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This week in PC Games: April 27-May 3


As we enter the month of May and get ever closer to E3, PC gamers can grab a WWII stealth game and a movie-based action game in stores and download a goofy RTS title and an RPG expansion.

Velvet Assassin: Replay Studios and Southpeak Games give us this long awaited stealth action title set in WWII. Playing Violet Sumner, the player tries to sabotage the evil Nazis' plans in a variety of missions. Killing Nazis is of course part of the game but there's also lots of sneaking around and using the shadows to cover your presence.

X-Men Origns: Wolverine: Will this game be the normal "mediocre to poor" movie adaptation or a great game in its own right? We actually have high hopes for this title thanks in part to the developer Raven Software who in the past have made quite a few terrific PC titles for publisher Activision. While it follows the plot of the upcoming film based on our favorite claw-popping-out-of-his-freakin'-hands mutant you can also expect some extras that the film doesn't show.


Stalin vs Martians: Delayed from last week, this weird arcade RTS game from no less than three different developers (Black Wing Foundation, Dreamlore and N-Game) is released via Paradox Interactive's new Mesmer Games imprint this week. Released via a number of downloadable game services, the game has some goofy looking aliens attacking the Russians in 1942. Hey this game has massive Stalin-like . . . things . . . in combat. You can't go wrong with that, can you?


Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate: This is the third official expansion pack for the Atari-published RPG game and the first not to be handled by the game's original developer Obsidian Entertainment. Instead the indie dev team at Ossian Studios created this downloadable-only expansion which will add 15 more gameplay hours and a number of new quests, monsters and more.

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