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Since its recent revamp, GameTap has gotten back on track adding new games to download and purchase from its library of titles and also adding new titles to its premimum monthly subscription service. Today GameTap announced a new deal with publisher Atari that will add a number of its game to GameTap's services.

Among the Atari titles that will be added into GameTap's library will include the Neverwinter Nights series, the Master of Orion series, The Witcher, King's Bounty, the new 2008 version of Alone in the Dark, Test Drive Unlimited, the first ArmA game and Indigo Prophecy. There's no word yet on when these games will debut on the service.

[Via email press release]

IGN's Direct2Drive site is celebrating the upcoming Fourth of July holiday with some big price cuts on selected games. From now until July 5 you can download and purchase Call of Duty 4 for just $27.95, Call of Duty World at War for just $34.95 and a Company of Heroes bundle (containing the original game and the two stand alone expansion packs) for just $34.95.

If you are a procrasinator you can wait until July 12 to get the following deals: Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for just $14.95, the Game of the Year version (containing the original game, the Knights of the Nine and the Shivering Isles expansions and all of the official DLC content) for just $17.95, and the original ArmA for $14.95. You can also get the original ArmA with its just released sequel ArmA II in a bundle for $60.

Bohemia Interactive originally developed the first Operation Flashpoint game for publisher Codemasters. That game was released in 2001. Since then Bohemia has struck out on its own and made their own military shooter games under the ArmA title. The first was released in 2007 and the sequel, ArmA II is due out later this year. Codemasters, however, kept the rights to the Operation Flashpoint name and in 2007 announced their plans to release Operation Flashpoint 2, using an internal development team at the company.

Even though Codemasters made their intentions clear two years ago, Bohemia Interactive is just now going after Codemasters over their claim that Codemasters is making a sequel to Operation Flashpoint. In a press release today, Bohemia Interactive stated they have sent Codemasters a letter from their attorneys " . . . protesting Codemasters' marketing tactics which tout Codemasters' upcoming game Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising as the "return of" or "official sequel to" the genre-defining game Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. "

Gallery: Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

Gallery: ARMA 2 Screenshots

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.