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Big PC game sales and widespread discounts again come bounding ahead of the weekend, tongues lolling in the wind, wet noses sniffling, fur matted with filth and excrement, like children on summer vacation. Games going cheap at digital distributors include Dead Space 2, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Minecraft, Alice: Madness Returns, Frozen Synapse, IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover.

Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals:

Amazon

• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit - $14.99 (50% off)

• Up to 70% off 171 puzzle games

Direct2Drive

• Alice: Madness Returns - $24.95 (50% off)

• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood - $15.95 (60% off)

• Dead Space 2 - $11.95 (60% off)

• Red Faction: Armageddon - $32.95 (33% off)

• Shift 2 Unleashed - $14.95 (50% off)

GamersGate

• Aliens vs Predator Classic 2000 - $1.99 (60% off)

• Bullet Candy Perfect - $2.48 (50% off)

• Civilization IV - $8.00 (60% off)

• Evil Genius - $3.98 (60% off)

• Frozen Synapse (two copies) - $9.98 (50% off)

• Frozen Synapse: Soundtrack Edition (two copies of the game, one of the soundtrack) - $11.98 (50% off)

• Hitman 2: Silent Assassin - $5.00 (50% off)

• Hitman: Blood Money - $4.98 (50% off)

• Jagged Alliance - $1.49 (70% off)

• Jagged Alliance 2 Gold - $5.98 (70% off)

• King's Bounty: Armored Princess - $2.50 (87% off)

• Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (Steamworks) - $7.48 (50% off)

• Men of War Assault Squad - $16.97 (50% off)

• Pathologic - $2.49 (50% off)

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl - $6.78 (66% off)

• Test Drive Unlimited 2 - $7.99 (60% off)

• The UnderGarden - $2.50 (75% off)

• Tomb Raider Anniversary - $3.75 (75% off)

• Tomb Raider Legend - $3.74 (75% off)

• Tomb Raider Underworld - $4.99 (75% off)

• Trainz Simulator 12 - $24.98 (50% off)

• Trine - $1.99 (90% off)

• Two Worlds Game of the Year Edition - $5.00 (50% off)

• Unreal Anthology - $9.99 (50% off)

• Unreal Tournament 3 (can, optionally, be added to Steam) - $9.98 (50% off)

Games for Windows

• Blacklight: Tango Down - $2.49 (75% off)

Get Games

If you're planning to buy Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad and don't already own Red Orchestra 1, buy it in this sale. It costs $2, but Steam pre-orders for RO2 are $4 cheaper ($5 for the Steam Digital Deluxe Edition) if you own the original too. You'll save money and get the first game too, bargain!

Until Saturday, 10am Pacific:

• IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover (Steamworks) - $19.99 (60% off)

Weekend:

• Anno 1404 (Dawn of Discovery) Gold Edition - $14.99 (50% off)

• Cryostasis - $2.00 (80% off)

• Deus Ex - $3.00 (70% off)

• Disciples 2 Gold Edition - $3.00 (85% off)

• Dogfighter (Steamworks) - $3.00 (70% off)

• Jagged Alliance 2 Gold Edition - $3.00 (80% off)

• King's Bounty: The Legend - $2.00 (80% off)

• Men of War - $2.00 (80% off)

• Overlord II - $3.00 (70% off)

• Red Orchestra (Steamworks) - $2.00 (80% off)

• Sacred Gold Edition - $3.00 (70% off)

• Serious Sam: The First Encounter - $2.00 (60% off)

• Serious Sam: The Second Encounter - $2.00 (60% off)

• Stronghold - $2.00 (75% off)

• Stronghold Crusader - $2.00 (60% off)

• The Settlers 7: Deluxe Gold Edition - $11.99 (60% off)

• Total War: Shogun 2 (Steamworks)- $26.99 (40% off)

Good Old Games

• The Zork Anthology - $3.59 (40% off)

• Return to Zork - $3.59 (40% off)

• Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands - $3.59 (40% off)

• Zork: Grand Inquisitor - $3.59 (40% off)

Green Man Gaming

Save 20% on any order, GMG's discounted pre-orders, with the voucher code SUNNY-SAVER-20PEC, applied at the checkout.

• Condemned: Criminal Origins - $5.23 (65% off)

• Worms Reloaded (Steamworks) - $9.97 (50% off)

Impulse

• Academagigia: The Making of Mages - $6.23 (75% off)

• Atari 80 Classic Games in One - $4.99 (66% off)

• Baldur's Gate Complete - $4.99 (50% off)

• Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn + Throne of Bhaal - $4.99 (50% off)

• Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale - $9.99 (33% off)

• Gothic Bundle - $19.99 (75% off)

• Icewind Dale Complete - $4.99 (50% off)

• Icewind Dale II - $4.99 (50% off)

• Master of Orion Collection - $5.32 (66% off)

• Neverwinter Nights Diamond - $4.99 (50% off)

• Section 8: Prejudice - $7.49 (50% off)

Minecraft

Buy one copy for €14.95 ($21-ish), get one free "to give to someone you wub."

Steam

There are big discounts on Kalypso Media bundles, though their component games have 66% off on their lonesome too.

Until Saturday, 10am PST:

• Aion - $7.50 (75% off)

Weekend:

• Frozen Synapse (two copies) - $12.49 (50% off)

• Frozen Synapse: Soundtrack Edition (two copies of the game, one of the soundtrack) - $14.99 (50% off)

• Frozen Synapse: Soundtrack - $2.99 (50% off)

• Darkstar One + Patrician III + The Great Art Race - $3.39 (66% off)

• Disciples III: Renaissance - Steam Special Edition - $10.19 (66% off)

• Dungeons - Steam Special Edition - $13.59 (66% off)

• Patrician IV - Steam Special Edition - $10.19 (66% off)

• Patrician IV: Rise of a Dynasty - $6.79 (66% off)

• Tropico Reloaded - $2.37 (66% off)

• Tropico 2: Pirate Cove - $2.37 (66% off)

• Tropico 3 - Steam Special Edition - $5.09 (66% off)

• Tropico 3: Absolute Power - $3.39 (66% off)

• Who's That Flying?! - $2.03 (66% off)

• Kalypso Anniversary Pack - $59.99 (46% off)

• Kalypso Anniversary Pack + Tropico 4 - $79.99 (47% off)

• Kalypso Anniversary Pack + Jagged Alliance: Back in Action - $79.99

• Kalypso Anniversary Pack + Tropico 4 + Jagged Alliance: Back in Action - $99.99