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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.

Last year's zombie themed action-strategy game Fort Zombie hasn't gotten an update in a while. Today, the game's publisher Paradox Interactive solved that with a new automatic update to the game developed by Kerberos Interactive. The 1.07 update adds new missions, weapons and more to the $9.99 title.

The new missions include visits to a corn maze and a movie theater. The new weapons include the M1911a pistol and Model 70 Savage hunting rifle along with three new melee weapons; the machete, sickle and pitchfork. There's quite a number of new additions, changes and of course bug fixes in this new update.

The recently released $9.99 RPG Fort Zombie brought role playing to the overdone zombie genre. Now the folks at the game's devloper Kerberos Productions have released an automatic update to the game that brings some new free content to shoot even more undead flesh with.

Specifically the patch adds over 10 new missions to the game, some new weapons (two automatic pistols in fact) support for incremental weapon reloading and lots more. There are of course a bunch of changes and bug fixes in the latest auto update including one that fixes all known typos. We could use such a bug fix ourselves every day.

Fort Zombie reinvents the idea of a zombie themed horror survival game by having players fortify a building with weapons and supplies to fend off the incoming threat. Players will have to run out into the town, collect useful items and rescue survivors to survive. Continue after the jump for another gameplay video.

Fort Zombie releases tomorrow, October 30th and will retail for $9.99.

"In Fort Zombie, players must save the town of Piety, Indiana from an impending wave of zombies migrating from a nearby major city. Players are challenged to take control of a single building throughout the entire campaign. By effectively building this structure into the ultimate fort, as well as carefully searching for supplies and finding and training survivors in Piety, players have a chance at conquering and outlasting the flesh-hungry zombies."

Download HD Fort Zombie Gameplay Trailer #2 (92 MB)
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Paradox Interactive's timing is near perfect for the release of its upcoming zombie-themed action RPG Fort Zombie. First announced less than two months ago, Paradox announced today that the game is set for a digital download release on October 30, the day before Halloween.

Developed by Sword of the Stars creators Kerberos Productions, the $9.99 title joins an already massive list of PC games that are scheduled to be released either in stores or via download this week. We love the idea of a zombie RPG but will this game be worth even the small amount that Paradox is asking for it? We will see in a few days.

"In Fort Zombie, players must save the town of Piety, Indiana from an impending wave of zombies migrating from a nearby major city. Players are challenged to take control of a single building throughout the entire campaign. By effectively building this structure into the ultimate fort, as well as carefully searching for supplies and finding and training survivors in Piety, players have a chance at conquering and outlasting the flesh-hungry zombies."

Fort Zombie will be available this fall via digital distribution outlets.

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In an economic era where some game publishers are reducing their future game releases, Paradox Interactive seems to be increasing the number of games it has planned for the future. Part of the reason is that Paradox is releasing a number of games and expansion packs as download exclusives, bypassing the retail market.

This week Paradox announced their release schedule for the rest of 2009 and for the early part of 2010. As you can see there's only three upcoming titles that will be released to stores; all the rest are digital download exclusives. Paradox also hints that in addition to the games listed below they have a number of unannounced titles coming up.

Download only
Elven Legacy: Ranger, Oct 20, 2009
East India Company: Privateer, Oct 27, 2009
For the Glory (A Europa Universalis game), Nov 10, 2009
Elven Legacy: Siege, Nov 17, 2009
Elven Legacy: Magic, Dec 1, 2009
Arsenal of Democracy (A Hearts of Iron game), Dec 8, 2009
EU III: Heir to the Throne, Dec 15, 2009
Fort Zombie, Q4 2009
Retail and download
Mount & Blade Warband, March 19, 2010
Ship Simulator Extremes, Q2, 2010
Victoria 2, Q2, 2010

Paradox Interactive used PAX 2009 as an excuse to reveal plans for Fort Zombie, an upcoming action-RPG from Sword of the Stars developer Kerberos Productions. Due out later this fall, the game will be released as a digital download title and, yes, is yet another game that features the undead as the central conceit

The game will have the player control the townsfolk of Piety, Indiana as a wave of zombies decend on the town. Players will take over a building and try to improve and shore it up while also searching for survivors and training the townspeople to take on the zombies. The first screenshots from the game have also been released. Pricing has not yet been announced.