Australia's Origin store is now running a holiday sale, halving the price of digitally distributed games, excluding the game you really want. Battlefield 3 is only 30% off making it $56. There are some good deals though, Dead Space 2 is only $20, compared to the $35 sale price on Steam. However if you buy Dead Space 2 on Steam using a US VPN you can pick it up for just $10.

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The original Dead Space is still in my list of games I really need to play, and I'll need to get onto that sometime soon as the sequel is due at the end of January, 2011. Visceral Games have created a fantastically creepy trailer to build the anticipation for what might just be the best horror title of 2011. Check it out...

Dead Space 2 looks to carry on all of what was loved in the original, but rips us out of those claustrophobic corridors and sends us hurdling into daunting, vast and eerily silent space. For a while, at least. See for yourself in this space walk demonstration streamed from GamesCom. ...

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We may see Dead Space 2 hit the PC platform at some stage in the distant future, but EA's 2011 listing for Dead Space 2 didn't make any mention of a PC release for the horror sci-fi sequel. Blue's News has contacted Electronic Arts for comment, and was told that "as of right now a PC sku is not in the plan."...