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4.06

- Fixed a movement bug introduced in the last patch
- Fixed a bug that stopped multiplayer games from working correctly
- Fixed a bug with the Options glow effect when more than 9 songs have been unlocked
- Updated social media buttons
- Smaller meteor debris
- Fixed name of "Starbits" on the library
- Increased max amount of Spikes from 150 to 200

1.0.23640.2
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Critical fixes:
- Fixed bug that may cause hangs in multiplayer games.
- Fixed MP weapon bank crash.
- Fixed a crash involving plagues.
- Fixed a crash after exiting combat.
- Fix to prevent stations from being spawned in the center of a planet.
- A certain Suul'ka will now no longer instantly kill ships with its tentacle attacks.
- Suul'ka fleets can no longer be dissolved.
- Fixed MP not syncing ai state.

Other fixes:
- Crit hits table now correctly shows after combat.
- Fixed estimated arrival time calculations.
- Command Ships larger than cruisers are now more aggressive in combat.
- Players can now scrap stations in the fleetl-ist.
- Players can now scrap battleriders from the battlerider manager.
- Fixed not being able to pirate with battle riders in fleets.
- Fixed cloaking not working in multiplayer.
- Fixed VN beserker behaviors.
- Freighters can now be built and scrapped from the trade view.
- Missiles can no longer be set to PD targeting mode.
- Armor tiles now repair from the inside outwards.
- Tuned formation movement in combat.
- Fixed some issues with multiplayer combat.
- Fixed some missing news events.
- Pre-Combat battle manager button is now disabled in multiplayer games.
- The "Ready" status should now correctly update across multiplayer lobbies.
- AI will now attempt to create counter ship designs based on previous combat experience.
- Added a fix to prevent AI from building multiple stations of the same type at a system.
- AI will now spend more time upgrading their fleets before attempting to invade a system again after a full scale invasion has failed.
- Suulka should now leave the game permanently when killed.
- Fixed an issue where multiple Suulka of the same type were being created.
- Gate Stations will now be unique per system.
- Fixed a bug where some Battleriders were being assigned twice.
- AI will now no longer immediately call back Boarding Pods after they launch.
- Armor piercing levels are now taken into account in AI weapon selection.
- Fixed a crash caused by Swarmers entering a system.
- Refined AI target selection during combat.

Other changes and additions:
- Added new auto options menu, including Goop and Joker modules.
- News event system overhauled.
- Mouse over colony faction morale while in the Starmap now gives a tool-tip with the last 3 events affecting that colony.
- Double clicking on a battlerider in the battlerider manager now fills the current carrier wing with that type.

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Arena Wars 2 is now available on Steam and is 20% off until October 19th at 10 AM Pacific Time.

Arena Wars 2 is the sequel of the award-winning Arena Wars series and combines revolutionary RTS fights with RPG elements. Join the Battlefield of the future and prove your skills in fast paced multiplayer matches as well as against the advanced AI. Stunning maps, highly detailed units, powerful upgrades and skills as well as a best balanced gameplay offer intensive fights in a spectacular Sci-Fi scenario. Thanks to an easy accessibility and different AI levels, Arena Wars 2 is the perfect RTS game for all kind of gamers.

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Clan of Champions, a multiplayer action game from NIS America and Tenchu developer Acquire Corp., will hit Steam on October 30. It's set to launch on PSN at a later date.

The first we heard of Clan of Champions, NIS was planning a release on Xbox 360 and PS3. Looks like plans have changed. Clan of Champions enables single-player or online multiplayer, with warriors fighting to become the one true champion using short-range magic spells or close-range combat. Remember: There can only be one. Unless you're on a multiplayer run.

Might & Delight's Pid will distort gravity on Xbox Live Arcade and Steam starting on October 31. Interested puzzle platform fans will be able to snag the game for $10.

If you haven't been following Pid, it features the adventures of a boy who acquires the ability to change gravity, which comes in handy when trying to solve tricky, dangerous puzzles.

Pid will be released on PlayStation Network later in 2012.

GAMEPLAY
- Added Meepo to Captain's Mode.
- Added Magnus to Captain's Mode.
- Fixed Reverse Polarity not pulling units from the right location.
- Fixed Necromastry loss count for odd numbers.
- Fixed Reverse Polarity stunning cycloned units.
- Fixed Incapacitating Bite working against Wards.

UI
- Fixed enemy Meepo illusions displaying the wrong health bars.
- Team profile shows tournaments that a team has participated in.
- Fixed bugs with cooldowns and disassembling Tranquil Boots.

VISUALS
- Updated Necronomicon visuals

DOTA 2 BOTS
- Added Templar Assassin to the list of heroes that bots will purchase invisibility-detection items for.
- When leading a target, bots will no longer target an ability in impassable terrain.
- Added more usage cases for Poison Touch.
- Earthshaker and Tidehunter bots are now more aggressive when they have Echo Slam and Ravage up, which should help them initiate more often.
- Fixed excessive lead time in Light Strike Array usage.
- Fixed case where AoE targeted abilities could be targeted on invisible enemies.
- Fixed bug with Shallow Grave where Dazzle bot would only rarely cast it on teammates.
- Windrunner bot will now more often follow up a successful Shackleshot with a Powershot.
- Ranged heroes will be slightly more aggressive when laning.
- Fixed issue where bots with lifesteal were overestimating their tankiness.
- Fixed Jugg's loadout to not have him buy boots first.
- Dazzle bot is now a bit more judicious about using Shadow Wave.
- Fixed bug that would cause bots to not ever want to go to the Secret Shop if they want to buy a TP scroll.
- Fixed bug where bots would always think they could push towers unopposed.
- Juggernaut bot now better estimates Omnislash damage (will no longer think it'll bounce to out-of-range creeps).
- Bots will now consider whether their laning opponents are ranged or not to determine their desired lane position.
- When a hero is farming a lane, bot desire to push that lane is now lessened.

Eight new DLC packs are now available for Darksiders II.

The new DLC packs include

Darksiders II - Mortis Pack
Darksiders II - Rusanov's Axe
Darksiders II - Van Der Schmash Hammer
Darksiders II - Fletcher's Crow Hammer
Darksiders II - Mace Maximus
Darksiders II - Angel of Death
Darksiders II - Deadly Despair
Darksiders II - Shadow of Death

1.13.5.12 Patch Notes
Patch 1.13.5.12
Released October 11, 2012

MISC
- Fixed Engineer armor set that was showing up as white geometry

PERFORMANCE
- Additional UI performance improvements
- Additional rendering performance improvements
- Precacheing of skills, missiles, and particles to reduce the appearance of stutters the first time those assets are viewed on some machines

STABILITY
- Fixed a crash that could occur with a dying pet that proc'ed on save restoration

SKILLS
- Fixed some issues with Stormclaw bolt chaining
- Blazing Pillar will no longer give enemies the ability to burn you!
- Shockbolts and Shocking Orb can now build charge
- Fixed several non-working augment affixes
- On-Death Procs properly cool down if required (Fixes several issues where a proc ceases functioning after a period of time)
- Blade Pact and Stone Pact last for listed time

ITEMS
- Lore item set now has a tangle ability, instead of a nonfunctional acidrain proc
- Several affixes that work based on unit proximity can work in parallel, when they could not before

GAMEPLAY
- Fixed several issues where procs could be precluded from activation
- Set bonuses based on nearby monster count work properly
- Some more multiplayer XP distribution fixes related to player/killer delta
- Can't turn alignment on something that attaches to its master
- When a left-click skill is bound, skills won't track a second mouse click if you click and click-away again (keeps you from pointing the wrong direction sometimes)
- Player block cap set to 75 instead of 50
- Elemental armor reduction can't reduce armor below zero
- Champions all have 100% charm resistance
- Siege Turrets have 100% charm resistance

LEVEL SCRIPTING
- Can't prematurely activate Vyrax tower warp with teleportation
- Various minor level fixes
- Various visual updates to the Three Sisters' Lair
- Some snow effects were not properly tagged as 'weather' so would not disable when weather was turned off
- Tutaran trap fixes
- Alchemist can no longer be 'started' on his third stage by rerolling, going to the next level waypoint, and back up.

Dungeons & Daemons, a new expansion for Magicka, is now available on Steam!

Explore never before seen places in the fantastical world of Magicka. Test your mettle against new enemies and try to avoid getting slime all over your robes. Where does that even come from? Its everywhere! If we could reveal the super-secret hard mode, it would attract even the most battle-hardened wizards. Unfortunately, its a secret, so we cant talk about it.

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R.A.W. Realms of Ancient War is now available on Steam and as part of the Focus Weekend Deal is 25% off until October 15th at 10 AM Pacific Time.

Take control of a fearsome Warrior, a powerful Wizard or a Rogue, and plunge into a grand quest full of action!

The explosive HacknSlash (action/role-playing game) R.A.W takes you, alone or with a friend in co-operative mode, on a fantasy world ruined by an ancient and violent war. Level your heroes up, collect more powerful weapons and armor, unlock new and more devastating spells, and exterminate by the dozens at once the hordes of enemies that are standing in your way. Thanks to your talent of incarnation, take control of your most powerful opponents to unleash their power and seed destruction among your enemys legions!

Kick off the weekend by playing Sanctum for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time.

You can also pickup Sanctum or the Sanctum Collection this weekend only at 75% off the regular price! Sale ends Monday, October 15th at 10AM Pacific Time.

If you already have Steam installed, click here to install or play Sanctum. If you don't have Steam, you can download it here.

Rotastic is now available on Steam and as part of the Focus Weekend Deal is 25% off until October 15th at 10 AM Pacific Time.

Rotastic is an addictive 2D arcade game, offering accessible, innovative and original gameplay, and a huge dose of fun without taking itself too seriously. Behind very simple swinging mechanics hides a deep gameplay with numerous possibilities to challenge your reflexes, ingenuity, and skills!

Blood Bowl - Chaos Edition is now available on Steam!

Inspired by the Warhammer Fantasy world, Blood Bowl is an ultra-violent combination of strategy and sports games. The Chaos Edition features 23 playable races, including 3 that are totally new, each offering its own game style! Make a competitive team, train it and buy the best equipment. Brutal victory after victory, improve your players' skills to make them into true Blood Bowl players! This is a no holds barred bonecrunching sport! Even if tactics are your favored route, you can also choose from a large selection of incredible and vicious moves: bribe the ref, devastating spells or illegal weapons…

In the Chaos Edition, three new races are making their triumphant arrival on the field: the malevolent Chaos Dwarfs, the outcasts of the Underworld teams and, for the very first time in Blood Bowl, the Daemons of Khorne! The new Lizardmen Stadium is more than ready to welcome all new teams, along with a new challenging mode, World Cup: participate in a prestigious competition, and lead your team from the qualifications to the bloody final tournament!

Democracy 2 is now available on Steam and is 20% off until October 18th at 10 AM Pacific Time.

Democracy 2 is the ultimate political strategy / simulation game. The game simulates the motivations, loyalties and desires of everyone in the country. As president or prime minister, it's your job to balance the need for income from taxes against the demands of the voters. Do you want your country to be an eco-friendly green paradise? Or a capitalist utopia? Will you pander to the patriots, the liberals or the religious pressure groups? Can you keep crime under control without destroying the civil liberties of your citizens? And can you keep good diplomatic relations with other nation states?

New in version 1.3.1:
- Fixed random Crash to Desktop (often after spellcast or switching to another realm)
- Fixed not working WSAD buttons after some windows
- Fixed bug with water passability
- Fixed several memory leaks
- Raised unit maximum for every fraction
- City stats are now updating after its capture or creation
- Building sites do not stay after city destruction any more
- Fixed SFX on Helia Temple
- Landscape damage tuned
- Fixed problem with mages portraits in map settings

The first Borderlands 2 downloadable expansion, Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty, is landing next week on October 16. Associated Press reports the DLC is set in a new area which features the bandit-occupied slums of Oasis. Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchford described the area as a dried-up landscape "more like Tatooine than an ocean." The Sand Skiff vehicle Pitchford discussed last month also features in the expansion, along with a new currency called "seraph crystals."

Captain Scarlett is the first of four downloadable expansions Gearbox is releasing for Borderlands 2, each priced at $9.99. The Borderlands 2 Season Pass makes all four pieces of DLC accessible when they release for $29.99. We've reached out to Gearbox for more information on the upcoming DLC.

Square Enix has gone on the record about several Sleeping Dogs DLC packs coming in October, and the first supplementary content pack has been dated for October 16. The 'Street Racer' DLC pack will be available for 320 MS Points on Xbox 360, $3.99 on both PlayStation 3 and PC via Steam. The DLC pack adds three new races across land and sea.

'Street Racer' also adds a new motorcycle to Wei Shen's garage and a new outfit to his closet, boosting defense against gunfire and accidents. Retailers recently slashed the price of Sleeping Dogs - it's $40 on both Xbox 360 and PS3 on Amazon and GameStop, or as a $30 PC download through GameStop.

Whats new in the 1.1 update for Toy Soldiers on PC:

Steamworks!

Steamworks features have now been integrated into Toy Soldiers! Steam achievements, Leaderboards, and saving games to the Steam Cloud are now a part of Toy Soldiers for PC.
Toy Soldiers for PC no longer requires Games For Windows LIVE to play! Players who are still working on their Games for Windows LIVE gamerscore need not worry though. After the patch is applied and you launch the game through Steam, you will see a dialog box that will give you the choice to play the new Steamworks version, or the Games For Windows LIVE version of the game. Each version will have its own save file, so progress you make in one version will not be visible by the other.

Added Resolution Support

Full 1080p resolution (1920 x 1080) has been added! We have also disabled the check to see what resolutions your display card supports, as this was causing some valid resolutions to be thrown out in some cases. If you happen to choose a resolution that your display card does not support, the game will return to the previous resolution after a few seconds.

Performance improvements

This patch includes improvements to the audio engine that fix performance problems with the games framerate, particularly for users running Windows XP. Optimizations to particle effect rendering have also been made.

We have introduced more options for players to tweak the performance of Toy Soldiers for their specific hardware needs. The following options are now available in the Video Settings menu under Help & Options:

Screen Filters - Setting this to Off will turn off screen overlay rendering (this improves performance on lower-spec machines). This setting is On by default.
Particle Intensity - Setting this to Low or Off reduces or removes the number of particles on the majority of particle effects. This is set to High by default.

Other issues that have been addressed

Many users were reporting crashes to desktop upon starting the game. In many cases, this is because the computer did not meet the minimum specifications for the game. In other cases, however, this was caused by Games for Windows LIVE not being updated. Users now have the choice to play the Steamworks version, which will avoid this issue. We have also addressed many crashes found by the community

Train Simulator 2013 Deluxe which includes the new Munich to Augsburg Add-On is Now available on Steam and 15% off!*

The Munich to Augsburg line is a fantastic German high-speed railway line for Train Simulator, complete with ICE 3 high-speed trains.

Owners of the previous full version of Train Simulator 2013 (which did not include the Munich-Augsburg route) can upgrade to the Deluxe edition for a special discount price. This discount will be available to them at checkout.

*Offer ends November 11th at 10AM Pacific Time.

Downloadable content for Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 is now available on Steam!

Unlock all 5 new decks! Plus, convert the cards in your decks to premium foils!

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Collection 4: Final Assault, new content for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, is now available on Steam!

Saluting Modern Warfare 3's Season of Content, the fourth and final DLC collection deploys with five all-new Multiplayer Maps. Surrounded by mountains, "Gulch" sends combatants into a forgotten mining town with only mine shafts and equipment sheds for cover. The Jersey coast awaits in "Boardwalk," where fun in the sun means facing enemies on the beach. Players must earn their sea legs in "Off Shore" and "Decommission," where deadly oceanic oil rigs and a maze of rotting ocean liners provide the perfect setting for shoreline-based combat. Rounding out the collection is a trip to New Orleans war-torn French Quarter, where "Parish" pits players against one another amid the city's rubble.

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Episode Four of the The Walking Dead is now available for all Walking Dead owners on Steam!

The Walking Dead is a five-part game series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkmans award-winning comic book series. Play as Lee Everett, a convicted criminal, who has been given a second chance at life in a world devastated by the undead. With corpses returning to life and survivors stopping at nothing to maintain their own safety, protecting an orphaned girl named Clementine may offer him redemption in a world gone to hell.

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, Johannes, Anders, Martin, Poi and the Coilworks team discuss going Greenlight and modern-retro challenges with Cloudbuilt.
What's your game called and what's it about?

Our game is called Cloudbuilt, and at its core it is all about challenging high-speed action and platforming. We are borrowing inspiration from old-school games, combining it with modern elements and adding some unique twists. We really think that we have brought booster powers to a whole new level with this game.

So what will Cloudbuilt bring in terms of challenge?

We want there to be plenty of room for the player to improve. We don't want to make Cloudbuilt challenging in the sense of simply killing the player. Sure, there are parts of the game where people tend to die a lot, but we make sure it's not because of unfair design. Our goal is to make you feel in control, thus should you fail, it would be due to your own fault. That makes it truly rewarding and when you clear a level, you'll feel like you've improved and mastered something.

Doing several easy tasks at once quickly becomes challenging. Wall-running on its own is not that hard, but wall-running while dodging mines and shooting at enemies, all while preparing to jump onto a new wall, is a little bit harder.

Because we are giving the player access to all abilities from the start, we will be focusing on the player's development instead of a character's. There is no difference in what a player can do in the beginning compared with the end. But there will most likely be a big difference in play style and the player's way of thinking.

Valve is seeking people to test out some of its hardware prototypes, along with released and unreleased games. Right now its looking for people around Valve's offices, in the Seattle or Bellevue area, but it may conduct remote testing in the future, so everyone is invited to fill out a playtester survey.

The survey asks, among other questions, how many years you've been playing games, for your favorite game, which difficulty you typically play on, your overall impression of Valve games, if you get motion sickness when playing first-person shooters and who the beneficiary on your life insurance policy is. OK, we made that last one up, but coming from the company that created Aperture Science, it's not too outlandish.

Looks like Valve is getting the ball rolling on its oft-rumored hardware-distribution arm. Which might in fact be a real arm that distributes hardware. You just never know with Valve.

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 HTTP downloads on Mac not sending an HTTP referer
  

Team Fortress 2

• Updated materials/models for the Champ Stamp, King of Scotland Cape, Stovepipe Sniper Shako, and Freedom Staff
  
• Fixed a server crash that could occur if a Spy was disguised holding the Gunslinger
  
• Fixed the Lacking Moral Fiber Mask being tagged as a misc item instead of a hat
  
• Fixed the Gunslinger not accepting "Sappers Removed" strange parts
  
• Overhealed players that are bleeding or on fire can now pickup healthkits to remove these conditions
  
• Added tf_dingalingaling_repeat_delay (default 0) which limits how often the dingalingaling sound can play
  
• Removed outdated tip about the Spy's Enforcer
  
• Updated the localization files
  
• Vote system
  • Allow kicking of connected players that haven't joined a team in Mann vs. Machine
    
  • Added sv_vote_issue_kick_spectators_mvm (default 0) which allows players to kick anyone that isn't team invaders, as long as they've passed the sv_vote_issue_kick_min_connect_time_mvm timer, if enabled
• Mann vs. Machine
  • Added two new tours of duty, each with new unique loot:
    • Operation Oil Spill, with 6 new intermediate skill missions
      
    • Operation Gear Grinder, with 3 new expert skill missions
  • If a player connects to a MvM game through matchmaking and loses their connection, their spot will be held for a brief duration and they will be given a chance to reconnect
    
  • After victory on a Mann Up server, the players will be put into a lobby together.
    
  • Improved matchmaking searching status screen
• Mann vs. Machine balance changes:
  • Explosive Headshots
    • damage is now 150 regardless of upgrade level
      
    • damage is done in one tick instead of the previous six
      
    • added a slowing effect based on upgrade level (50%-80% slow, 2-4 second duration)
      
    • radius still scales with upgrade level (unchanged)
  • Marked For Death duration reduced to 7 seconds from 15 seconds when the target is a giant robot
    
  • Reduced the "effect bar recharge rate increased" upgrade from 20% increments with an 80% cap to 15% increments with a 60% cap