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The Steam PC game download site continues to willingly give out some huge one-day price cuts on top of the sales that are already in place as part of its annual holiday sales event. Here's the latest list of games with price cuts that will last until 1 pm Eastern time on Thursday:

Dead Space - $6.80
Plants Vs Zombies Game of the Year Edition - $4
Swords and Soldiers - $2.50
Kane and Lynch 2 - $4.99
Brothers In Arms series - Save 50 percent off all games in series
Hearts of Iron III Complete Pack (game plus all DLC) - $14.10
City of Heroes Going Rogue Complete Collection - $10
Greed Corp - $2.50
The Quake Collection (all games in series except Quake IV and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars) - $10.20
Sniper Ghost Warrior - $7.50
The Ball - $4.99
Amnesia The Dark Descent - $6.80 or $4.80 if you own any game in the Penumbra series.

Publisher Square Enix issued some revised financial numbers today. The company revealed that the company's net income for the April-September 2010 time period was down 29.2 percent from previous estimated sales predictions.

Square Enix said part of the reason for the shortfall was due to "sales of new game software releases which experienced relatively slower growth." While specific games were not mentioned in the press release it's likely that Square Enix means that new titles released in that time period such as Kane and Lynch 2 and Final Fantasy XIV Online did not sell as many units as the company anticipated.

[Via 1Up.com]

The on again-off again movie adaptation of Io Interactive's Kane and Lynch action game franchise is now reportedly off again. The Los Angeles Times reports that the movie version was supposed to start filming in October but now word is that the movie's planned director Patrick Alessandrin is no longer involved.

Now the producers of the long gestating movie at Millenium Films have decided to push back the movie's start date until early 2011 while they look for yet another director. Wayne Kramer, F. Gary Gray and Antoine Fuqua are all in the running but so far nothing is settled yet. Bruce Willis and Jamie Foxx are still, at least at the moment, planning to play the title characters.

[Via Kotaku]

It's been a fairly slow week for the first half but today things picked up with a number of new game announcements including a new Section 8 game that, from the looks of things, is being self-published by Timegate. Cool.

• New bug patches have been released via Steam for Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days, Tropico 3 and Tropico 3 Absolute Power, and the Counter-Strike Source beta.
• Until 1 pm Eastern time Friday you can get Blood Bowl on Direct2Drive for just $19.95 and Star Wars Battlefront 2 for a mere $4.95
• There's a new graphics driver hotfix for ATI AMD Radeon graphics cards that improves performance for H.A.W.X.

It takes planning, coordination and plenty of firepower to pull off a $4 million dollar heist in four minutes. However, the three new Kane & Lynch 2 multiplayer and arcade mode DLC expansion packs that released yesterday should help players gain an advantage. The packs are: The Doggie Bag Pack, Alliance Weapons Pack, and Multiplayer Mask Pack. Collectively, these DLC expansion include new weapons, some new maps, and menacing new masks for players to wear during the heist. Continue reading after the jump for a more detailed description of what each pack has. Each one is available for purchase on Steam and range from $1.99 to $5.99.

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The recently released third person shooter Kane and Lynch 2 Dog Days didn't waste any time offering downloadable content for players. The PC version of the game has no less than three new paid DLC options which can now be downloaded via Steam. The biggest one is the Doggie Bag Pack which has two new multiplayer maps (Dockyard and High Rise) plus the Radio Tower map that was included as a pre-order bonus for GameStop purchase. It also has five new weapons and can be purchased for $5.99.

Two more smaller DLC releases are also available. The Alliance Weapons Pack adds seven new firearms in multiplayer modes for $2.99 while the Multiplayer Mask Pack adds eight new masks for players to use for $1.99. You can check out our verdict on the game right here.

Two of the most notorious criminals gaming return in Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. For those who aren't familiar with these characters, Kane is an ex-mercenary while Lynch is a self-medicating psychotic killer. A lot has changed since the conclusion of the first game, most notably, how these two guys went their separate ways. The sequel focuses on Lynch, who now lives in Shanghai with his girlfriend and earns money as a henchman. A big smuggling job comes up, so Lynch naturally calls Kane to fly in and help out. Nothing ever goes well when these two come together, and this case is no exception. A simple errand goes wrong, and things escalate into a full blown gang war. Before you know it, Kane and Lynch are hitting the streets and shooting... well... everyone.

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Well that didn't take too long did it? Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days may have just been released but the folks at developer Io Interactive are not wasting time providing DLC content for its new third person shooter. Publisher Square Enix announced today that the game will be getting its first dose of DLC (pun intended) two weeks from now.

On August 31 people who own the game will be able to get the "Multiplayer Mask Pack, Alliance Weapon Pack and Doggie Bag Pack." These packs will provide new weapons and items for the game's multiplayer modes. So far there's no word on what the packs will cost to download.

The OnLive streaming PC game service has just announced its second day-and-date game release (the first was Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4). Starting later tonight 12:01 am Pacific time (3:01 am Eastern time) members of the service will be able to purchase and play Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days on the same day the Io Interactive-developed third person shooter ships to stores.

In addition to being able to play the game OnLive members who purchase the title from them will also be able to access another free game from OnLive's library. The free game offer ends on Monday, August 24.

After a fairly slow couple of weeks in new PC game releases, this week brings two major titles to retail stores. One of the is a sequel to a controversial third person shooter while the other is a expansion pack to a long running MMO title.

Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days: Even though the original game didn't get the best reviews, developer Io Interactive and publisher Square Enix have decided to release this sequel to the 2008 third person shooter with the somewhat nuts duo of Kane and Lynch doing what they do best: killing people. The game features online co-op for the campaign and the multiplayer Fragile Alliance mode returns for the sequel.