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RaceRoom Racing Experience has been updated.

Update Notes:

Additional content for RaceRoom Racing Experience Teaser:
The RaceRoom Racing Experience teaser has been injected with a high performance supercar, the Saleen S7R and an additional bridge layout for RaceRoom Raceway. You will find the new content behind the Bonus Challenge button in the main menu.

RaceRoom Racing Experience enters Closed Beta:
SimBin Studios is kicking off a Closed Beta program for RaceRoom Racing Experience. Don't miss out on this chance to get early access to content and features whilst contributing to making RaceRoom Racing an unforgettable Experience. To apply, simply click the button labeled Join The Beta that you will find in the main menu.

Patch 1.15.5.2
Released October 19, 2012

This is a small patch to fix a single crash issue with effects based on proximity, usually triggered in multiplayer by zoning with Battle Rage enabled.

Whats New:
• Home now fully supports Steams Big Picture Mode play the entire game with your Xbox 360 controller from the terrifying comfort of your own couch, or continue to use a keyboard if you prefer.

• The most requested feature has been added to the game! Home now auto-saves your progress as you play, allowing for shorter play sessions if required. Continue where you left off, or start over from the beginning. The game still starts you from the beginning once you complete it, though—keeping the integrity of the experience while adding convenience for players who need it.

• Some things may not always be what they seem. As promised in previous missives, players may start to see their Home experience change ever so slightly the next time they play. Was that room there before? I thought that was locked... This is just the beginning for long-term fans of the game.

• Various other graphical tweaks and corrections to text and menus.

Ancient Shadows, all new content for AI War: Fleet Command, is now available on Steam and is 10% off* !

Splinter factions of humans, zenith, neinzul, and spire all dwell in those backwater nebulae. Some are hiding. Some are plotting. Some have gone totally insane. It is there, in the shadows, that your champion can find relics from the ancient race which constructed it. What power awaits? At what cost?

In celebration of this launch, take 75% off* on all previous AI War titles!

*Offers end October 26th at 10AM Pacific time

Solar 2 is now available on Mac and 66% off!* Buy it once. Play it on both Mac & PC!

Play constructively: grow your system, nurture life on your planets and attack enemy life in huge space battles. Play destructively: crash into other objects and cause chaos, use your orbiting objects like wrecking balls, steal planets from other systems in an open-world, sandbox game set in an infinite abstract universe.

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- Fixed player movement using joystick settings when playing with keyboard and mouse.
- Fixed a secure convar warning when scrolling the mouse wheel as a player infected.

Vanguard: Sage of Heroes is now on Steam and free to play!

Enter the vast world of Telon, an ancient world of magic, intrigue and adventure. Facing the challenges of a war-torn world, the diverse people here struggle to rebuild their once great civilizations. A fragile alliance has been struck and with the lands set upon by invading forces, the races must band together to survive. In the north, the sprawling green hills of Thestra are plagued by an unstoppable undead menace. To the south, the deserts of Qalia have been besieged by an elemental threat spawned from the depths of the earth; and to the east, inhabitants of the tumultuous jungles of Kojan fiercely battle encroaching otherworldly fiends. Telon is in desperate need of heroes. Your journey begins now.

1.0.23741.2
Critical fixes:
- Fixed crash when entering a multiplayer game with a dead player.
- Fixed CTD caused by Nodecannon.
- Fixed MP post combat CTD.

Other fixes:
- Fixed beams not rendering when origin is not on the screen.
- Fixed news events for meteors being shown for every colony in system.
- Fixed bug making platforms un-scrappable.
- Fixed Colony Established dialog population slider not working properly.
- Fixed Independents not showing up in star system dialog.
- Fixed Meson Projector beams not hitting planets.
- Fixed repair widget issues.
- Fixed trade stimulus not building freighters for all dock slots.
- Fixed bug causing dialogs to hang on screen after being disconnected from host.
- Fixed Locust behavior.
- Various fixes to Assimilation plague.
- Fixed strings related to plagues.

Other changes and additions:
- Hotkeys + Hotkey editor in menu.
- Hooked up many missing news event images.
- Survey missions will now cancel if they are unable to defeat hostiles at the system.
- AI will now show more discretion when selecting fleets for combat.
- Stations belonging to an assimilated colony will now be destroyed.

Sleeping Dogs and Payday: The Heist are both discounted this weekend, and one of them gets a free weekend as well. Guess which one. We'll give you a hint: It's the one with guns. OK, another hint: It tells the story of career criminals. Got it? That's right, Payday: The Sleeping-Dogs Heist.

Fine, it's Payday: The Heist that gets the free weekend, from now through Sunday at 1 p.m. PST. If you try it and want to buy, it's 75 percent off ($5) now through Monday at 10 a.m. PT. Sleeping Dogs is 50 percent off ($25) during that time.

- Added a Hall of Fame section to the community tab, featuring a different group of high skill players each week.
- Added a Team Browser section to the community tab. This shows teams that have participated in leagues that are available through the client.
- Added a Replays Highlight option when watching games. Watch the best moments from a match with a click of a button.

GAMEPLAY
- Dark Seer Fixed Ion Shell damage interval and it triggering Cold Snap
- Disruptor: Fixed Glimpse interaction with invulnerable units
- Magnus: Fixed enemies being able to cast and attack while in Skewer pull
- Rubick: Fixed Telekinesis Land sub ability proccing magic stick
- Viper: Fixed Nethertoxin damage not being critable
- Visage: Fixed Familias attack timings taking much longer than intended
- Fixed Illusions placing Orb of Venom debuff

UI
- Added a right click option for some items to alert allies that you want to cast them (Arcane Boots, Smoke, Mekansm)
- Fixed being able to sometimes move your hero before hero picking was done
- Enabled pause cooldown in co-op bot games.
- Fixed various hero swap bugs
- Fixed HUD element covering Armor bonus values in 4:3

VISUALS & AUDIO
- Increased Magnus model size
- Fixed Ravage visual timings
- Fixed some buffs not showing the correct cooldown frame ( slight gap at the top for aura provided buffs )
- Tweaking the scale and offset of visage and his units
- Tweaks for some neutral creep sounds, generally reducing volume and increasing range

CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION
- Fixed a bug that caused some items to not be equippable for Morphling and other heroes that recently had their item slots shuffled.
- Fixed Doombringer's missing tail.
- Fixed the 'Uldorak's Hide' set not properly displaying as a set of items.
- Reduced the size of the stumpy treants created by Nature's Prophet when using the Call of the Dendrochron.
- Fixed Invoker's head disappearing when head items were equipped. These items may need to be re-equipped.
- Fixed a bug with Multi-Hero Chronosphere not detecting its scoring condition.
- Fixed several item sets having incorrectly tagged rarities, relative to the contents of the set.
- Fixed Sword of Sir Davion being white for some users.
- Fixed overly bright specular on the Runed AiIlettes.

BOTS
- 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.- Optimized tango tree search.
- 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.
- Lowered the desire to help out with an under-control tower defense when in the laning phase.
- Fixed incoming defense evaluation.
- Lowered defend desire when not in late game.
- Adjusted Juggernaut's loadout.
- Made Blade Fury focus on its target better
- Trying something different with determining when and how to lead a target.
- Bots laning with a hard carry should now harass enemies more.

You've waited forever for a new Magical Drop game, and Ignition Entertainment and developer Golgoth Studio will finally deliver. Magical Drop V will be released on Steam for PC on November 15.

As we discovered to our surprise and delight last E3, Magical Drop V is not just a new game in the Data East color-matching puzzle series, it also contains the characters and gameplay from another unreleased puzzler, Ghostlop. Players can choose to play either game, even facing off in multiplayer across two different games.

Patch 1.14.5.5
Released October 18, 2012

GRAPHICS
*Intel HD graphics cards should not show ghosting/smearing effects if shadows are enabled

PERFORMANCE
*LARGE performance optimization to buff/debuff bar displays when there are a large number of overlapping, nonexclusive effects (damage over time, and duration based effects or knockback )

SKILLS
*Shield Bash bonus damage now deals the stated amount(charged and uncharged) *Wolfpack will properly strike turrets *Bonuses due to proximity now always expire properly *Damage bonuses/reductions for Battle Rage properly expire *Fixed Critical Hit bonuses on some effects not properly incorporating bonuses to crit *Pet damage bonuses are applied to effects

LEVELS
*Three Sisters zone now has an appropriate level range for proper NG+ reward scaling *Various issues resolved in Luminous Arena in multiplayer *Level determinism fixed (Was broken with precacheing in previous patch
- could result in triggerable elements and some structural elements re-randomizing on load, or in multiplayer)

ITEMS
*Set reward for Inquisitor set altered to a functional bonus *Fixes to the summon skull proc on equipment (prevents it from spawning exactly on a target) *Effects based on proximate monsters now work properly with socketables *DOTs were not properly attributing experience if the effect was applied from an item instead of a skill

MISC
*Target Dummy is charm resistant
*Fixed issue where rebinding Close All Menus could lock you in pause mode *Fix for shift-click casting a left-click spell and them selecting an item (would previously auto-attack) *Pet enhancing bonuses work more consistently for pets attached to OTHER pets

1.0.29
CHANGES AND ADDITIONS
Changed the balancing of the AI difficulty:
-50% damage & -40% defense in newbie for the AI
-25% damage & -20% defense in easy for the AI
Added Optimistic 1 to Sowers
Allowed a deficit from the beginning to have a more flexible tax rate management for the AI players.
Added a waiting period for a change of diplomatic status:
+ Game speed: Normal
- Cold War: you will have to wait 10 turns to change this diplomatic status
- War: 15 turns
- Peace: 10 turns
- Alliance: 15 turns
+ Game speed: Slow
=> these durations x2
+ Game speed: Fast
=> these durations x0.5
Added Italian and Russian languages.
Repacked the data for the PC version.

FIXES
Fixed an issue where the game would hang when loading a game where the AI has no more ships and needs to balance its defense.
Fixed an issue where a desync could appear when unlocking technologies by a random event.
Fixed an issue where the game could crash after scraping a population improvement (via the bankruptcy process).
Fixed an issue where the Wonder Building is never built by the AI.
Fixed an issue with the Dust icon of the control banner.
Fixed an issue where the effects of Intensive Cultivation Logistics and Careful Sweeping were inaccurate.
Fixed several GUI issues.
Fixed several localization issues.

Dwarfs!? is now Free to Play on Steam!

Play the core game in Arcade mode, plus all the Tutorials and the Challenge modes completely free, forever. No charges, no subscriptions - just free. If you like those modes and want more, you can either pick the modes that you feel like playing and buy those individually - or just buy the whole pack to unlock everything.

Dwarfs!? offers an addictive, fast paced arcade-like experience, with plenty of difficulty levels and game modes to play, in the tradition of great games such as Lemmings and Dwarf Fortress. As the new overseer for your underground Dwarf base, your job is to manage the small colony and make it as rich as possible, before they meet their inevitable doom!

The Landwehr Canal Pack, new DLC for Sniper Elite V2, is now available on Steam!

"The Landwehr Canal Pack" provides another brand new single-player mission and three new weapons. The Landwehr Canal mission tasks players with taking out three German generals as they convene in night-time Berlin.

This challenging mission requires players to devise their own plan for success, and provides a stern test of skill, cunning and ingenuity. The pack also grants access to two new sniper rifles: The Lee Enfield Mk. III and the Japanese Type 99. The addition of an MP44 SMG rounds out the pack.

Pre-Purchase Football Manager 2013 and play the Beta Now!

Football Manager is the best-selling, most realistic football management series ever made.

For any fan who has ever dreamed of making the big decisions, both on and off the field, this year's version allows you to take control of any club in more than 50 nations across the world and includes all of Europes biggest leagues as well as database of over 500,000 real-world players and staff.

As well as some landmark new features in the Career Mode, there are now new ways to enjoy your Football Manager experience.

This weekend only, save 50% on Sleeping Dogs*!

Welcome to Hong Kong, a vibrant neon city teaming with life, whose exotic locations and busy streets hide one of the most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations in the world: the Triads. In this open world game, you play the role of Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside out. Torn between your loyalty to the badge and a criminal code of honor, you will risk everything as the lines between truth, loyalty and justice become permanently blurred.

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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition is now available on Mac! Buy it once. Play it on both Mac & PC!

In celebration, save 25% on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition and 50% on The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut!

*Offer ends October 20th, at 10AM Pacific Time.

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It's been a while since we heard anything about Battlefield 3 post-earthquake expansion Aftermath, but today EA grounded out some more details to us, including a release date of November 27 for PS3 Premium members. We also have a debut trailer to enjoy along with new screenshots below.

The new mode is called Scavenger, a Conquest variation which ties into the expansion's setting of a devastated Tehran. You play as a lost soldier, armed only with a pistol and forced to search the rubble to find more powerful weaponry. If you're lucky, you might stumble across the scoped crossbow featured in the trailer.

The expansion adds four new maps, including the reasonably self-descriptive Epicenter and Markaz Market. There are also three new vehicles, ten new assignments, ten new dog tags, and five achievements/trophies. EA says Aftermath 'starts' releasing on November 27, first for PS3 Premium members, which translated means we can likely expect the same week-by-week roll-out as before. When it does find its way to you, it'll cost $14.99 on PS3 and PC, and 1200 MSP on Xbox 360.

Have you recently tried to make a game for submission to Steam Greenlight, only to realize it wasn’t actually a game at all – but instead a piece of ruthlessly efficient productivity software? Well then, you’re in a far better place than me. My aspiring Greenlight submission turned out to be a toaster. Sadly, there’s no category for that. Your software, though, can now enlist the aid of a community more numerous than the number of stars that can be seen through the thick clouds of smog in the sky. Well, potentially, anyway. Also, remember that pesky $100 Greenlight fee? Valve’s introduced a “Concept” category to help devs sorta kinda get around it.

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Colin Northway's Incredipede will launch on October 25, the developer announced today via the twitters. The game won't be available on Steam at launch, so obtaining a copy will require a direct purchase at the Incredipede site.

If you'd like to purchase the game through Steam, Incredipede is currently making its way through the Greenlight system, dealing with all that comes with it. Go vote for it if you'd like to see it on Valve's digital distribution platform.

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 the "disconnect" command regression from the previous update
  
• Fixed tools like vbsp working with new model format
  
• Fixed a con_logfile ConVar exploit
  

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed a common "FindModel" crash for replays
  
• Fixed the Crafty Hair not using styles for the yellow and brown hair
  
• Improved the "Restore" UI for customizing items in backpack
  
• Fixed floating arrows on carried objects
  
• Mann vs. Machine
  • Added a penalty system to deter players from repeatedly abandoning Mann Up games
    
  • Corrected the respawn time for the Mannslaughter mission
    
  • Updated MissionCycle behavior. Servers will always cycle to a mission listed in the MissionCycle file.

Steam's crowd-sourced Greenlight approval process has now begun accepting applications for non-gaming software, which the platform began featuring recently. The submission, voting and approval process for software is identical to that of the existing system for games, which is to say that approval comes by way of popular vote.

So! If you've been sitting on an alpha build of a program to track your cat's sleeping patterns, now might be a good time to dig it up and start debugging.

aerofly FS is Now Available on Steam and 15% Off*!

Fulfill your dream of flying with aerofly FS!

aerofly FS lets you enter the world of flying in a quality never seen before. aerofly FS sets a high value on realistic flight physics, highly detailed aircraft and terrain and smooth frame rates. At the same time, aerofly FS features an intuitive user interface and requires virtually no training time. Fly either with your joystick, gamepad, mouse or keyboard.

The highly detailed aircraft and ultra realistic flight physics give you a stunning level of realism. Take your seat in the cockpit and enjoy flying over the beautiful scenery of Switzerland with its fantastic mountains. Choose the comfortable Robin DR-400 for sightseeing, use the Discus glider to climb in thermals or practice your aerobatic skills in high performance aircraft like the Extra 330. Experience the thrill of speed flying the F-18 low-level through deep valleys and over the highest peaks of the Swiss alps.

*Offer ends October 24th at 10AM Pacific Time.

- Enable controller navigation of menus to support Big Picture mode.
- Allow client menus to execute restricted client commands.
- Fixed special infected not catching fire if they were already burning from incendiary ammo.
- Hunter and Jockey won't be killed if slashed mid-leap by another infected.
- Infected damage applied to a Jockey rider is ignored for the Jockey and no longer passed on to the Survivor. This fixes Jockey victims being subject to double damage from infected attacks and instant incap from Tanks.
- Tweaked boss zombie spawn timing in Versus to prevent the Tank spawning as soon as the Survivors exit the safe room.
- Fixed the first maps in Dead Center and Swamp Fever not using the boss spawning rules for starting maps, which are more restrictive than other maps.

Steam Greenlight has been updated today, adding the ability for developers to post non-gaming software for consideration by the Community. Software in Steam Greenlight will work just like games, where Valve is looking to the community to provide data on what they would like to see made available via Steam.

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

For more details and to vote on submitted games and software, please visit steamcommunity.com/greenlight/

Is Steam killing your children?, I was tempted to title this article. We’re not sensational enough here. But it does seem that Steam offers some serious vulnerabilities to your PC, if a paper published by security research company ReVuln is accurate. As reported by PCWorld, it seems the steam:// protocol might be a way in for nefarious types.

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