With the conclusion of the Budget speech by the Finance Minister of India, it seems that “gaming software” will receive a lower customs duty while importing. This bodes well for gamers in the country, as newer titles will sell for less. The console crowd will be especially affected, and will be quite happy with this.

Get the Peggle Nights game free from PopCap Games for signing up with the PopCap Passport program. Users who signup for PopCap Passport will be able to get the Peggle Nights game worth $19.95 for free or send it to their friends for free.

Vicious Cycle Software, the developers of Matt Hazard and Dead Head Fred have opened their newer iteration of the Vicious Engine, the Vicious Engine 2 to the PSP, PS2 and Wii. This translates into graphically intense games for these consoles from the developer. The Vicious Engine 2 was available for the PS3 and Xbox 360 only before.

Steam is offering Shattered Horizon – the zero G FPS for free over this weekend only. Download the 1.2GB Shattered Horizon game file using Steam and play it until Monday. If you like it, buy it for $9.99 only on Steam.

GOG.com user Tor presents his great How To on syncing game files between computers. This way whenever your files are synced you do not need to copy-paste the files anywhere; they are automatically synced to the correct folder.

Shadowgrounds pack is being sold on the digital distributor Steam at an unbelievable discount of 75%. Two games for $4.99 is a great deal, especially when these are top-down action shooters! Get these right now as the sale ends 4PM PST on February 18th 2010!

God Eater is a Monster Hunter-like PSP RPG from Namco Bandai. God Eater has had strong sales in Japan, topping all-platform gaming charts in its debut. D3 Publisher will be publishing God Eater in North America in Q3 2010. Download God Eater Japanese Demo now to find out more!

Hammerfight takes the bizzare (but well-trodden) atmosphere of Steampunk, adds its own twist of gyrocopters with melee and ranged attacks, adds realistic physics and mouse-driven combat to it and lets it roam on digital distribution servers. Direct2Drive’s deal of the week is this beautiful 2D game, Hammerfight, for $4.99 only. Get this indie game today!

A Canadian gamer alerted authorities when he heard a teenager making plans for a shooting in his high school over Xbox Live. With the help of Microsoft, the RCMP alerted Texas authorities who arrested the San Antonio resident and prevented any shooting.

Buy the Total War Series at a record price for yourself or a friend only until 15th February. Buy Empire, Rome and Medieval II Total Wars for $20.39! This is one of the best prices for these epic strategy games!

Direct2Drive has started its Valentine’s Day Game Sale. The Be My Bloody Valentine Sale contains some great games ranging from the RPG to Strategy to FPS genres. Download these games to your hard drive now!

Valentine’s Day is just round the corner. To celebrate this day of love, give your tech-geek Valentine a low-cost tech gift. The ideas on this page cater to photography, music and gaming lovers!

Tiberian Sun has been a fan-favorite science-fiction strategy game in the Command & Conquer series. Play as either the stealthy Brotherhood of Nod or the brutal GDI forces and lead your side to victory in this epic strategy game! EA has released this game for free a month before the release of C&C 4.

Mount & Blade is a medieval action RPG made for those who like details. Think of it like Oblivion minus the fantasy and plus rigorous horseback fighting. And this beautiful and lengthy open-world game is on sale on Steam for this weekend only at $4.99!

Having a good display card can give you the ultimate gaming experience, however, owning a NVIDIA graphics card could give you some more surprise goodies. For a limited time, Steam is offering 4 free games to all NVIDIA gamers. The games that will be given away for free include Portal: First Slice, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Peggle Extreme.