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Monday's PC game sales are as usual a variety of various titles that are on sale for today online:

• This week, Steam is holding daily sales of their 2K Games catalog and also allowing three Steam owners to will all of 2K Games' titles on Steam. Today's Steam sale has both Mafia games, plus all of the Mafia II DLC releases, on sale for 75 percent off.
• Direct2Drive has World of Goo on sale for today only for $4.95.
• Impulse has put the acclaimed adventure game Machinarium on sale for today online for $4.99.
• Amazon.com's Deal of the Day has put Civilization V on sale for today online for $29.99.

Monday starts a new work week and a new set of one day PC game sales. Here are the sales that we know of today.

• The Games For Windows Marketplace' latest 99 cent deal is for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl for today only.
• Telltale Games is selling the DVD version of Tales of Monkey Island, with lots of extras, for just $19.95 for today only compared to its normal $49.95 price.
• Impulse has a one day sale on Zuma's Revenge that cuts the price down 33 percent to $14.96.
• GamersGate is selling Space Rangers 2 for just $3.75, a 75 percent discount, for today only.
• Amazon.com has sales on a number Blizzard published games today including StarCraft II for $47.99, a 20 percent discount.

After being pushed back from a previously planned fall 2010 release schedule, the horror shooter sequel F.E.A.R. 3 now has a solid release date. IGN reports that the game from developer Day 1 Studios and publisher Warner Bros. Interactive is due to be released in the US on March 22, 2011.

In addition to the new release date, the publisher also revealed that select retailers will offer pre-order incentives for F.E.A.R. 3. Amazon.com will give pre-order customers a 12-page prequel comic book to the game. Best Buy offers an exclusive in-game weapon, The Shredder while GameStop customers get their own exclusive weapon, The Hammer.

The November 9 release date for Call of Duty Black Ops is getting ever closer and today publisher Activision announced that two retailers, GameStop and Amazon.com, will offer up some exclusive pre-order bonuses for the upcoming first person shooter. Amazon.com pre-order customers can get a Black Ops Laser Cell featuring the image you can see to the right. The Laser Cell is limited to the first 100,000 pre-orders and comes with a certificate of authenticity. All pre-orders will get access to a PC wallpaper with the same image.

GameStop pre-orders will get access to an exclusive high altitute flight suit multiplayer avatar. You can check out a funny YouTube video promoting the pre-order offer after the jump"

[Via email press release]

While folks can purchase Fallout: New Vegas as a boxed retail version, the PC port of the upcoming post-apocalypse RPG will also be available via download. If you swing that way publisher Bethesda Softworks has teamed up with several retailers to offer special pre-order offers if you buy the game via download.

GameStop, Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart will all have their own unique pre-orders specials for the PC download version (Steam's pre-order offer will be the same as Walmart). Each consist of exclusive in-game items (armor, weapons, etc) that will become available when the game is released this fall. Check out the specifics of each pre-order offer after the jump:

As we approach the release of Mafia 2 in late August the folks at 2K Games have decided to give folks a chance to pick up a Collector's Edition of the long awaited open world crime action game. The PC version of the collector's edition is priced at $69.99 and will contain the game (of course) inside a steel case.

You will also get a map of the game's fictional city Empire Bay, a game soundtrack CD and a hardcover art book. It will also contain a special code to download some exclusive in-game items like two vehicles cars and two new suits for your characters. In addition several retailers (GameStop, BestBuy, Amazon.com and Walmart.com) will have their own pre-order bonuses for Mafia 2. You can check out all of them after the jump.

We knew that the pre-orders for StarCraft II would likely be huge but it looking like the retail Collector's Edition of the upcoming Blizzard sci-fi RTS sequel is getting harder to find. IncGames is reporting that a number of major retailers, including GameStop and Amazon.com in the US, are no longer taking orders for the $100 collector's edition which has a ton of extras besides the game itself. Indeed the Collector's Edition is no longer showing up on GameStop's web site and Amazon.com's listing for the edition only shows a third party selling the game for a whopping $499.

However, all is not lost. Best Buy's web site is still taking pre-orders for the collector's edition as is WalMart's web site, NewEgg.com and even Toysrus.com. However it's very likely that this version will have all of its copies claimed by pre-orders before StarCraft II ships to stores on July 27.

We've already reported on GameStop's and Amazon's special pre-order offers for the upcoming MMO Star Trek Online but today Atari revealed all of the retailers who will be offering their own pre-orders specialsfor the next game from developer Cryptic Studios.

The other retailers and download sites participating in the pre-order program include Best Buy, Walmart, Target, Direct2Drive and Steam. Each retailer offers up their own unique pre-order special and all of them give their customers access to the game's upcoming Open Beta event and the Early Start event which lets players get online three days before the official February 1 launch. You can check out all of the retailer's pre-order specials after the jump.

[Via email press release]

People have wondered how much of a audience the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 will have compared to the console versions. Now Amazon.com gives us a bit of a clue with their percentages of the all-time sales of the Standard Edition of Infinity Ward's upcoming first person shooter.

As you can see the PC version is currently selling only 8 percent of the Standard Edition's total sales. The Xbox 360 version is by far the most popular port with 61 percent followed by the PS3 version with a mere 31 percent (the results don't take into account sales of the Hardened Edition and Prestige Edition of the game which is not available for PC owners).

Even though the percentage is low for the PC version, Modern Warfare 2 is still expected to sell millions of copies among all three versions. That means the PC port could sell hundreds of thousands of copies which is very high for any game, PC or not.

Earlier this week we reported that both Direct2Drive and Steam would have their own unique in-game items for people who pre-order the BioWare fantasy RPG Dragon Age: Origins. As it turns out, yet another download site is getting the same treatment.

Stardock's Impulse PC game download service offers the Formari Memory Band which adds 1 percent experience points to your game's character along with one extra skill point. Meanwhile ordering the game from Amazon.com adds the Lion's Caw Boots item which adds to armor, dodge, and evading missiles. It also has a $10 video game credit for future Amazon purchases. Finally, GameStop is offering its customers a Feral Wolf Charm which "adds to your armor and increases your health regeneration." Confused yet? Yep, so are we.