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Paradox Interactive's latest internally developed historical strategy game is now ready for prime time. The publisher announced today that Victoria 2 has "gone gold" and will be released via download and in retail stores on August 13. The game itself is set during the 19th century where players will guide their nations from small monarchies to a massive world empire by the beginning of the 20th century as England did.

Victoria 2 is fairly infamous by the fact that Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester was against having the sequel made but stated for the record that, "I have promised the dev team (and checked with my family) that I am shaving my head if this project ever sees profit ...". So for those of you who love to see people eat, or in this case shave, their words this is the game to buy.

Just as Impulse has started up their weekend sales on the early side this Labor Day week so does fellow game download site GamersGate. This week they have put three titles on the price chopping block that will last until Sunday.

One of them is Victoria Complete, a collection of the original historical strategy game and its expansion pack Victoria Revolutions for just $12.49, 50 percent off its usual price. Also the turn based strategy game collection Civilization IV Complete (with the original game and its two expansion packs) is on sale for $15.98, 60 percent off its usual price. Finally the recent action-platformer Trine is on sale for 25 percent off its usual GamersGate price.