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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving but already folks are starting to buy their holiday gifts (or at the very least thinking about creating their lists really hard). There have been a lot of PC games to choose from in the past 12 months and today Big Download wants to offer a few suggestions for the person who has a PC gamer on his or her list.

The games listed below are what we feel are good gift choices that should please any hardcore or even casual PC gamer that you have to buy for this year. We have even thrown in some indie titles and some games that are priced a bit cheaper than the norm for those of you on a budget. Check out our 2010 holiday list after the jump:

Editor's Note: Steven Wong contributed to this article

Dawn of War II players must dive once more into the breach with the of Chaos Rising expansion. As the title indicates, one of the Space Marines' oldest foes is surfacing in the Aurelia Sector, and it's up to the Commander and his squads to cut off the head of corruption and Chaos before it spreads. Alternatively, players can give in to the corruption to boost their powers in new ways.

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In the Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising expansion, players have a chance to combat the forces of Chaos in an effort to rescue the galaxy. Or, they can give in to the temptation of ultimate power and harness it for themselves.

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It looks like the arrival of the Chaos Rising expansion for Dawn of War 2 will impact multiplayer in many ways, including the Last Stand survival arena mode. This video provides looks at both the Tyranid and Chaos heroes as they make their debut in survival. Both are playable now with the recent Dawn of War 2 multiplayer update. The Chaos Rising expansion releases on March 11th.

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All new units will release for Dawn of War 2 multiplayer in preparation for the Chaos Rising expansion. As seen in this gameplay trailer, can really tear up the battlefield... sometimes literally. Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising releases on March 11. The original Dawn of War 2 single player demo can be downloaded here.

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In preparation of the Chaos Rising expansion, current Dawn of War 2 players will be in for a bit of a treat. Each of the current factions will be receiving new units to bolster the multiplayer armies. Of the few units that are featured in this video, the WeirdBoy (we're guessing the Ork spelling) has got to be the most over the top, with abilities that include hurling allies at enemies and bringing down the Foot of Gork to stomp on enemies like an angry nuclear god. The new units will be added to the game in March before the Chaos Rising expansion releases on the 11th. Players will want to get used to them in order to properly utilize them against the forces of Chaos.

The single player demo for Dawn of War 2 can be downloaded here.

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Today we come to the end of our 2010 PC games feature as we check out a number of RTS titles due for release next year as well as some other games. Perhaps the biggest PC game release of the year is in the section but we will let the feature speak for itself.

You can go back and check out part one and part two of our 2010 game preview that focuses on action and FPS games and part three which looked at role playing and MMO games. But we are not done quite yet. Tomorrow we will reveal our picks for the top 10 most anticipated PC games of the upcoming year.

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You can add one more game to the massive list of PC titles due out in the first quarter of 2010. This time it's for Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising. Thanks to a post in the game's official Facebook site, we now know that the stand alone expansion pack to the sci-fi RTS game from developer Relic and publisher THQ is due for release on March 11 in the US. Europeans get the expansion pack one day later on March 12.

That means that sci-fi RTS fans have yet another major release coming this March with Supreme Commander 2 due out on March 2 and Command and Conquer 4 set to ship on March 16. Will one or more of these games blink and be delayed to move out of the way of the competition?

[Via Relic News]

It doesn't seem right that the Chaos Space Marines, the corrupt demon-worshiping archenemies of the Space Marines, never made it into the original Dawn of War 2 campaign. However, the upcoming expansion, Chaos Rising, will fix that oversight. Picking up one year after the Dawn of War 2's conclusion, players are taken a whole new world, one that's completely frozen over, to battle against their old nemesis. Along the way, players will jump aboard a derelict space hulk to uncover its secrets. The expansion brings new characters and abilities and all-new corruption system that adds a different style of gameplay and multiple endings as players choose whether or not to become evil.

Dawn of War 2: Chaos Rising is expected to release in March, 2010.

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