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Cheap games & freebies

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

'Amazing' Steam game sale for Mac: There are hundreds of Mac & PC titles on sale until July 4th, but most of the best deals are found on a few select games featured each day. 
Today's sales have two good selections that Mac gamers may want to check out. For strategy fans Paradox Interactive's deep historical real-time strategy game Europa Universalis III lets the player control a European nation and rewrite history between 1453 and 1820 AD. 
For adventure gamers, a bundle of all five episodes of the previously mentioned Telltale Games' Tales of Monkey Island is also available at a great price. The clock is ticking – but thankfully Valve offsets the time for most US timezones so you can get a chance to pick them up in the morning. TUAW has more. 
Valve's growing list of games released for OS X includes first-person shooters Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Portal and Half-Life 2. You can get the Valve Complete Pack for all of them so you're ready to go when Left 4 Dead 2 arrives on OS X. 
Fantasy dungeon crawlers like Diablo I & II or the iPhone game Dungeon Hunter should check out the charming action RPG Torchlight – half price right now. Good arcade and puzzle games include Peggle & Peggle Nights, Altitude, World of Goo and Braid. 
More strategy titles include another Paradox Interactive title, the hard-core World War II wargame Hearts of Iron III and the 4x turn-based Civilization IV. 

Jumsoft releases more freebies: Jumsoft has added new Keynote, Numbers, and Sandvox content. Jumsoft's Goodies include art and templates for a number of Mac applications.
The Lithuania-based developer has recently expanded its Goodies bundle with five Web site designs for Karelia Software's Sandvox application, a set of 500 photos and images to use in Keynote presentations, and nine templates for Numbers. 
You can download the new Goodies and check out the older ones here.

Safari extensions: Here's Grant Brunner's list of essentials on Macgasm, including links.