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UK-based publisher Codemasters has not been immune to the current economic situation and today reports are that the company is close to securing some more money after 2009 left it short of cash, according to a new report at the UK based Time Online web site.

The story claims that in addition to new funds from existing investors Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs Codemasters will gain money from an unnamed new investor source. However the publisher's current release schedule is lacking in upcoming games. After releasing several titles in 2009, including Damnation, Fuel, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising and Dirt 2 the company currently has just one upcoming game that's officially announced; the long-delayed MMO Jumpgate Evolution.

Extra! Extra! . . Read all about it. More PC game savings hit the interweb tubes this weekend. Also, the NFL gets going on Sunday (if you like that sort of thing).

• GoGamer.com has a number of PC games on sale from now until Tuesday at 3 am ET. That includes the recent racing game Fuel for just $19.90, the upcoming PC port of Red Faction: Guerrilla for $29.90 and Fallout 3 also for $29.90.
• GoG.com's weekend sales deal has a two game bundle deal combining Postal and Postal 2 for the price of $11.98, a 25 percent discount from its normal price. That sale ends at 11:59 pm ET on Monday.
• Finally Direct2Drive has cut $5 off the price of Section 8 from now until Sunday. You have to put in the code 5OFFSECTION8 at checkout.

FUEL takes place in an alternate reality where global warming has taken its toll on the environment and civilization is devastated by powerful, erratic weather patterns. Of course, where there's catastrophe, others see opportunity. In this case, racers decided to take advantage of the abandoned real estate for their own entertainment. They form a fringe society that is determined to burn up the last remaining fuel supplies for extreme all-terrain racing. Covering 14,000 km^2 (over 5,000 square miles) of the American Northwest mapped using real-life satellite footage, FUEL is perhaps the biggest racing game to date. Areas include landmarks like Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon, remade into crazy race courses where players can drive everything from motorbikes, to ATV's, to monster trucks. However, despite its enormity and wide variety of terrain that spans from desert to snowy mountain tops, it soon becomes apparent that size isn't everything.

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As they usually do, the game retail web site GoGamer.com has taken out the scissors this weekend to cut the prices of a number of both new and older PC games. The sale, which end at 3 am ET on Tuesday, has the newly released PC port of Street Fighter 4 for $33.90. The PC port of Prototype is now available for $36.90 and the racing game Fuel is now priced at $24.90.

There's lots of other PC games involved in the sale including some for just a few bucks. For example you can grab Red Faction II, Mirror's Edge, and Prince of Persia for just $5.90 each.

This is the playable demo for FUEL, the open-world racing game where players drive across an ecologically devastated US Midwest. However, the erratic and extreme weather patterns make for tremendous stunts.

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This is the official launch trailer for Fuel, which was released for the PC platform this week by publisher Codemasters. The trailer shows off a little more than a minute of the the off-road racing features in this new game from French developer Asobo Studios.

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A Wild West shooter and a open world driving game are the highlights in the new PC game released this week:

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood: Developer Techland and publisher Ubisoft team up again on this sequel to the 2007 Western shooter. Play as one of two of the McCall brothers as they try to find the lost gold of Juarez while engaging in some six shooter firefights.

The Codemasters team working on Fuel knew that it would have its hands full in developing the open world racing game. New technology had to be built from the ground up, but it was worth all the time and effort, since Fuel will feature 5,560 square miles for racers to cover, in addition to huge unpredictable weather effects, making it the largest racing game developed for consoles to date. In Fuel, players race along an ecologically devastated area of the midwest, which has some extreme weather conditions. The game is scheduled to release on console systems and the PC on June 5th.

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Driving around an ecologically devastated wasteland doesn't have to be a lonely experience. This trailer features Fuel's multiplayer capabilities, which support up to 16 players and enables users to create custom races.

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This trailer for Fuel provides a quick run down of the different event modes players can participate in when racing across an ecologically devastated wasteland and using its violent and erratic weather to your advantage. Fuel is expected to release later this month.

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