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It's just Tuesday but the folks at Impulse and Steam have some nice mid-week sales for anyone with a few dollars in their pocket. Over at Steam, the week-long Sega game sale continues with one-day price cuts for Stormrise ($7.50), Space Siege and Universe at War: Earth Assault ($5 for each). And of course the big Sega bundle is still on sale for $89.99 until Monday.

Over at Impulse they have put a number of games on sale this mid week. Ironclad's space strategy title Sins of a Solar Empire is now just $9.99 for a limited time while Gas Powered Games's strategy title Demigod is also $9.99 for a limited time.

The Direct2Drive PC gaming download site is wasting no time in offering up some new PC game sales for the first part of this week. From now until Tuesday you can grab the sci-fi RTS game Universe at War: Earth Assault for just $4.95. They are also offering the first Iron Man movie game for $4.95 through March 27.

Also on the price chopping block is Europa Universalis: Rome Gold which is on sale until Friday for, you guessed it, $4.95. Finally if you pre-order Mount and Blade Warband from Direct2Drive you will get instant access to the game's beta which will continue until the game is officially launched on March 30.

Petroglyph Games' sci-fi RTS title Universe at War: Earth Assault was released back in December 2007 for the PC but the Xbox 360 version was released last March. Both versions were supposed to be able to enable cross-platform multiplayer but neither had that capability . . . until now, that is. Petroglyph has finally released the patch that will allow PC players and Xbox 360 players of the game to battle each other online. This makes the game the third title that has such features (Shadowrun and Lost Planet Colonies are the other two)

The Petroglyph message boards have all of the details of the new PC patch which not only adds cross-platform multiplayer but has a number of balance changes and bug fixes for the game (Xbox 360 owners can download their own patch automatically via Xbox Live). You can download the new patch at Big Download along with the two previously released patches for the PC version of the game

Download the latest Universe at War: Earth Assault PC patch at Big Download now