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There's some very sad news to report today as actor Gary Coleman has died at the age of 42. News reports state that Coleman, best known for his role of Arnold Jackson in the 80's TV sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, died after suffering a intracranial hemorrhage on Wednesday after falling in his home at Santaquin, Utah.

Coleman is perhaps best known to gamers for his role playing himself in Running With Scissors' controversial 2003 first person shooter Postal 2. In the game Coleman is signing autographs and can either be peaceful to the player or can be threatening if the player chooses to attack Coleman in the game.

The official Postal web site has already posted a tribute to Coleman, saying, "We had a lot fun times together! You were an awesome dude with a great sense of humor! Rest in peace Gary, we love you and we will remember you always. You will be greatly missed little Buddy." Coleman also performed as the voice of Kenny Falmouth in LucasArts' adventure game The Curse of Monkey Island.

The 1409X patch includes the most popular fixes and updates for Postal 2: Share the Pain, which is free to download and play here. Continue reading after the jump for a description of some of the changes.

Download Postal 2: Share the Pain 1409X Patch (63 MB)
Download Postal 2: Share the Pain Multiplayer (597 MB)

How many times have we been told that the PC game industry is dying? Console games get the vast majority of media attention and sales for a number of high profile console games reach millions of copies sold. However there are still a number of game franchises that have remained, at least for now, strictly for PC gamers only. We know that console gamers would love to play all of the following game titles:

Check out five PC games that console gamers would love to play after the jump

Extra! Extra! . . Read all about it. More PC game savings hit the interweb tubes this weekend. Also, the NFL gets going on Sunday (if you like that sort of thing).

• GoGamer.com has a number of PC games on sale from now until Tuesday at 3 am ET. That includes the recent racing game Fuel for just $19.90, the upcoming PC port of Red Faction: Guerrilla for $29.90 and Fallout 3 also for $29.90.
• GoG.com's weekend sales deal has a two game bundle deal combining Postal and Postal 2 for the price of $11.98, a 25 percent discount from its normal price. That sale ends at 11:59 pm ET on Monday.
• Finally Direct2Drive has cut $5 off the price of Section 8 from now until Sunday. You have to put in the code 5OFFSECTION8 at checkout.

GoG.com warned . . .er, alerted us last month that they would be releasing games in the Running With Scissors developed Postal series. Today they revealed that they have put up Postal 2 Complete, the full DRM-free version of the Unreal Engine powered first person shooter that caused many to be up in arms about the game. (We think it's all about Gary Coleman).

GoG.com is selling the title for just $9.99. The Postal 2 Complete edition has the original game, the multiplayer expansion pack and the single player Apocalypse Weekend expansion all in one package. GoG.com even throws in some free music, wallpapers and a Postal 2 comic book. Meanwhile Running With Scissors is working on Postal 3. Yep, Postal 3.

It's a game that many critics cannot stand yet it has become an underground hit and even inspired a crappy Uwe Boll movie. Now Running With Scissors has announced in its latest newsletter that their first person shooter Postal 2 will be placed on display in none other than the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Yep, it was funded by Alfred Nobel, the creator of dynamite and later the Nobel Prizes.

Running With Scissors reports that the game will be a part of the museum's "Freedom of Speech: How Free is Free?" exhibit that is scheduled to begin on Feb. 12 and run through Sept. 30. Postal 2 will be on display in a game censorship part of the exhibit (Apparently Postal 2 was actually put on trial for some offense in Sweden; the game "was acquitted a couple of years ago"). Meanwhile the developer is still working on the long awaited Postal 3. Perhaps that game will be shown in the Smithsonian.

[Via MTV Multiplayer]

As we take on different roles in different games, we often find ourselves doing a lot of questionable actions to get ahead. In celebration of Halloween and horror, Big Download presents ten of the most macabre, brutal and disgusting things you can do in gaming. Click on the image above to see some of the most gruesome acts PC gaming has to offer.

On this Independence Day weekend people are expected to go outdoors, go on picnics and maybe catch a fireworks display at night. Gamers, however, see July 4 as some extra times to sit in front of a monitor to blow stuff up. Our sister site Game Daily has decided to remind gamers of 25 free downloads of PC game titles they may have missed.

The feature links to demos and full games that are available to grab right here at Big Download. If you haven't tried out demos for games like Psychonauts (above) and World in Conflict or full games like Postal 2 multiplayer, FEAR Combat and America's Army this is a perfect way to check out some titles you may have missed

Breathe a sigh of relief PC multiplayer fans because your moment have truth has come to pass. The standalone multiplayer version of Postal 2: Share the Pain has been released for free. Downloading the 597mb package nets you 14 maps, 25 playable characters, 11 weapons and 4 game types.

What possessed developer Running With Scissors to release the multiplayer freeware? Could it be the Boll-directed Postal film that is lighting up a record-setting 18 theaters? Or is it to celebrate the franchise's 10th Anniversary of mediocrity? Either way, all your urination-joke fueled fun is available now!

Download the Postal 2: Share the Pain from Big Download today!