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Publisher Paradox Interactive's latest downloadable expansion pack is now available. It's Majesty 2: Monster Kingdom, the third and final expansion pack for the village sim-RPG game from developer 1C Company. The expansion was previously due to be released last December but got pushed back to this month.

Priced at $14.99, Monster Kingdom adds a new campaign with eight missions called Exiles of Fate. The campaign has you playing an exlied king who has to gather a group of monsters to retake the kingdom. Paradox has also cut the price of Majesty 2 and the first two expansion packs by 75 percent this week.

The already sparse December PC game release schedule just got even smaller. Publisher Paradox Interactive announced today that two downloadable expansion packs due out this month, Majesty 2 Monster Kingdom and King Arthur The Druids, have had their released dates pushed back until sometime in January 2011.

Paradox blamed the delay on a big fight at the Paradox Christmas party where "five Monsters and seven Druids ended up in hospital" (Hey, we have all been there and done that. Am I right ladies?). Paradox still has one more expansion pack due for release this year as Europa Universalis III Divine Wind is schedule to be released on December 14.

While there are other PC games planned for released later in December this is the final week of the year that we will see multiple major game releases. That includes a huge MMO expansion, the next game in a very popular casual puzzle game series and a game based on a much beloved movie franchise.

World of Warcraft Cataclysm - Blizzard is doing something a little different for its third expansion pack for its massively popular MMO game series. In addition to adding two new playable races, new quests and dungeons, a raise in the level cap and more, some of the earlier game zones are getting a makeover with new quests replacing some old ones as well as other changes.

While the big release in this week's new PC game lineup won't sell nearly as much as the console versions it's still likely to be one of the best selling PC games of the year. There's also a new expansion pack for one of 2009's releases.

Call of Duty Black Ops: Developer Treyarch brings us this latest game in the mega-selling military shooter franchise. The game has a Cold War setting with a globe trotting single player campaign. Look for new multiplayer modes like wage matches and the PC version has support for dedicated servers (although gamers will have to buy them from an authorised source). Oh and the zombies are back ...

Publisher Paradox Interactive has made a bit of a surprise announcement today, revealing that a second downloadable expansion pack for its fantasy RPG-village sim game Majesty 2 is not only in the works but will be released on November 9. Majesty 2: Battles Of Ardania is once again being developed by Inc-co, a subsidiary of 1C Company.

The expansion pack costs $14.99 and contains an all new single player campaign, Heirs of the Night, which has players defending the fantasy world against a "mage-werewolf" and his minions. It will also have four new multiplayer maps, new monsters and new weapon sets.

The Steam service is getting started earlly with a couple of big PC game sales on its site. One is for Majesty 2, the recent fantasy strategy-sim game from 1C Company and Paradox Interactive. The game is currently on sale for just $7.50, a 75 percent cut from its normal price. Steam has also just added the recently released expansion pack to the game, Kingmaker, to its line-up.

Also on sale from now until Thursday is the LucasArts Adventure Pack. The bundle of four classic games from the publisher, including Loom, The Dig, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, for $4.99. The Adventure Pack is for both PC and Mac and supports SteamPlay so if you purchase the pack for the PC you get the Mac version of the games for free and vise versa.

Update: Steam has also put two more Paradox Interactive games, Europa Universalis III Complete and Hearts of Iron III, on sale for 50 percent off.

The very busy month of March continues with two big retail game releases, a downloadable expansion pack and the launch of an MMO made by just one person:

Just Cause 2: Developer Avalanche Studios and Square Enix give us another massive open world action game as your player character, Rico Rodriguez runs, drives, flies and swims in the fictional Eastern Asian island nation of Panau. PC gamers have to have either Windows 7 or Windows Vista and at least a DirectX 10 compatible graphics card to play the PC port of the game. Sorry, Windows XP PC users.

This patch updates Majesty 2 to v1.3 and includes a number of fixes and gameplay enhancements. Continue reading after the jump for a full list of changes. A playable demo can be downloaded here.

Download Majesty 2 v1.3 Patch (94 MB)
Download Majesty 2 Demo (569 MB)
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This trailer gives a first look at the recently announced Majesty 2: Kingmaker, the first expansion to Majesty 2. Among some of the features that will be an all new Kingmaker Editor to create custom missions, a new "Return of Grum-Gog" 8-mission campaign, and of course fresh monsters to face down. Kingmaker is expected to release later this year.

Download HD Majesty 2: Kingmaker Trailer (621 MB)

Publisher Paradox Interactive continues its week of new game announcements today with the reveal of Majesty 2: Kingmaker. The new expansion to their 2009 revival of the classic fantasy strategy-sim game from developer 1C Company will be released as a digital download only product sometime later this quarter.

The expansion will add a new campaign called (and we aren't kidding) "Return of Grum-Gog". The eight story missions put the player against "Lord Blackviper and his army of goblins." Naturally you have to deal with this threat to the land of Ardania. The expansion will cost $19.99 to download when it's released.