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2010's first person shooter Sniper Ghost Warrior is getting a sequel. Eurogamer is reported that developer/publisher City Interactive has confirmed via a upcoming interview the title will be getting a second installment. The sequel will also be one of the two upcoming City Interactive games that will be based on CryEngine 3, the same engine that's being used for Crysis 2.

While it didn't get the best reviews, the original Sniper Ghost Warrior was a sales success for the publisher. It's got a number of first person shooter games in the works, including a WWII-themed game that will also use CryEngine 3. It's also got a Unreal Engine 3-based shooter in development for release sometime in 2011.

The Steam PC game download site continues to willingly give out some huge one-day price cuts on top of the sales that are already in place as part of its annual holiday sales event. Here's the latest list of games with price cuts that will last until 1 pm Eastern time on Thursday:

Dead Space - $6.80
Plants Vs Zombies Game of the Year Edition - $4
Swords and Soldiers - $2.50
Kane and Lynch 2 - $4.99
Brothers In Arms series - Save 50 percent off all games in series
Hearts of Iron III Complete Pack (game plus all DLC) - $14.10
City of Heroes Going Rogue Complete Collection - $10
Greed Corp - $2.50
The Quake Collection (all games in series except Quake IV and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars) - $10.20
Sniper Ghost Warrior - $7.50
The Ball - $4.99
Amnesia The Dark Descent - $6.80 or $4.80 if you own any game in the Penumbra series.

City Interactive has been making a lot of moves lately. The Poland-based developer and publisher, which had a sleeper sales hit earlier this year with Sniper: Ghost Warrior, has announced plans to open up a new development studio in London, England. The new UK-based studio will work on an unnamed WWII-themed shooter that City Interactive says "will emphasize high adventure in a genre that's become bogged down in reverence and historical accuracy."

The studio will have Stuart Black as its creative director. Black previously worked at Criterion Studios where he lead the development of its console-only shooter Black. His last gig was working on Codemasters on another console-only shooter, the upcoming Bodycount. City Interactive recently announced that it had licensed the use of Crytek's CryEngine 3 graphics engine for two upcoming games. It's currently unknown if the new London studio will be using CryEngine 3.

[Via email press release

Publisher City Interactive is apparently riding the sales success of its budget priced first person shooter Sniper: Ghost Warrior. Today the Germany-based developer announced that it will be licensing CryEngine 3, the graphics engine made by Crytek for its upcoming first person shooter Crysis 2.

The engine will be used to make two unnamed first person shooter titles over the next couple of years, according to City Interactive's press release. Crytek has been successful in signing a number of other developers to use CryEngine 3 over the past several months including deals with Illfonic, Ignition Entertainment and more.

[Via email press release]

If you have a hankering to spend an extra 10 bucks to add new content to a game that only costs $30, then we have the DLC for you. City Interactive's recent budget priced first person shooter Sniper: Ghost Warrior now has some extra maps that can be purchased and downloaded via Steam.

There's five new maps included in the map pack with locations like some abandoned offshore oil rigs and a ruined stone temple location the middle of the jungle. The maps are all supposed to be bigger in order to give players a chance to shoot sniper targets from even longer distances. You can check check out a trailer for the DLC after the jump:

Publisher City Interactive seems to have a solid sales hit (if not a critical hit) for its recent budget first person shooter Sniper: Ghost Warrior. We've already reported on one of the company's upcoming first person shooters, Alcatraz. Now City Interactive has posted up a page for another budget shooter, Wolfschanze II.

The game with the name that most Americans (including us) can't pronounce is yet another in the seemingly endless WWII shooters. You play a Russian officer who has to enter a Nazi stronghold to steal a code machine. We suspect that hilarity breaks out later. The game's environments are based in part on a "real Nazi bunker complex in Eastern Prussia" according to the game page. There's no word on when this upcoming classic will be released.

The last week of June sees quite a few PC games heading to store shelves this week including a game that was first announced way back in 2005. After this week is over there's a pretty major dry spell in terms of major new PC game releases until mid August with the big exception of StarCraft II which is due on July 27.

All Points Bulletin (APB): First announced five years ago, developer Realtime Worlds finally ships this first person shooter MMO this week, combing a persistant urban action game with lots of customization options for your character, car and even music.

This is the playable demo for Sniper: Ghost Warrior, a stealth based action game where players must find and stalk targets before quickly taking them out at range with a single shot. Continue reading after the jump for system requirements.

"The Latin nation of Isla Trueno suffers under a tyrannical ruler and as Marine Sgt. Tyler Wells, you have been sent on a covert mission deep into its jungles to aid the rebellion, one head shot at a time."

Download Sniper: Ghost Warrior Demo (1.36 GB)

Are you ready to take the plunge and kill someone with a headshot from half a mile away (virtually of course)? You will get your chance in a couple of weeks. Publisher City Interactive sent over word that Sniper: Ghost Warrior, their latest budget-price first person shooter, has gone gold and will ship out on June 29.

Once again City Interactive is stressing the realistic aspects of this shooter where you are playing an elite special forces soldier. Stuff like bullet trajectory and bullet drop are supposed to be simulated along with weather effects (wind, fog and rain) that can affect your shots. It's geting close to the time for some target practice.

[Via email press release]

We've mentioned before that City Interactive has released a lot of "value" priced first person shooters. However it looks like the first trailer for their upcoming game Sniper: Ghost Warrior is trying to make a case that this title will be higher up on the production value ladder than their previous releases.

The trailer flat out tells you that everything you see is in-game engine generated content and it's easy to be impressed when you see the camera move through a vast outdoor jungle level and then stop on the sniper player character. It's not up there with Crysis but the visuals are pretty good looking. Of course, it's the gameplay we are concerned about and, well, we will find out if Sniper: Ghost Warrior is up to the challenge when it's release for the PC later this year.