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The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature that helps out 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.

A game for more than just Motocross fans, Trials 2 is a fantastic physics-based indie game that is a great little time waster. Navigating your dirt bike through the complex and challenging stunt tracks is no easy feat!

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So, Team Fortress 2 has finally hit Mac. Why should PC gamers care? Two words: Free. Weekend. Valve is offering a TF2 free weekend and a 50% off sale for the duration of the weekend. And if that’s not enough, get yourself a free set of in-game earbuds by playing on a Mac during the launch weekend.

If you’re still looking for something to tickle your fancy, then look no further! Steam is also celebrating a “Bethesda Weekend.” What does that mean for you? Awesome discounts on Fallout 3 ($24.99), The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion ($8.50), and The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind ($5.00).

Steam has slashed the price of Batman: Arkham Asylum‘s GOTY edition to $19.99 from $39.99. There’s never been a better time to grab a copy for yourself. While it was undoubtedly one of the best games of 2009, you can skim through our review if you’re undecided on your purchase.

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The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature that helps out 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 game that needs no introduction. Any gamers that have not heard of the Half-Life series have never truly lived. And that goes double for gamers that have not played the games of the series. So grab yourself part (or all) of this legendary series in the form of Half-Life ($9.99), Half-Life 2 ($9.99) or Half-Life 2′s Episode 1 ($7.99) and Episode 2 ($7.99).

Shattered Horizon is having a free weekend on Steam to celebrate the new Firepower DLC that adds three new grenades and new weapons to the game. If that’s not enough to satisfy you greedy gamers, you can also purchase the game from Steam at 50% off ($9.99). The free weekend starts this Thursday at 6pm EST and runs until Sunday night. So, head over to Steam and start pre-loading tonight!

For their midweek madness, Steam has discounted LucasArts’ pack of four classic adventure games. Buying the pack of games will save you $15 of your hard-earned dollars and you’ll get the following games:

• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
• The Dig
• LOOM

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Steam announced that by pre-ordering the upcoming Bizzare Creations racing game, Blur, you will be given a free copy of Geometry Wars to keep you busy until Blur‘s release on the 25th of this month. Sounds like a great excuse to reserve yourself a copy of Blur at a cool $40.

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Budget-minded readers will remember Steam’s “Rockstar Week” not too long ago where several games from Rockstar Games’ library were offered at massive discounts throughout the week. Well, it seems Rockstar’s event was successful enough that SEGA wants to get in on the action with a SEGA week! Starting off SEGA’s daily deals is a 50% off Aliens vs. Predator sale along with a nice discount on the SEGA Complete Pack.

SEGA Week kicks off with a bang starting with the uber SEGA Complete Pack available at a great discount price. This bundle includes EVERYTHING from Sega currently available on Steam (excludes unreleased games). Offer ends on May 24th – don’t miss out on huge savings! – Steam’s Press Release

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That’s right. To celebrate the release of Steam for Mac, Valve announced today that their first-person puzzler known as Portal will be offered at $0.00 until May 24th. For the most part, it’s a nice trick to get gamers into the Portal world so that they pre-order Portal 2, but it’s still a free game. Advertising doesn’t get much better than this, nor does gaming. So, if you haven’t played what is quite possibly the best game ever, then you’d better have a darn good excuse to not download it now.  Head over to Valve’s landing page and grab yourself Portal at no cost.

In celebration of The Stimulus Package PC release, Modern Warfare 2 is hosting another free weekend, as well as offering gamers double XP. You can start pre-loading now for the free weekend and the double XP actually started last night, so get playing! Now, here’s hoping that Activision will do something about the massive community of hackers in the game.

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