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Saturday isn't a day to rest as far as PC game sales are concerned. There are some deals that are available just for today. Let's take a look at them now:

• Telltale Games has an excellent one day sale today in its online store. You can get all three seasons of Sam and Max, plus Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Wallace and Gromit, the two episodes of Bone, Puzzle Agent and Poker Night at the Inventory in one bundle for just $49.95.
• Impulse has a one day sale for all of its 1C Company published games for 50 percent off.
• GamersGate has Fantasy Wars on sale for just $2.99.

World of Warcraft players get to check out Cataclysm in a few hours here in the US. In the meantime here are some news nuggets to past the time while you are waiting in the queue:

• Steam has several automatic updates for games today including Poker Night at the Inventory, Arcadia, Rush, Doc Clock The Roasted Sandwich of Time, Divinity II; The Dragon Knight Saga, and Super Meat Boy,
• IGN is reporting that Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine is now set for release sometime in the summer of 2011.
• Here is a Minecraft music video. It's pretty nice.
• The development team behind the recently released puzzle game Rush is showing percentages of the game's Steam sales.
• The second closed beta event for Rift will be held the weekend of December 17.
• Telltale is shipping the collector DVD for Sam and Max The Devil's Playground.

The Steam PC game download service is the latest such site to launch a pre-Christmas sales promotion. This time the site is making its customers go on a virtual "treasure hunt" that will make them solve new objectives every 48 hours. Each objective completed will automatically give a person a new entry to win his or her top five games on their Steam wish list. The drawing will be held every two days for 20 people. On December 20 three grand prize drawings will be held for those folks who have completed 10 of the promotions' objectives. The three winners will get 100 Steam games of their choice.

The first four objectives are:
- Self Portrait: Setup an avatar on your Steam Community profile.
- Got Tanked?: Earn the Desert Fox Steam Achievement in R.U.S.E.
- Up the Ante: Win The Iron Curtain in Poker Night at the Inventory
- More Cowbell: Set a leaderboard score of at least 1,124,400 in easy mode for the 'Paul Hartnoll' level in Chime

As part of the Treasure Hunt promotion a series of games will be put on sale every two days. From now until Wednesday the games will be R.U.S.E. for $33.49, Poker Night at the Inventory for $2.99 and Chime for just $1.25.

Telltale Games got their start, interestingly enough, making a poker game. While they are far better known now for their cavalcade of licensed adventure games (all of which are, at the very least, decent), they were original a company that wanted you to play poker. They combined their two loves in their latest game, and it resulted in Poker Night at the Inventory. It mixes traditional poker sim gameplay with adventure-game dialogue, and the result is probably the best single-player poker game on the market. Despite this, it does have its flaws, and those wishing to try their luck at beating the four diverse characters in the line-up had better be prepared for a little frustration.

Thanksgiving week gives PC gamers a couple of new console ports along with a couple of interesting downloadable titles. In addition to the games listed below PC gamers can expect to check out a new DLC mini-expansion for Mafia II this week and Mac gamers will get their long awaited port of Civilization V.

Poker Night At The Inventory - Telltale Games brings us this small but loaded $4.99 game as you get to play poker with four interesting characters: Penny Arcade's Tycho, Max of Sam and Max, Team Fortress 2's Heavy, and Strong Bad. Plus if you own Team Fortress 2, buying this game will unlock some unique in -game items.

Telltale Games' quirky crossover game Pokter Night At The Inventory now has a firm release date. The casual poker title that features characters from four different game and game-related universes (The Heavy (Team Fortress 2), Tycho (Penny Arcade), Max (Sam and Max), and Strong Bad (Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People) is now due for release via Steam on Monday. November 22.

The game, which will available for both PC and Mac platforms, is already priced to be super cheap at $4.99 but you can pre-order it before it comes out for $4.49. Don't forget that by purchasing the game you will also get some unique in-game items for Valve's shooter Team Fortress 2.

Telltale Games' quirky crossover game Pokter Night At The Inventory won't be just for casual game players. The upcoming poker title that features characters from four different game and game-related universes will also allow players to gain special in-game items for Valve's multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2.

Just pre-ordering the game will get the player a poker visor for TF2 that can be worn by The Heavy. In addition playing the game itself will unlock other special items for other Team Fortress 2 characters including a timepiece from Tycho (Penny Arcade), the luger from Max (Sam and Max), and shutter shades from Strong Bad (Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People). You can check out a trailer that shows off all the items and a little of the game itself after the jump.

The mysterious new Telltale Games title that was teased over the weekend now has a name. It's Poker Night at The Inventory and it does indeed feature characters from four different game and game-related universes: The Heavy (Team Fortress 2), Tycho (Penny Arcade), Max (Sam and Max), and Strong Bad (Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People).

At the moment there's not a lot of info on what kind of poker or gameplay features the title will have but there's little to complain about in terms of the price. Telltale and Steam are both taking pre-orders for the game for a mere $4.95. You will also get a 25 percent coupon when you pre-order that can be used on most of Telltale's other products. The game itself is due for release later this fall.