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While Tim Schafer's latest game Brutal Legend has bypassed the PC completely, the last game his did for our platform has finally appeared over at the DRM-free download site GoG.com. Yes, Psychnoauts, the old platform game released in 2005 by publisher Majesco, can now be yours for the low price of $9.99. We can't recommend this game highly enough.

GoG.com has also added Advent Rising, the sci-fi third person action game that Majesco also first released in 2005. While not nearly as good as Psychonauts it was made by the team that now heads up Chair Entertainment and features a story developed by Orson Scott Card. You can grab it at GoG.com for just $5.99.

Atari has its first profitable quarter in some time a few weeks ago, even after being delisted from the NASDAQ stock market. Now yet another game publisher, Majesco Entertainment, is facing the same threat. The company announced late today that their stock has gone below $1 a share for the past 30 days in violation of NASDAQ rules. The stock market has given Majesco 180 days to comply with their minimal stock price.

Majesco used to be a busy PC publisher; a few years ago it released games like Psychonauts, Advent Rising and the Bloodrayne series. For the past few years Majesco has concentrated on releasing budget games mostly for the Wii and DS consoles.

Video Games Live has announced a partnership with record label EMI Classics to release a compilation of some of VGL's orchestrated video game tunes via digital distribution and compact disc. Entitled Video Games Live: Volume One, the assemblage will showcase "some of the more popular segments from Video Games Live performances. The album contains several unique arrangements that were created along with the original composers exclusively for the show, and have never previously been released," according to a press release issued by VGL.

Video Games Live: Volume One will be released in two stages: a digital release available in the United Kingdom starting today, July 7; and a CD / iTunes exclusive complete with bonus tracks that coincides with VGL events beginning in San Diego, CA, on July 24.

The full track list for Video Games Live: Volume One is available after the break.