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Valve's Steam service isn't just for hardcore games like Left 4 Dead. The download service also has a lot of casual titles. Today it was announced.that Steam has added Her Interactive to its list of publisher and will provide Steam with a number of games in their popular Nancy Drew series of adventure titles.

The new arrangement begins today with six titles including Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses!, Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek, Nancy Drew: Phantom of Venice and Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave. Two of the titles, Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy and Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull, will have a 20 percent price cut until July 23. In addition, Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice has had its price cut by 50 percent until July 23.

Update: The addition of the Nancy Drew games to Steam is apparently part of an overall launch of a Family Games section for the download service. Quite a number of the games in the category are on sale. Included is a Mumbo Jumbo games collection which currently has 19 games available for just $19.99. That's a savings of nearly $170 if each game was bought separately

Even though it was officially on sale for only the last few days of October that was apparently enough to push Fallout 3 to the top of the best selling PC games for the entire month of October, according to info from the NPD Group. Bethesda Softworks' post apocalypse RPG edged out Electronic Arts' alien evolution sim Spore for the top spot. Number three belongs to Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy by Her Interactive, showing that this series of casual adventure games continues to gain popularity. Far Cry 2 from Ubisoft and Warhammer Online from EA's Mythic Entertainment rounded out the top five:

1. Fallout 3 - Bethesda Softworks
2. Spore - Electronic Arts
3. Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy - Her Interactive
4. Far Cry 2 - Ubisoft
5. Warhammer Online: Age Of Reckoning - Mythic/EA
6. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest - Blizzard
7. The Sims 2 Apartment Life - Electronic Arts
8. Fallout 3 Collectors Edition - Bethesda Softworks
9. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
10. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Electronic Arts
11. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
12. Civilization IV: Colonization - Firaxis/2K Games
13. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade - Blizzard
14. Crysis: Warhead - Crytek/EA
15. Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway - Ubisoft
16. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Premier Edition - Electronic Arts
17. Dead Space - Electronic Arts
18. Spore Creature Creator - Electronic Arts
19. Civilization IV - Firaxis/2K Games
20. The Sims 2 FreeTime - Electronic Arts