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While the rush of PC game sales has slowed down somewhat there are still some deals that can be found if you know where to look. Over at the Direct2Drive web site you can get the Stronghold Collection, with five of Firefly Studios' castle sim-RTS games, for just $4.95 for today only. Other games on sale at the site include Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for $2.50 and Sid Meier's Pirates for $9.95.

Over at Telltale Game's online store the developer has a free Sam and Max Comic-Con 1992 t-shirt to give to people who order $25 or more from the store for today online.

It's Wednesday and that means its time for the PC game download site Direct2Drive to offer up a new set of games on sale for just $6 as part of its sixth anniversary this month. From now until next Wednesday, the list of games that are on sale for $6 each include Zombie Pirates, Fallen Earth, Sid Meier's Pirates, SWAT 4, Disciples II Gold, Frontlines Fuel of War, King's Bounty: Armored Princess, Fort Zombie and Crayon Physics Deluxe.

In addition for today only, Direct2Drive has put The Sims 3 on sale for $19.95 along with the expansion pack The Sims 3 Ambitions for #14.95.

It's Thursday so that means its time for a new update on the Gametap download site. This week Gametap is offering us a free version of Sid Meier's Pirates to play until January 22. The 2005 released strategy game from the legendary game creator and his Firaxis Games studio received solid reviews for its publisher 2K Games.

Also Gametap has added to its paid premium section with a new title; Shattered Union, the turn-based strategy game set in a near-future Second US Civil War. It was also released in 2005 by 2K Games and developed by the now defunct Poptop Software.

We all know that it takes PC games some time to be ported over to the Mac but this case seems especially long. UK based Feral Interactive has announced that it will be the one to finally bring Firaxis Games' 2004 strategy-RPG Sid Meier's Pirates to the Mac.

The game was released for the PC nearly four years ago in the fall of 2004 by Atari in the last Sid Meier-Firaxis title to be released by the publisher before Firaxis and its properties were bought by 2K Games. Feral Interactive is taking pre-orders for the Mac version at its web site. It will ship out in late August for the price of $29.95.