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This week the GameTap online PC game subscription-download service has added the third person action game Damnation to its list of titles people can play for free with their monthly subscription rate. The game, released last spring, began life as an Unreal Tournament 2004 total conversion before it was made into a commercial game by the developer Blue Omega Entertainment.

In related news, the 2007 WWII action-strategy game Battlestations Midway is still free to play on GameTap until this Tuesday, November 24. Also two more games have been given 64-bit support; the casual game Jewel Craft and the historical RTS game Praetorians. Finally, next week's update on GameTap will come on Tuesday due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

GameTap's latest title for its subscriber-download PC game site is Republic: The Revolution, the interesting but flawed 2003 release from the now defunct Elixir Studios. The game is a complex (in fact way too complex) simulation that has you trying to take control of a fictional Eastern European country. Also added this week to GameTap is the casual game title Hot Dish.

GameTap has also once again freed up one of its subscriber-only games and allowed anyone to play it free for two weeks. This time is Battlestations Midway, the 2007 released WWII themed action strategy game from Eidos. The game will be free to play until November 26.

The subscription-download hybrid PC game site GameTap has added yet another title to its list of games people can play with one monthly paid subscription. This time the game is Still Life 2, the recently released "M" rated adventure game from publisher Microids. It's a sequel to the 2005 original Still Life which itself was a sequel to a previous 2003 released adventure game Post Mortem.

Still hanging around GameTap's free game selection this week is the American McGee's Grimm chapter Master Thief. It will stay in the free section of the game site until this coming Thursday where it will be replaced with a currently unannounced game.

GameTap's latest addition to its premium subscription service is Evil Genius, the terrifically campy super-spy villain sim-strategy game that was released in 2004 from the now defunct Elixir Studios. As we reported earlier this year, the rights to the game have been bought by Rebellion and the UK developer is thinking about reviving the game and others it has bought from the former Vivendi Games.

GameTap has also freed up one of the chapters of the episodic action game American McGee's Grimm. The episode, Master Thief, was a Halloween-themed chapter in the series when it was first released and in honor of the holiday GameTap is making it available for everyone to play for free for the next two weeks.

Today marks the fourth birthday of GameTap, the popular PC game subscription-download site. To celebrate the site has added a new game to its premimum monthly subscription tier. It's Unreal Tournament III, the 2007 shooter from Epic Games. The game has full 64-bit support enabled for those of you running such an OS on your PC.

But that's not all. GameTap has also enabled 64-bit support for a number of their games that are already on their service. Even better news is that this weekend a good portion of those games can be played for free. Check out the entire list for yourself to see if there's something that interests you:

Project Snowblind (free this weekend)
Hitman: Contracts (free this weekend)
Tomb Raider: Anniversary (free this weekend)
D.N.A. (free this weekend)
Sacred Gold (free this weekend)
Magic Ball 3 (free this weekend)
Hitman: Blood Money (free this weekend)
Unreal Tournament 2004
Beach Life (free this weekend)
Turtix (free this weekend)
Infernal (free this weekend)
Overlord
Hospital Tycoon
Tomb Raider Legend (free this weekend)

GameTap's latest update to their PC game subscription service is a timely one. It's Trackmania United Forever, the racing-puzzle game from French developer Nadeo.Now people who subscribe to GameTap's premium service can download and play the game as much as they want. The game also supports being run on 64-bit operating systems. GameTap recently revealed plans to add more support for 64-bit games in the coming weeks. Nadeo recently announced plans to release Trackmania 2 and a few days ago Ubisoft announced they would be acquiring Nadeo.

Also this week, the action title Total Overdose continues to be available in GameTap's free subscription service tier until October 22.

The PC game download subscription service GameTap has been lacking support for running games with 64-bit operating systems. That finally changes today with their latest addition to their premium subscription service. The recent action-puzzle game Trine is not only part of the GameTap library but its the first game with 64-bit support. GameTap says with a few exceptions all of the new games added to their service will have 64-bit support and older games will have that support added at the rate of several games a week.

Also this week, the action title Total Overdose will be available in GameTap's free subscription service until October 22. Finally all of their classic browser based games now have save support at any point in the game.

The subscription PC game download service GameTap has added yet another title to its premimum monthly line-up. Its the Gold edition of Heroes of Might and Magic V, the latest game in the long running turn based strategy series. The Gold edition has the original game plus the two expansion packs.

In related news, their free section of games is getting a makeover with five titles being removed from the free portion of GameTap (Jagged Alliance 2, King of the Monsters 2, Psychonauts, Cuban Missile Crisis and Earthworm Jim). In their place comes five new games that will be added to the free roster (O.R.B., The Chosen: Well of Souls, Twinkelstar Sprites, Aveyond and Descent Freespace).

GameTap's regular weekly update to their PC game download/subscription service has an interesting new addition this week. It's Rayman Raving Rabbids, the 2006 released PC version of Ubisoft's collection of mini-games that actually found a bigger audience when it was a Wii launch title. The PC version is GameTap's newest game for its premimum month subscribers.

In addition, GameTap has give its free users another new game to play with from now until October 7. It's Sacrifice, the unusual RTS game from the now defunct Shiny Interactive and publisher Interplay. If you want more info about this classic game check out Big Download's recent Boot Disk article on Sacrifice.

Like creatures that only come out at night, most big PC game sales only come out for the weekend. Let's look at them together so we won't be so scared:

• Impulse has once again put a number of their titles on sale this weekend including Droplitz for just $4.99 and Gratuitous Space Battles for $19.99.
• GamersGate has put Takeda 3 on sale this weekend for just $14.95, a 50 percent savings.
• Steam has put The Secret of Monkey Island remake on sale this weekend for just $4.99.Also the classic Interplay games MDK and MDK 2 are on sale for 10 percent off their normal price or get both for the bundle price of $14.99. Also the previously announced free weekend trial for Unreal Tournament 3 plus the sales are now live. Finally you can save 20 percent for the just released Madballs in Babo: Invasion game plus give a one day guest pass to a friend if you buy the game in the next week.
  
• Gametap has added Prey to it's list of games available via its subscription service.
• Direct2Drive also has The Secret of Monkey Island remake on sale for 50 percent off. They also have a $5 off sale for Call of Duty 4 if you put in the code 5OFFCOD4 at checkout from now until Sunday.