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Fans of the PC version of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light have been waiting patiently for the game's promised DLC content to be released for our version Today the wait is over as the downloadable third person co-op action-adventure game from developer Crystal Dynamics now has some cool extras to check out via Steam.

One extra has been released for free as players can now play the games as Kane and Lynch from the game series of the same name. For $3.49 players can also download the Legacy of Kain character pack where you can control Kain and Raziel from that now dormant game franchise. There are also three new challenge map packs (All The Trappings, Things That Go Boom and Hazardous Reunion). Each adds four new maps to the game and each pack costs $3.49.

Some countries call December 26 Boxing Day; others simply call it, "A day to rest up after eating all that Christmas dinner." Whatever you call it the Steam PC game download site has a new batch of price cuts that will last until 1 pm Eastern time on Monday. Today's deals are all repeats of one day price cuts from Steam in the past week.

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light - $5.10
Wings of Prey - $5.99
Dead Rising 2 - $19.99
F.E.A.R. 1/2 - $9.99
Super Meat Boy - $3.75
Borderlands - Save 50 percent off original game and DLC
Assassin's Creed II - $14.99
The Witcher - $4.99
Mass Effect 1/2 - Save 50 percent off both games
Darksiders - $9.99
Battlefield Bad Company 2 - $6.80
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - $29.99

Before bought out by Eidos and contracted to reboot the beleagured Tomb Raider franchise, Crystal Dynamics was known for a different set of games: the Legacy of Kain series. With this new DLC for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, they have returned to one of the franchises that made them incredibly popular by putting Kain and Raziel (the two main characters from Legacy of Kain) into the world of Tomb Raider. It's an interesting trailer, and while the differences appear to be mostly cosmetic, it's still pretty cool to see Raziel and Kain working together once more.

Download HD Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light 'Raziel and Kain Character Pack DLC' Trailer
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The Steam PC game download site continues its annual and massive holiday sale into its second day today. While there are a ton of price breaks for individual games, publisher bundles and other game collections, the following games are on sale for just one day only, until 1 pm Eastern time on Wednesday.

Defense Grid: The Awakening - $2
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light - $5.10 or $3.60 if you own any Tomb Raider game
Burnout Paradise The Ultimate Box - $5
Gothic Bundle (all games in the Gothic series) - $34.99
Disciples III Renaissance - $7.50
Men of War Gold Edition - $8.75
The Witcher - $5
Resident Evil 5 - $10.50
BioShock 2 - $9.99
Aion - $10
Puzzle Quest - $1.50
The Polynomial - $2.50

The other character DLC was revealed in a "tweet" from Crystal Dynamics announcing that Kane and Lynch of the game series of the same name would also be included in a Lara Croft DLC pack. In fact the developer is asking its fans which pack (Kane and Lynch or Kain and Raziel) should be released first. We should get a (legal) download of the character packs before the end of the year. In the meantime you can check out the Kain and Raziel YouTube video after the jump:

[Via Joystiq]

Lara Croft And The Guardian of Light has been available to download and play for PC owners for close to two months now but the top down action-adventure game from developer Crystal Dynamics has finally gotten its first patch update. It's a pretty major one as the patch enabled online two-player co-op support for the game,

The patch is now available for automatic download via Steam. It also has some performance and stability improvements along with more audio and graphics polish to the game. The patch also has some unnamed improvements to the game's controls for both keyboard-mouse set-ups and gamepads.

It's always important for icons to reinvent themselves, and few video game characters are as recognizable as the ever agile Lara Croft. Lara Croft and The Guardian of Light is a spin-off from the Tomb Raider series and offers a new perspective to the treasure hunting and puzzle solving formula. The downloadable game looks downward onto the main characters using an isometric view camera, making it possible to see more of the environment to figure out puzzles and dodge hazards... that is, when she's not shooting at dangerous creatures. That's not the only change, since Lara can be joined by a warrior named Totec (the Guardian of Light mentioned in the title) to combine skills and overcome obstacles together. The game diverges from the traditional Tomb Raider formula on a number of different levels, but in this case, that's a good thing.

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It's time to see Lara Croft's latest adventure, Guardian of Light, for ourselves. The game was released on Steam this week, and to commemorate it, Square Enix has released a launch trailer. It is what you would expect from a launch trailer: it shows off some gameplay, gives a list of quotes from publications that gave the game a favorable rating, and lists where the player can get it. Most of the gameplay shown in this trailer is of the co-operative "kill everything" kind, though, which is a sharp departure from Lara's roots in 3D platforming.

This week is yet another busy one with a new zombie action game, a mech-action title and more. Also folks who purchased the regular edition of Final Fantasy XIV can gain access to the MMO this week (the game's already live for owners of the Collector's version).

Dead Rising 2 - Developer Blue Castle Games and publisher Capcom bring this sequel to the zombie action game to the PC franchise for the first time. Players will get to fight off the undead horde in a fictional Las Vegas-style city with pretty much any item they can get their hands on.

It looks like one of the big features for the upcoming downloadable action game Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light won't be made available when the PC version of the game is released on September 28. The game from developer Crystal Dynamics and publisher Square Enix won't have any online co-op features at first.

While there will still be offline co-op play through the single player campaign for you and a friend who happens to be sitting next to you, the online co-op features will be added "at a later date" . Players can also expect to download additional content for the game over the next few months including new areas and puzzles to explore and new character packs.

[Via email press release]