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When you download the game, all the music is just ogg files in the game data directory, so you can just convert them and put them wherever you want.

75% off Sonic Generations for $7.49

Whoa. Weird. Glad I picked up Hot Pursuit while it was 5 bucks.

Well, I did pull the trigger and bought FM 2012 and it is INDEED steamplay! (OSX and Windows versions for one key)

Tony, Do you happen to know if the Key I buy for FM2012 is eligible for SteamPlay on Steam? (i.e. get both the Windows and Mac version) Seems to be hit or miss for SteamPlay titles I've bought before (The Civ 5 key I bought here wasn't for both, despite being SteamPlay, while Duke Nukem...

Yeah. DNF happens to be steamplay (mac and pc for the same key). Not all steamplay steamworks games sold on amazon happen to be steamplay, though. Made that mistake with Civ 5. :(

Not sure about that. Perhaps for the vanilla version, but the GOTY version I bought from Amazon over xmas was NOT steam play, even though the GOTY Civ 5 is steam play when purchased through steam.

Payment page. Use the gift card and pin fields. Not promotional code.

Yeah this pairs great with the Google Offer.

This was Giant Bomb's worst game of the year for 2010, just sayin'.

Oh lol I was out on vacation in Utah and bought Deus Ex and Civ 5 from my iPad. Get home and find that the Deus Ex purchase got flagged as fraudulent and my Amazon account got put on lockdown. Can't find any evidence on Amazon that I actually bought Civ 5. Woo.

fyi... @humble: If you are waiting on an email, please be patient, it looks like they are getting queued by our email provider (looking into it now).

Yeah, neither clearing my cookies or incognito mode, or using IE is letting me purchase anything. Oh well, will try tomorrow.

Eh, I've seen the games look better than the console version. They have several tiers of hardware configs, so it can vary. Just Cause 2 looked noticeably better to me. The micro console does have some amount of hardware post-processing not available in the client, I've found. And yeah, sitting...

OnLive is the ultimate YMMV service. Works great for me in Los Angeles, but yeah, I recommend people try it out with a trial before putting any money towards it. And yeah, having a gaming PC sort of removes a lot of its utility, but even then they usually have deals that no other service can...