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Steam's week of deals for LucasArts published games is getting near the end. The Star Wars-themed bundle of 13 games together for just $14.99 will shut down on Sunday. However there's one more extra special sales bundle that you should also consider.

Steam has cut the prices of the two acclaimed remakes of the classic Monkey Island games by 50 percent. You can choose to get either The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition or Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge for just $4.99 each from now until Sunday. However you can save even more if you get both games in a special bundle for the price of $7.49.

LucasArts surprised a ton of people, in a good way, when they announced plans for their graphical remake of The Secret of Monkey Island back in June. The game sold well and got solid reviews. So why not continue the trend? Kotaku says LucasArts is planning to do just that very soon.

According to their unnamed sources, the publisher is planning to release a graphical revamp of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge with the official announcement of the project planned for next week's Game Developers Conference. Like the remake of Monkey Island 1, this new version will contain all new graphics and sound effects, according to the article. The original game was released back in 1991 and was the last LucasArts adventure game to be made by famed designer Ron Gilbert. He left the publisher after the game was completed to form the now defunct Humongous Entertainment and is now working on DeathSpank for Hothead Games.

Fans of LucasArts' adventure game classics thought that that era was over when the publisher decided to cancel planned sequels to Sam and Max and Full Throttle. But during E3 LucasArts made those same fans happy again with word of an upcoming downloadable HD remake of Secret of Monkey Island and a new episodic Tales of Monkey Island series developed by Telltale Games.

So what if these games turn out to sell well? The Australian based web site WAToday quotes LucasArts community manager Brooks Brown as saying. "If this sells, there's no one at this company who doesn't want to do these games. It's a matter of showing that there's interest and this market is alive and get people as excited as possible about Monkey Island Special Edition to show that these things can make it." So if you guys buy this remake and the new series, maybe we can get some Grim Fandango-Full Throttle-Day of the Tentacle action going.