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Steam's third phase of its current Treasure Hunt promotion and contest has now gone live. As with the first two parts of the contest, this third chapter is giving players a chance to complete four objectives inside of two days. Completing each objective gives the player another entry in the two-day content where 20 Steam users will be given their top five games on their Steam wish lists for free. The big prize comes at the end of the Treasure Hunt where someone will get 100 free games of their choice on Steam.

The objectives to complete for the next two days are:

Join an Official Group
Get Back in Business in Mafia II
Be a Devastator in Magic: The Gathering
Set a leaderboard score of at least 85,370 for 'Classic - Small Wonder' in Droplitz

Also for the next two days Mafia II's price goes down to $33.49, Magic - The Gathering can be bought for $4.99 and Droplitz can be yours for a mere $2.50.

With all of the excitement behind today's release of Civilization V, you can easily miss some mid-week PC game sales that appeared today. Over at Direct2Drive they have two games that have price cuts from now until 1 pm Eastern time on Wednesday. One is The Sims 3 World Adventures expansion pack for just $14.95. The other is the gold edition of Company of Heroes for a mere $7.50.

Over at Steam, they have their mid-week madness sale from now until Thursday the puzzle game Droplitz is on sale for a mere $2. That's an 80 percent cut from the game's normal price.

With all of the BlizzCon stuff we did last week we forgot to mention a few notable downloadable PC game sales that are still going on as we write this post. One is over at Steam where the downloadable puzzle game Droplitz is on sale until August 28 for just $1.99. Yep that's an 80 percent price cut from its normal Steam price. The game also has added support for some new Steam leaderboards. Also Steam is giving folks a chance to buy a bundle of Southpeak's Raven Squad and Section 8 for 25 percent off before they are released on the service.

Over at GoG.com there is still time to download Beyond Good and Evil and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time at a discount. You can get either one of the Ubisoft games for 30 percent off their normal GoG.com price or get both in a bundle for 50 percent off. The sale ends tonight at 11:59 pm ET. However GoG.com just launched another sale for the excellent FPS Shogo: Mobile Armor Division. You can download and purchase that game for 10 percent off its normal price until August 30. Finally Direct2Drive has put Defense Grid: The Awakening on sale until Sunday for $9.95.

Stardock's Impulse web site is offering up some solid weekend sales deals on a number of downloadable PC titles. From now until the end of the day Sunday you can download games like World of Goo for just $9.99 (a 50 percent discount) and Puzzle Quest Galactrix for $9.99 (another 50 percent discount).

Other games on sale include Braid for $9.99 (a 25 percent discount from its normal price) and Droplitz for just $4.99. They have also got a Trainz collectors pack with four games in the train sim series bundled for just $49.99 (compared to a normal $79.00 price). Finally their sale of Merdian4 games we mentioned last week has bee extend to also end on Sunday.

Altus USA is usually known for bringing a number of Japanese DS, PSP and PS2 titles to the US. Today the publisher announced plans to release a downloadable puzzle game, Droplitz, for the PC and various other platforms. The game comes from developer Blitz Arcade.

The title has players rotate circles that form paths down to the bottom allowing "droplitz" to hit the bottom and thus earn points. Four gameplay modes (Classic, Zendurance, Power Up and Infection) will be included and online leaderboards will also be supported. The game is set for release sometime in the late spring time period by Altus. However no price point for Droplitz has been revealed.