundle – Sale (now $1.99, original price $7.50)
• Need For Speed: Undercover Muscle Car Bundle – Sale (now $1.99, original price $5.00)
• Need For Speed: Undercover Tuner Car Bundle – Sale (now $1.99, original price $5.00)
• Need For Speed: Undercover Ultimate Performance Bundle – Sale (now $1.99, original price $10.00)
• Need For Speed: Undercover Ultimate Visual Bundle – Sale (now $1.99, original price $5.00)
• Need For Speed: Undercover: Boss Car Bundle – Sale (now $1.99, original price $4.99)
• Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Towers – Sale (now $4.99, original price $9.99)
• Fate/unlimited codes – Sale (now $9.99, original price $19.99)
• Power Stone Collection – Sale (now $4.99, original price $9.99)
• Ultimate Ghosts ‘N Goblins – Sale (now $4.99, original price $9.99)

Betas

• UNCHARTED 3: Drake’s Deception – Multiplayer Beta (Free)

Qore

• Qore Episode 38 – July Edition ($2.99)

Downloadable Games

• PlayStation Move Ape Escape ($19.99)

PSone Classics

• Rapid Angel Psone Import ($5.99)
• Yakiniku Bugyou Psone Import ($5.99)

PSP minis

• Ninjamurai ($1.99)

Sony is offering PlayStation Network users free games as a part of the Welcome Back program. Unfortunately, the offer is ending this weekend. Sony’s been pretty generous, offering up to four free games on account of taking so long to re-secure their online service after that “unauthorized intrusion”.

If you want to get your hands on titles like Little Big Planet,  Super Stardust HD, inFamous, Wipeout HD, Modnation Racers, and Killzone: Liberation for free you should turn on that PSP or PS3 before Sunday July 3rd.

[Source: PlayStation Blog]

Lots of big news this week! Beyond Good and Evil HD has finally made its way to PSN. PlayStation Plus Members get access to the “free” Uncharted 3 Beta. Duke Nukem Forever is now available in demo form.  And there’s plenty of great PSP deals thanks to the new Dual-Pack deal.

Information on all this and more awaits you after the break.

PlayStation Plus

• UNCHARTED 3 Drake’s Deception Multiplayer Beta (Free and exclusive to Plus)
• Streets of Rage 2 (Free with Plus – a $4.99 value)
• Dead Space Ignition (PlayStation Plus price $2.50; a 50% discount)
• Deathspank (PlayStation Plus price $7.50; a 50% discount)
• Deathspank Thongs of Virtue (PlayStation Plus price $7.50; a 50% discount)
• Funky Lab Rat (Full Game) (PlayStation Plus price $3.00; a 70% discount)
• Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom (PlayStation Plus price $3.99; 20% additional discount on two week sale price)
• MicroBot (PlayStation Plus price $5.00; a 50% discount)
• Shank (PlayStation Plus price $5.00; a 50% discount)
• Spare Parts (PlayStation Plus price $5.00; a 50% discount)
• Tetris (PlayStation Plus price $5.00; a 50% discount)
• The Fancy Pants Adventures (PlayStation Plus price $5.00, a 50% discount)
• Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition – 4 Avatar Bundle (Exclusive to Plus for $0.49)

PlayStation Network Updates

• MAG Interdiction Mission Pack – Price Drop (PS3) (now FREE, original price $4.99)
• MAG Escalation Mission Pack – Price Drop (PS3) (now $4.99, original price $9.99)
• Beyond Good And Evil HD ($9.99)
• Gatling Gears ($9.99)
• Puzzle Dimension ($8.99)
• Streets Of Rage 2 ($4.99)

Demos

• MotorStorm Apocalypse Multiplayer Demo
• PlayStation Move Ape Escape Demo
• Beyond Good & Evil HD Demo
• Duke Nukem Forever Demo
• Dungeon Hunter: Alliance Demo
• Gatling Gears Demo
• Homefront Multiplayer Demo
• NCAA Football 12 Demo

Bundles

• PSP Game Dual Pack with Daxter and Secret Agent Clank ($14.99)
• PSP Game Dual Pack with SOCOM: Fire Team Bravo and Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror ($14.99)
• PSP Game Dual Pack with Killzone: Liberation and Syphon Filter: Logan’s Shadow ($14.99)
• Awesome Summer Minis Bundle ($4.99)
• Cars 2: Tall Tales Character Bundle ($2.99)

PSP minis

Tetraminos ($3.99)

[Source: PlayStation Blog]

Killzone 3 receives its third DLC pack, From The Ashes, today. The map pack features two entirely new maps and two “re-imagined Killzone 2 ‘retro’ maps”. The new map pack will be available for a mere $4.99. However, if you’ve yet to splurge on map packs there’s a better deal in town.

Killzone 3‘s new DLC Bundle Pack includes the Retro Pack, the Steel Rain Pack and the From The Ashes Pack for just $9.99. While I’m not one to splurge on new maps for every shooter I play, this sounds like a fantastic deal. I may just have to take Sony and Guerrilla Games up on this offer.

Alien Zombie Megadeath, a new Killzone 3 map pack, three new PSP minis, a host of deals and bundles and more are now available via the PlayStation Network this week. The full details await you after the break.

PlayStation Plus Discounted Games

• 3 on 3 NHL Arcade (PlayStation Plus price $3.00, regular price $9.99)
• Madden NFL Arcade (PlayStation Plus price $5.00, regular price $9.99)
• Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 12: The Masters Eagle Pack (PlayStation Plus price $20.99, regular price $34.99)

Updates

• Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 – Sale (PS3) (now $9.99, original price $14.99)
• Bionic Commando: Rearmed – Sale (PS3) (now $4.99, original price $9.99)

Downloadable Games

• Alien Zombie Mega Death ($7.99)

Demos

• Virtua Tennis 4 PS3 Move/3D Demo

Add-on Game Content

• ModNation Racers Moon Colony Props Pack ($4.99)
• Killzone 3 From The Ashes Pack ($4.99)
• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ressurection ($9.99)
• Record of Agarest War Zero – Additional Costumes and Packs (free – $7.99) (x14)
• Marvel Vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds – Shadow Battle 10 ($0.99)
• Cars 2: Add-ons ($0.99 – $2.99) (x4)
• Mortal Kombat – Warrior Skarlet ($4.99)
• L.A. Noire: “Nicholson Electroplating” Arson Case (Free with purchase of L.A. Noire Rockstar Pass) ($3.99)
• YOU DON’T KNOW JACK: Jack Pack 4 ($4.99)
• F.E.A.R. 3 – F.E.A.R. Pass ($9.99)
• Yoostar 2: various scenes ($1.99 – $6.99) (x13)

Rock Band 3

• “Blurry” – Puddle of Mudd ($1.99)
• “Control” – Puddle of Mudd ($1.99)
• “She Hates Me” – Puddle of Mudd ($1.99)
• “Misery” – Maroon 5 ($1.99)
• “This Love” – Maroon 5 ($1.99)
• “Won’t Go Home Without You” – Maroon 5 ($1.99)
• Maroon 5 Pack 2 ($5.49)
• Puddle of Mudd Pack 1 ($5.49)

Rock Band Network V2.0

• “Chameleon Carneval” – Andromeda ($1.99)
• “Deception – Concealing Fate Part Two” – TesseracT ($1.99)
• “Half Crazy” – Jukebox the Ghost ($1.99)
• “Veil Of Illumination (Part 1)” – Andromeda ($1.99)
• “Veil Of Illumination (Part 2)” – Andromeda ($1.99)

Bundles

• Killzone 3 Map Pack Bundle ($9.99)
• Buy Marvel Pinball – Get ZEN PINBALL FREE ($9.99)
• Cars 2: The Video Game – Undercover Character Bundle ($2.99)
• Sonic’s 20th Birthday Bundle Sale ($19.99)

PSP minis

• Brick Breaker ($3.99)
• Labyrinth ($3.99)
• Solitaire ($3.99)

A few days ago I posted a news story about how Sony royally screwed up and allowed a bunch of hackers access to PSN users’ personal information. Today, Sony finally made some announcements regarding how they plan on making this up to their customers.

First things first, sometime this week Sony plans on restarting some on its online services. Gamers will so be able to log onto their PSN accounts allowing them to changed their passwords, chat with friends, play games online and even use PlayStation Home. Sony has also stated that they have added several layers of data protection and encryption including more firewalls and software monitoring which detects intrusions.

Aside from the basic security updates, Sony is also offering its users some apology gifts. The gifts include:

• “Selected PlayStation entertainment” content for free download; differs by region, details to be shared soon
• 30 days of free PlayStation Plus service to PlayStation Network users, and 30 days added free to existing PS+ members
• 30 days free Music Unlimited service for Qriocity subscribers

What do you guys think about this? Is this enough to make you want to trust Sony with your information again? Do you forgive them for messing up this bad? Let us know what you think with a comment below.

Source: Shacknews.com

Today marks the start of another Humble Indie Bundle, this time brought to you by the good folks over at Frozenbyte, a Finnish game studio.

In the past Gamer Limit has posted news items about the two previous Humble Indie Bundles, but in case you missed those let me break it down for you. Basically, you can pay what you want for (in this case) five indie games you may have missed otherwise. The cool thing is, you get to choose where you money goes. You can split it evenly among the developers and charities, give it all to charity, or send it all to the developer. The charities involved are Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child’s Play Charity.
The games included in this bundle are: Trine, Shadowgrounds: Survivor, Shadowgrounds, Splot and Jack Claw. What’s real cool about this deal is that all of these games are DRM free and can be activated on Steam if you choose.

To jump on this deal head over to the Humble Indie Bundle site.

what do you guys think  about these kinds of deals? Are you going to purchase this bundle? If so, where are you sending your money? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

We can agree to disagree about whether or not Dragon Age II is a worthy successor to Dragon Age: Origins, but I think we can all agree on the fact that free stuff is cool. Apparently Bioware is running a promotion where you can score a free copy of Mass Effect 2 on the PC.When you buy a new copy of Dragon Age II it comes with an Online Pass. That pass is what’s going to score you your free copy of Mass Effect 2. A free copy of one of the best games of 2010? Yes please.

Here’s how it works: go to the offer page on Bioware’s website. Sign in using your EA Account (which your probably already created when you played other EA games). Then enter the code. ????? Download Mass Effect 2. Profit.

If my computer could run the game, I’d definitely want to see how the game plays on PC. In my opinion, the game was fine with a controller and console UI, but some people claim that the PC is even better. So yeah. Go get your free game.

Yesterday EA launched Battlefield Play4Free, a free-to-play first-person shooter developed by the team behind Battlefield Heroes. Featuring classic maps from Battlefield 2, the classes and weapons from Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and 16 vehicles, Battlefield Play4Free sounds like a great introduction for gamers who may not be too familiar with the Battlefield franchise.

In order to get in on the action, all you need to do is head over to the Battlefield Play4Free site, sign up, create a soldier and download the client.
While I have yet to play the game myself (it’s amazing how little time you have once you enter the working world) I plan on giving it a shot over this up coming weekend.

Have any of you guys had a chance to play Battlefield Play4Free yet? If so, what did you think? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

Source: Shacknews.com