The Bargain Bin: Time Gentlemen, Please!

The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature on Tech Olive that helps gamers in the tough economy. How does it help? Once a week, it offers a great and cheap game ($10 or less) to keep you going until your next paycheck.

This week on The Bargain Bin, I have realized that the majority of games I’ve been offering are only just under $10, so I figure it’s time for some cheaper games. Instead of one game for $10 this week, we offer you two games for $4.99!

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The Bargain Bin: Shatter

The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature on Tech Olive that helps gamers in the tough economy. How does it help? Once a week, it offers a great and cheap game ($10 or less) to keep you going until your next paycheck.

This week in the bargain bin, we offer you a fairly new game. Shatter, released the 15th of this month, has managed to grab us much like Audiosurf did when it first released. We have a soft spot for indie games here at the Olive and Shatter knows exactly how to poke that spot with its stick.

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The Bargain Bin: Plants vs. Zombies

The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature on Tech Olive that helps gamers in the tough economy. How does it help? Once a week, it offers a great and cheap game ($10 or less) to keep you going until your next paycheck.

So, what does the almighty Bargain Bin have for you this week? It’s a delightfully casual and humorous strategy game from the makers of Peggle. If the mention of “casual” has you ready to stop reading, allow me to offer you this incentive: the game includes zombies. Know the game yet? Follow the break to find out.

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The Bargain Bin: Penumbra Black Plague

In such economic turmoil, who will you turn to for the best cheap games? Well, Tech Olive’s Bargain Bin, of course. Every week, we’ll pick a nice game for under $10 that you should check out. This week, we’ve got a horror title: Penumbra Black Plague; the newest game in the Penumbra series for the paltry sum of $4.97 (with shipping, my total was about $8).

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The Bargain Bin: Call of Juarez

We’ve all heard about recent budget cutbacks that have caused all of our favorite game developers and producers to cut many jobs to keep up in today’s economy, but what you never hear about is anything that helps the gamers in today’s rough times. We at the Olive understand that gaming can be an expensive hobby and we feel your pain. So, we’ve enlisted ourselves to find, test, and report some great, cheap games every week. There will be no demos, teasers or flash-based games here.

So, now that we’ve got introductions out of the way, what games do we have to offer you today? Follow us after the break to find out!

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