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A day that was looking to be dull got a bit lively at the end. Friday's coming, though and it has a history of either really being very slow or very busy. Which will it be this week?

• Steam has a new family-themed game, Secrets of the Magic Crystals, available for purchase and download.
• From now until September 1, Games For Windows Live has Civilization IV: The Complete Collection on sale for just $9.99.
• In related news, folks can enter a Civilization V contest on Facebook where they can share their "Civ addiction" stories for the chance to win $2,500
• Check out The Witcher 2: The Papercraft RPG. We wish we could get our hands on this.

While as of the posting of this article the official Witcher web site still has that number "2" and nothing else, the folks at GameTrailers managed to jump ahead of everyone else and get access to the first true teaser trailer for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.

The trailer for developer CD Project's next game in the mature fantasy RPG series certainly looks a lot better than its predecessor. In addition to lots of bloody battles there's more than a hint of some sexual content in this trailer as well. There's no word yet on a release date for the game. You can check out the full version after the jump:

Update: A post on the game's message board by CD Projekt's PR head stated they are looking for a first quarter 2011 release timeline for The Witcher 2.

Never mind the fact that the video is clearly watermarked with an "internal use only" label. Someone clearly got a hold of this in-progress behind-the-scenes look at The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings and decided to post it on YouTube. Yep, it's the previously unannounced (but also inevitable) sequel to the hit fantasy RPG from developer CD Projekt.

The video mixes gameplay footage from an alpha build of the game with behind-the-scenes looks at CD Projekt working on the game. The game definitely has a revamped graphical engine and the footage also shows off some of the game's magical and combat moves, some of which will be enhanced with the Havok physics engine. We have emailed CD Projekt for comment but we suspect that this video could be removed from YouTube pretty quickly.

Update: The official Witcher web site now has a comment about the video leak, saying that it was made about six months ago. The Witcher 2 is apparently still being shopped around to publishers but while they are not denying that the footage is of the game they are choosing not to comment on the game itself.

[Via Kotaku]