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The car combat game genre gets a new entry today as developer Steel Monkeys and publisher Meridian4 are scheduled to release Post Apocalyptic Mayhem via Steam later today. It will have a bargain price of $9.99 (with an additional 20 percent discount for its first week of release) and will also have a 3-game bundle available for $24.99. The game's premise is pretty simple; in a nuclear wasteland, folks like to race vehicles and blow each other up.

Big Download got a chance to ask Steel Monkeys for some more info about Post Apocalyptic Mayhem and got our questions answered jointly by Executive Producer Edwin Loo and Lead Designer Craig Williams.

The popular post-apocalypse setting for games is getting combined with car combat with the announcement today of Post Apocalyptic Mayhem. The racing action game comes from developer Steel Monkeys International and will be released this April via Steam from publisher Meridian4 for just $9.99.

The game will allow players to choose from an assortment of various vehicles (including what looks like heavily armed school buses and RVs). Each vehicle will have a front, side and rear attack as they battle with other cars in bombed out urban settings. Multiplayer matches for up to six players are promised and the game will have over 35 Steam achievements to, well, achieve.

Zombies continue to be the new black as far as game design is concerned. More games are using some version of the undead as its major theme. One upcoming game that has zombies as its central feature is Trapped Dead, a tactical strategy game where players encounter the infected during a visit to what appears at first to be a nice small town.

The game comes from German developer Crenetic and will be published by Headup Games with Meridian4 handling the game's digital publishing here in the US. Big Download got the CEO of Crenetic, Carsten Widera-Trombach, to answer our questions about the game which should be released sometime in the first quarter of 2011.

Stardock's Impulse PC game download site usually has its weekend sales start about this time but for the Christmas break they are putting up a lot more than its normal 30 or so games. They have over 300 PC game titles on sale during the Christmas time period.

Some of the details this year include the entire catalogs of publishers like Paradox Interactive (50 percent off all titles), the THQ Ultimate Bundle (17 games on sale for just $49.95), all of Ubisoft's games (25 percent off of its titles) and all of Meridian4's games (60 percent off the entire catalog).

The newest patch for Arma II: Operation Arrowhead updates the game from v1.50 or above to v1.57. Highlights include improved game performance and four new scenarios for owners of the Private Military Company expansion.

This patch is for the retail boxed version of the game and will not work with the Steam release. Continue reading after the jump for a full list of changes. The playable demo for the original game can be downloaded here.

Download Arma II: Operation Arrowhead v1.57 Patch (415 MB)
Download Arma II: Operation Arrowhead Demo (2.5 GB)
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The newest patch for Arma II: Operation Arrowhead updates the game to v1.56. Highlights include a trimmed down version of the Private Military Company DLC expansion (called Arma 2: Private Military Company Lite). All units, vehicles and weapons from the DLC are available with lower quality textures and audio files. You'll have to purchase the Private Military Company DLC in order to gain access to high quality textures and audio.

This patch is for the retail boxed version of the game and will not work with the Steam release. Continue reading after the jump for a full list of changes. The playable demo for the original game can be downloaded here.

Download Arma II: Operation Arrowhead v1.56 Patch (141 MB)
Download Arma II: Operation Arrowhead Demo (2.5 GB)
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Trapped Dead may be another zombie-based game but at least it seems to be an interesting one. This week publisher Meridian4 announced that it would have the digital download rights to the Headup Games-developed title with a release sometime in January. Furthermore a demo for Trapped Dead is due out in December.

The game, which was first announced last April, is a third-person isometric strategy title as two college kids encounter the undead while passing through a small town in the 1980s. Players will have to control the kids as they use a variety of weapons to battle the zombies.The game will also support co-op with up to four players.

These separate patches update the individual retail releases of Arma II to v1.08, Operation Arrowhead to v1.55 and the British Armed Forces DLC expansion to v1.01. These patches are for the retail boxed version of the game and will not work with the Steam release. Continue reading after the jump for a list of change highlights. Comprehensive notes are included with each patch. The playable Operation Arrowhead demo can be downloaded here.

Download Arma II v1.08 Patch (323 MB)
Download Arma II: Operation Arrowhead v1.55 Patch (254 MB)
Download Arma II: British Armed Forces v1.01 Patch (3 MB)
Download Arma II: Operation Arrowhead Demo (2.5 GB)
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This patch updates the retail box release of The Disciples III: Renaissance to v1.06.2. It features fixes a number of bugs and gameplay issues. A complete list of changes can be found after the jump. The playable demo can be found here.

Download Disciples III v1.06.2 Patch (7 MB)
Download Disciples III: Renaissance Demo (3.7 GB)
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The playable demo for Arma II: Operation Arrowhead includes:

• Singleplayer mission Coltan Blues from the main campaign
• Singleplayer scenarios Benchmark and Little Bird
• 3 Boot Camp scenarios: Basic, Driving and Helicopter tutorials
• Multiplayer missions Hike In The Hills and One Shot One Kill
• Multiplayer template Team Deathmatch
• Mission Editor with save/load option

Continue reading after the jump for system requirements.

"Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties."

Download Arma II: Operation Arrowhead Demo (2.5 GB)
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