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Steam's regular Tuesday mid-week sale is now in effect and this week the game that gets the honors is Trine. The innovated puzzle-action game from developer Frozenbyte is now on sale for just $5 from now until Tuesday. That's a big 75 percent price cut from its normal price.

Keep in mind that Steam also has another sale going on from now until Monday. As we reported yesterday a number of Sega's Total War RTS games are now on sale for 66 percent off their normal price. Also the downloadable content for Empire: Total War is on sale for 10 percent off until Monday.

As we have talked about constantly over the past couple of years, the PC game industry is moving from a retail business model to one that is centered around digital downloads. One company that believes in that model is Finland-based game developer/publiher RedLynx who reported today that they have sold 1.5 million copies of their games via downloads in 2009.

That includes the PC arcade driving game Monster Trucks Nitro for the PC and Mac platforms along with other games for Xbox Live Arcade and the iPhone. RedLynx plans to release eight to 10 games in 2010 but there's no word yet on how many of those titles will be for the PC.

The Unreal Development Kit (UDK) beta, a free-to-use version of the Unreal Engine 3 development tools, has been updated with the latest updates and improvements. Continue reading after the jump for a complete list of changes and visit the official website for more information.

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Dungeon Fighter Online recently went live with the Threshold of Power update, which raises the level cap to 50 and adds all-new abilities to the free-to-play side-scrolling online fighting game. Now that players have access to some fantastic upper-level powers, they need worthy creatures to use them on. As this video showing off some of the new boss monsters demonstrates, players will have plenty to challenges to punch and kick through.

Continue after the jump for a trailer showing off some of the new skills that are included in Threshold of Power along with some tips from the developers on how to overcome these bosses.

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BioWare promised last week that some free downloads would be coming for Mass Effect 2 players and today they revealed that a new armor and a new weapon will be made available via the game's Cerberus Network sometime on Tuesday. The first item, the Cerberus assault armor, increase health, sheilds and heavy weapon ammo by 10 percent for the player character that uses it.

The new weapon that will be included in the update is the M-22a Eviscerator Shotgun which uses armor-piercing rounds and has a longer range than normal shotguns. If you use it be aware that this weapon "violates several intergalactic weapons treaties." Which of course makes us want this even more.

The second Making of R.U.S.E video introduces viewers to scriptwriter Jeff Spock, who talks about the storyline (which involves World War II generals trying to outsmart each other) and the challenges of writing for a video game. For more information, viewers can check out the first video, which discusses the game's unique technology.

R.U.S.E is a strategy game that emphasizes deception and bluffing the enemy. It is expected to release sometime in the spring.

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Magicka is a action fantasy game that satirizes action RPG adventures. In it, up to four players can come together and combine their powers to cooperatively overcome great obstacles - although it's quite possible for allies to fall "accidentally" fall victim to friend-fire. This humor-themed action adventure game is expected to release sometime late this year. Continue after the jump to watch another trailer and an interview with developer Johan Pilestedt, CEO of the Arrowhead Games Studios, who goes in-depth on the gameplay features of Magicka.

"In Magicka, up to four players take on a grand adventure to save their world from certain doom using a fully dynamic spell system. The adventure mode takes the players across three different levels, ranging from the lush forests of mountain valleys to the frozen halls of the Mountain King where wits and creative thinking are keys to victory. "

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It's been a while since we have heard anything new on the Shattered Horizon front but today the zero-g first person shooter's developer Futuremark Games Studio offered an update and new screenshots from the upcoming free Moonbase expansion pack.

As we have reported before the free expansion will contain four new maps which when released will double the number of levels in the full game. The locations include a mass driver installation, a lunar hotel, a communication dish that was once on the Moon and a cargo ship. There's still no word on when the Moonbase expansion pack will be made available. Last December it was revealed that layoffs had occurred at Futuremark Games Studios although it was not clear how many people on the team were dismissed.

This week's new PC game releases include a sequel to an acclaimed first person shooter, a mini-expansion to a great space strategy game and a downloadable action game based on a long running sci-fi TV and movie franchise that isn't Star Trek. In addition to those games, players will be able to download a unit add-on for Empire: Total War (Elite Units of the East) and a new game in the Galcon strategy game series (Galcon Fusion). Also scheduled to ship to stores this week is Windchaser, a fantasy RPG that was first released in Europe back in 2008.

BioShock 2: 2K Marin takes on the first person shooter franchise with this sequel to the 2007 game that was first created by Irrational Games. The single player game takes place 10 years after the original with the player now in the role of a prototype Big Daddy in the underwater city of Rapture. The sequel also has a multiplayer mode, developed by Digital Extremes, that takes place just before the fall of Rapture.

Mass Effect 2 is a terrific game on the PC. Let's get that out of the way. But for folks who own PCs with multi-core CPUs, there's an issue with very long load times when the player goes through decks of the Normandy space ship. There is a workaround for this issue; simply shut off one of your CPUs and then put it back to two cores. However that's clearly annoying if you have to run BioWare's sci-fi RPG more than once (and that's most of you).

A software developer has created a utility called MassAffinity that, after a brief set up, fixes the issue automatically when you run the app with Mass Effect 2. Obviously this is a third party program not made by BioWare so download and use at your own risk. However if you are experiencing these long Normandy load times and don't want to wait for the developer to issue a patch this is better than nothing.

There are a few things that will make us happy in 2010. The day StarCraft 2 comes out, the launch of the 11th Doctor adventures and saving money on PC games. Thankfully we can be happy now as we found some additional sales on the interwebs. We hope revealing this info makes you happy too.

Direct2Drive has put 2009's be-an-evil-fantasy-person game Overlord II on sale for just $9.99 from now until Friday. Also the indie game Aztaka is on sale for just $7.50. You can also take $5 off Divinity 2 for this weekend only if you use the code 5OFFDIVINITY2 at checkout.

Although it may seem like humans are at a disadvantage when it comes to battling against other species, it turns out heavy firepower goes a long way toward holding off the alien menace... at least for a little while. Aliens vs Predator releases on February 16.

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While we wait for the next major content update for Left 4 Dead 2 to be released, Valve continues to push out new updates for their zombie co-op shooter via Steam. Today a new patch was made available and while it's mainly bug fixes it does have something interesting; a way for banned players to get a little reprieve.

Folks who Valve banned from playing the multiplayer portion of Left 4 Dead 2 via Valve's own VAC anti-cheat system can now play the game again . . . but that access is limited to the game's single player campaigns. They can also check out the end credits and even Valve's extensive in-game commentary. All in all it's a nice thing to offer people who can't play fair in multiplayer games.

The patch also has some other fixes and changes including enabling PZ bots and fixing some issues in the Left 4 Dead 2 SDK release.

Children can be cruel... especially when they're the of the insectoid Darkspawn variety like the ones featured in this Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening trailer. These kids are hungry and looking to munch down on some unwary heroes.

Continue after the jump to watch a trailer introducing Anders, one of the new traveling companions included in Awakening. He's a powerful apostate wizard who goes against the rules governing the Circle of Magi. Ever since hanging out with Morrigan in the main game, adventuring without an apostate just doesn't seem right. Awakening is scheduled to release on March 16.

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In Just Cause 2, players will be allowed to go practically anywhere they want on the island, accept any mission, betray people on a whim or just raise hell. Of course, breaking the rules also extends to breaking the laws of physics. Players will be able to cut loose with choices when the game releases on March 23.

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