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It's Friday and while some are working for the weekend, some of us are also working to find new PC game sales deals and then reveal those price reductions to you. Our favorite retail gaming site GoGamer.com has their usual massive price cuts on a number of older and more recent PC games. The prices stick around until 3 am ET on Tuesday.

Among the games on sale are Mirror's Edge for $5.90, the original ArmA: Armed Assault for $9.90 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars for $4.90. More recent games are also on sale like Terminator: Salvation for $27.90 and X-Blades for $17.90.

A few weeks ago, developer Bohemia Interactive released the first in-game screenshot from ArmA II, the sequel to their 2007 released military shooter. This week the developer released even more screenshots from the game showing off more impressive visual details from the title that's set in the near future in the fictional country of Chernarus.

ArmA II is set for release for 2009 and this week the developer announced that it has secured a publishing deal in Europe with 505 Games for the game's release in that territory in the first quarter of 2000. ArmA I was first released in the US by Atari but there's no publisher in the US for the sequel as yet.

Bohemia Interactive Studio and Black Element Software have announced Carrier Command: Gaea, an RTS-simulation hybrid based on developer Realtime Games' 1988 release Carrier Command.

Responsible for ArmA: Armed Assault and Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, Bohemia Interactive considers Carrier Command: Gaea to be a natural addition to their growing library of realistic shooters. Bohemia CEO Marek Spanel testifies to the entire team's love of the original Carrier Command, a game that "was not only one of the most innovative games we had ever played but it is also one of the very few games that truly influenced our gaming tastes and motivated us in our own home grown game development."

Carrier Command: Gaea is expected in 2010 for PC and consoles. More details will be unveiled at this year's Leipzig Game Convention.

The folks at Bohemia Interactive have been very busy with a new update for their 2007 released military shooter ArmA: Armed Assault. The developer just released their 1.14 patch for the game and have decided to add a new an ambitious gameplay mode. Warfare basically turns the game into an RTS-FPS hybrid title.

You can get a lot more info on this new mode via this PDF manual but basically the Warfare mode has two teams of 16 players each battling it out and also capturing cities on the game's massive maps. Gaining control of cities gives each team more resources that are used by the commander player to build structures and factories that make more weapons, vehicles and other items. There's a lot of other new features added in the patch including new anti-cheat methods, the removal of disk-based copy protection and more.

US owners of the game (which was published by Atari) can download the 1.14 patch right here at Big Download (you will need the 1.08 patch installed beforehand). In addition new game editiing and mod tools for ArmA:Armed Assault have also been released and can be downloaded at the game's official community wiki web site.

Download the ArmA: Armed Assault 1.14 patch at Big Download now.

Download the ArmA: Armed Assault 1.08 patch at Big Download now.