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The Steam PC game download site still has a few more days before its annual holiday sales event ends. In addition to all of the deals that have been active since the sale began on December 20 it has some one-day price cuts that are in effect from now until 1 pm Eastern time on Saturday.

Far Cry 2 Fortune's Edition - $4.99
Command and Conquer games - Save 75 percent off all games in series
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl/Call of Pripyat bundle - $4.99
Star Wars Dark Forces/Jedi Knight collection - $5 for all five games in series
Empire/Napoleon Total War Game of the Year Edition - $24.99 or $19.99 if you own Medieval Total War or Rome Total War
Dawn of Discovery Gold Edition - $14.99
Supreme Commander 2 - $3.74
Flight Control HD - $1.70
Theatre of War - Save 75 percent off all games in series
Team Fortress 2 - $5
The Hitman Collection - $5 for three-game bundle (Hitman: Codename 47, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman Blood Money)
Guardians of Graxia - $2.49

2008's release of developer/publisher Ubisoft's open world first person shooter Far Cry 2 was met with praise from critics and solid sales. Even before the game was released there was talk of making Far Cry 3. Now a new rumor from the pages of PC Gamer's latest print magazine suggests that Far Cry 3 is in full production mode.

The magazine, in its rumor-filled Spy column, states that the game is "in full swing now" at Ubisoft's Montreal studios. According to the article the game's development is being lead by Josh Mosqueira, who previously worked over at Relic Entertainment as the lead designer for Company of Heroes. There's no word on what the game might be about although previous suggestions about Far Cry 3 stated the game would stick to Far Cry 2's African setting.

It's been a few weeks since we have mentioned GameTap's new updates but the subscription-download PC game service has been busy adding titles. This month they have put in two first person shooter games from publisher Ubisoft. One of them is Rainbow Six Vegas, a game that GameTap has been planning to add for quite some time but has held off due to technical issues.

The other Ubisoft FPS is the more recent Far Cry 2, the 2008 open world themed shooter. Both titles can now be played in full when you subscribe to GameTap's monthly service. Unfortunately it looks like GameTap has suspended its weekly free game schedule at least for now.

The retail web site GoGamer.com had a truly massive Black Friday weekend sale last week. But this week's "Green Friday" sales event isn't too shabby either. There are a ton of games with big price cuts that will last from now until 3 am Eastern time on Tuesday or while supplies last.

Some of the games on the list include titles that are priced at just $1.90 such as Infernal and Two Worlds. Other games include Prey for $2.90, Prince of Persia for $3.90, Psi-Ops for $5.90, Far Cry 2 for $9.90, Crysis Warhead for $17.90, Section 8 for just $19.90 and Left 4 Dead 2 for $34.90 (limit 1 per purchase for the last two titles).

Not too many retail stores have PC games on sale during Black Friday but an exception is Best Buy. Their full Black Friday 2010 newspaper ad for the biggest shopping day of the year (that's November 27 in case you didn't know) has been posted on the bfads.net web site and it shows quite a number of PC game titles on sale for just $4.99 each.

Most of these games are older of course and many of you reading this might already own some of them but for $4.99 they do make great holiday gifts for you non-PC gaming friends. Here's the full list:

World of Warcraft
Far Cry 2
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
Assassin's Creed
Civilization IV
Bioshock
Hoyle Slots (yeah, that one threw us too).

"Our prices are so low, they are scary!" Hey it was too good to resist. Actually that's just what the Direct2Drive web site is doing right now as it has cut the prices on a number of their horror-themed (and other M-rated) PC games for download. Some of the games have been cut down to as low as $4.95. The sale prices end on Sunday:

The games priced at $4.95 include Stubbs The Zombie, The Path, Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines, Cold Fear and Downfall. In addition, BioShock, Damnnation and Far Cry 2 are priced at $9.95 and The Witcher and Dead Space get a price cut down to $19.95

The PC game subscription-download service GameTap has been adding more and more games to its library of titles. A few months ago it announced it would be adding titles from Microsoft and today the company announced a new deal with Ubisoft that renews its current contract and will add over 50 Ubisoft games to its subscription service.

GameTap plans to add titles like the Brothers In Arms series, the Rainbow Six Vegas series, the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter series, Far Cry 2, Assassin's Creed and more to its monthly subscription service. In addition Ubisoft games will be added to GameTap's digital download store.

Even though PC owners may not be getting any multiplayer options in the just released Ghostbusters game, many feel that the $30 price for the single player action game is worth it. In their latest 48 Hour Madness sale, GoGamer.com has made that low price even lower to $25.90.

The sale, which ends at 3 am ET on Tuesday, has a number of other games on its list including Far Cry 2 for $14.90, Call of Duty 4 for $24.90, Prince of Persia for $14.90 and Tom Clancy's EndWar for $17.90. Our pick would be Painkiller Black Edition which got it's price cut to just $4.90.

Germany is still one of the biggest territories to sell PC games but according to what GamePolitics is reporting the country's government may be moving to ban both the selling and the production of games with violent content. According to a number of German language news reports, all 16 of Germany's Interior Ministers have asked the country's main legislative body the Bundestag to vote to ban such games.

The story states that the move may have been prompted by a local school shooting on March 11 where a 17 year old boy killed 15 people before killing himself. News reports have linked the boy to playing games like Counter-Strike and Far Cry 2 before the shooting took place. Germany already bans a number of games with violent content from being sold in stores. However if this move was to take place it could force local game developers like Crytek to move their development out of the country.

GamersGate isn't waiting until the weekend to offer up some big savings on downloadable PC games. Today the company announced that a boatload of Ubisoft titles have been placed on sale for savings up to 50 percent off their normal GamersGate prices. The sale ends on Sunday.

The following Ubisoft titles are 50 percent off during the sale:
Assassins Creed
Beyond Good & Evil
Blazing Angels
Blazing Angels 2: Secret Missions of WWII
Brothers in Arms Hells Highway
Brothers in Arms Road to Hill 30
Far Cry
Far Cry 2
IL-2 Sturmovik 1946
Prince of Persia
Shaun White Snowboarding
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Tom Clancy's End War

And these Ubisoft titles are 25 percent off:
Far Cry 2 Fortune Pack
Grey's Anatomy
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
World in Conflict: Soviet Assault
World in Conflict: Complete Edition

Also the PC version of Dark Sector is currently 33 percent off its normal price at GamersGate. As a side note Direct2Drive has also put several Ubisoft games for sale at 50 percent off.