download4u's March Madness sale brings Dark Souls, Need for Speed: Most Wanted at discounts

Day eight of download4u’s March Madness sale is upon us, and this means new games on discount. The headlining game for today is the unforgiven open-world RPG Dark Souls at a 30 percent discount, bringing its price down from Rs 1,499 to Rs 1,259. Alongside Dark Souls, there are two Star Wars games up for grabs—strategy game Star Wars: Empire at War at a 40 percent discount, bringing its price down from Rs 699 to Rs 419, and third person action game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed at a 50 percent discount, which brings its price down from Rs 499 to Rs 249.

There is also Obsidian’s hack-and-slash RPG Dungeon Siege III at a 40 percent discount, bringing its price down from Rs 499 to Rs 299, and Need for Speed: Most Wanted is making a comeback in the sale at a discount of 40 percent, bringing its price down from Rs 1,799 to Rs 1,259. Other games up for grabs include Dead Block and Public Enemies: Bonnie & Clyde at discounts of 40 percent, which brings their prices down from Rs 99 to Rs 89 each, and Iron Storm at a 20 percent discount, bringing its price down from Rs 99 to Rs 79.

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Game4u is also giving away a ton of cool prizes every day. The prizes range from gaming gear from Razer and SteelSeries as well as offers from AVG and Tata Docomo. The top two downloaders have a chance to win a Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 2013 gaming keyboard—one of the best gaming keyboards available in the market—and the SteelSeries Flux Headset at the end of the March Madness campaign.

Yesterday’s headlining games were drift-based racing game Ridge Racer Unbounded and takedown-based Burnout Paradise at discounts of 40 percent each. Alongside these, there was the disappointing FPS Duke Nukem Forever, the stellar World War II-era strategy game by Relic Company of Heroes, Ceville, Robin Hood, Journey to the Moon and Hollywood - Extended Edition.

The day before, the headlining game was Hitman Absolution: Professional Edition, which was selling at a 50 percent discount, alongside Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare going at 40 percent discounts each. Other games included casual titles like Imperium Romanum Gold, Napoleons Campaign and Superstars V8 Racing.

Before that, we got FIFA 13 at a 40 percent discount alongside FIFA Manager 13 for the same price and prequel FIFA 12 at a 50 percent discount. Other games up for grabs included Handball Challenge 2013, Pole Position 2012 and Chicago 1930.