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Hold onto your debit cards. Steam has just posted up a new batch of PC games on sale from now until 1 pm Eastern Time on Thursday. We know; it's so tempting but we bet there's a few games on this list that you have to have RIGHT NOW:

Tales of Monkey Island - $17.49
Railworks 2 - $8
Spore Complete Pack (the original game and two expansions) - $19.99
Just Cause 2 - $7.50
Aliens Vs Predator - $5
Trials 2 Second Edition - $2.50
Day of Defeat Source - $2.50
Zuma's Revenge - $8
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - $14.99
Recettear An Item Shop's Tale - $6.80
Assassin's Creed 2 - $14.99 or $12 if you own Assassin's Creed 1
Bully Scholarship Edition - $3.75

Direct2Drive and the new Games For Windows Marketplace continue their daily sales event this week. Direct2Drive's daily deal is for Rockstar's Bully Scholarship Edition. You can get the unique open world game set in a boarding school today only for just $3.75 compared to its regular $14.95 price.

The Games For Windows Marketplace web site has also cut the price today only for Batman Arkham Asylum for just $11.99, a 60 percent cut from its normal price. In related news the site has added the Microsoft-published puzzle game Carneyvale: Showtime to its list of games for just $9.99. Finally Steam has added the arcade shooter Ion Assault and Alien Breed 3: Descent and both have 10 percent price cuts for the next week.

It's the start of a new work week and the Direct2Drive PC game download site is still holding daily deals as part of its "Summer Ends" sales event. For today's daily sales event, the site has put a recent first person shooter and and older open world action game on the price chipping block until 1 pm Eastern time on Tuesday.

First it's a sale on Battlefield Bad Company 2, the recent first person shooter (you know, the genre that hardly anyone plays on the PC anymore). The title is now on sale for $19.95. Also on sale today only is Bully: Scholarship Edition. You can get the PC port of the open world action game for just $7.50.

Just over a year ago the New England-based game developer Mad Doc Software got purchased by Rockstar Games and was renamed Rockstar New England. Now the developer is rumored to be suffering from layoffs, according to a non-sourced article at Kotaku.

According to their report, the developer may have had layoffs that affected "at least 10 percent of the studio". As Mad Doc Software, the studio created mostly PC games including the RTS games Star Trek Armada II and Empire Earth II and III. As Rockstar New England, the only game they have released was the PC port of Rockstar's Bully: Scholarship Edition which was filled with bugs when it was released in the fall of 2008.

There's no official word from Rockstar Games or its parent company Take Two Interactive but Eurogamer, reporting from the exhibit floor of the Games Convention today, states that posters with the Bully logo have been spotted along with a German language note at the bottom that translates in English to "Coming soon to the PC."

In case you might not be familiar with the game, Bully is set in a fictional boarding school where the player attends classes, deals with other classmates and also has to deal with school bullies. It's one of the more talked about open world action games in recent years. Released first for the PS2 in the fall of 2006, the game got slammed by non-gamer critics long before the title was even released, claiming that the game would encourage bullies in real life. Noted game critic Jack Thompson tried unsuccessfully to bar the game from being sold in his home state of Florida. in the end, Bully got high review marks from game critics. Earlier this year the Wii and Xbox 360 got their own version of Bully with extra content. There's no word yet on what extra content, if any, the Bully PC port will receive.