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Tomorrow BlizzCon 2010 begins. We also get the first details of AMD's new Radeon graphics cards. And there may be a surprise or two on Friday as well. Stay tuned.

• GoG.com adds Age of Wonders 2 to its list of DRM-free games. Also the original Age of Wonders game on GoG.com now comes with the game's soundtrack for free
• New Steam patch updates have been released for Arsenal of Freedom, Star Ruler, Diamond Dan, ProtoGalaxy, and Lionheart: King's Crusade.
• Battlefront.com announces that its turn-based strategy game Combat Mission Shock Force - NATO Module is now available.
• New screenshots for BioShock Infinite have been released and have been added to our gallery.
• Check out the live stream for our sister site WoW Insider's BlizzCon reader meet up.

Publisher Paradox Interactive has a ton of games due for release in the next 12 months and today they posted word that one of them has "gone gold." Arsenal of Democracy, a WWII strategy game based on the Hearts of Iron II engine, is now completed and will be released via digital download services on February 23.

The game was developed by BL-Logic, a group of creators that previously had worked on modifying Hearts of Iron II. This new stand alone game has their take on the WWII strategy game genre with Paradox saying it will allow players to rewrite history by taking on any nation involved in World War II. The game is priced at $19.95.

A few weeks ago, Paradox Interactive announced it was planning to release For The Glory, a game created by a team of mod makers using Europa Universalis II. Today they have announced a similar project made by mod makers based on another of their strategy games, the WWII themed Hearts of Iron II.

Arsenal of Democracy, due for release in December, is described as "Hearts of Iron II on steroids" and will have lots of new and improved features including support for higher resolutions, a revamped combat system, improved AI and more. The team at developer BL-Logic claims their work will be "the ultimate World War II simulation." Big words. We will see if they are right in a few months.