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With all of the holiday sales on the Steam PC game download service finished it's back to basics for the games on Steam's top 10 weekly best seller list. After a few weeks of letting other games have the top spot, the first person shooter Call of Duty Black Ops is once again the number one best selling game on Steam.

The new Neverwinter Nights 2 Platinum collection has the number two spot followed by the Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Collection in third place. The full list is below:

1. Call of Duty Black Ops - Treyarch/Activision
2. Neverwinter Nights 2 Platinum - BioWare/Obsidian/Atari
3. Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Collection - Rockstar Games
4. Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
5. Mafia 2 - 2K Czech/2K Games
6. Need For Speed Hot Pursuit - Criterion Games/EA
7. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - DICE/EA
8. Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam - DICE/EA
9. Civilization V - Firaxis Games/2K Games
10. Amnesia The Dark Descent - Frictional Games

The latest weekly top 10 sales list on the Steam PC game service is highly affected by the service's currently holiday sales event (which shuts down at 1 pm Eastern time today). The list of games for last week shows Battlefield Bad Company 2 on top yet again after price cuts due to the holiday sales event.

The full top 10 list is as follows

1. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - DICE/EA
2. Crysis Maximum Edition - Crytek/WA
3. Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Edition - Rockstar North/Rockstar Games
4. Neverwinter Nights 2 Platinum - BioWare/Obsidian Entertainment/Atari
5. Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
6. Call of Duty Black Ops - Treyarch/Activision
7. Need For Speed Hot Pursuit - Criterion Games/EA
8. Amnesia The Dark Descent - Frictional Games
9. Call of Duty Moden Warfare 2 - Infinity Ward/Activision
10. Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam - DICE/EA

If you happened to get a copy of BioWare's original Neverwinter Nights RPG and wanted to check out some of their extra downloadable modules for the game, you are out of luck at least for now. BioWare is no longer selling or supporting the many downloadable modules (Kingmaker, ShadowGuard, Witch's Wake, Pirates of the Sword Coast, Infinite Dungeons and Wyvern Crown of Cormyr) they have created for the game. In fact they have not been doing so since the end of August.

What happened? According to BioWare's own message boards, the game's publisher Atari, " . . . has asked us to stop selling the modules through our store. All support for NwN products is now handled directly by Atari through their customer support channels." Atari currently owns the rights to the game but at the moment they are not selling the original Neverwinter Night title or any of the downloadable modules on their online store. People who have already purchased and installed the downloadable modules can still play them on their PC.

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Direct2Drive continues to celebrate their fifth anniversary with yet another set of games that they have cut prices on for one week only. You can now download the games listed below for just $5 each from now until September 28. Most of these games are RPG or MMO style titles (although they managed to sneak in a couple of action games as well) and there are some huge bargains to be had in this latest list:

Neverwinter Nights 2
Assassin's Creed Director's Cut
Elven Legacy
Eve Online
Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir
Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
Titan Quest Bundle
PlanetSide: Aftershock
Drakensang: The Dark Eye
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

In late April Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate was made available for download as an official expansion to the popular fantasy RPG. However, many gamers were not happy that publisher Atari put in a limit to installs of the expansion (just three in fact). Now it looks like Atari has actually listened to consumers.

According to a note on the Ossian Studios web site (the developer of the expansion pack) Atari has now removed the install limit which means gamers can install the expansion as many times as they want on as many PCs as they want. The one-time online activation for the expansion is still in place, however.

A long-in-development official downloadable expansion for the fantasy RPG Neverwinter Nights 2 finally has a release date. Today Atari announced that Neverwinter Nights 2: Mysteries of Westgate will be made available for download on Wednesday, April 29 for $9.99. The expansion can be purchased and downloaded on that date via the Atari online store.

Developed by Ossian Studios, the expansion was first announced in 2007 but development issues have delayed its release until now. In early March the head of the development studio announced that Mysteries of Westgate had finally gone gold. The expansion will add about 15 more hours to the already extensive Neverwinter Nights 2 gameplay with new quests, monsters and more new content.

The Neverwinter Nights franchise has always been mod friendly for anyone to develop their own home-grown expansions. Now a long awaited downloadable expansion for Neverwinter Nights 2 looks like it will finally be released soon via publisher Atari.

The expansion is titled Mysteries of Westgate and has been in development for literally years by small Vancouver based Ossian Studios. In fact it was originally supposed to be released in 2007. This week on the game's official message boards Ossian CEO Alan Miranda stated, "I've gotten the official Atari stamp of approval today, meaning that MoW is now gold."

There's no word yet on a release date for the expansion nor a price point. More info on the expansion can be found at Ossian's web site. Mysteries of Westgate is promised to have a 15-plus hour non-linear single player campaign with four new monsters, new music and voice over work and more. Again it will be a digital download release only; there are no plans to release the game to stores.

Atari's release of Neverwinter Nights 2 and its two expansion packs have been solid releases for the publisher in an otherwise shaky time for the company. Now that Atari seems to be getting back on track with a number of major releases set for 2009, it could also be planning to release a third expansion pack for the RPG.

Chatting with members of Atari's European team, the fan-run Neverwinter Nights Podcast revealed that discussions are going on for such an expansion pack. There's no word on who would develop the expansion but it's not a stretch to believe that Obsidian Entertainment, who created the original game and the first two expansions, is ready to make the third as well..

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One of the most acclaimed fantasy RPGs of recent years will soon be getting its second expansion pack. Publisher Atari has just announced that Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir has now gone gold. The press release states the game is due in stores in November with online retailers currently showing a Nov. 18 ship date.

Developed once again by Obsidian Entertainment, Storm of Zehir adds a number of new features and content to the Neverwinter Nights part of the Dungeons and Dragons universe. You can get a lot more info on the expansion pack via our own recent interview with the lead designer of the game. Obsidian's Tony Evans.

This trailer gives first looks at Storm of Zehir, the next expansion to hit Neverwinter Nights 2. Storm of Zehir will expand the RPG on numerous levels, including large scale battles, full party customization, and non-linear gameplay wrapped into about 15 hours worth of new content.

Download the Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir HD Trialer (101 MB)