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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.

This patch updates the retail version of Bully: Scholarship Edition for the PC to v1.2. This patch provides a "compatibility fix for poor streaming performance, random lock ups, and random crashes affecting 64-bit Windows with over 2 GB of RAM." Steam customers are encouraged to use the auto-updater.

Download Bully: Scholarship Edition v1.2 Retail Patch (15 MB)