On this Monday and every Monday in March (four in all!), Aspyr is offering 50% off four of their A-list games in the Mac App Store. Confused and frightened by the Mac App Store? No worries, as Aspyr is mirroring the sale in their own GameAgent store. They’re also running additional flash sales on their non-Mac App products through their Facebook and Twitter feeds, but who cares about that nonsense?

Aspyr announced last week that The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is now available in Apple’s Mac App Store. They also announced that Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Civ IV: Colonization are on sale through February 17th. They also announced seven new Civ V Mac content packs. I’m not sure it’s fair to expect anything more from them.

As has been noted numerous times here at Appletell and throughout the gaming world, there are three things you can kill in computer games without fear of reproach: Nazis, zombies and Nazi zombies. If you like, you can lump aliens in with the zombies, and you can lump robots in with the Nazis. But you can’t use cops, hookers, marching bands or video game reviewers without expecting to eventually stand before Arlen Specter to explain why the downfall of modern civilization is not because of your little video game.

And yet, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (CoD4) is set in a realistic, timely world in which the battles you’re fighting don’t really stray from those you might hear about on “All Things Considered.” The developers get away with this for two reasons. First, then invent militant organizations to serve as their bad guys. Second, this game is a brutal depiction of war. Brutal to an unsettling degree. It doesn’t glorify war, and it doesn’t even really lionize soldiers. If this were a movie script, John Wayne and Chuck Norris would run from it in terror.