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You can't get rid of it. You can't even contain it. It's the PC game sales events that keep popping up. Today we have some more to let you know about. One is Ubisoft's daily sales event. For today only they have put Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 on the price chopping block, cutting it down to just $5.

Over at Matrix Games' web site, the strategy game publisher is being especially magnanimous. From now all the way to January 10, most games from the publisher have had their prices cut down 30 percent. Some have even deeper price cuts such as Conquest! Medieval Realms which has a 50 percent price cut.

Layoff news continues to hit the game industry. Today Kotaku reports that Ubisoft has give notices to 38 members of its Red Storm Entertainment studio in Cary, North Carolina. The story did not say how many team members remain at Red Storm, which created the Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon tactical shooter series.

A spokesperson for Ubisoft said the layoffs were due to "a realignment of production priorities" at the publisher but added that Red Storm team members affected by the layoffs will be given a chance " to consider positions in other Ubisoft studios." Red Storm's current project is working on the multiplayer features for Ghost Recon: Future Soldier which is due out in the first quarter of 2011.

The PC game subscription-download service GameTap has been adding more and more games to its library of titles. A few months ago it announced it would be adding titles from Microsoft and today the company announced a new deal with Ubisoft that renews its current contract and will add over 50 Ubisoft games to its subscription service.

GameTap plans to add titles like the Brothers In Arms series, the Rainbow Six Vegas series, the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter series, Far Cry 2, Assassin's Creed and more to its monthly subscription service. In addition Ubisoft games will be added to GameTap's digital download store.

As we head into the long Memorial Day weekend, we've spotted a couple of weekend deals on downloadable games that might be of interest. Over at GamersGate they have the recent pirate themed strategy game Age of Booty (from developer Certain Affinity and publisher Capcom) for just $4.99 this weekend. You can also purchase and download Civilization IV from the same outlet for just $14.99.

Meanwhile Direct2Drive has the PC version of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 on sale this weekend for just $9.99. Also the recently released first person shooter Necrovision is on sale for $23.99, a 20 percent reduction. You can find some more minor sales deals at Direct2Drive's web site.

As we do every Friday we point out the fact that Valve's Steam service puts one or more games on sale for the weekend. This time out the spotlight is on the Ghost Recon series of military shooter from Ubisoft. If you get them from Steam this weekend you will get a pretty nice price for them.

The Ghost Recon Complete Pack contains the original game, its two expansion packs, and the two games in the Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter series for one price of $19.99, a 50 percent savings from its normal $39.99 price. This price is for all five games together; they remain at their normal price individually.