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Getting something for nothing is always a good thing and we have that in today's PC game sales deals.

• Amazon.com's next free casual game is Cake Mania. You can download the game, nomally priced at $9.99, free of charge for today only.
• Steam has Mount and Blade and Mount and Blade Warband on sale this weekend for 80 percent off each.
• Direct2Drive has Napoleon Total War on sale for today only for $12.49.
• Games For Windows Marketplace has Flatout Ultimate Carnage on sale this next week for $4.99.
• Impulse has Cryostasis on sale for today only for just $3.49.

Would you like to download a PC game for the price of absolutely nothing at all? Then you might want to check out Amazon.com for the next 10 days. The online retailed announced today via its Twitter page that starting today it will cut the price of one casual game every day for 24 hours down to, well, zero. Zlilch. Nada.

The first game up for this treatment is Chicken Invaders 2, a title that looks like what would happen if Galaga got hit with a bunch of cartoony birds. We will keep track of the freebie games as they are revealed.

Today we are not waiting around for Steam to offer up its mid-week madness sale. That's because there's a ton of PC game sales and free PC game offers to report on already. We will update this post with Steam's mid-day sale later today:

• Steam offers a free copy of Red Faction Guerrilla when you pre-order the upcoming Red Faction Armageddon from their service.
• Steam also has Hoard available as a pre-order with a 25 percent price cut from its normal price. It comes out on April 4. There's also a Hoard four-pack deal that's available for 10 percent off.
• Telltale is offering the entire five episode "season" of Sam and Max The Devil's Playground for free (a $34.95 value) for new customers of Netflix.
• Amazon.com has a one-day sale of the recently released Dragon Age 2 (for both PC boxed and PC download) for $39.99, a $20 discount.
• Impulse has a one day deal on 2009's Ghostbusters The Video Game for $9.97.
• Update: IGN's newly launched PC download store has Battlefield Bad Company 2 on sale for today only for $9.95.
• Update: Direct2Drive has three games on sale for $2 each for today only; Fish Tycoon, 7 Wonders: Treasures of Seven and Midnight Mysteries: The Edger Allan Poe Conspiracy.
• Update: Steam has Batman Arkham Asylum Game of the Year Edition on sale from now until Thursday for just $7.50.
• Update: Steam has all of the games in the Gothic RPG series on sale from now until Thursday for 75 percent off their normal prices.

Portal 2, the highly anticipated puzzle shooter from Valve, is now available for pre-order via Steam. The game has two special deals for pre-order buyers. First gamers get 10 percent off the game's regular $49.99 price. The other pre-order bonus is a free downloadable copy of the original 2007 Portal game. Since the game is coming out for both PC and Mac it qualifies for SteamPlay, meaning people who purchase the PC version get the Mac version for free and vise versa.

There are also pre-order specials for getting Portal 2 at GameStop (special skins for the game's robots in the co-op campaign) and at Amazon.com (a $5 credit toward most Amazon.com purchases)

The Steam pre-order page for Portal 2 also contains the system requirements for both the PC and Mac versions of the game. You can check them out for yourself after the jump:

If you have had a bad case of the Mondays with your boss telling you to work on Saturday and having someone else steal your stapler, cheer up. There are a few one day sales deals you can check out right now:

• Amazon.com's Deal of the Day has the recent EA survival horror game Dead Space 2 on sale for today only for $39.99, a $20 price cut from its normal price.
• Direct2Drive begins a week of daily 2K Games sales with the original BioShock on sale today only for only $4.95.
• Finally Impulse has Dark Void on sale for today only for just $14.99.

Square Enix has now confirmed that the US release date for Dungeon Siege III will be on May 31, a few days after the next game in the fantasy action-RPG series shows up on European shores on May 27. More importantly, a number of retailers have announced their own pre-order incentives for putting your money down early to get the game from developer Obsidian Entertainment.

Perhaps the coolest pre-order incentive is if you get the game via the Steam download service. Those folks will get free single player versions of both previous Dungeon Siege games (developed by Gas Powered Games) for free. Pre-orders at GameStop get two exclusive in-game items (Burning Band of Scorch and Talisman of the Grand Mage) while Amazon.com pre-orders get the Bite of the Arakun in game item and Best Buy pre-orders get the Sacred Heart of the Legion in-game item. Wal-Mart pre-orders will get a mini-strategy guide for the game along with a Dungeon Siege mini-comic produced by Dark Horse Comics.

Earlier this week Oddworld Inhabitants announced that the long awaited Oddboxx bundle of all four Oddworld games for the PC would be released sometime this holiday season. Today the developer revealed that the Oddboxx bundle of games ( Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus and the all new PC ports of Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath) will be priced at $24.99.

The bundle will be made available via download on several download sites including Steam, Direct2Drive, Impulse and Amazon.com. However the Steam versions will also add new Steam achievements to the Munch's Oddysee and Stranger's Wrath PC ports.

Black Friday is over but the online-only Cyber Monday sales have actually started early at some retailer's web sites. Here's a selection of PC game related sales that we know about at the moment:

• GameStop has put a bunch of downloadable PC games, including recently released titles, on the price chopping block down to 90 percent of their normal price until the end of the day on Monday. They include Fallout New Vegas for $29.99, R.U.S.E. for $39.99 and MLB 2K19 for a mere $1.99.
• Amazon.com also has a ton of downloadable PC games on sale until the end of the day of Monday. They also include recently released titles like Medal of Honor for $39.99 and Need For Speed Hot Pursuit for $34.99.
• Best Buy has a number of boxed retail PC games on sale until Monday. They include Star Trek Online for $4.99, Guild Wars Trilogy for $14.99, City of Heroes: Going Rogue for $9.99 and Split/Second for $9.99.

Amazon.com has been offering casual game downloads for some time but now the massive web retailer wants to muscle in on Steam's territory. The web site is now offering a selection of casual, indie and hardcore PC games at 50 percent off their normal prices for download and purchase.

Among the over 60 games that are on sale today at the site are Crysis for $15, The Witcher for $5, Dead Space for $10, World of Goo for $5, Star Trek Online for $15 and Blade Kitten for a mere $3. Apparently there will be a different selection of PC games on Amazon.com that will be priced at 50 percent off every day.

In less than 10 days, Call of Duty: Black Ops is due out in stores. But even though the game has a $60 price tag for the PC version, retailers are trying to entice people to purchase the first person shooter with special sales deals including small discounts or

Amazon.com is offering 200 pre-order Bonus Points for people who pre-order the game from the online retailer that can be used for future game purchases. Walmart is offering a straight up 10 percent discount for pre-orders. Kmart is offering quite a few offers for people who buy the game from them starting on its launch day, November 9 through November 13. Kmart will offer a $25 price cut on select titles with any Call of Duty Black Ops purchase during those dates. It also includes 25,000 points for Shop Your Way Reward members, a $20 savings toward select headsets from Turtle Beach and a special force badge.