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One of the more unusual settings for a game can be found in Zombie Cow Studios' recent and totally free game Privates. The side-scrolling action game takes place, well, around the naughty bits. Now comes word that Privates is getting a free DLC mini-expansion pack.

This DLC sounds like it will be pretty extensive with Zombie Cow's Dan Marshall saying, "We've decided to go all-out and make a whole new adventure, this time set inside a gentleman's bits." Look for new enemies, a new player character, new gameplay modes and more. You can expect to be shooting around more naughty bits when the Privates DLC is released around Easter 2011.

Download the full game Privates right here on Big Download!

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• Check out some Civilization V narration voice clips from actor Morgan Sheppard.
• The official Civilization V site also has some info on the game's strategic resources.
• Zombie Cow Studios' free PC game Privates is now available for download. Yep, it's about creatures inside people's naughty bits.
• Slitherine Software has released its latest PC game, the WWII themed turn-based strategy title Battlefield Academy.
• Sorry UK PC gamers. You won't be able to buy the PC Collector's Edition of Mafia II.
• Blizzard is monitoring a World of Warcraft server to shut down, among other things, erotic role play by players.
• Cyan Worlds' games, including its Myst titles, have been added to Steam's library.
• Gearbox's forums have possible spoilers to the next Borderlands DLC. Read at your own risk.
• After watching this video, we are retracting our application for being an intern at EA.

Now this is a rather interesting development. Developer Zombie Cow (the studio behind the stellar indie adventure games starring Ben and Dan) have been commissioned by Channel 4 to create a game about your privates. Specifically, the game seems to be about the danger of unprotected sex and the diseases that can be caught through it. Naturally, Zombie Cow has twisted this into a hilarious satirical perversion called (appropriately) Privates, and that's a good thing.

Playing as a group of condom-hat marines, you must delve into the privates and bottoms of people and blast away at all of the germs and viruses inhabiting them. The game is boasted to be technically accurate, as long as you don't count the marines or germs have teeth, which means that it will be roughly anatomically correct to someone's body. We're sure the game will be educational for those that don't know much about the human anatomy, and hilarious for all players. Release date is currently unannounced, although it is planned for sometime this summer.

See that image above? That's the actual title for Zombie Cow Studios' next game. Yep, the folks behind the acclaimed indie games Ben There, Dan That! and Time Gentlemen, Please! have announced their next project and this time it's an episodic (sort of) sequel to Time Gentlemen, Please!.

The title Revenge of the Balloon-Headed Mexican is not supposed to be funny, per se. As the folks behind the game state in their introduction to the game, " . . . our antagonist genuinely does have a balloon for a head." So there's that. Each game's episode will be about the length of a TV show (half-hour sitcom or hour-long drama wasn't specified) and Dan and Ben can now go their separate ways in the game. According to Zombie Cow, "So we've got these two separate branches going on within the first episode - which makes it feel very different to the previous games." No release date was announced.