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Today's Deal: Save 75% off Shatter!

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Collection 3: Chaos Pack, new content for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, is now available on Steam!

With its third DLC Collection, Modern Warfare 3 drops a combat-heavy care package of Special Ops Chaos mode, 4 new Special Ops missions, and 3 Face Off maps for the ultimate trifecta in solo and co-op gameplay. High-altitude Special Ops challenges put tactical skills to the test, with players navigating armed drones above a Russian destroyer and evading RPGs from the roof of a helicopter-swarmed hotel. Upping the ante further, Face Off firefights pit players head-to-head on a six-lane stretch of desert highway, at an abandoned crossroads near a New York overpass, and near the path of a violent tornado.

Gateways is now available on Steam and is 20% off until September 20th at 10AM Pacific Time!

From the creative mind behind The Adventures of Shuggy comes an exciting new retro-styled 2D platformer and a winner of Dream Build Play 2012.

Grab the gateway guns and explore a huge lab filled with mysterious puzzles in this classic platforming adventure. Use gateway technology to leap from one place to another, change size to explore small passages or defeat large enemies, walk on walls and ceilings to reach new areas and even travel in time to work together with past echoes of yourself.

Move seamlessly between different areas of the vast labyrinthian map with no waiting for loading screens as you explore and discover new power ups. Use each of your new abilities to progress further, unlock shortcuts and find even more power ups. Can you escape?

#blackmesa Believe it or not - and I'd forgive you for not believing it, given the mod's torturous history - but this is reportedly a shot of notorious Half-Life remake Black Mesa. Like, its gold master disc. Meaning the thing is actually done. More »

#steam You might think the most important new feature in Steam's "Big Picture" mode is, well, its big picture. But for many hardcore PC gamers, who don't use the service on a TV screen, the real good stuff can be found with the tweak of a command line. More »

ARMA II: Army of the Czech Republic is now available on Steam.

Arma II: Army of the Czech Republic is a brand new installment of the most authentic, diverse and open tactical military shooter series, Arma. A2: ACR features a variety of authentically modelled units and vehicles together with detailed environments, demonstrating the various roles and deployments of modern Czech Armed Forces across different theatres of war.

Storyline

Civil war in Bystrica is at its end. But its not the end of fear for the people. War criminals like Colonel Miyovic still terrorize the country with their militia looting and murdering civilians. Forces of the Czech Republic Army are sent to restore order.

After restoring some order in Takistan; Allied forces were able to send in a small number of provisional reconstruction teams. Unfortunately local insurgents are still planning operations to damage the reconstruction process. However Czech forces are operating in the area and that should help change the status quo.

Arma II: Army of the Czech Republic DLC requires ARMA II: Combined Operations which is made up of ARMA II and ARMA II: Operation Arrowhead

Pre-Purchase Worms™ Revolution now and receive a free copy of Worms™ Armageddon for immediate play!

Worms™ Revolution is the latest game in the classic turn-based strategy series to come to the PC, featuring exciting new features and beautiful 3D graphics whilst retaining the classic 2D gameplay that fans love. Choose to play the extensive single player mode which features both campaign and puzzle missions or dive straight into multiplayer warfare via online or local play. For the first time ever see the inclusion of dynamic water, physics objects and worm classes! Customise your experience by choosing what classes you play with, what they look like and even how they speak!

The Worms™ Revolution Season Pass is also available for Pre-Purchase at 10% off!

The Worms™ Revolution Season Pass includes access to four brand new DLC Packs (The Level Editor, Funfair Pack, Mars Pack and Medieval Tales) for Worms™ Revolution as they become available. The DLC packs are scheduled to be released following the games launch through December 2012.

Both offers ends October 10th at 10AM Pacific Time.

Sounds of Conflict, new content for Hearts of Iron III, is now available on Steam!

This collection of 18 songs from Hearts of Iron II, composed by Andreas Waldetoft, accompanies the game play of Hearts of Iron III. With over an hour of music, these songs play during key moments to enhance the mood and feel of the game.

Today's Deal: Save 75% off Rag Doll Kung Fu!

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Pre-Purchase F1 2012 and receive 10% off a single copy or 25% off the 2-pack!*

Codemasters Racing presents F1 2012, the next game in the BAFTA-winning series featuring all the official drivers, teams and circuits from the 2012 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP™. Learn the basics and master the challenge of driving the best machines on the planet in the Young Driver Test.

Experience the next generation in weather system technology where storm fronts move across the circuits, soaking specific areas of the track, as well as racing around the all-new Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, home of the 2012 FORMULA 1 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX. Two new quick fire game options: Season Challenge, a complete Career in just 10 races, and Champions Mode Scenarios, where you test your skills against the very best, complete an exciting line up of gaming options which also includes a 5 year Career, Co-op Championship, 16 Player Multiplayer & Time Attack Scenarios. F1 2012 Feel it!

*Offer ends September 17th at 9PM Pacific Time.

#thestanleyparable It's been almost exactly a year since Davey Wreden's brilliant Half-Life 2 mod The Stanley Parable threw us all for a loop. More »

#breaking Highly-anticipated Half-Life remake Black Mesa will come to Steam thanks to the Greenlight program, Valve said today. So will nine other games, with more to come. More »

Launch Set of 10 Coming to Steam Soon

September 11, 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 the first set of titles submitted through Steam Greenlight have earned critical mass and been picked up for worldwide distribution.

The first set of titles to launch via Greenlight will be released independently in the months ahead (as they are varying stages of completion).

The Steam community rallied around these titles and made them the clear choice for the first set of titles to launch out of Greenlight, said Anna Sweet of Valve. Since launch, hundreds of titles have been submitted, with more coming in every day. We expect to be announcing more titles coming to Steam via Greenlight soon.

The first 10 titles coming to Steam from Greenlight are:

• Black Mesa
  
• Cry of Fear
  
• Dream
  
• Heroes & Generals
  
• Kenshi
  
• McPixel
  
• No More Room in Hell
  
• Project Zomboid
  
• Routine
  
• Towns
  

Steam Greenlight is a new platform feature that enlists the communitys help in selecting some of the next games to be released on Steam. Launched on August 30, Greenlight allows developers and publishers to post information and media about their game in an effort to convince Community members that their game should be released on Steam.

For more information, please visit steamcommunity.com/greenlight/

The Testament of Sherlock Holmes is now available for Pre-Purchase on Steam! Act now and receive a copy of Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper!

Become the greatest detective of all time in The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, a twisting, turning investigation game set in a faithfully-reproduced London of 1898. You will find all the elements of a grand investigation: examine crime scenes, find the clues, follow the trails, interrogate suspects and unveil the mystery behind a great adventure, led by a breath-taking story full of twists!

Transcripted is now available on Steam and is 10% off until September 18th at 10AM Pacific Time!

Transcripted is a mixture of two incredibly addictive and vastly popular casual gaming styles: the dual-stick shooter and the match three puzzle game. In Transcripted players take control of the Nano Probe, a microscopic apparatus used to combat disease. With the aid of a skill tree that improves ship equipment, health, shields and weapons, you must successfully navigate through hordes of deadly pathogens to destroy the diseases pseudo-DNA as it twines perilously on its endless path to infection.

An awesome group of indie developers from Sweden have come together to create the Swedish Indie Pack for this week's Midweek Madness*!

This Pack includes:

• Blueberry Garden
  
• Bob Came in Pieces
  
• Dwarfs!?
  
• Hamilton's Great Adventure
  
• Harvest: Massive Encounter
  
• Lucidity
  
• Noitu Love 2: Devolution
  
• Puzzle Dimension
  
• Saira
  
• The Ball
  

*Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time

Save 75% on the Red Faction Franchise during this week's Midweek Madness*!

Wreak havoc across the vast, open-world environment of Mars in the the critically acclaimed, best-selling Red Faction Franchise. Rebel against the Ultor Corporation, replace the dictator Sopot to restore peace, battle for liberation from the oppressive Earth Defense Force (EDF) and finally save Mars from a long-dormant evil released from a mysterious shaft in an old Marauder temple.

*Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time

See what I’m doing? See it? That most basic option we’ve all so desperately wanted from Steam for as long as it’s existed? Well, you can do it too, if you twiddle with the current beta.

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Today's Deal: Save 66% off Turba!

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Transformers™: Fall of Cybertron™ - DINOBOT Destructor Pack, new content for Transformers™: Fall of Cybertron™, is now available on Steam!

Download this pack to get 4 new characters (SWOOP, GRIMLOCK, SLUG and SNARL) and their associated parts for use in Multiplayer.

Intrusion 2 is now available on Steam and 20% off!*

Intrusion 2 is an action platformer set in a sci-fi environment on a reserve planet occupied by a hostile military corporation conducting forbidden weapon research. Intrusion 2 is inspired by classic 16bit era sidescrollers and focuses on classic fast-paced action combined with modern physics and animation.

*Offer ends September 18th at 10AM Pacific Time.

It’s here! It’s finally here! After ages of waiting, I thought all hope was lost. I figured we’d have to keep viewing Steam on the humblest of screens: magnifying-glass-worthy monitors, puny laptops, screen doors. But now – after having its arrival heralded by semi-obscure videogame publication The New York Times – Big Picture’s open to everyone. Granted, it’s still technically in beta, so you’ll have to opt in. After that, though, you’re good to go. And goodness, it’s bringing some neat features to the table. The one in your living room, I mean. Because that’s where televisions live.

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#steam Valve's new Big Picture mode for Steam sure looks nice in pictures, but how does look, and more importantly work, in action? More »

EA has tried "over the years" to buy out Valve, the New York Times reports. These talks, had they ever reached negotiation, would have valued Valve at "well over $1 billion," NYT says, which is most likely a ridiculous understatement.

Valve is a private company controlled by founder Gabe Newell, who doesn't release any of its financials, but Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter estimates Valve is worth $2.5 billion today.

Newell says it's likely Valve's employees would scatter and the company would "disintegrate" before it would be sold.

"It's way more likely we would head in that direction than say, 'Let's find some giant company that wants to cash us out and wait two or three years to have our employment agreements terminate,'" Newell says.

You can methodically, quietly, take out your aggression on some virtual targets for cheap today. The Hitman Collection, containing Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Blood Money, and Codename 47, is on sale for $6.24 today on Steam.

If you want just one Hitman, each game is on sale for $2.49. You don't even have to watch a bunch of ads!

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:


Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2:DM)

• Fixed a bug that allowed malicious servers to execute restricted console commands on players
  
• Fixed a bug that allowed malicious servers to prevent players from executing console commands
  

New mode of Steam designed for display on televisions; works with game controllers
September 10th, 2012 -- Valve announces a major update to the Steam gaming platform called Big Picture.

Steam's new Big Picture mode lets gamers access all of their favorite Steam games on a television. With the press of a button, Steam displays a new full-screen user interface optimized for readability and interaction on TV. Big Picture has been designed to be used with a traditional game controller, while also fully supporting keyboard and mouse input.

Steam gamers can experience Big Picture by connecting their PC or Mac to a TV, typically with a single HDMI cable. Access to the complete Steam store is included, as is the Steam Community. In addition to their complete library of Steam games, each user's cloud files, Steam Workshop content, account information and preferences will be accessible automatically in the new mode.

"Sega's roots are in living-room gaming." said John Clark, Vice President of Digital Distribution at Sega. "For the first time since the advent of PC games decades ago, gamers are finally going to have access to the kind of entertainment experience we've always wished they could have with our PC titles - one that's incredibly social, comfortable, and accessible. We're excited about the opportunity, and Big Picture has inspired us to bring even more of our titles to Steam in the future."

"There is nothing more satisfying than slaying thousands of orcs on your big screen. And many of the most die-hard players of Orcs Must Die 2 have always preferred playing with a game controller. Steam Big Picture Mode finally marries these two and delivers a true living room entertainment experience to players."

"We're pleased that gamers on Steam will now be able to immerse themselves in our entertainment experiences in the comfort of their living room on large screen TVs," said Steve Glickstein of Take-Two Interactive Software. "From action and adventure to sports and sims, our titles deliver big fun on big screens."

"PC gaming continues to be the leading edge of entertainment, whether it's social gaming, MMOs, graphics hardware, free-to-play, or competitive gaming," said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. "With Big Picture for Steam, we are trying to do our part to give customers and developers what they want - their games, everywhere, optimized for the environment in which they are playing."

Big Picture also includes a new web browser designed for televisions and game controllers. It is accessible from anywhere within the Big Picture UI, and even while playing Steam games on a TV. It supports Big Picture's new method of typing with a game controller, which is useful for entering URLs, filling out forms, chatting, and other functions.

For more information, including how to participate in the beta, please visit http://www.steampowered.com/bigpicture.

Today's Deal: Save 75% off The Hitman Collection

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We are happy to present a new update to the Hitman: Sniper Challenge.

The primary change in this update fixes a problem found on some machines where they could not connect to the Sniper Challenge leaderboard servers.

This update also addresses a problem accidentally introduced by the previous update, where the Polish and Russian text language options had been swapped. This is now resolved.

We hope this update will allow more people to enjoy competing in the Hitman: Sniper Challenge.

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