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There are a few things that will make us happy in 2010. The day StarCraft 2 comes out, the launch of the 11th Doctor adventures and saving money on PC games. Thankfully we can be happy now as we found some additional sales on the interwebs. We hope revealing this info makes you happy too.

Direct2Drive has put 2009's be-an-evil-fantasy-person game Overlord II on sale for just $9.99 from now until Friday. Also the indie game Aztaka is on sale for just $7.50. You can also take $5 off Divinity 2 for this weekend only if you use the code 5OFFDIVINITY2 at checkout.

In Overlord II, players take up the steel fisted role of a brand new evil master with legions of little imps at the command. This time around, the latest Overlord starts young and studies the profession of evil into adulthood when he takes the throne of his own dark tower in the netherworld. So, unlike the first game, where the player had to option to go good, the only choice players have now is the kind of evil they want to spread around. Players can choose to either enslave everyone they encounter or leave nothing but dead bodies in their wake. However, the game has less to do with the Overlord himself than commanding multicolored minions. Although they've also gone through a few significant changes since the first game, Overlord II ends up having many of the same shortcomings that plagued the first game.

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Valve's Steam download service has revealed their latest weekend sales deal. Today they have put Codemasters' recent urban racing game GRID on the price chopping block. From now until Sunday the game will be sold for just $14.99, a 50 percent discount from its normal Steam price.

If you are looking for more deals, head over to GamersGate where they have cut the price of Prince of Persia by 50 percent for today online. Over at Direct2Drive they will give you $5 off the recent Codemasters game Overlord II from now until Sunday, but you will need to put in a special code (01C044CC90F242286C56FA604A71221D) at the online checkout to get the discount.

The retail gaming web site GoGamer.com is at it again with its latest price cut sale. This particular one lasts until 3 am Tuesday and is filled with lots of PC games, both new and old. Perhaps the one that will generate the most interest is Left 4 Dead which can be picked up for $29.90 during the sale.

Other games on sale at GoGamer include the just released Overlord 2 for $34.90, The Sims 3 for $37.90 and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for $19.90. You can also grab some older games at rock bottom prices including Rainbow Six Vegas 2 for just $5.90 and the original Call of Juarez for a mere $4.90.

Bohemia Interactive's military shooter ArmA II only started on Steam's download service last Friday but sales were high enough to put it on top of the sales list for Steam for the last week. Second place went to Overlord II, the fantasy RPG-strategy from Codemasters. Here's the rest of the list for the week ending June 28:

1. ArmA II - Bohemia Interactive
2. Overlord 2 - Triumph Studios/Codemasters
3. Empire: Total War - The Creative Assembly/Sega
4. Left 4 Dead - Valve
5. Prototype - Radical Entertainment/Activision
6. Counter-Strike: Source - Valve
7. Team Fortress 2 - Valve
8. Killing Floor - Tripwire Interactive
9. Empire Total War: Elite Units of the West (DLC) - The Creative Assembly/Sega
10. Dawn of Discovery - Ubisoft

This is the playable demo for Overlord II. Additional trailers can be seen after the jump.

"In the Overlord II demo, players step into the big spiky boots of a new Overlord whose sights are firmly set on becoming the king of chaos, the bringer of evil and the master of Minions. As the demo opens the Overlord, aided and abetted by a team of brown fighter Minions, emerges from his underground lair into the ice caves only to discover a Yeti frozen in a block of ice. The Minions can, in their inimitably violent way, 'defrost' him and then give chase as he knuckles out into the snowy wastes of the Hunting Grounds, near the town of Nordberg."

Download Overlord 2 Demo (972 MB)
Download HD Overlord 2 '10 Reasons Why It's Cool to Be Evil' Trailer (69 MB)
Download HD Overlord 2 'Career in Overlording' Trailer (90 MB)
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The newest Overlord 2 developer diary video goes into some detail about the minions players will have at their command and briefly addresses their strengths and weaknesses. Accompanying the video is a new trailer, shown after the jump, which shows off the enemies the minions will be sent to confront - including anything cute, cuddly, or worth beating down. Part one of the Overlord 2 developer diary series, introducing the new Overlord, can also be seen after the jump.

Download HD Overlord II Developer Diary #2 (100 MB)
Download HD Overlord II Developer Diary #1 (167 MB)
Download HD Overlord II 'Enemies' Trailer (56 MB)
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Collecting, well, collectibles can be an obsession for some folks. And now game retailer Gamestop is offering those kinds of people a very expensive way to collect four different figurines that depict minions from the forthcoming fantasy strategy-RPG game Overlord II. If you pre-order the game you receive just one of the four minions pictured above.

Which means, of course, that to get all four figures you have to pre-order four separate copies of Overlord II.That means spending a whopping $120 on the game from developer Triumph Studios and publisher Codemasters. Those dastardly companies. They know collectible fans have to spend that much money for stuff that has an outside chance of being worth .. .well, we really don't know. But that's part of the fun isn't it?

This trailer for Overlord 2 shows off a few of the locations players can visit along with some of the creatures they will face. Players assume the role of a bad ass evil Overlord, but it's really the minions he bosses around that are the game's real stars. The game is expected to release in June.

Download HD Overlord 2 'Minions' Trailer (38 MB)
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One of the biggest game developers that apparently had decided to bypass exhibiting at E3 next month is Codemasters, despite the fact that they have a pretty impressive upcoming game line-up in 2009. This week GameSpot got word on the final release dates of one of those titles, Overlord II.

The action-RPG sequel from developer Triumph Studios has the player once again controlling a fantasy bad guy trying to take over a kingdom. The game is now due for release on June 23 for North American gamers while UK customers will have to wait until June 26 to get their copies. As we have reported before, Rhianna Pratchett returns as the writer for the sequel. She won the Writers Guild of Great Britain award for her work on the first game in the series