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Enlisting the community to help select new titles

July 9, 2012 -- Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Steam Greenlight, a new platform feature that enlists the communitys help in selecting some of the next games to be released on Steam.

Steam Greenlight will allow developers and publishers to post information and media about their game in an effort to convince the Community that their game should be released on Steam. Greenlight piggybacks on Steam Workshops flexible system that organizes content and lets customers rate and leave feedback.

As well as serving as a clearing house for game submissions, Greenlight will provide an incredible level of added exposure for new games and an opportunity to connect directly with potential customers and fans.

Making the call to publish or not publish a title isnt fun, said Anna Sweet, at Valve. Many times opinions vary and our internal jury is hung on a decision. But with the introduction of the Steam Workshop we realized an opportunity to enlist the community's help as we review certain titles and, hopefully, increase the volume and quality of creative submissions.

Steam Greenlight will be released August 30.

For more information, please visit www.steampowered.com/greenlight

Source Filmmaker version 0.9.5.6 has been released. This update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• Fixed players rendering as big black blocks
• Fixed crash in create server dialog
• Fixed crash reading models from other source games
• Fixed a few other crashes

Combat Arms, from Nexon America, is now available on Steam in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand!

Join the arms race in one of the biggest free-to-play first person shooters. Customize your soldier, rank up for new gear and perks, and aim for special achievements in battle. With dozens of modes, tons of maps, and more being added constantly, youll never run out of ways and places to gun down your enemies!

Foreign Legion: Multi Massacre is now available on Steam!

In the sequel to Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood, you take the role of a Legionnaire to shred a huge army of non-descriptive cannon fodder to lots and lots of pieces. Starting with 3 maps with different game modes, cut down a wide variety of enemies, including peace doves and dolphins.

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What a bloody funny world it is to live in these days. Not content with leaking the existence of most every major game before it’s even announced, the internet lately feels it’s necessary to also spread advance, unofficial word about big discount events. A dedicated explore of Steam’s database files has allegedly thrown up alleged details on what allegedly might allegedly be the alleged Steam Summer alleged Sale, which allegedly includes the following games and packs allegedly discounted enormously. There are dozens of the blighters. Allegedly.(more…)

Before he made a game about a boy with no skin and a fetus with a monocle, Edmund McMillen of Team Meat created a game about a young emo boy and his interplanetary adventures, one about a lonely man traveling through time and another about puking, along with a few others. Eight of these titles will be available on Steam in late August as a bundle called The Basement Collection, for $4.

The Basement Collection will include Time Fcuk, Aether, Spewer, Grey Matter, Meat Boy (flash prototype), Triachnid and a locked, secret title updated with new content, soundtrack, difficulty modes and achievements. Each game will come with bonus content such as development sketches and early prototypes, and The Basement Collection will feature four "very large bonus unlockables that should make fans of my work quite happy," McMillen writes.

The Basement Collection will also come with a free soundtrack with bonus indie remixes. Try out (i.e. "play") all of these titles for free via McMillen's Newgrounds page now, if you can spare a moment for puketastic, interstellar, time-traveling fun.

Valve has remained mum on the topic of a 2012 summer sale, but the Open SteamWorks CDR database has uncovered a list of bundles, mostly for indie titles, apparently set for the sale in Steam's backend. Reddit user Dweezy gathered a list of the bundles, broken down over an 11-day period, along with a few other standalone collections.

Titles include Cave Story+, Botanicula, Splice, Braid, Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, A Valley Without Wind, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Qube, Jamestown, Bit.Trip Runner and Beat, and Waveform. Other bundles, indie or otherwise, include Batman (Asylum, City and Impostors), the BioShock franchise, a Civilization collection, Saints Row: The Third franchise pack, Square Hit Collection and a THQ collection.

These oodles of bundles have no release date nor price and are unconfirmed by Valve, but this could be a taste of the sweet summer sale to come. Check the entire list after the break, and put that ice pick down.

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- Added shader source code.
- Matchmaking system supports mods with more than 4 players.
- Mods store their config.cfg separately from the base game.

Source Filmmaker version 0.9.5.5 has been released. This update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• Fixed crash using drop preset when no floating modification layer was active
• Fixed crash when attempting to import dmx files that arent animation files
• Fixed occasional crash when using presets in the graph editor
• Fixed occasional crash dragging shots into the element viewer

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Xotic - Warp Field DLC, a new expansion for Xotic, is now available on Steam!

The Warp Field DLC adds three new time-attack levels to Xotic. Each level comes with 4 game modes and new achievements to earn. Unlock the secrets of the warp field as you explore the mysterious energy conduit that teleports you between locations on the planets surface!

All the version notes since the alpha version can be found at:
http://forums.amplitude-studios.com/showthread.php?446-Release-Notes

1.0.5
CHANGES AND ADDITIONS
- Memory optimization. Refer to the following post for further details:
http://forums.amplitude-studios.com/showthread.php?5500-Optimizations-status&p=62704&viewfull=1#post62704
- Added collisions to graphic FX to stop them from going through ships.
- Improved graphic FX for the 'Gravity Well' Battle Action.
- Hero bonuses to attack and defense will now be correctly acknowledged through displayed MP on his Fleet.
- Diplomatic balancing (harder mainly for Serious & Endless modes).

FIXES
- Fixed an issue where negative effects on the AIs diplomatic attitude were inversed, counter-balancing other parts of that AI.
- Fixed an issue where the Tolerance trait was displaying a wrong value in the system view.
- Fixed an issue where Random faction was displayed instead of the factions actual name on an invasion notification.
- Fixed an issue where the galaxy would sometimes not be visible when starting a new game.
- Fixed an issue where the user was unable to zoom out at maximum height after playing a few game sessions.
- Fixed an issue where the Horatio Affinity unlocked the Arid Epigenetics technology.
- Fixed an issue where the host remained stuck on the end turn action if a client joined in progress and left the session at the same turn.
- Fixed an issue where the title remained stuck on end turn actions after a manual combat.
- Fixed an issue where the users were not synchronized after a system was invaded and conquered during a multiplayer session.
- Fixed an issue where the round-ups on the tonnage modules were different than the ones on the total tonnage in the ship design view.
- Fixed several text issues.
- Fixed several localized text issues.

Changelog v1.37:

• Fixed: Crash when killed in close combat by a Deus Ex Machina.
• Fixed: Crash on cc_end.
• Character reset due to the new anti-cheat security.

HIGHLIGHTS
- Added Disruptor and Undying!
- Enabled Rubick, Wisp, and Luna in Captain's Mode.
- Fixed a number of issues that caused effects to be delayed and in some cases not show up while watching Tournament games.
- You can now select your favorite hero and gear to showcase in your profile.
- Tournaments you have passes for are now shown in your profile.


GAMEPLAY
- Bloodseeker: Fixed Bloodbath not properly healing from enemy heroes dying in an AoE.
- Invoker: Fixed DPS burn from Chaos Meteor not stacking per tick.
- Luna: Fixed Eclipse ending if you get Cycloned.
- Outworld Destroyer: Fixed astral indicator to only show for hero and allied team.
- Rubick: Fixed stolen Persuasion not killing stolen creeps when lost.
- Rubick: Fixed stolen Relocate not teleporting teammates who are linked with a stolen Tether.
- Rubick: Fixed Toggleable spells not being stealable.
- Rubick: Fixed not getting flying vision or flying height when stealing Firefly.
- Rubick: Fixed Fade Bolt stopping when Rubick dies.
- Rubick: Fixed stealing Morph Replicate and Replicate not working correctly.
- Rubick: Fixed Invoker's Spell Stolen abilities having broken hotkeys sometimes when using Legacy Mode.
- Rubick: Fixed Telekinesis land AoE triggering Linken's Sphere.
- Wisp: Fixed Magic Stick interaction with Tether.
- Wisp: Overcharge and the two spirit control sub abilities no longer proc magic stick.
- Wisp: Spirits no longer don't retain their vision after they explode.
- Wisp: Fixed Relocate's return not interrupting other channeling spells (like TP Scroll).
- Wisp: Fixed heroes continuing old movement orders after returning with Relocate.
- Wisp: Fixed Soul Ring not working with Tether.
- Warlock: Fixed the burn aura from Warlock's Golems so it stacks correctly.
- Small fix to creep aggro reaction time.


VISUALS
- Fixes for guardian spirits rendering with pops and such when entering/leaving FoW.
- Added 'Telekinesis Land' effect marker for Rubick.
- Added new screen effect while the game is paused.
- Fixed Wisp's voice lipsync getting stuck on with random noise.
- Fixed ranged display stomping on ambient effects, including Wisp's.
- Fixed Unusual Flying Couriers losing some of their effects when transitioning fom walking to flying.
- Fixed Wisp's Tether being left behind when an enemy teleported into the fog of war.
- Changed Guardian Wisp Explosion Effects.
- Added a more obvious Wisp's Tether Boundary Effect.


UI
- When someone buys back, an icon is now displayed on the top bar for 5 seconds.
- Wisp's Tether now shows the amount that it heals it's target.
- Wisp's spirits no longer show up on the minimap.
- Wisp and his tethered unit move their camera when they Relocate and Relocate back.
- Right clicking an upgradable item in the shop will attempt to upgrade any (fully combined) version of that item that the player already owns. (Right click on necro 1 will actually buy a necro recipe if the player has a necro 1 or 2, etc)
- Fixed shop closing when other players' selections change.
- We now show the upgraded info in the ability itself if you're holding an Aghanim's Scepter.
- You can now select your favorite hero and gear to showcase in your profile.
- Tournaments you have passes for are now shown in your profile.


NETWORK
- Fixed a number of issues that caused effects to be delayed and in some cases not show up while watching Tournament games.


AUDIO
- The Relocate sound stops correctly now.


BOTS
- Fixed a bug were all bots would disable themselves if a human on the other team disconnected before picking a hero.
- Changed how bots use Glyph, they should no longer use it when their buildings aren't being attacked.
- Made Crystal Maiden bot even more timid.
- Made bots go to the lane front when defending in-base rather than cowering behind the innermost towers.
- Fixed bug where bots weren't correctly parsing their roles, which would lead to bad hero picking/randoming.
- Fixed case were bots could "cheat" and have knowlege of where their target was when blinking.

MicroVolts is now available and free to play on Steam!

MicroVolts is an online third-person shooter with dynamic cartoon style graphics and intense fast-paced gameplay. Toys around the world are engaged in an all-out secret war for limited battery resources. Customize your figure and swap between 7 weapon types on the fly to earn supremacy of the MicroWorld.

All new users who login before August 5th will also receive the rage inducing "Y-U-NO" mask! Get it now, or you'll be raging later!

Legends of Pegasus is now available for pre-purchase on Steam! Pre-purchase now and receive 15% off.

Legends of Pegasus takes you on an epic journey into space and mixes real-time and turn-based strategy. Expand your civilization by colonizing new planets, building factories, laboratories and shipyards, researching new technologies and designing new spaceships. Command your fleets in tactically challenging, visually astounding real-time battles!

In just a single week since the start of our beta program, there've been plenty of hilariously inventive "Meet the Heavy" spoofs getting passed around here in the SFM office. Here are some of our favorites so far:



Meet the Family




A pretty sweet action scene that follows Scout and Spy as they try to infiltrate the BLU base. We don't know about you, but we'd like to find out what happens next.



Meet the Modern Heavy




There are a lot of hats in this short. Even the bullets have hats.



Heavy Looses an IQ




This clip answers the age-old question, "If Heavy Weapons Guy had roughly the IQ of a boiled lobster, how long would it take him to shoot off his own hand?" Answer: About forty-three seconds.



Stop Meeting the Heavy




Give Scout this: You have probably never seen anyone more excited to be on camera in your life.



If you enjoyed these as much as we did, don't forget to check out more amazing videos at our Community Spotlight playlist.



In fact, we've been enjoying 'em so much that we've decided to open the gates a little wider and hand out another round of beta keys. So to all you filmmakers who requested beta keys out there itching to get your hands on the SFM tool: Log into Steam and see if you made the cut! (And if you didn't, hang in there! There are more keys on the way.)

An update to Ys Oath in Felghana has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Ys Origin. The major changes include:

- Fixed a crash that a small amount of players were experiencing at start-up.
- Slightly adjusted leaderboard display.

An update to Ys Origin has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Ys Origin. The major changes include:

- Fixed some crashes that some players were experiencing.
- Slightly adjusted some system graphics.
- Corrected unlock messages upon game clear.
- Fixed a leaderboard display problem.

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This weekend only, save 50% on Wargame: European Escalation!

Plus, the new Wargame: European Escalation - "CONQUEST" DLC is Now Available! This FREE DLC includes the new Conquest mode, maps and more!

2 sides, 8 nations, and one battlefield: Europe!

Wargame: European Escalation is an intense and spectacular Real Time Strategy game, where realism and strategy are brought to the front lines. With a phenomenal range of vehicles and units (over 350 different models), build your army and enter a huge military campaign across Europe of the 80's, as the Cold War is about to become World War 3.

Offer ends Monday at 10am Pacific Time.

Divine Divinity is Now Available on Steam.

Listed among the "Top 100 PC Games Of All Time" by PC GAMER (2012), Divine Divinity is an epic role-playing game with hack-and-slash action, offering a huge world to explore and thousands of items to investigate, trade and use.

The game chronicles the never-ending battle between valiant heroes and the destructive powers of Chaos harnessed by the Black Ring, a cult of enduring evil. You play the role of the prophesised Chosen One who under the guidance of the wizard Zandalor must unite the seven races of Rivellon so that you may become the Divine One and stop the birth of the Lord of Chaos.

Changelog v1.31:
Additions:
• Added: Custom maps support: FGD and guidelines to create your own levels.
• Added: New NPC on Temple allowing to play custom maps.
• Added: New secondary and coop missions map: cm_wurstercorp (cc_tuto2).
• Added: New custom secondary and coop missions map: cm_cu_minos.
• Added: Keyboard shortcut for the slaves control action.
• Added: Additional player spawnpoints.
• Added: Possibility to use firearms while underwater.
• Added: The Cyber Sprint icon is now displayed while sprinting.
Modifications:
• Updated: Improvement of the slaves (clones, drones...).
• Updated: Decreased the ammunition weight.
• Updated: There is no more delay before being able to attack after a short sprint or after using the ironsight.
• Updated: New system of secondary and coop missions (cm_).
• Updated: Falling in pits does not restart the mission anymore.
• Updated: Latency optimization on cc_new_eden.
• Updated: New interface when speaking with the NPCs.
• Updated: Removed the possibility to answer with the keyboard during dialogues.
• Updated: The parry against firearms doesn't work anymore if the stamina level reaches 0.
• Updated: Improved the NPC navigation on Temple.
• Updated: New collision system for the players.
• Updated: The video tutorials do not automatically display anymore on cc_tuto.
• Updated: Increased the maximum avatar level from 230 to 250.
• Updated: Improved the hitboxes localization and added new hitboxes for players and for most of the NPCs.
• Updated: Modified the rat's walking animation.
• Updated: Removed the thrown car script on New Eden.
• Updated: The Scrabouillor armor has been increased and the armor shock has been decreased.
• Updated: Great decrease of the latency when using a blade.
• Updated: Possessed NPCs cannot target an invulnerable NPC anymore.
• Updated: Invulnerable NPCs cannot be possessed anymore.
• Updated: Access to the Character's Menu during death or while falling has been removed.
• Updated: Federal Special Forces now use plasma weapons instead of laser weapons in multiplayer.
Bug fixes:
• Fixed: Mission not saved in some cases on cc_forgotten.
• Fixed: Possible crash that could occur in coop campaign when players accomplished missions before a Master of Fate was in the game.
• Fixed: Possible crash while using the Excidium.
• Fixed: The PSI drain was too frequent and too deadly with the Dragon spell.
• Fixed: Possible melee issue after a maintenance.
• Fixed: Some weapons were not displayed correctly in third person when players were cloaked or using the EYE Vision or the Sound Triangulation.
• Fixed: Possible crash on cc_tuto.
• Fixed: The BK13 wasn't wall-piercing in all firemodes.
• Fixed: Clones could be created even when a player died from a PSI drain while using Polycloning.
• Fixed: The armor-piercing icon for the BK13 in the armory was missing.
• Fixed: Skinning issue with the Manduco when it's dismembered.
• Fixed: Skinning issue in first person with the left hand of the player holding a Caw Hammer.
• Fixed: Incorrect physbox on a tube on Electric Sheep.
• Fixed: Skinning issue on the light Jian's player model.
• Fixed: Bug on the character creation during a change level.
• Fixed: The medkit and grenades could be used during maintenance.
• Fixed: Dual weapons exploit.
• Fixed: Removed the console messages 'No special command for Cheater! LOL!' that could show up when players didn't cheat.
• Fixed: Invisible hackable transcom on cm_new_eden.
• Fixed: Relationship error between the punks on cc_forgotten.
• Fixed: Updated obsolete triggers on Temple.
• Fixed: Possibility to respawn in the pits on Temple.
• Fixed: Model overlap on Temple.
• Fixed: Movements weren't correctly displayed in third person view while leaning in some circumstances.
• Fixed: Endurance was incorrectly taken into account instead of Agility for the purchase of the Scrabouillor.
• Fixed: Hole under the arch model on noctis.
• Fixed: Holding some keyboard shortcut could prevent players from respawning or make players respawn faster.
• Fixed: Incorrect respawn situation when a player was killed in mid-air above a pit.
• Fixed: Incorrect tiling of some textures.
• Fixed: The Actions menu wasn't correctly refreshed after an avatar change without exiting the game.
• Fixed: Using Invocation on a target in a confined area could make the spawned creature stuck.
• Fixed: Farming exploit on Noctis.
• Fixed: Researches didnt affect the Scrabouillors armor.
• Fixed: Model overlap on cc_tuto2.
• Fixed: Call of nonexistent gibs for the model bio_drone_01.
• Fixed: Incorrect relationship between Culters and Jians on cm_dreams.
• Fixed: Players could lean while jumping.
• Fixed: Lavalette could spawn infinite carnophages as long as he was alive on cc_ancient.
• Fixed: Balthazar could be killed by NPCs on cc_falling.
• Fixed: Incorrect alpha channel on the Cyberware sellers icon.
• Fixed: Animation jerking in first person view when players switched weapons while looking up or down.
• Fixed: Lugger, the punk boss and his boys were present on cm_forgotten.
• Fixed: The apostrophe cannot be used in the avatars name anymore. It could reset the avatar if it was renamed with a name containing an apostrophe.
• Fixed: Missing node graph on cc_end.
• Fixed: Various typo errors in texts.

Source Filmmaker version 0.9.5.4 has been released. This update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• now restricting render resolutions to allowable sizes to prevent most common crash

Endless Space Out Now!

All the version notes since the alpha version can be found at:
http://forums.amplitude-studios.com/showthread.php?446-Release-Notes

1.0.3
CHANGES AND ADDITIONS
- Changed the save file system. The previous files are not compatible.
- Added the custom faction screen.
- Added a free camera mode in the battle view.
+ Arrow keys: move the view
+ Mouse wheel: changes the camera field of view (angle)
+ Mouse right click + pan: rotates the camera view
+ Ctrl: sticks / unsticks the camera on your fleet
- You can continue to play after a victory condition is achieved.
- Added a state to the player, to know if he's in a battle or not.
- Added an animatic for each faction, which will be displayed for a new game.
- Added narrative & random events illustrations.
- Changed the illustration for the selection of "Random Faction".
- Changed the Pirates 3D fleet icon.
- Added several outgame scenes, which will be displayed randomly.
- All technologies have a dedicated icon.
- Added 5 new music.
- Added new GUI sounds.
- Added an ES soundtrack directory (in the Steam install directory of Endless Space on your computer).
- Added the ES credits.
- Texture, video, memory & AI optimization.
- Added one new difficulty mode - Endless.
- Food consumption by population will vary with game speed.
- Heroes will not be injured when retreating. Changed the 'Death before dishonor' faction trait.
- Ship levels increase HP, DamageMin, DamageMax, InterceptionAccuracy, DeflectionPerTurn and Absorption.
- Changed the ship leveling, which now requires more XP (6 to 45 -> 4 to 100)
- Decreased the defense mods' cost (3 to 75 -> 2 to 58).
- Decreased the defense mods' weight (7 to 20 -> 5 to 16).
- Antimissile and Shield mods are now more powerful than their Weapon counterpart.
- Deflectors bonuses were only slightly increased.
- Halved Defense MP (8 to 210 -> 4 to 125) but not their efficiency in general.
- Defense MP is less effective during invasions than weapons.
- Added an extra bonus on the armor mods (25 to 304 -> 25 to 220+12%).
- Modified the Bluecap mold monopoly bonus (Dust -> Approval).
- Reduced the difficulty of diplomatic victory ( 1000 + 10*(players)*(planets) -> 2000 + 15*(players)*(planets) ).
- Decreases the malus of the random event "SUPERNOVA DISRUPTS NAVIGATION MAPS" (-80% -> -30%)
- When playing sower, the player knows the actual FIDS of a planet before colonizing it.
- Decreased the Alliance bonus multiplier (Alliance : * 2 -> Alliance : * 1,6).

FIXES
IMPORTANT FIXES
- Fixed an issue where the leech hero ability will not stop upon conquering the star system.
- Fixed an issue where an assert is received when a system is conquered by the AI and the user is in System view on the same system.
- [MP] Fixed an issue where assert is received when joining an in-progress session.
- [MP] Fixed an issue where opening the war notification as host will cause an assert.
- Fixed an issue where pressing ESC after quitting a game will cause an assert.
- Fixed an issue where the game crashes 100% after loading a specific save game.
- Fixed an issue where loading a saved game from another Steam account causes an assert.

OTHER FIXES
- Fixed several text issues.
- Fixed several localized text issues.
- Fixed an issue where the browsing arrows become unresponsive in planet view in a 2 planet system.
- Fixed an issue where the moon orbiting a planet will not adjust size properly in planet view.
- Fixed an issue where the heal button is not functional on the Assign to system screen.
- Fixed an issue where a graphical corruption can be seen when entering the star system.
- Fixed an issue where the Permanent Perennials star system improvement is not working.
- Fixed an issue where the resolution will not change to 1600x900 when in windowed mode.
- Fixed an issue where the user will have the buyout option active for a ship that cannot be completed normally (strategic prerequisite or obsolete ship design).
- Fixed an issue where the amount of military power is displayed using decimals on the battle report.
- [MP] Fixed an issue where ships are displayed as being in hangar on other player`s system.
- Fixed an issue where the name of the empire is not replaced in the current deals with button.
- Fixed an issue where cease fire are not spread to allies.
- Fixed an issue where the initial starting population decreases right after the first turn at slow game speed.
- Fixed an issue where disband/create fleet does not refresh movement points.
- Fixed an issue where the race names are seen in the language of the other player.
- Fixed an issue where the Hissho Affinity tool tip is not updated.
- Fixed an issue where the United Empire Affinity tool tip is not updated.
- Fixed an issue where the "Industry to Science" conversion tool tip is not updated.
- Fixed an issue where the user is able to select guard action on an enemy`s fleet.
- Fixed an issue where technologies do not affect the deal approval.
- Fixed an issue where actual faction names were not updated in the Diplomatic Negotiations Screen when choosing random factions.

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