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GoG.com has just announced what its weekend game bundle deal is going to be and it's an interesting one. From now until the end of Monday, folks will be able to buy two historical strategy-sim games, Patrician 3 and Port Royale 2, for just $15.99. That's a savings of $3.99 from their regular GoG.com price.

Both games are from developer Ascaron (the creators of the Sacred RPG series) and both come with newly added soundtracks for free. As usual with GoG.com's weekend sales bundles if you happen to own one of the two games already you can get the other for a $1.50 discount.

Ascaron's recent fantasy action-RPG Sacred 2 has been out for about five months now but apparently the development team isn't quite ready to give up working on the game. German-based PCGameshardware.com got a chance to see a new version of the game at the CeBit expo this week. The new version adds PhysX support from Nvidia to the game.

Apparently the dev team were not able to add the PhysX support before the game went gold last fall but an upcoming patch will enable some new PhysX driven effects in the game. The above video shows off an example of what the new effects will look like. They don't really affect Sacred 2's gameplay; they simple augment paricle effects for things like character spell visuals. The patch is slated for release later this March.