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Ironclad Games and Stardock have announced the release of Beta 2 for the upcoming Sins of a Solar Empire micro-expansion Diplomacy.

Today Stardock Entertainment announced Sins of a Solar Empire – Trinity, a bundle of 4X strategy game Sins of a Solar Empire and its two micro-expansions Entrenchment and Diplomacy.

This weekend being inordinately special, many of the download services are going all bring special offers straight to your PC. This is where we step in and give you an idea of what’s the best deals out this weekend. And here they are:

GOG.com

Firstly, our friends at Good Old Games  (GOG.com) are selling a selection of Interplay’s back catalogue at 30% off. Participating titles are:

• Giants: Citizen Kabuto
• Descent 3 +  expansion
• Stonekeep
• Sacrifice

All these games weight in at a paltry $4.19 USD so they’re well worth a look.

Steam

Steam are doing a crazy series of one day sales for the next five days with up to 80% off some titles. This will include a new titles like Left 4 Dead 2 and Mini Ninjas.

Today’s offers are:

• Lucasarts Premier Pack which includes a lot of their classic games like LOOM, the Dig and a whole raft of their Star Wars titles with 60% off.
• THQ Complete Pack: 15 games in all including S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, Dawn of War GOTY, Dawn of War II, Company of Heroes and Tales of Valor, Red Faction Guerrilla, Saints Row 2 loads  more with 50%

Keep checking Steam over the next 5 days to see what other goodies you can snap up cheaply.

For the week thy also have the complete season one of Sam and Max with 33% off.

Impulse

Impulse has also got a crazy Thanksgiving sale. The real highlights of are:

• Sins of a Solar Empire with 50% off.
• Meridian 4 Complete pack which includes a whopping selection of great indie games with 60% off.

GamersGate.com

GamersGate .com are chopping between 30 and 65% off selected titles for Thanksgiving higlights being:

• 50% off Serious Sam 2.
• 25% off new release Tropico 3.

Direct2Drive

Finally, Fox Interactive’s download service is doing an All Killer No Filler sale with some interesting bargains. These include:

• 50% off Resident Evil 5 (ends today).
• 50% off Champions Online.
• And a whopping 75% off the hardcore WWII strategy sim Hearts of Iron III.

So there you go ladies and gentlemen, that’s our pick of the Thanksgiving special offers to download for your PC. Tune in again next week when we will again be cruising the dark recesses of the internet to find you some bargains.

Digital games store Impulse revealed their Thanksgiving weekend bonuses today. Sins of a Solar Empire and Resident Evil 5 are two of the games receiving heavy discounts.

Stardock has released two large patches for Sins of a Solar Empire and it’s expansion Entrenchment, now available via Impulse.

The core game will be updated to v1.18 while the expansion gets brought up to v1.04. The latest versions highlight gameplay and balance improvements as well as modding additions and other fixes.