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We have been following the progress of Dead Meets Lead for a little while and today developer Keldyn Interactive has announced that the upcoming the pirate-themed zombie action game will be made available for download at several PC game sites, including Impulse, GamersGate and Desura.

Desura is also currently taking pre-orders for Dead Meets Lead at its web site. The normal price for the game will be $13.99 but pre-orders will get a 30 percent discount, cutting the price down to $9.75. Pre-orders shoulf show up on Impulse and GamersGate soon with the same discount. Dead Meets Lead is currently scheduled for release sometime in the second quarter of 2011.

Nearly a year ago the team behind the mod-themed web site Moddb.com announced plans for a new PC game and mod download service called Desura. It's taken a long time but now Desura is letting the cat (or rather download client) out of the bag. People who want to check out this first version of Desura can do so by leaving a comment on the news post announcing the event on Moddb.com

Like Steam and Impulse, Desura uses a separate download client to let gamers download both full games and mods for those games. Desura allows game developers. publishers and mod makers to upload their products into the service and to promote their games directly via Desura. At the moment there's not a lot of content available to beta testers; there are a few small indie games available as well as mods for larger game titles.

In December of 2009 the folks behind the popular mod gaming web site Moddb.com announced its plans to launch Desura, a new PC game download game service with some interesting new features. Unfortunately the site has yet to be officially launched. However it looks like the wait may be coming to an end soon.

In a new interview over at DIYGamer, Moddb.com founder Scott Reismanis states that the launch of Desura is "getting very close actually". One of the things that will make Desura different from other PC game download sites is the amount of control game developers and publishers will have in promoting their products on the site. Reismanis states that users will be "able to review games, 3rd party sites can plug into APIs, developers can post news, videos and images and can interact with their fans directly on the service should they so chose."

There's no doubt that the PC game industry is moving more and more towards a digital distribution model and today another such service officially announced its presense. The ModDB.com web site, perhaps the single biggest online resource for learning about and downloading third party mods for games, has just announced its plans to enter this growing market.

The service is going under the codenam Desura and ModDB.com claims their service differs from others like Steam and Direct2Drive in that they give mod and game developers more control over how they share things like news, screenshots, movies and other things to the public. Currently the service is in a private closed beta stage and there's no word on when Desura will go live to the public.