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With 2010 now well underway, Valve's holiday sale on Steam is starting to wind down. While their overall sales will end on January 3, they continue to hold some one day sales. On this New Year's Day you can get the following games for the rock bottom prices for the next 23 hours.

The sales include both "seasons" of Sam and Max in one bundle for just $14.99 and the Doom Complete pack (all of id's Doom games) for just $13.59. Capcom's Devil May Cry 4, which was just made available via download a couple of weeks ago, is now on sale for $22.49. The first Mass Effect game is priced at $4.99 as is Valve's puzzle shooter Portal. Finally the motocycle game RedLynx Trials 2: Second Edition can be yours for a mere $2.49.

Capcom released a PC version of their third person action game Devil May Cry 4 in July 2008 to retail stores but for some reason the PC port never found its way to downloadable outlets. This week the Capcom Unity community site announced that issue would be rectified very soon.

The site announced that Devil May Cry 4 for the PC would be made available from "the digital distribution partner of your choice" on December 22. It would also be available on Capcom's own web site store. As we mentioned when the game was first released in stores, the PC port adds two more gameplay modes that are not in the console versions along with support for DirectX10 and higher resolutions.

Download the Devil May Cry 4 demo at Big Download (804 MB)

Capcom has been making waves about their commitment to PC gaming, including a recent announcement that they would be joining the PC Gaming Alliance as a full member. However, their record to date on supporting PC titles is spotty at best. Games like Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry 4 and most recently the downloadable title Age of Booty have been released for the PC months after their console counterparts.

VideoGamer.com has a new chat with Capcom VP Christian Svensson on why exactly this happens. Svensson basically says that it takes more time to develop a PC port of a game, particularly when it has content that is not in the console version. Testing of PC games also takes a lot of time, according to Svensson. He admits that on the subject of the timing of their PC game releases compared to console ports, "The sad news is we're not going to be consistent about it for a while. So while it's a message I'd love to get across we're not quite walking the walk yet." He also goes into some detail on their views of PC piracy, why they don't work with Valve's Steam service more and other subjects.

Developing PC games just by themselves can be challenging. You have to deal with not one but thousands of different hardware configurations along with updating graphics drivers, the unique keyboard-mouse interface and more. But what about when you develop a PC game that was originally made for a console like the PS3, the Xbox 360 or others?

Some PC ports of console games have been embraced by PC games like Gearbox's superior port of Bungie's first Halo game and more recently BioWare's PC version of Mass Effect. Yet so many other consoles games either don't translate well to the PC formula or fail to reach a wide audience even if they add content that is not in the original version. Today we take a look at the many console games that either failed as a PC game translation or failed to reach a high PC gamer audience.

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A few days ago we reported that a Capcom US rep was disappointed in the sales of the PC version of their third person action game Devil May Cry 4, saying that the game was being heavily pirated on the Internet. IGN got a chance to chat briefly with that Capcom representative, corporate officer Christian Svensson, to get more info on their stance for PC gaming.

IGN questioned Svensson on the sales of the PC port of Devil May Cry 4, bringing up the fact that previous PC ports of Capcom games have not turned out well and that the Devil May Cry 4 PC port was released several months after the console versions shipped. They also questions why the game, along with Lost Planet Colonies, were not made available for digital distribution, which Svensson admitted, " I'm not completely clear on the reasons to this day." He did say upcoming Capcom games like Dark Void, Bionic Commando, and our favorite game title of 2008 Age of Booty, will be made available via digital download when they are released.

Download the Devil May Cry 4 Demo

Early in July Capcom released the PC version of their third person action game Devil May Cry 4. While the PC version had some extra play modes compared to the console versions sales of the port have apparently not met the company's expectations. According to a message board post by Capcom VP Christian Svensson, "I'm not sure about how Capcom in general feels but It's not doing as well as I would like in the US at retail. It's such a good version and it really deserves better sales. I know it's getting pirated to hell and back (it was up on torrents literally the day it shipped)."

Svensson adds that he is trying to get more of Capcom's PC games to be made available via digital distribution, saying "I have a presentation I'm making shortly that I'm hoping will make that approach something we do with all of our PC content, even those developed in Japan, but no promises. It might not happen." The publisher has several games for the PC in the works, including Dark Void, Bionic Commando, Street Fighter IV and our favorite title Age of Booty.

Your daily wrap-up of the hottest stories in PC gaming in the last 24 hours.

	Shipping this week: Guns v. Glowing Arms This week the Capcom love keeps rolling in with the PC release of Devil May Cry 4. Previously released on the Xbox 360 and PS3, DMC4 follows the story of new character, Nero, and his powerful demonic arm. We know what you're thinking, when did Devil May Cry go realistic?!
	Big Download's most anticipated PC games for E3 2008: 25-21 Despite what other articles might tell you the PC game industry will be represented very well at the expo this year with a number of highly anticipated game titles due to be shown to the invited press (and there may very well be a few surprise announcements in store for E3 that we don't know about yet).
	Go to Quakecon 2008 and (maybe) win a Corvette We are just a week away from the start of E3 but we are also just a few weeks away from the start of Quakecon 2008, the the 13th annual free LAN party-gaming convention sponsored by Doom and Quake developers id Software. Today the event's organizers announced that one lucky attendee of Quakecon 2008 will win a rather sweet prize; a 2008 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe valued at $55,000.
	More Dragon Age info on July 9 It looks like BioWare is finally ready to talk a little bit more about their long-in-development fantasy RPG Dragon Age. The developer first announced the game and showed an early PC build at E3 2004 but since then there's been a cone of silence on the title (with the exception of one article in the now defunct Games for Windows magazine in 2006).

This week the Capcom love keeps rolling in with the PC release of Devil May Cry 4. Previously released on the Xbox 360 and PS3, DMC4 follows the story of new character, Nero, and his powerful demonic arm. We know what you're thinking, when did Devil May Cry go realistic?! Well, luckily Dante and his famous duo pistols are returning to bring the series back to its roots. On the other side of the fence is Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice to cure that mystery-adventure itch. While the week might seem a little light on releases, Devil May Cry 4 is sure to excite some gamers. We just hope this port is better than Resident Evil 4, you know, the one without an option to exit!

Check out the entire release list for the week ending July 12 after the jump.

Microsoft has been pushing its Games For Windows branding for PC games for over a year now and today the company is holding a press event in San Fransisco to let the media know about their continued commitment to PC gaming while showing off eight third party PC games to the press. Big Download will be there to report on the event. Two of the games, Kung Fu Panda and WALL-E, have already shipped to stores. The other six are Capcom's PC ports of Devil May Cry 4 (due out in early July) and Bionic Commando, 2K Games' Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization, Activision's Call of Duty: World at War, Vivendi Games's Ghostbusters title, and the long awaited Gas Powered-Sega title Space Siege.

Microsoft also plans to show off new PC s with graphics cards from AMD/ATI and Nvidia chips at the event. In addition, Microsoft has announced that 16 PC games will now have the Games for Windows brand on their packaging and marketing:

• Battlestations: Midway (Eidos)
• Battlestations: Pacific (Eidos)
• Borderlands (2K Games)
• Call of Duty: World at War (Activision)
• Crysis Warhead (Crytek/EA Partners)
• Dawn of War 2 (THQ)
• Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
• Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Sierra Entertainment)
• Quantum of Solace (Activision)
• LEGO Batman: The Videogame (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Video Game (Activision)
• Mafia II (2K Games)
• Project Origin (Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
• Red Faction: Guerilla (THQ)
• Saints Row 2 (THQ)
• Zoo Tycoon 2: Ultimate Collection (Microsoft Game Studios)

While last week saw the team spending time in Mass Effect, this week finds the team split between the standby favorite of Team Fortress 2 and the new hotness that is GRID. With awesome action like GRID has, nobody can really blame them, though. Coming up hot on their heels was Armageddon Empires.

Our resident indie fiend, James Murff said he'll be spending this weekend playing Armageddon Empires, Team Fortress 2, and checking out Zombie Panic! Source. Kyle Horner is taking a chunk of his weekend off from PC gaming to dive into Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition -- but he assures us that he'll be planning everything on his laptop. When not rolling the bones, Kyle said he'll be relaxing in TF2 as well. Both David Craddock and Stephen Wong plan to spend most of their time tearing it up in GRID. Stephen noted that he'll probably also spend some time in Armageddon Empires, EverQuest II and will probably give Devil May Cry 4 another whirl if time allows. I'm on the road this weekend, so I'm limited to gaming on my laptop. Thus, I'll be spending time in EVE Online when I do actually manage some gaming. For this weekend, given all the great games out recently, What aRe yoU Playing?