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At least one game due in May is sticking to its proposed release date. Developer CD Projekt has just announced that its long awaited fantasy RPG title The Witcher 2 has now "gone gold" meaning that the game is completed and is being replicated onto disks that will later be shipped to stores.

That ship date is still scheduled for May 17, a date that CD Projekt announced several months ago. The game, a sequel to the million selling The Witcher, will be released in retail stores in the US via publisher Atari as well as download sites. However the CD Projekt owned GoG.com will be the only place to download and purchase a DRM-free copy of the game.

[Via email press release]

The DRM-free PC game download site GoG.com has added yet another game from publisher Atari to its ranks. This time the game is Dungeons and Dragons Dragonshard and the 2005 released title from developer Liquid Entertainment represents the first time that a D&D game has tried to go the RTS game route.

While the game is mostly on the strategy side, it also has a number of action-RPG elements as well, especially as your party ventures underground to battle familiar D&D based creatures. You can get Dungeons and Dragons Dragonshard now from GoG.com for the always low, low price of $9.99.

If you want to get over working past a (sort of) holiday weekend there's no better way to do it than checking out some low prices on PC games:

• Direct2Drive has both the PC and Mac ports of Amnesia: The Dark Descent on sale for today only for just $4.99.
• Direct2Drive also has the Mac port of Borderlands on sale for today only for 30 percent off its normal price.
• Impulse has Perimeter: Emperor's Testament on sale for today only for a mere $1.99.
• Atari's official web site has a large section of its games on sale from now until April 27 for 25 percent off their normal prices.

After a delay of about a week, publisher Atari has officially announced that the PC version of its Yar's Revenge remake is now available to purchase and download. At the moment the only place to get the game is via Atari's own site but its likely that the game will show up on other PC download sites later today.

As we have previously reported this remake of the classic 1982 sci-fi arcade shooter was developed by Killspace Entertainment and has more of an anime-like art style. The game also has support for local co-op play. It's now available to play for $9.99.

GoG.com continues to release classic games owned and/or published by Atari. Today the DRM-free PC game download site has added Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive, the Wild West themed tactical-strategy game from developer Spellbound Entertainment that was first released back in 2001.

While Western themed games seem to be making a bit of a comeback, the setting wasn't as popular back when the original Desperados was first released. Set in 1881 in a fictional town near the Mexican border, the game features you controlling a squad of cowboys going after a gang who has been robbing trains in or near the town. Each squad member has some different abilities; for example one team member can use TNT well while another is equiped with Gatling guns. Desperados is now on sale on GoG.com for just $5.99.

The DRM-free PC game download site GoG.com is done with its cryptic statements and has started revealing what games it has been teasing in previous statements this week. One of the game is actually three titles; its the first three games in the Alone in the Dark survival horror series from publisher Atari.

All three games are big sold as one bundle, letting PC gamers to have a chance to play these classic titles on modern PC operating systems. The bundle also comes with all three of the game's soundtracks. You can get the bundle now for just $5.99. GoG.com will be announcing additions to its library of classic PC games from Atari in the coming weeks.

Today publisher Atari announced that the remake of its classic sci-fi action-arcade game Yar's Revenge is now available to purchase and download for the Xbox 360. The press release made no mention of the announced PC version of the game, however.

Big Download contacted Atari's PR head today and he told us that the PC port is still very much in the works and will be released sometime "early next week". There's no specific release date yet. The game from developer Killspace Entertainment is also coming to the PS3 but there's no word yet on when that version will be available.

Those familiar with the City of Heroes mission creator have most likely heard of Star Trek Online's Foundry tool set. Created to allow users to make their own missions and episodes, it's a fairly significant addition to what was once a struggling MMO. This trailer outlines a lot of the developer purpose behind the tool set, the specific things players can do with them, and where the developers want to go with the feature. It's a good behind the scenes trailer for those that are interested in that sort of thing.

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While it's been in beta testing for the past several months, developer Cryptic Studios has finally and officially launched the Foundry mission editor for its sci-fi MMO Star Trek Online. This mission editor makes the game one of the few MMO titles that will allow players to create their own missions and have them be played by others.

While players won't be able to do things like import new character and ship models into the game they will be able to use Star Trek Online's current content to create new missions in space as well as planet-based storylines. So now anyone can create that Star Trek fan fiction storyline you have been keeping under your bed.

Sanctum of Slime has finally dropped into our laps, and while we're not sure how good it will be, we can be sure that it's going to be a Ghostbusters game! This trailer shows in-game footage, a cutscene or two, and brags about the arcade-influenced mechanics. It's not particularly exciting (unless you have plenty of nostalgia for Ghostbusters), but it's not too bad either.

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