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Tryst Product Update

(Patch No: 12Sep26A)

Demo Mode Live: Users can now try out Tryst for free. Demo allows access to the Multiplayer lobby. Demo players will only be allowed to play as the Humans. They can host Ignius but no other maps. They can join other players who are hosting games on different maps, though.
Cel-Filter Live: A new Graphics option that applies a cel-filter to the game world, units and fx is now available. Its awesome! Check it out by setting it to true in the Graphics Options screens.
Known Issues
Saved files from previous updates will not function in this version
General
General Crash Fixes (Multiplayer and Campaign related)
General User based Crash Fixes (fixing reports sent in by users)
Fixed issues associated with Achievements
Joining Private games now asks you for a password to join
Toon shader option
GUI Layout Improvements Auto-Scale to height and width of screen and settings
Design
Operative:
Damage decreased from 45 to 43
Armor reduced from 2 to 1
Upgrade - Krypt Recoil Reduction Unit RoF increase amount reduced from an additional 14 rounds per minute to an additional 10 rounds per minute

Sting-Ray turret:
Cost adjusted from 140 Ore/40 Energy to 85 Ore/65 Energy
Hub:
Increased Charge Production rate so that it now decreases by 1 second every 5 minutes to a max cap of 15 seconds for a charge (this occurs at the 25 minute mark)
Increased the initial Charge Capacity from 3 to 4

ALL Temples (By Type and Tier):
Decreased build time from 200 seconds to 150 seconds
Increased health uniformly by 100

Altar of Knowledge:
Decreased build time from 180 seconds to 130 seconds

Spirit Catcher:
Decreased cost from 40 Ore/15 Energy to 35Ore/15 Energy
Changed from Medium armor to Building armor class
Campaign Update:
Mission 2:
Tuned wave timings
Fixed Dialog Overlaps
Added Objective - Defend Base from Enemy Waves (So that it is clearer that attacking the Zali base is an Optional Objective)
Mission 3:
Tuned placement of enemies at the Processing Plant area
Camera Sweeps checked and fixed for crashes
Altered enemy composition at Lohum Processing Plant area
Mission 4:
Made sure Player Characters don't die during camera sweeps
Fixed crashes related to using the Jetpack at certain areas
Fixed Dialog Errors
Kestrel starts the mission with Hold Fire set to true

Quick Drive enhancements for the following DLC:
- 4CIG Southern
- Class 325 Express Mail Train
- Class 380 EMU
- Class 444 EMU
- Class 70 Locomotive
- ICE 3M High Speed Train
- Portsmouth Direct Line
- Northeast Corridor
- Legacy UK Rolling Stock

Castle Crashers is live on Steam right now for your adorable medieval animal orb pleasure, for $15 on PC and Mac. Since Castle Crashers launched in 2008 and is on both XBLA and PSN, the Steam release directly benefits staunchly anti-console gamers and those with a "don't play a game until it's been out for four years" policy.

For those in either category, or for anyone looking to grab a free copy of Castle Crashers on Steam, stay tuned to the Joystiq Twitter account (Officially Verified!), where we'll be giving away free codes. Good luck, valiant Steam knights.

The Family Ties Booster Pack, all new content for Orcs Must Die! 2, is now available on Steam! To celebrate the release, all Orcs Must Die! 2 DLC is 20% off! Offer good through Sunday, September 30th.

New to Orcs Must Die! 2? Save big on the all new Complete Pack!

Ever wonder where all the orc women are? Wonder no more! This second booster pack for Orcs Must Die 2 introduces deadly new enemies and fortresses. Its a family reunion you wont want to miss!

Their Finest Hour, all new content for Hearts of Iron II, is now available on Steam!

Their Finest Hour puts you back in the commanders seat during World War II. Win the war with new units, strategies and enhanced game modes.

Destroy your enemies from within with an expanded espionage system that includes new missions and covert operations. A new battle plan mode allows you to load historical plans or draw your own; all of which can be shared with allies in real-time during multiplayer. Along with the enhanced gameplay there are two new battle scenarios and a new custom game mode that lets you jump straight into the action.

To celebrate this release, the Hearts of Iron III Collection is available at 75% off until October 3rd at 10AM Pacific Time!

New in version 1.3.0:
* (!)Landscape now influences economy and greatly influences movement.
Lava landscape damages units over time.
* (!)Spells trading added to diplomacy.
* Now you can choose AI opponents at the start of a game.
* Overview windows for cities and units added.
* Now you will have some mana refunded if you cast spell within your territory.
* AI will now dispel banes from its cities.
* Monsters will be willing to enter portals from both sides.
* News about city events added
* News about changes in diplomatic relations of opponents added
* News about global enchantments added
* Multiplayer game loading bug fixed
* Options panel bug fixed
* Some window decorative effects added
* Message boxes closing bug fixed

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As a pioneer of the Steam Greenlight program, there couldn't have been a more random choice than McPixel. The hilarious, absurd adventure game-meets-WarioWare exercise in preventing explosions is the first Greenlight game to make it to Steam, where it's available now for $4.99.

McPixel is a series of 100 scenarios in which the player has 20 seconds to "prevent stuff from blowing up using available tools." It was recently featured in one of the custom arcade cabinets at Fantastic Arcade, where it benefited from an even more context-free presentation and could thus confuse people who didn't know what they were playing at all.

A second booster pack breeches the defenses of Orcs Must Die! 2 tomorrow, releasing on Steam for $4.99. The 'Family Ties' DLC includes three new levels, the new Stone Staff and Teleportation Ring weapons, the Jar of Ghosts trinket, new costumes, a new enemy and bonus skull definition, and Courtney Cox starring as Lauren Miller in Seasons 6 and 7.

Resident Evil 6 is due out next week, and to celebrate, Capcom is offering half off of either of the last two games in the series over on Steam. Both Resident Evil 5 and the non-canon spinoff Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City are available for half price, making the first one $9.99, and the second $24.99 for the base game, or $38.94 with all of the DLC included.

At those prices, there's never been a better time to sign the rent agreement and let the Evil move on in. Just be careful with letting Evil be your roommate: It always leaves empty milk cartons in the fridge, and never washes the dishes, no matter what the chore list says.

Chosen by the community through Steam Greenlight, McPixel is Now Available on Steam!

McPixel is a save-the-day guy that you guide through 100 short challenges in an old-school point'n'click fashion. The goal in each challenge is to prevent stuff from blowing up using available tools! You have only 20 seconds to save the day! Think quick!

The new Darksiders II - Argul's Tomb and Darksiders II - Death Rides DLCs are Now Available for Darksiders II!

Awakened by the End of Days, Death, the most feared of the legendary Four Horsemen, embarks upon a quest to restore mankind, and redeem his brothers name. Along the way, the Horseman discovers that there are far worse things than an earthly Apocalypse, and that an ancient grudge may threaten all of Creation . . .

Save 66% on Wargame: European Escalation during the Midweek Madness!

Plus, the new Wargame: European Escalation - "COMMANDER" DLC is Now Available! This FREE DLC includes the new Economy mode and 5 news maps for many modes!

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 Thursday at 4pm Pacific Time.

To celebrate the upcoming release of Resident Evil 6, Capcom is offering 50% off the Resident Evil Franchise for this week's Midweek Madness!*

Resident Evil 5:

From the ashes of old conflicts, a new terror arises. The Umbrella Corporation and its crop of lethal viruses have been destroyed and contained. But a new, more dangerous threat has emerged. Years after surviving the events in Raccoon City, Chris Redfield has been fighting the scourge of bio-organic weapons all over the world. Now a member of the Bio-terrorism Security Assessment Alliance (B.S.A.A.), Chris is sent to Africa to investigate a biological agent that is transforming the populace into aggressive and disturbing creatures. Joined by another local BSSA agent, Sheva Alomar, the two must work together to solve the truth behind the disturbing turn of events. Featuring a revolutionary new co-op mode of gameplay, Resident Evil 5 will let players experience fear together as terror moves out of the shadows and into the light of day.

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City:

Its September 1998 and Raccoon City is being consumed by Umbrellas deadly T-virus outbreak. With a cover up required, Umbrella orders an elite squad into Raccoon City to destroy all evidence of the outbreak and eliminate any survivors. Meanwhile, the US Government has quarantined the city and dispatched its own team of elite Spec-Ops soldiers to track down the source of the mysterious outbreak.

Gear up as a member of the Umbrella Security Service and battle against all of the forces at play in Raccoon City. Youll come face-to-face with horrifying Resident Evil enemies like hunters and lickers as you navigate the Raccoon City Streets in search of your targets which include series icons like Claire Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy.

One thing is for sure, in Raccoon City, all roads lead to hell.

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If you're a small developer used to making small games, there's a lot you can do when presented with a bigger budget and a major publisher. You can make a deeper, more involved story than usual; you can design bigger and more complex environments; you can hire Hollywood voice talent; you can motion-capture every motion that it's possible to capture.

Arkedo Studio chose to apply its resources to filling the screen with as much hand-drawn 2D art as possible, all the time. It's a remarkable achievement. Hell Yeah! doesn't just have some of the best 2D art in recent memory, it has the most.

The Amazing Spider-Man™ is now available on Steam!

Harness Spider-Mans powers with Manhattan as your playground!

Set shortly after the events of Columbia Pictures' new film, The Amazing Spider-Man throws New York City's brand new hero back into free-roaming, web-slinging action, as he protects the Big Apple from a deluge of unimaginable threats.

4 pieces of DLC for The Amazing Spider-Man™ are also available at this time as well:

-Rhino Challenge
-Oscorp Search and Destroy Pack
-The Stan Lee Adventure Pack
-Lizard Rampage Pack

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Patch 1.11.5.3
Released September 23, 2012
This patch addresses a number of issues:

* Tweaks to various areas to prevent units from getting stuck.
* Fixed a potential crash bug when applying affixes and effects.
* Fix for Berserker geyser proc showing up as a mappable skill.
* Fixed several typos.
* Fixed friends list based achievements.
* Spell-learning achievements now don't incorrectly trigger based on other players.
* Fix a bug when recalculating the price on objects to make sure the calculation is based on the correct data.
* Fixes to some logic in the Frosted Hills.
* Fix for triggering Shocking Burst and Arc Beam out of range while hitting shift that could cause chain casting.
* Fix for potential issue when units would queue removed/unavailable skills.
* Fix for having more than 100% reduction to charge decay or a negative flat charge decay.
* Changed lootable rocks to be non-colliding as they could occasionally block very narrow corridors.
* Improvements to journal tooltips.
* Proc affixes scale better with player level.
* 'Resist Slow' affix fixed.
* Berserker 'Wolf Shade' now has the (intended) 60 second cooldown applied to all ranks.
* Fix for mistriggering when chaining two skills together when there is an early hit-frame.
* Safety check to stop any looping skills that get stuck in the 'on' state when the character is not performing a skill.
* Put in protection against character save file corruption. Corrupted characters will not appear in the list of characters.
* Removed display of other users' IP addresses in multiplayer games.
* Removed access to console commands in multiplayer games.
* Removed Steam Cloud toggle in the settings file (it didn't do anything); the ability to toggle is available in the Steam client.
* Fixed a bug that could cause multiple Tower of the Moon entrances to appear in the world.
* Implemented a few specific boss room pathing fixes.
* The game's login dialog now correctly allows passwords up to 64 characters long.
* Fixed bug with 'Poison Burst' procs.
* Fix for bug where rapid clicks could misspend stat points.
* Made significant optimizations to particle collisions.
* Fixed rare crash when turning in quest in the Undercurrents.
* Fixed problems with characters or shared shash items disappearing.

If users have any problems with disappearing characters or shared stash items, please contact support@runicgames.com and we may be able to resolve the problem.

Indie developers are the starving artists of the video-game world, often brilliant and innovative, but also misunderstood, underfunded and more prone to writing free-form poetry on their LiveJournals. We believe they deserve a wider audience with the Joystiq Indie Pitch: This week, Melbourne developer Finn Morgan discusses the affects of color-coded gravity in Colour Bind, out today on Steam.
What's your game called and what's it about?

It's called Colour Bind (easy to misread, I know - it's "Bind" with no "l"), and it's a world where objects of a different colour fall in a different direction. Maybe red objects fall down as normal, but green objects fall up and blue objects fall sideways. You control a car thing that has to drive to the goal of each level, overcoming various obstacles and puzzles that are made possible by the weird outcomes of the fact that gravity is pulling different objects in different directions.

What inspired you to make Colour Bind?

It's kind of a silly story. I was walking through Melbourne during a traffic jam, and it occurred to me that, viewed from above, the shapes of the long lines of cars moving and stopping in streams would make interesting shapes for a 2D platformer. The cars in this scenario would have to have gravity pulling them away from the camera, but the character in this hypothetical platformer would need to fall "down" relative to the camera.

Thinking about this situation, of different bodies being pulled by gravity in different directions depending on their "type," distracted me from that game and eventually turned into Colour Bind.

4.10. Patch 1.7 release notes

- Adventure Pack "Danse Macabre" Compatibility:
- Campaign
- Two new campaign maps
- New neutral building 'Magic Menagerie'
- Unique End Boss 'Dragonwraith'
- New Dynasty Traits
- New Hero 'Sandro'
- New Heroes available for purchase in the Altar of Wishes
- New Dynasty Weapon 'Staff of the Netherworld'
- New Artifact Set
- New Achievements
- New Player Portraits available for purchase in the Altar of Wishes
- New Dynasty Pet



- New available multi-player maps:
- Warlords of Xeen
- Coast of Intrigue
- The Lost City
- The Conquest of Enroth

- Community bug requests fixes :
- Campaign
- In Pirates of the Savage Seas campaign, the secondary hero Falagar receives blood and tears reputation points.
- In Pirates of the Save Seas campaign, the secondary hero Falagar has no specialization.
- The secondary Stronghold Campaign hero Akamas does not have the First Blood level specialization during battle.
- Magic Sanctuary hero Himiko has Might heroic strike animation and damage instead of water magic animation and damage.
- Magic Stronghold campaign hero Airini as Might heroic strike animation and damage instead of magic animation and damage.
- Magic Inferno campaign hero Xana has not heroic strike animation.
- Crag Hacks Plunder (+1 gem per week) effect and the All-Seeing Crown artifact effect do not work.
- Dynasty Weapons/Artifacts
- When two or more heroes the Artifact seller building on Adventure map with one of them, you can buy artifacts and scrolls to a remote hero by clicking on his portrait.
- Artifacts that award bonuses to creature damage do not function correctly.
- The "Winterwind Peace Circlet" Artifact doesn't work (already fixed in 1.5.2 patch).
- The "Flamegold Shield" artifact does not award fire resistance (already fixed in 1.5.2 patch).
- The "Gauntlets of the Khan" artifact's second ability (+1 to friendly creatures might damage) doesn't work (already fixed in 1.5.2 patch).
- The "Frozen Chrysanthemum" Artifact doesn't work (already fixed in 1.5.2 patch).
- The level 3 ability (Sephiels Voice) of the Heartrending Song takes effect on 5x5 area instead of 3x3.
- The Perfect Silkswords buff is not enough powerful. (Now gives +30%damage dealt and +40 Luck).
- Missing icon for staff of Cleansing "Tainted Mist" ability in the Spellbook.
- Staff of the Tides level 5 "Ice Barrier" ability does not absorb damage in retaliations.
- Asha's Staff of Eightfold totally refills mana each day instead of the +10 mana.
- The description of the Arachne's level 5 ability contains the value 0.
- The level 3 (Sephiel's Voice) ability of the Heartrending Song gives too little heal.
- Will of Urgash Burning Fire ability fire damage can be healed.
- Will of Urgash Firestorm damage is not influenced by the Hero's level and Magic Power.
- The number of summoned Juggernauts by the Blade of Binding is not influenced by the Heros level.
- Level 5 Staff of the Tides "Ice Barrier" ability was too powerful. It now disappears after the stack is dealt more than 393 damages.
- The "Warping Pendant" artifact will be effective against enemies even if the hero does not have 10 might attack power.
- Different items are present in the Artifact Merchant after loading a game.
- Achievements
- "Some Rotten Forever" achievement cannot be unlocked.
- A fight won without engaging in close combat is not counted for the "Marksman" achievement.
- Abilities/Spells/Traits
- The "Mentoring" ability gives the hero 75% experience instead of 50% as indicated
- The bonus to the "Diplomat" ability awarded by the "Master Diplomat" specialization is too small to make a difference.
- Vampires and Vampire Lords cannot be attacked when they have the "Out of Time" buff.
- The animation of the "Inner Eye" ability can be seen on units that are in the army of a Might hero.
- The "Cleave" skill will trigger for every stack that destroys an enemy stack rather than just the first one.
- Damage dealt by any spell is doubled if the user casts Pressed Attack.
- Demographist II dynasty trait increases elite creature by 1 instead of 2.
- The "Assailant I, II, III" abilities receive the same amount of points on both Tears and Blood reputation.
- Stronghold campaign secondary hero Airinis first class tears ability cannot be used in combat.
- The Meditation skill will restore 50% of the hero's mana even though the description states it should restore 15%.
- The "Magic Affinity III" skill does not work.
- The Fire Elemental "Cremation" ability does not work.
- Dynasty trait Artifact Finder does not work.
- Level 1 Sanctuary reputation ability for Might heroes is not displayed in the spell book.
- The Lich's "Drain Life" ability doesn't work if the stack that is attacked dies.
- A stack doesn't retaliate when is attacked by an enemy stack affected by "Taunt" ability.
- Localizatio/Text error fixes
- Incorrect message is displayed when the player loses a battle in the arena
- Incorrect description of Movement points for a unit affected by "Haste" spell.
- Incorrect description in the "Vampire Palace" structure tooltip regarding the creature growth.
- Miscellaneous
- The user won't be able to zoom or move the camera using the scroll after he uses the "Statue of Revelation" Haven building
- You can move the portrait of your hero while visiting an Arena or an Arcane Library.
- The combat music effect continues playing after visiting an Arena until an action that triggers another music effect is made.
- In Custom Game, there is not a Chose random enemy faction or/and hero on all slots.
- The "Lightning Bolt,Fire Bolt and Agony" spells have no special effects when killing an enemy stack.
- Loading an autosave creates a new autosave.
- Attacking a hero that is outside the town (a few steps outside) starts a town battle with the defender inside the castle.
- Player is not warned when one or several of his heroes have movement points left when he ends a turn. Now a popup window appears near the hourglass to warn the player.
- The scrollbar does not reset after switching between tabs in the spellbook.
- In the Diving Attack's tooltip there is no information about the special ability's cooldown.
- Right clic info window disappears for no reason. It disappears now at a new right click press.
- There is not a Lock Dynasty weapon button in MP lobby.
- The Frost Miya does not increase population by 2 as described, but by 1.
- Low resolution picture for Azkaal in the Bestiary.
- Combat hotkeys are not functional when the user is attacked on passive turn.
- The level bar of a Dynasty Weapon shows a constant value.
- Special Offers (such as 10 crystals for 10 ore, or get 3000 gold for 10 woods etc.) from the Advanced Market changed on Save/Load.

- Bug fixes :
- Localization/Text error fixes :
- The tooltip for the last achievements tab was not localized
- Wrong tooltip for the "Fire Ball" ability.
- In game lobby menu, the number of creatures in your army are shown at the 10th than the number of creatures that you actually have in combat
- Wrong description displayed when opening the fort screen.
- Incorrect description of movement points for a unit affected by "Slow" spell.
- Incorrect description in the "Raging Kennels" structure tooltip regarding the creature growth.
- Incorrect description in the "War Pavilion" structure tooltip regarding the creature growth.
- Incorrect description in the "Harpy Colony" structure tooltip regarding the creature growth.
- Incorrect description in the "Hall of Agony" structure tooltip regarding the creature growth.
- Incorrect description in the "Pen of Chaos" structure tooltip regarding the creature growth.
- Incorrect description in the "Haunted Tower" structure tooltip regarding the creature growth.
- The intermissions and cinematics are not audio translated for "Pirates of the Savage Sea" campaign on Spanish, French and German localizations.
- Inconsistency between tooltip and behavior
- In A Princess of Varn scenario map, primary Quest marker is not displayed on the in game map menu.
- Abilities / spells
- The might defense bonus received from Stone Skin spell is shown with a minus instead of a plus on friendly creatures.
- The town portal spells are present in the spell book even if the town portal and advanced town portal are not built.
- Curse of the netherworld will heal friendly stacks when the enemy is undead.
- Despair increases the morale of the enemy instead of decreasing it
- Siege master II has the same base damage for blood and tears reputation
- The heroism, mass ability gives the creatures within your army 13% damage instead of 12%
- Eternal winter ability last only one turn instead of 2 turns
- Duck and cover still has 40% cover defense instead of 50%
- The seraph has the Blade of Mercy ability instead of the Blade of Epiphany ability.
- The celestial has the Blade of Epiphany ability instead of the Blade of Mercy ability.

- Dynasty weapons
- Thunder staff - The +5 air magic bonus points given by the passive ability of the weapon are not received.
- Staff of tides - The +5 water magic bonus points given by the passive ability of the weapon are not received.
- Heartrending song - The +5 light magic bonus points given by the passive ability of the weapon are not received.
- Miscellaneous
- Missing icon for the passive abilities given by the Amulet of thunder, Evercold Icicle, Brythigga Amber, Rune of flame, Sun cross and Heart of Darkness
- The maps created with the editor do not appear in the multiplayer game lobby.
- Incorrect functionality for the creature dismiss hotkey
- No autosave is generated for a hotseat session in offline mode.
- The HUD is not visible for the first player in his first turn playing hotseat.
- The quick save feature is not functional on hotseat mode.
- Team options should be grayed out on 2 player maps .
- The end turn hotkey doesn't work while on water.
- The autosaves are not made daily for the first 4 days, for several campaign maps
- The autosaves are not made daily for a period of 3 to 7 days after starting the map, for several skirmsh maps
- The same hero is available twice for the user, ingame on the same map.
- The perfectionist trait does not work as stated in the description.
- Maniac weekly growth increased to 8 units instead of 9
- The game crashes if the user enters a town before a dialogue box is triggered and tries to change anything in the town screen.
- The final boss, Mother Namtaru, has no animation when she dies.
- Wrong deployment area for creatures in combat map.
- The game crashes if the user tries to load a game from the "End Screen".
- The game crashes when the user confirms the Disconnected from Conflux message.
- The Load Game shortcut does not have any functionality in-game.
- After creating 44 heroes the 'Create New Hero' button is grayed out and no additional heroes can be created.
- The game crashes when loading the first autosave made on any campaign map.
- In The Lost City map, the user cannot pick the spell scroll after defeating the stack that guards the area.
- In the 4th map of the Inferno Campaign, there is Wrong deployment area for creatures in combat map.
- The "End Turn" button is functional only after it is pressed a second time.

- Complete Balancing list:
- Ability
- Fire Vulnerability (Fire damages taken +20%) effect is now considered as Might Vulnerability (Might damages taken +20%).
- Chilled and Frozen effects now add Might Vulnerability effect.
- Circle of Winter ability damage increased to 700/800/900.
- Assailant ability is now based on Blood reputation.
- Defender and Arcane Ward abilities are now based on Tears reputation.
- Assailant, Defender and Arcane Ward abilities give modifiers based on reputation:
- Reputation 0
- Tier I: 2
- Tier II: 3
- Tier III: 4
- Reputation 1
- Tier I: 3
- Tier II: 4
- Tier III: 5
- Reputation 2
- Tier I: 4
- Tier II: 5
- Tier III: 6
- Opposite reputation
- Tier I: 2
- Tier II: 3
- Tier III: 4

- Creature Abilities
- Haven
- Guardian Angel IV healing power decreased to 23% (-5%).
- Marksman Piercing Bolt passive ability is now an Active ability.
- Crossbowman health decreased to 20 (-2).
- Marksman health decreased to 24 (-2).
- Sentinel Health increased to 25 (+4).
- Praetorian health increased to 32 (+32).
- Praetorian growth rate decreased to 14 (-1).
- Praetorian movement increased to 5 (+1).
- Sun Rider movement increased to 6 (+1)

- Inferno
- Juggernaut movement increased to 6 (+1).
- Juggernaut Minimum Melee Damage decreased to 17 (-1).
- Juggernaut Maximum Melee Damage decreased to 20 (-1).
- Breeder and Mother Breeder Mana leach ability decreased to 4% (-1%).
- Breeder morale decreased to 4 (-6).
- Breeder luck decreased to 8 (-4).
- Mother Breeder has now Mobile Shooter ability.
- Mother Breeder cost increased to 550 (+55).
- Mother Breeder morale decreased to 4 (-6).
- Mother Breeder Luck decreased to 10 (-5).

- Necropolis
- Ravenous Ghoul growth rate increased to 10 (+1).
- Ghost growth rate increased to 7 (+1).
- Specter growth rate increased to 10 (+2).
- Vampires Out of Time passive ability is now an Active ability with a 2 turns cooldown.
- Vampire Embrace ability power increased by 5% (20% drain).
- Vampire Lord Grasp ability power increased by 5% (25% drain).

- Sanctuary
- Spring Spirits and Mizu-Kamis have now the passive Ability Water Strike.

- Stronghold
- First Blood ability movement boost decreased to 1 (-1).
- Crusher Minimum Melee Damage decreased to 4 (-1).
- Crusher Maximum Melee Damage decreased to 8 (-1).
- Crusher health decreased to 34 (-2).
- Crusher growth rate decreased to 9 (-1).

Garshasp: Temple of the Dragon is now available on Steam and is 10% off until October 1st at 10AM Pacific Time!

The mighty mythological hero, Garshasp, travels into distant lands in search for the secrets hidden in the temple of the dragon, unaware of the hidden dangers and creatures awaiting him in the cursed lands.

You play as the mighty Garshasp in this hack and slash expansion pack for the original Garshasp: The Monster Slayer game taking place before the original story.

Colour Bind is now available on Steam and is 20% off until October 1st at 10AM Pacific Time!

Colour Bind is a physics platform-puzzler set in an abstract world where gravity is determined not by mass, but by colour. Navigate this unique world by manipulating colour and gravity to solve each level. Beating each unique puzzle in Colour Bind will take patience, intelligence, quick reflexes and sometimes even a helping hand from a friend.

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Mark of the Ninja is coming to Steam next month, arriving on October 16 priced at $14.99. Klei Entertainment told Rock Paper Shotgun about the PC port's details, including that Games for Windows Live won't be a part of it.

Klei's 2D stealth-a-lot came to Xbox Live Arcade earlier this month. Mark of the Ninja certainly made an impression on Ludwig of the Joystiq, with his review saying the game "shines a light on the stealth genre, revealing the qualities you knew were there but couldn't quite see."

Cortex Command is a recipe book for robots fighting each other across a 2D landscape. It is brilliant, it is difficult, it is awkward, it is ludicrous and fantastic. It’s one of my favourite indie projects – long hampered by tortuously slow development over many years – and I am pleased as punch that it is now about to find itself on that vast steambotic behemoth of a distribution platform. Data Realms have been working on the campaign setting quite intensively – we had a brief look at it some months back – and that’s what will roll out with the 1.0 Steam version. There’s a video detailing the new meta-game which is overlaid on to the familiar physics-heavy tactical game. Massive 40-minute preview video below, dominated by an explanation of the strategic game. Skip to around 35 mins for serious tactical action bit, although the dev’s voice is getting drowned out a bit by that stage.

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#markoftheninja Good news for PC-owning stealth-fans—Klei Entertainment's Mark of the Ninja is coming to Steam in a couple of weeks. The game, which Patricia liked and Jason and I can't shut up about will be on Steam on October 16 for $14.99. More »

Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

- Fixed issues caused by Friday's engine update

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Left 4 Dead 2 will receive Steam Workshop support starting in the middle of October, according to a recent developer blog. The system will allow players to rate and install community-created add-ons, including new maps, weapons, items and mutations thanks to an "expanded scripting tool."

Steam Workshop will roll out for PC, Mac and Linux versions of Left 4 Dead 2 next month, though no specific release schedule has been announced yet by Valve.