3 Shooter Video Games You Can Get for Half Off (Steam Weekend Sale)

Article by George Norman (Cybersecurity Editor)

on 30 Sep 2016

What’s better than an action-packed shooter video game? An action-packed shooter video game that you can get for cheap, at half the original price.

That is the case with the 3 shooters listed below. Steam is offering them for a considerable discount, this weekend only.

Play Black Ops III for free, buy it for 50% off



Haven’t had the time to play Call of Duty: Black Ops III until now? Here’s your chance to play the game for free. Get the game from Steam and you can play it for free until Sunday, October 2, at 1PM Pacific Time.

Seeing that the game has mixed reviews, I don’t know if you’re going to like it. But if you do, then I have some good news: you can purchase the game for a considerable discount of 50%.

Black Ops III is priced at $29.99 instead of $59.99, but only until Monday, October 3, at 10am Pacific Time. The Digital Deluxe bundle, which includes the Black Ops III game and Season Pass, is discounted as well. It’s 25% off, priced at $74.99 instead of $99.99.



Call of Duty: Black Ops III – Quick Facts
  • Game type – military science fiction first-person shooter video game.
  • Release date – November 6, 2015 for Windows, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3 and PS4.
  • Story – Black Ops III engrosses players in a dark and gritty future, where a new breed of Black Ops soldier has emerged, and the lines between humanity and military technology have been blurred. You must navigate the hot spots of a new Cold War to find your missing brothers. While much has changed, one thing remains the same: everything you know may be wrong. How far down the rabbit hole are you willing to go to uncover the disturbing truth?
Learn more about Call of Duty: Black Ops III.


Tom Clancy’s The Division is 40% off



Tom Clancy’s The Division comes with a price tag of $59.99. Steam isn’t offering the game for half off, but the discount is pretty close: 40% off.

Tom Clancy’s The Division is priced at $35.99 until Monday, October 3, at 10AM Pacific Time. The Gold Edition, which includes the game, Season Pass, and some extra gear, is 40% off as well, priced at $59.99 instead of $99.99.



Tom Clancy’s The Division – Quick Facts
  • Game type – online-only open world third-person shooter video game.
  • Release date – March 2016 for Windows, Xbox One and PS4.
  • Story – a pandemic spread through New York City. As an agent of the Strategic Homeland Division, you have to help restore order and investigate the source of the virus.
Learn more about Tom Clancy’s The Division.


Doom is 50% off



Steam is running a Hardware Weekend Sale, offering 30% off Steam Hardware and up to 75% off select games. One of these games is the brutally fun first-person shooter Doom.

If you want to get the Doom game alone, you can get it for half the price, meaning you’ll have to pay $29.99 instead of $59.99. If you want to get the game and a controller, the Doom + Steam Controller bundle is 45% off, priced at $59.98 instead of $109.98. And if you want to get Unto the Evil, Doom’s first premium DLC, you can get it for 33% off and pay $10.04 instead of $14.99.



Doom – Quick Facts
  • Game type – first-person shooter.
  • Release date – May 2016 for Windows, Xbox One and PS4.
  • Story – demons have taken over the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) research facility on Mars and it’s up to you to battle these demonic forces from Hell.
Learn more about Doom.


In related Doom news, I have to remind you that Free Update #3 introduced a feature that a lot of people have been asking for: Deathmatch.



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