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Steam has now crancked out their regular weekly sale for their PC game download service and this time the sale involves Brothers In Arms, the acclaimed and historically accurate WWII tactical shooter series from developer Gearbox Software and publisher Ubisoft.

For this weekend only, all three of the Brothers in Arms games (Earned In Blood, Road to Hill 30 and Hell's Highway) have had their prices cut by 50 percent off their normal Steam price. There's also a new Brothers in Arms bundle pack where you can get all three games for just $19.99. That represents a 60 percent overall price cut for the games.

It's always a good day to sell PC games on the cheap and today retail web site GoGamer.com is doing just that with its latest 48 Hour Madness sale. From now until 3 am ET on Tuesday they have several PC games that are cut down to the bone in price.

Among the games on sale today are the PC version of Turok, Red Orchestra , Tomb Raider Anniversary, and Rise of Nations Gold Edition. Each are currently selling for $7.90. In addition, the PC versions of Lost Planet Colonies and Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway are on sale today for $9.90 each.

Steam's week long Ubisoft game sale continues today. If you missed out on the sales of Assassin's Creed and Prince of Persia perhaps today's 50 percent off sale will be more to your liking. It's for Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, the 2008 released WWII tactical shooter from developer Gearbox. You can download and purchase the game via Steam for about 24 hours for just $14.99.

Remember there's one more 50 percent off sale on an unnamed Ubisoft game set for Thursday and Friday's regular weekend sale will also feature one or more Ubisoft titles at an undisclosed discount. So stay tuned.

Bad news always seem to come at the end of the week and this time is no exception. Shacknews is reporting through multiple but unnamed sources that there have been between 15 to 25 team members laid off at Dallas based Gearbox Software. The same report also states that development has "halted" on one of their upcoming projects, the Sega published first person shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines (the article doesn't actually say the game has been cancelled).

The report states that part of the reason for the layoffs was due to the poor sales of Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway, the third game in Gearbox's WWII tactical shooter series that was released last September by Ubisoft. However there's no word as to why development has stopped on the Aliens game. Sega first announced the game, and Gearbox's involvement, way back in December 2006 but only recently began to reveal info about the title, starting with a cover story in Game Informer magazine last February. Gearbox also has another game in development, the original first person shooter Borderlands, and also has at least one major unnamed game in the works.

Update: Shacknews's story has been updated with comments from Gearbox head Randy Pitchford who states, "Aliens isn't canned". He also states, "We've made some transformative changes and yes, that's meant some talent changes, but that's not the real story."

The folks at Phillips have been promoting their game-oriented multi-media hardware amBX for some time and now the company is cutting the division's cords and letting it loose. Today Phillips announced that the amBX team (based in the UK) is now spinning off into their own stand alone business, amBX UK Limited.

In case you are not familiar with amBX it's basically a series of speakers, lights and fans that react with amBX enabled games like Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway, Far Cry 2 and the upcoming Legendary and Velvet Assassin. This new business move will enable amBX to continue to expand to support more games as well as support films, TV shows and other media outlets

If you thought you were going to be able to play the PC version of Gearbox Software's WWII tactical shooter Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway next week, you may have to change your plans. Originally the PC port was to be released day-and-date with the console versions (which were released this past week) but word came down from publisher Ubisoft that the PC version was pushed back for a release on Sept. 30.

Now it appears that online retailers like Gamestop have changed the ship date yet again and if their dates are correct it looks like another week delay to October 7. Valve's Steam web site also shows the game as not being available for purchase on their game download service until October 8.

We may have to wait an extra week before Gearbox Software and Ubisoft release the PC version of the WWII tactical shooter Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway. However Ubisoft's web site has revealed the system specs for the PC port which should keep people busy for a little while longer. Here are the requirements

• Supported OS: Windows XP SP3/Windows Vista SP1 (only)
• Processor: 2.6 GHz dual-core (3 GHz for Intel Pentium D 925)
• RAM: 1 GB (2 GB Recommended)
  
• Video Card: 128 MB DirectX 9.0c–compliant, Shader 3.0–enabled
  
• Sound Card: DirectX 9.0– or 10.0–compliant
  
• DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0 or 10.0 (included)
• Hard Drive Space: 8 GB
• Multiplay: Broadband internet connection with 384 Kbps upstream
  
• Peripherals Supported: Keyboard, mouse, optional controller (Xbox 360 Controller for Windows recommended)

We've been waiting a long time for Gearbox Software's latest entry in the Brothers In Arms WWII tactical shooter series and Blue's News has gotten world that the PC version of Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway now has a release date. Publisher Ubisoft will ship the PC port to stores on September 30.That's actually about a week after the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions ship to stores.

The Unreal Engine 3 based shooter will have a 101st Airbourne unit take it to the Nazis in the real life Operation Market Garden battle (if you have seen the movie A Bridge Too Far you are familiar with this point in WWII). Ubisoft has also released new screenshots from the game which we have reproduced here.

While the game industry is beginning to understand that they can sell high profile games any time of the year the truth is that the time period between the first of September and the first week of December remains the biggest time of the year for new games to be released. 2008 seems to be no exception to this rule as PC gamers have a ton of new and promising titles to choose from this year.

So which games are we most looking forward to playing this fall? Well it so happens that we have created a feature gallery that has our picks for the PC game titles we most want to play in the next few months. That list include a long awaited MMO, a new expansion pack to the biggest MMO, an alternate history RTS game, a number of great looking first person shooters, a post-apocalyse RPG and a title that some are already declaring "the greatest game ever made." (in fact you can get a clue as to one of the games on our list from this custom case mode we saw at QuakeCon).

Our list of games is ordered by their scheduled release dates. Keep in mind while checking our picks that release dates can and do change at the last minute. Our picks represent the best info on these dates at the time of the posting of this article but if any changes are announced afterward we will report on them on the news site.

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We continue to march up Hell's Highway with the latest Brothers in Arms trailer. This one emphasizes the role of teamwork to survive battle and highlights the command system players will use to issue orders to teammates.

Download the Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway "Teamwork" HD Trailer (99 MB)