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Pre-orders for the PC version of Battlefield Bad Company 2 continue to do well on Steam. The latest weekly top 10 sales list for the download service shows the upcoming first person shooter at the number one position. However, the indie FPS MMO Global Agenda from Hi-Rez Studios came in at number two for the past week. The game officially launched on February 1. Steam is currently the only place to download the game (Hi-Rez is also selling a box copy via Amazon.com).

BioShock 2, due for release next week, comes in at number three on the list with Mass Effect 2 and Modern Warfare 2 at number four and five, respectively: The full list is as follows:

1. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Digital Illusions/EA
2. Global Agenda - Hi-Rez Studios
3. BioShock 2 - 2K Marin/2K Games
4. Mass Effect 2 - BioWare/EA
5. Modern Warfare 2 - Infinity Ward/Activision
6. Aliens Vs Predator - Rebellion/Sega
7. Mass Effect 2 Digital Deluxe Edition - BioWare/EA
8. Titan Quest Gold - THQ
9. Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
10. Star Trek Online Digital Deluxe Edition - Cryptic Studios/Atari

This week's new PC game releases include a sequel to an acclaimed first person shooter, a mini-expansion to a great space strategy game and a downloadable action game based on a long running sci-fi TV and movie franchise that isn't Star Trek. In addition to those games, players will be able to download a unit add-on for Empire: Total War (Elite Units of the East) and a new game in the Galcon strategy game series (Galcon Fusion). Also scheduled to ship to stores this week is Windchaser, a fantasy RPG that was first released in Europe back in 2008.

BioShock 2: 2K Marin takes on the first person shooter franchise with this sequel to the 2007 game that was first created by Irrational Games. The single player game takes place 10 years after the original with the player now in the role of a prototype Big Daddy in the underwater city of Rapture. The sequel also has a multiplayer mode, developed by Digital Extremes, that takes place just before the fall of Rapture.

Last July it was announced that the action figure company NECA would release action figures based on BioShock 2. Now comes word that those action figures have begun to ship to stores. Obviously their release are being timed with the release of the 2K Marin-Digital Extremes first person shooter sequel.

In fact one of the figures, the Big Daddy Deluxe version, has been in stores since November. The BioShock 2 series 1 figures are now avaiable which include the Big Sister and Subject Delta (the player character). In addition NECA is selling two life-sized game props; a Big Daddy plush toy and a Eve Hypo Syringe. You can order all the action figures and props at the NECA web site.

As we await the release next week of BioShock 2 (and the early reviews have thankfully been solid) 2K Games' Cult of Rapture community site has posted word of two cool collector's items that related to the first person shooter sequel. One of the items you can see above. It's a Sinclair Solutions Syringe Pen that is engraved with the Sinclair Solutions logo and comes in that nifty looking case with the BioShock 2 logo. Pre-orders for the pen are now being taken. The pen itself will ship at the end of February for $34.99. It's supposed to be a limited edition but there's no word on how limited the availability will be.

On sale right now are four special BioShock 2 art prints created by various well known illustrators (including the Penny Arcade team). Each of the four prints will set you back $19.99. You can order both the prints and the pen at 2K Games' online store.

In BioShock 2, players take the role of a unique Big Daddy that can use both Plasmid powers and weaponry to take down foes. Players can use these abilities to protect or exploit the little sisters scattered around the underwater hallways of Rapture while finding out more about the mysterious Big Sister. BioShock 2 releases next week on February 9th.

"Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again echo with sins of the past. Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster has been snatching little girls and bringing them back to the undersea city of Rapture. Players step into the boots of the most iconic denizen of Rapture, the Big Daddy, as they travel through the decrepit and beautiful fallen city, chasing an unseen foe in search of answers and their own survival."

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It's been a busy last few weeks for big game launches and it continues next week with the release of BioShock 2. Publisher 2K Games is already prepping for the release of the first person shooter sequel with midnight store openings on February 9 in both GameStop and Best Buy locations.

Over 2,000 GameStop locations will be open at that time as well as a select few of Best Buy stores. You can check out which stores will be taking part on this list. At least one GameStop location in San Fransisco will have some of the game's development team from 2K Marin on hand when BioShock 2 first goes on sale.

So you think you are all fancy by pre-ordering the BioShock 2 Special Edition, do you? Well in fact the collector's edition of 2K Games' upcoming first person shooter is pretty slick stuff and a new YouTube video shows 2K Games' community manager Elizabeth Tobey opening up the Games For Windows version of the edition to show off all the extras in the big box.

But that's nothing compared to what's shown later in the video, the Uber Edition of the game that costs $14.999 and comes with a fully workable Big Daddy. Unfortunately the Uber Edition is now canceled for reasons that . . .well, you just need to see the video to find out for yourself. In the meantime you can still order the special edition of the game before it ships next week.

The big new feature of BioShock 2 compared to the original game is the addition of multiplayer features to the art-deco themed first person shooter. Now the game's official community site The Cult of Rapture has reveal some more multiplayer details and that includes admitting there will be no LAN or dedicated server support.

The reason behind why those features are missing is a lack of time in development with the Q&A stating, "We chose to spend the time we had creating a solid game foundation and unfortunately that did not include LAN play or dedicated servers." This seems somewhat odd since both games use Unreal Engine 3 which has native FPS multiplayer support. The multiplayer side of things was also developed by Digital Extremes which has ton of experience in FPS games (co-developing many of the Unreal-Unreal Tournament games with Epic Games).

The Q&A also goes over other items such as how they plan to handle multiplayer cheaters, why the game won't have ranked or unranked multiplayer servers and more. BioShock 2 ships to stores on February 9.

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We are getting ready to have a bunch of PC game title come out in stores and via download in the next few weeks and one of the big ones is BioShock 2. The sequel to the acclaimed first person shooter from developer 2K Marin will once again feature a music soundtrack composed by game music veteran Garry Schyman who created the score for the original game.

While the soundtrack to the game is being included in the special edition version of BioShock 2, Gametunes.net reports that the game music will also be made available for sale via digital download. No release date for the soundtrack nor pricing was revealed.

Two of Electronic Arts' big PC game releases found themselves at the number one and two slots on the top 10 sales list for the Steam download service this week. Battlefield Bad Company 2 was on top of the list (based on revenue) and Mass Effect 2, due for release on Tuesday, was at number two in its Digital Deluxe version (the regular edition was at number 5

BioShock 2 managed to grab the number three slot on the list this week while Modern Warfare 2 continues to sell well on Steam at the number four position.

1. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Digital Illusions/EA
2. Mass Effect 2 Deluxe Edition - BioWare/EA
3. BioShock 2 - 2K Marin/2K Games
4. Modern Warfare 2 - Infinity Ward/Activision
5. Mass Effect 2 - BioWare/EA
6. Aliens Vs Predator - Rebellion/Sega
7. Company of Heroes Complete Pack - Relic/THQ
8. Global Agenda - Hi-Rez Studios
9. Star Trek Online Digital Deluxe Edition - Cryptic Studios/Atari
10. Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve