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So we've been told that the recession is ending. Some pundits are even saying it's all over. Well, no matter if the economy is down in the dumps or roaring at top speed, you still like to save money. GoGamer.com's latest misnamed "48 Hour Madness" sale hits you up with some PC game sales until 3 am Eastern Time on Tuesday.

Among the PC games and ports on sale this time are Frontlines: Fuel of War for just $5:90, Mercenaries 2 for a mere $3.90, the new Wolfenstein for $24.90, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for $5.90, and Two Worlds for the tiny price of $2.90.

GoGamer.com always has a ton of PC games ready to unload at sale prices during their 48 Hour Madness periods. This one is no exception and ends at 3 am Eastern Time on Friday. For example you can get the boxed PC copy of Wolfenstein for just $24.90 (compare that price to getting game via download for its full $49.99 price).

Other sales include the PC port of X-Men Origins Wolverine for just $14.90, Wanted: Weapons of Fate for $19.90, Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood for $24.90 and the recently released PC game adaptation of Terminator: Salvation for a mere $9.90. Ouch.

This playable demo for Wolfenstein includes the first first levels from the full game. System requirements are shown after the jump.

"Wolfenstein takes players deep into the heart of the Reich, where experiments with a dark force known as the Black Sun threaten to embolden the Nazis with unimaginable powers. There's only one man for a job of this magnitude: special agent B.J. Blazkowicz! But first he must harness the power of the Veil and hope to use the Nazi's nefarious technology against them!"

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Last August, Raven Software, id Software and Activision released Wolfenstein, the latest game in the first person shooter series that started the genre. The game got some mixed reviews (good single player but poor in multiplayer) but sales were bad enough that Raven was forced to let got of a number of its team members.

However, we were scratching our heads at the time that Wolfenstein wasn't made available for a download purchase. Might the game have gotten some extra revenue via a downloadable version if it had been released at the same time the retail version shipped to stores? Well in any case Activision is now finally offering Wolfenstein via download from Steam and Direct2Drive for $49.95, nearly two months after the retail version shipped to stores.

Oh, and that PC single player Wolfenstein demo? The one that was FULLY PLAYABLE over two months ago at QuakeCon? The same one that was released for the Xbox 360? Well there's still no word on when, or even if, that demo will ever be released to the public.

Update: Just a few hours after this post went live, Activision finally released the Wolfenstein PC demo.

The writer of 2006's Silent Hill movie adaptation will be spending the next year behind bars. Variety reports that Academy Award-winning screenwriter Roger Avary was sentenced to a one year jail term today for a 2008 car crash in California that took the life of a passenger in his car while Avary was driving in 2008.

Avary pleaded guilty last month for gross vehicular manslaughter and drunken driving in the incident. In addition to his year in jail he will have a five year probation period. Just before the car crash Avary was set to both write and direct a movie version of id Software's Wolfenstein. He's also attached to write a sequel to the Silent Hill movie.

It's a known fact that games released in the US with any kind of Nazi symbols have to be edited out if they are to be released in Germany. Now it appears that some of those symbols may have slipped into the German version of Wolfenstein and now that game is being pulled from store shelves in that country.

Fan site Planet Wolfenstein, reporting the news from German language web sites, says that it's unknown at this time if publisher Activision Blizzard will try to re-edit and return the game to store shelves. Since the game hasn't been a sales success on this side of the Atlantic it's possible the company may cut its losses and not fool with returning the game to German stores.

[Via Blue's News]

A couple of weekend sales slipped through the cracks on Friday. Thankfully we are there to go through those cracks and expose them to the world. Shall we?

• GoGamer.com has put a number of current and older PC games on sale until 3 am ET on Tuesday. They include Need for Speed Shift for 30 percent off its normal price, Wolfenstein for 40 percent off its normal price and Heroes Over Europe for 40 percent off as well.
• GoG.com has put three of its strategy games (Celtic Kings: Rage of War, Original War and Haegemonia Gold Edition) on sale for 25 percent off their normal price until 11:50 pm ET on Monday.

Last month a developer from Raven Software pledged to pay for every copy of Wolfenstein sold if the first person shooter outsold Madden NFL 10. We figured that wasn't going to happen but we had no idea how badly the first person shooter would sell out of the gate.

Gamespot reports that according to the August 2009 sales figures from the NPD Group Wolfenstein managed to sell just over 17,000 copies of the PC version that month (it was released to stores on August 18). Combining the PC sales with the console versions and the game sold just 106,000 copies for the month. This was despite a solid marketing campaign by publisher Activision which included a tie-in to the release of the movie Inglourious Basterds. Activision laid off a number of Raven's team members shortly after Wolfenstein was released. The game is also the last in a long line of games that Activision published with id Software's input. id's next game Rage will be published by EA and their next Doom game will be published under its new owners at Zenimax Media.

This client allows users to set up a dedicated Wolfenstein multiplayer server without having to install the full game. The full Readme file notes are shown after the jump.

Download Wolfenstein Stand Alone Server Client (498 MB)
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