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It didn't exactly have the most complicated storyline in the world and the characters are one-dimensional but Modern Warfare 2's script actually got nominated for the Writer's Guild of America's annual "outstanding achievement in videogame writing" award. The 2010 installment of the award will be presented on February 20.

Other nominees this year for the award include another Activision published game X-Men Origins Wolverine (written by comic book and TV writer Marc Guggenheim) and Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed II. The Writer's Guild said the award had over double the number of submissions for this year's award compared to last year.

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.

Activision Blizzard may have had solid financial news to report recently but it seems even they are not immune to cutting back on expenses Shacknews first reported the news that Activision's in-house developer Raven Software has let of a number of its employees Today. Big Download contacted Raven Software for confirmaton and its studio head and co-founder Brian Raffel emailed us back stating, "Raven Software is slightly reducing its workforce to better reflect the studios upcoming slate." Shacknews reports that the number could be between 30 and 40 team members that are affected.

Raven has shipped two games for Activision this year; the April released movie based game X-Men Origins Wolverine and the just released FPS Wolfenstein. They are slated to release the original FPS Singularity sometime in the first quarter of 2010. Shacknews claims that today's layoffs affected the developer as a whole and that it did not affect just one team or department.

Gaming retail web site GoGamer.com has posted up a surprise new 48 Hour Madness sale (more like 72 hours actually) that has quite a few PC games having their prices cut drastically. The biggest surprise is for the just released X-Men Origins: Wolverine. You can get the Raven Software-Activision title on the PC for just $29.90, which is $10 off its regular price.

Other games that are currently on sale at the site include Neverwinter Nights for $4.90, it's expansion Kingmaker for $4.90, Tom Clancy's EndWar for $14.90, Lego Batman for $12.90, and Men of War for $19.90. All of these sales end at 3 am ET on Wednesday.

As we enter the month of May and get ever closer to E3, PC gamers can grab a WWII stealth game and a movie-based action game in stores and download a goofy RTS title and an RPG expansion.

Velvet Assassin: Replay Studios and Southpeak Games give us this long awaited stealth action title set in WWII. Playing Violet Sumner, the player tries to sabotage the evil Nazis' plans in a variety of missions. Killing Nazis is of course part of the game but there's also lots of sneaking around and using the shadows to cover your presence.

In this developer video, the team at Raven Software describe how it goes beyond the contents of the movie in creating the X-Men Origins: Wolverine video game. Wolverine will have a big action sequences, the freedom to explore large environments, and a the game will have a special surprise in store for players.

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In this developer video, the team at Raven Software discuss some of the villains that will be appearing in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Be aware that the video gives away one or two movie spoilers, but suffice it to say that Wolverine is probably his own worst enemy.

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This trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine features the Gambit among many other characters players will encounter in the game. The game is expected to release on May 1st.

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People generally know that the developers at Raven Software generally do a great job at making top quality games. In this video, the team working on X-Men Origins: Wolverine take some time to toot its own horn and let people know why the game will be an experience both comic book and video game fans will enjoy. The game is scheduled to release for PC and consoles on May 1st.

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If you ever wanted to see Wolverine set out and destroy an attack chopper with his bare claws, this gameplay trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine more than fits the need.

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