July 4 Weekend Video Game Sales Round-Up

Traditionally, July 4 weekend is a time for barbecue, beaches and reckless behavior with fireworks, but if you’re a gamer there are plenty of deals to keep you indoors. Here’s our round-up of this weekend’s best fourth of July video game sales.

Steam has been running a summer sale that ends on July 4. Notables include 27 games by 2K (including the Bioshock series and Borderlands) for $90, Saints Row 2 for $7.50, four Introversion games for $5 and every Valve game ever for $67.

Namco’s doing a big independence day sale, most notably with discounts on its classic games for iPhone, iPad and Android. It’s a $1 each for Pac-Man, Dig Dug Remix and Galaga Remix.

Impulse is having a PC game sale, including the THQ Ultimate Bundle — five games for $50.

EA Mobile’s got some iPhone games on sale, including Tetris for $3.

Here are four deals on war games from Direct2Drive.

I’ve never heard of Danger Dodgeball for the iPhone, but it’s free.

Casual gaming portal Big Fish Games is taking 30 percent off all $6.99 games this weekend. Just enter the code JULY4THSALE when checking out.

Care to try OnLive, the new cloud gaming service? Get the one-year free membership, then get 30 percent off full games and rentals with the code 30OFFJULY4.

It’s not technically a holiday sale, but everything Sonic the Hedgehog-related on the Playstation network is discounted until July 6.

Good things come to those who wait. Xbox Live’s Rock Band music sale begins July 6.