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If you like saving money and playing PC games, then we have some more deals from you that have popped up on the internet today. Some of these sales last for a week and others last just for one day:

• Steam has just made the first person shooter Breach available for download. Its regular price has been lowered from the previously announced $19.99 to just $14.99. Furthermore the game is on sale until February 2 for a mere $11.99
• Steam also has put Fallen Earth: Blood Sports on sale for the next week, pricing it at just $9.99.
• Direct2Drive has put the THQ racing game MX vs ATV Reflex on sale for today only for just $4.95.
• Impulse has taken 50 percent off the price of the adventure game Runaway - A Twist of Fate for today only.

We are down to the last days of the baseball season. Any predictions on who will win the World Series?

• New Steam bug updates are now available for Fallen Earth and Worms Reloaded.
• Gamasutra has a new (and funny) post-mortem for the hit indie game AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity.
• Civilization IV's catchy theme song now has some lyrics. Really.
• You can read or listen to an except from the upcoming novel of Star Wars The Force Unleashed II.
• Derek Smart gives his very detailed version of the timeline of his involvement in the ongoing Alganon MMO saga.

It was yet another fairly slow news day in PC gaming land. Is anyone surprised that Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam is being shown for the first time at the Tokyo Game Show?

• Lots of new patches are available via Steam for Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike Source, Day of Defeat Source, Garry's Mod, Fallen Earth, Gratituious Space Battles, and Stargate Resistance.
• Also the Steam release of Sacraboar has a new update that adds 10 new missions, new achievements, Steam Cloud supports and multi-monitor support.
• All of the Infinite Interactive Puzzle games, including Puzzle Quest 2, now have Steam Cloud support.
• The StarCraft II forums now have some answers to some common map editor questions.
• Want to make a mask that looks like Borderlands' Psycho Bandits? Here's how you do it.

It's Wednesday and that means its time for the PC game download site Direct2Drive to offer up a new set of games on sale for just $6 as part of its sixth anniversary this month. From now until next Wednesday, the list of games that are on sale for $6 each include Zombie Pirates, Fallen Earth, Sid Meier's Pirates, SWAT 4, Disciples II Gold, Frontlines Fuel of War, King's Bounty: Armored Princess, Fort Zombie and Crayon Physics Deluxe.

In addition for today only, Direct2Drive has put The Sims 3 on sale for $19.95 along with the expansion pack The Sims 3 Ambitions for #14.95.

Folks who use Valve's Steam web site today got to check out a number of new games and price cuts for the PC game download service. One of them is for Final Fantasy XI. The Square Enix MMO and all of its expansions are on sale today through Thursday for just $4.99.

Also on sale is Fallen Earth: Blood Sports, the post-apocalypse themed MMO. The game is currently on sale for $17.99 until July 27. You can also get an exclusive weapon, the Steam Cleaner gun, if you purchase the game on Steam by that date.

MOTORM4X: Offroad Extreme is a new off-road driving game making its Steam appearance. It's on sale for just $4.89 until July 27. Finally Steam has added Sim City 4 Deluxe Edition to its library. It's also now available via Impulse.

It's never a good sign when a game developer announces some kind of "restructuring". Today that was the announcement made by Icarus Studios, the North Carolina-based co-developer (with Fallen Earth LLC) of the 2009 launched post-apocalypse MMO Fallen Earth. The official press release states that Icarus Studios revealed a "restructure of the company resources and staffing, effective immediately."

Usually a "restructuring" is a big code word for "layoffs". While specific numbers were not mentioned our sister site Massively reports on rumors that as many as 80 percent of the developer's team members may now no longer be with the company. A post on the game's official message board by a staff member states, "As of today, there are 28 core staff members plus customer support staff and GMs." Even with this move, the developer still plans to support and expand Fallen Earth, including an upcoming patch slated for release on May 7 that will add "Blood Sports" PvP to the game.

This week has been filled with Mac-based gaming news. First there was the official announcement of Valve porting its games and its Steam download client to the Mac. Then the possible prospect of porting Battlefield Bad Company 2 to the Mac was brought up by its developer. Now developer Icarus Studios has announced that their MMO platform has been ported to Mac OS X.

As a consequence, the MMO that uses their tech, the post-apocalypse themed game Fallen Earth, now has a free 10 day trial available to download now for the Mac which requires Intel-based Macintosh machines to work. The 5.1 GB client uses the Wine open source software to port the game to the Mac. Mac and PC players of Fallen Earth will be able to play in the same servers.

This client installs the post-apocalyptic online first-person shooter / role-playing game hybrid, Fallen Earth and allows you to play for free for 10 days. Visit the official website for more information about the game and to register an account. System requirements can be seen after the jump.

"Mankind teeters on the edge of extinction, clinging to the bones of the old world while trying to recover long forgotten secrets. The Grand Canyon is the last bastion of humanity. The Shiva virus, which wiped out nearly all of humanity, has left the survivors and subsequent generations altered. The virus caused mutations, some of which were benign, some malignant, and just some incredible.

It is your choice to either rise above the hardships of the post-apocalyptic world and rebuild what was lost or embrace the destruction and erase the corrupt world that remains"

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It looks like the team over at Stardock are celebrating Christmas a bit early. Their Impulse PC game download site has now launched their Christmas sale offering over 50 of titles with big price cuts with some as much as 60 percent off their normal price.

Among the notable titles on sale are Fallen Earth for $24.95, Europa Universalis III Complete for $11.99, Trine for $9.99, Shadowgrounds for $3.99 and Eve Online for just $9.99. They also have a big game bundle with the Meridian 4 Complete Pack. You can download over 30 games from the publisher for just $59.99, a savings of over 60 percent.

It's official; Christmas is just one week away so get moving and check out these sales now:

• Direct2Drive has put three games on sale for one day only today: Trine has a 50 percent price cut to $19.95 today. Deus Ex is on sale for just $4.95 today and Deus Ex: Invisible War is on sale for $14.95. Plus Fallen Earth has a $10 price cut and an extra Survival Kit with three exclusive in-game items. Finally Alganon has a $5 discount if you use the code 5OFFALGANON at checkout.
• Impulse has several games on sale including Eve Online for just $9.95 and Europa Universalis III Complete for $11.99. Oh and a one day sale for Galactic Civilizations II for just $1.99.
  
• Best Buy has Guild Wars Trilogy on sale for just $14.95.
• Finally, the EA Store web site is offering 40 percent off their downloadable games if you purchase two or more titles.