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Total War: Shogun 2 won't be the only PC game that Sega will be releasing to stores on March 15. On that same date the company will be releasing the (deep breath) Sega Genesis Classic Collection Gold Edition (exhale). The retail box product will have 46 games from Sega Genesis' console days to the PC.

The full list of what games will be in the collection can be seen after the jump. It looks like most, if not all, are available as downloadable games from various PC game download sites. Pricing for the retail collection product has yet to be announced.

Ready for some cool retro game action on your PC? Sega hopes so. The publisher has already released three batches of classic Sega Genesis games for the PC via download. Today the fourth batch of games for that console is now available from GamersGate and should start popping up on Steam, Direct2Drive and other download outlets.

The games themselves range in price from $2.99 to $4.99 each. The fourth group includes Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole, Shining Force, Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair, Streets of Rage 1 and 2, Alien Soldier, Light Crusader, Gunstar Heroes, Shining Force II, Shining in the Darkness, Sonic The Hedgehog 2, Sonic 3 and Knucles and the two ToeJam and Earl games (ToeJam and Earl and ToeJam and Earl Panic on Funkotron).

Fans of The Creative Assembly's Total War RTS series have been looking forward to the release of Total War Shogun 2 on March 15. Today the game's publisher Sega has announced that the game will be coming out in two versions; the Standard Edition and the Limited Edition which will have extra content.

The extras include access to an exclusive clan, the Hattori Clan, along with being able to take part in the exclusive Nagashino battle scenario. Limited Edition owners will also get access to both a complete set of armor for your game's avatar as well as unnamed amount of extra XP for your online character. Pricing for the Limited Edition has yet to be announced.

Publisher Sega has already released two bundles of classic Sega Genesis games (or the Mega Drive as it's called in the UK) to the PC platform via Steam and other PC game download sites. Today Sega revealed that a third Genesis game bundle is on its way as a new patch of classic arcade titles will soon be made available to a new modern PC audience.

The games in this batch include Alien Storm, Bio Hazard Battle, Columns III, Decap Attack, Ecco The Tides of Time, ESWAT: City Under Siege, Flicky, Golden Axe II, Sonic The Hedgehog, Sword of Vermilion and Virtua Fighter 2. The pricing for the previous games were usually $2.99 each.

Sega and Sports Interactive's Football Manager 2011 is one of many soccer/football management sim games you can buy this fall. However the publishing team at Sega is going all out to make getting their game a much bigger value. This week it was announced that pre-orders of Football Manager 2011 on Steam will net the user 20 free games.

Those 20 games will come from the two Sega Genesis Classic collections. The fact that each game included in this offer is sold separately for $2.99 each means that you will be getting free games valued for a total of close to $60 with your $39.99 pre-order of Football Manager 2011. You can see the full list of free games you will be getting after the jump:

As previously promised, Sega has now released a second back of games originally made for the Sega Genesis console as new downloadable PC games via Steam. The classic Genesis games in this second batch include Alex Kidd, Bonanza Bros., Columns, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Ecco Jr., Eternal Champions, Fatal Labyrinth, Galaxy Force II, Kid Chameleon, Ristar, Sonic Spinball, and Super Thunder Blade.

Each of these games are now available on Steam for just $2.99. You can also get most of the games in one big 10 game bundle for $14.99 which is basically a 50 percent price cut compared to purchasing the games separately.

Earlier this year, Sega released a number of ports of its older Genesis console games for PC owners. Today the developer announced that a second set of Genesis classic titles will be ported and made available for PC gamers via digital download on outlets like Steam.

The titles for the second set include Alex Kidd In The Enchanted Castle, Bonanza Bros, Columns, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Ecco Jr., Eternal Champions, Galaxy Force 2, Kid Chameleon, Ristar, Sonic Spinball, and Super Thunder Blade. The titles will be priced starting at $2.99 each. There's no word on when these games will be available.

Update: All of the game are available for download at Sega's web site.

[via email press release]

It's hard to pull a leak after it burst (BP can tell you that) so it looks like the cat may be out of the bag concerning the next game in the Total War RTS franchise from developer The Creative Assembly and publisher Sega. A Turkish web site has apparently gone off the reservation by reporting that it was to be shown Shogun 2: Total War at E3 next month.

And if that's not enough, Voodoo Extreme has posted up what they have said is a full press fact sheet for the game which according to them is slated for a 2011 release. If true it would certainly be a "back to basics" move for the developer since the original Shogun: Total War was the first game in the series. It was released via published Electronic Arts way back in 2000.

Getting over 20 games and DLC products in one shot was apparently too good to pass up for many Steam users this week. The $89.99 bundle of Sega PC game titles was the number one best selling product on Steam's latest weekly top 10 best seller list (according to revenue). The bundle topped the $15 Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package add-on when went down to the number two spot while the main game was in the number five position.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 gets the third spot this week while a 75 percent sale on Tropico 3 put that game in the number four position. The full list is below.

1. Sega Bundle - Sega
2. Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package - Infinity Ward/Activision
3. Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Digital Illusions/EA
4. Tropico 3 - Kalypso Games
5. Modern Warfare 2 - Infinity Ward/Activision
6. Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
7. Killing Floor - Tripwire Interactive
8. Torchlight - Runic Games
9. Civilization IV Complete Collection - Firaxis/2K-Games
10. F.E.A.R. - Monolith/Timegate/Warner Bros Interactive

It's one of the classic game consoles and now a number of games from the Sega Genesis library are being ported over to the PC platform. Sega announced today that a number of its titles for that console will be released via digital download beginning on June 1 on Steam and other download platforms.

Some of the games that will be released will include games like Altered Beast, Comix Zone, Crack Down, Ecco The Dolphin, Golden Axe, Shadow Dancer, Space Harrier II, Sonic 3D Blast, Vectorman and others. Pricing for the PC ports of these Sega Genesis games will begin at $2.99.

[Via email press release]