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Just before its "shut down" late last week, GoG.com added the first Age of Wonders game to its library of titles. While the other two games in the classic fantasy turn-based strategy series will be added to GoG.com in the near future folks who want to get all three games in the series can now do so via Impulse.

The PC game download service is offering the entire series from developer Triumph Studios in a bundle deal for just $19.99. That deal also includes the soundtrack for each game. You can also get each title individually for $5.99 (Age of Wonders) or $9.99 each (Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne and Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic). The games will also be made available to users of the Steam service "soon".

This week has been a busy one for the DRM-free web site GoG.com. Earlier this week the site added the 2005 released horror-themed adventure game Still Life from publisher Microids. Today GoG.com announced that the site has reached an agreement with developer Triumph Studios to offer its turn-based fantasy strategy game series Age of Wonders to GoG.com users.

The first game in the series, titled simply Age of Wonders, was first released in 1999 and is now available for download from GoG.com for just $5.99. The other two games in the series will be made available in the near future. Also, GoG.com is offering a weekend sale of seven Codemasters games. You can get all seven for a 60 percent discount or you can purchase the game seperately for a 50 percent discount.

Collecting, well, collectibles can be an obsession for some folks. And now game retailer Gamestop is offering those kinds of people a very expensive way to collect four different figurines that depict minions from the forthcoming fantasy strategy-RPG game Overlord II. If you pre-order the game you receive just one of the four minions pictured above.

Which means, of course, that to get all four figures you have to pre-order four separate copies of Overlord II.That means spending a whopping $120 on the game from developer Triumph Studios and publisher Codemasters. Those dastardly companies. They know collectible fans have to spend that much money for stuff that has an outside chance of being worth .. .well, we really don't know. But that's part of the fun isn't it?

One of the biggest game developers that apparently had decided to bypass exhibiting at E3 next month is Codemasters, despite the fact that they have a pretty impressive upcoming game line-up in 2009. This week GameSpot got word on the final release dates of one of those titles, Overlord II.

The action-RPG sequel from developer Triumph Studios has the player once again controlling a fantasy bad guy trying to take over a kingdom. The game is now due for release on June 23 for North American gamers while UK customers will have to wait until June 26 to get their copies. As we have reported before, Rhianna Pratchett returns as the writer for the sequel. She won the Writers Guild of Great Britain award for her work on the first game in the series

Triumph Studios is busy at work on Overlord II, the next game in their fantasy action-RPG series where you once again get to be the bad guy keeping the white hats down. This week the game's publisher Codemasters released some new screenshots from the game to keep us occupied until its planned release sometime this summer for the PC and other platforms.

As we mentioned previously Overlord II will have a script by fantasy author Rhianna Pratchet. This week the author launcher her own professional web site which gives her fans more info about her past, present and current writing projects. In addition to Overlord and its sequel she has written scripts for Mirror's Edge, Heavenly Sword and other games.

Codemasters had a surprise critical and sales hit with the original 2007 released fantasy RPG-action game Overlord. So of course they decided to commission a sequel from the game's original developer Triumph Studios. In a recent press event Codemasters stated they were planning a June release for the game

New screenshots for Overlord II show that the game hasn't lost its sense of humor; you can see that from the shot above where evil Minions are riding wolves. As with the first game your goal is to be the evil bad guy of a fantasy land as you use these Minions to take over the Glorious Empire. Any empire with "Glorious" in its title needs to be put down anyway.

Gametap's regular Thursday update has been made today because of the holiday and this week the game download/subscription service has once again made the fantasy action-strategy-RPG title Overlord free to play.

You will be able to play the rather unique game from developer Triumph Studios and publisher Codemasters on Gametap until Dec. 29. In addition the latest American McGee's Grimm episode, A Christmas Carol, is free to play until Dec. 31. Two more games have been added to Gametap's premimum service; the Meridian4 published adventure title Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine and the Firefly Studios developed RTS game Stronghold Crusader Extreme.

As they always do, Valve offers up a game from their Steam service with a highly cut price point for one weekend only. This weekend it's for Overlord, the critically acclaimed action-strategy-RPG where you get to play as a high fantasy bad guy. Developed by Triumph Studios and published by Codemasters, Overlord is now on sale via Steam for just $9.99. That 75 percent off its normal price. A sequel, Overlord II, is due out in 2009.

Valve has also released a new Steam client update. The patch notes give the details on what's included. The update supposedly improved Steam's start up time, added support for an upcoming server groups feature in their zombie co-op shooter Left 4 Dead and has a number of bug fixes.

Rhianna Pratchett is one busy video game writer. In addition to writing the script for Electronic Arts' sci-fi action game Mirror's Edge, Codemasters has just announced she is returning to the Overlord universe. Pratchett will write the script for all of the publisher's new Overlord games including the PC title Overlord II.'

Pratchett was nominated for the British Writers' Guild Awards this year for her script for the original Overlord game (developed by Triumph Studios) and to celebrate her return for the sequel, Codemasters sent out two new screenshots from Overlord II, showing off more of the action-RPG where you get to be a fantasy bad guy once again. Overlord II is due for release in 2009.

Can you be good at being bad...again? Publisher Codemasters certainly hopes so as they have just announced plans to release Overlord II for the PC and other platforms in 2009. The sequel to the fantasy strategy-RPG will once again be developed by Triumph Studios as you play a new and evil Overlord that controls its Minions in a campaign that's based loosely on the Roman Empire.

Codemasters are promising that the Minions you get to control in Overlord II will be smarter and deadlier than the original and that they will be able to ride mounts like wolves and other creatures for the first time. Minions will also be able to wreck the surrounding buildings and scenery. Aside from the 2009 date, no specific release date was announced.