Electronic Arts is having a big sale for a few big games on Origin, their digital store. The following titles are now on sale at 50% off:

. Battlefield 3 Standard Edition - $24.99
. Battlefield 3 Back to Karkand Expansion Pack - $9.99
. Battlefield 3 Close Quarters - $11.97
. Battlefield 3 Armored Kill - $11.97
. Medal of Honor Warfighter Digital Deluxe Edition - $44.99
. Medal of Honor Warfighter Standard Edition - $39.99
. NFS Most Wanted Standard Edition - $39.99
. FIFA 13 - $39.99
. The Sims 3 Supernatural Standard Edition (EP7) - $19.99
. Mass Effect 3 N7 Deluxe Edition - $39.99
. Mass Effect 3 - $29.99
. The Sims 3.5 Refresh - $39.99
. The Sims 3 Showtime (EP6) - $19.99
. The Sims 3 Pets (EP5) (NEW) - $19.99
. The Sims 3 Deluxe - $44.99

Head over to the Origin store now and grab yourself a bargain. The sale ends tomorrow at 7pm AEDT.

Don't forget to check out other online stores for better deals though - some of these prices are still suffering from the dreaded Australia tax.

Yeh, figured it would be a bit like that but thought there might be one or two good deals in there somewhere!

Go home Origin, no one cares about your dumb ass.

I hate Origin as much as the next guy, but I honestly wish there were more Steam equivalents and an industry-wide standard.

Something about an pervasive industry-wide electronic game store and content delivery system being owned and controlled by just one company (Valve) just doesn't feel comfortable to me, I can't help but wonder what would happen if Valve went out of business or something.

I realise it's pretty unrealistic but ideally I'd love to see equivalent options in addition to Steam and an ability to have any of the options manage your purchases, including the ability to transfer your complete library of games between them.

It's a bit like how I don't like that social networking is dominated by Facebook, it would be so much better to be able to have a social network profile on any site and add friends/view and talk to other people on any other social network.