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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

Let's get down to business, shall we? We have some "one day only" sales on Steam to tell you about. Here's the latest list:

One day sales:

Left 4 Dead 2 - $5
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - $14.99
Wings of Prey - $14.99
Supreme Commander 2 - $3.75
Galcon Fusion - $2.50
King's Bounty: Platinum Edition - $8.75
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light - $7.49
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City - $10.20
Indie Pulse Pack (AudioSurf, Beat Hazard, Bit.Trip.Beat, Rhythm Zone and The Polynomial) - $4.99

One day Gift Packs

Counter-Strike: Source - $24.99 for six copies
NyxQyuest: Kindred Spirits - $14.99 for 10 copies
Red Faction: Guerrilla - $39.99 for eight copies
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City - $44.99 for six copies

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving but already folks are starting to buy their holiday gifts (or at the very least thinking about creating their lists really hard). There have been a lot of PC games to choose from in the past 12 months and today Big Download wants to offer a few suggestions for the person who has a PC gamer on his or her list.

The games listed below are what we feel are good gift choices that should please any hardcore or even casual PC gamer that you have to buy for this year. We have even thrown in some indie titles and some games that are priced a bit cheaper than the norm for those of you on a budget. Check out our 2010 holiday list after the jump:

Editor's Note: Steven Wong contributed to this article

Tomorrow Need For Speed Hot Pursuit is released. Thanks to the pre-release reviews praising this game we can't wait to get our hands on the PC port. Running down and crashing racers in million dollar police sports cars is pretty much the perfect game for us.

• New Steam bug fix updates for Plants Vs Zombies Game of the Year Edition, Sol Survivor and Supreme Commander 2 have been released.
• Steam also has all four of the Borderlands DLC releases in one bundle for the price of $29.99.
• Telltale Games has launched a free Back to the Future Facebook game, Blitz Through Time.
• Check out some very brief footage from the now canceled Mercenaries 3. It's not that exciting
• Someone found an Easter Egg while playing the Nuketown level in Call of Duty Black Ops. Again, it's not that exciting.
• Direct2Drive has Manhunt 2 on sale for today online for just $4.95.

As promised earlier this week two inide game games are having a free play weekend on Steam. Fatshark's third person Western shooter Lead and Gold and Futuremark's sci-fi zero-g shooter Shattered Horizon are now currently available to play for free until 4 pm Eastern time on Sunday. Both games are on sale until Monday at 1 pm with Shattered Horizon just $9.99, Lead and Gold priced at $7.49 or get both in the Frontiers Pack for just $12.49.

Also on sale until Monday on Steam is Gas Powered Games' sci-fi RTS game Supreme Commander 2. You can get the game for a mere $5.10 at the moment. The recently released DLC pack for the game also has a big price cut this weekend to just $3.40.

It's been a little while since we have posted up news of automatic patches of games via Steam so consider this a catch-up as a number of PC game titles that offered up patches via Valve's download service. One of the biggest is for Supreme Commander 2. Gas Powered Games' latest RTS game updated earlier this week with a big change to its economy. Before the patch you patch for units and structures when they were ordered. This new update makes you spend for units when they actually start construction. There are also a number of other changes and bug fixes in the patch.

Other PC games that have gotten bug updates via Steam include R.U.S.E., Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike Source, a truly massive patch for Victoria 2, Garry's Mod, X3 Terran Conflict, Left 4 Dead 2, Nation Red, DogFighter, and Sol Survivor.

Supreme Commander 2's DLC has been released this week, and to commemorate the release, the folks at Gas Powered Games have released another developer diary. This one in particular covers the additions and changes to Supreme Commander 2's units through the DLC. In doing so, both programmers and testers detail their favorite strategies, most used new units, and some flybys of the new maps. There's also a cameo by Chris Taylor at the end, although it is in voice only. If you want a good low-down of the new tactics and units available, this diary will give you a better look than any brief trailer.

As promised, developer Gas Powered Games and publisher Square Enix have released a DLC mini-expansion pack for its recent sci-fi RTS game Supreme Commander 2. The Infinite War Battle Pack DLC is available to download now via Steam for $9.99.

While there's no new single player additions, the DLC contains 10 new multiplayer maps (eight maps plus two more that are double the size of the regular maps). There are also a number of additional units for the game's three factions. Each faction also gets some additional upgrades and boosts. You can check out the extensive list of all the new additions in the DLC after the jump:

With the exception of the GoG.com news it's been a pretty slow day. Maybe everyone is still too busy playing Civilization V.

• Steam has new bug fix patches for Supreme Commander 2 and Garry's Mod.
• The official web site for The Ball says that the game will be released three weeks from today.
• A new patch for the MMO Dark Age of Camelot has gone live.
• The first issue of the Telara Chronicles comic (based on the upcoming MMPO Rift: Planes of Telara), out in stores today, will include a beta card for the game.

All this talk of neural nets and AI learning has us a little bit concerned. Is Gas Powered Games trying to bring about the robot apocalypse? Are they build Skynet within Supreme Commander 2? The content director and QA testers in the trailer above would have you believe they are human, but we have the sneaking suspicion that they are actually robots. Ones designed to keep us from finding out that their AI has conquered the world.

Kidding aside, Gas Powered Games has been hard at work improving the AI of Supreme Commander 2. They've been implementing more neural nets for unit behaviors (naval units are specifically mentioned), tweaking established settings, and given the reins of AI customization to players. All of this is good for those looking for a challenge, but if the robots take over, don't say we didn't warn you.