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Save 75% on Spec Ops: The Line during this week's Midweek Madness*!

Spec Ops: The Line features provocative and gripping Third-Person modern military Shooter gameplay designed to challenge players' morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations where unimaginable choices affecting human life must be made.

*Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time

Today's Deal: Save 50% off Postal 2 Complete!

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are.

Primal Fears is now available on Steam and 10% off the first week! Save even more by purchasing a 4 pack and invite three friends to play.

In Primal Fears the world is turned upside down due to a chemical known as pharGONe. You will battle your way through multiple levels, earning upgrades, competing against your friends and more.

Nothing is more scary than the unknown and it is your goal to reveal the truth...

John made me write that headline. And he was encouraged by Jim, who responded with an “arf”. RPS: the site that writes about the biggest things to happen in PC gaming with references to wee wee. And wee it is. Piston that is, the surprise announcement from PC makers Xi3 and Valve that they’re building a tiny, modular PC together. It was such a surprise that when Nathan wrote about it, all we knew was the name, the companies involved, and that the thing is small enough to be held in your hand. But I have more information and a video below. You’ll see just how small it is, and gasp as I did. It’s like the kitten of the PC world.(more…)

Hey everyone, you’re never going to believe this. The Steam Box? It’s totally real. I know, right? I mean, a series of totally unsubstantiated rumors from Valve alphabeard Gabe Newell was dubious at best, and Big Picture mode spent so much time in development for no reason whatsoever. But somehow – completely unexpectedly – we’re now here, watching Valve and mini-PC maker Xi3 team up to reveal “an integrated system that exceeds the capabilities of leading game consoles, but can fit in the palm of your hand.” Xi3 also compared the device’s physical size to that of a grapefruit, meaning that this is yet another mind-blowing technological advancement I’ll have to worry about accidentally eating.

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#steambox Let the Steam Box speculation begin. Valve is investing in computer hardware, and they're showing it off this week. More »

Three new tracks are available for F1 RACE STARS™ on Steam!


F1 Race Stars - China Track

F1 Race Stars - India Track

F1 Race Stars - Canada Track

Angelica Weaver: Catch Me When You Can is now available on Steam and is 10% off*!

Angelica Weaver, a detective on Chicagos Special Task Force, must use her renowned deductive skills to stop a present day killer. The only way for her to get ahead of this killer is to first identify a murderer who escaped justice over a hundred years ago. Angelica has the ability to connect with the dead. Through supersensory visions she is able to jump back and forth between crime scenes on the streets of historic London and present-day Chicago where the victims reveal to her their final moments. Work with Angelica as she puzzles her way through the past and uses her insights to stop the pattern in the future in this hidden object puzzle adventure!

*Offer ends January 14th at 10AM Pacific.

Two new Armor Sets for War of the Roses are now available on Steam!

The House of Lancaster Armor Set and the The House of York Armor Set allow you to paint your armor in the colors of your preferred House and conquer your foes!

Today's Deal: Save 75% off A Virus Named TOM!

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are.

Graphics powerhouse Nvidia is entering the portable gaming market with Project Shield, an Android handheld fitted with the company's newly unveiled quad-core Tegra 4 mobile processor. Shield, showcased by Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at this year's CES, resembles a PS3 or Xbox 360 twin-stick controller but attached to a flip-top 5-inch 'retinal display' multitouch screen with 1280x720 HD resolution at 294 dpi. The Tegra 4 chip it contains, which Nvidia claims is the world's fastest mobile processor, offers effectively six times greater visual output than its Tegra 3 predecessor, as found in Microsoft Surface tablets. Nvidia tells our friends at Engadget that the device is expected to ship in Q2 of this year. One crucial factor which remains undisclosed is the price.

Shield also has 38 watt hours of batteries, which translates into 5 to 10 hours of gameplay or 24 hours of HD video, and a bass reflex audio system with a greater signal-to-noise ratio than the iPhone 5. In addition to the standard audio jack, Shield has a microSD slot, a micro USB port, and an HDMI port that Huang demonstrated with an LG 4K resolution HDTV. Shield's 'console-grade' analog sticks are joined by a d-pad and a standard quartet of buttons, as well as triggers and bumpers.

Huang also demonstrated a few games from Nvidia's Tegrazone store being played on the device, followed by a brief run of mega-mech battling in Hawken. Next, Huang detailed how Shield can wirelessly stream from a PC across a local network to Shield, using this to play Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Assassin's Creed 3 on the handheld. As Engadget reports, there was perceivably very little lag. The demo also showed Shield accessing Steam on the PC, with Huang underling the ease with which Big Picture Mode can be used via Shield to bring Steam games to HDTVs.

You can watch the full CES demonstration of Project Shield on Nvidia's Twitch.tv page. It's roughly 40 minutes long, and begins at around the 2h02m mark.

A new weekly YouTube series called "The Greenlight" recently sprouted up, and spotlights projects that have been submitted to Steam's Greenlight service. This first episode spends nearly a half hour on an action game called Bleed by Bootdisk Revolution.

#valve According to a report on German IT site Golem, Valve engineer Ben Krasnow told an audience at the recent EHSM 2012 conference in Berlin that the company's long-awaited "Steam Box" custom PC/console/thing will indeed be running on Linux, and will be revealed in full at either GDC or E3 later this year. More »

It saddens our hearts to announce the conclusion of the Steam Holiday Sale today, marking the end of an amazing holiday seaso....But wait! what's this? By Jove, it's the Steam Holiday Encore Sale!

From now until January 7th at 10AM PST, save big on a select number of the most sought-after titles from the Steam Holiday Sale. This is truly your last chance to grab some of hottest games around at amazing prices!

Check out the Steam homepage for more information.

- Fixed Snowballs/Coals/Campfires proccing some passive abilities like Aftershock
- Fixed RoB, RoA and Radiance proccing Essence Aura
- Fixed a Roshan exploit with Clockerk

Valve has announced the Steam Holiday Sale is being extended through this weekend, obliterating any false sense of security felt by your credit cards. The Encore Weekend, as Valve is dubbing it, is giving users another chance to get the sale's biggest discounts on a select number of games. It kicks off at 1PM ET (10AM Pacific, 6PM Brit-time) on Saturday, January 5, and comes to a this-time-for-good close at 1PM ET on Monday, January 7.

In what was meant to be the final day of sales, today's discounted games include Rage (75 percent to $4.99), Sleeping Dogs (66 percent to $16.99), Forge (50 percent to $9.99), and Amnesia: The Dark Descent ($4.99). If franchise discounts are more your kind of thing, you can now get Crysis, Crysis 2, and Crysis Warhead for a total of $17.99, or the two Trine games plus the Goblin Menace DLC for Trine 2 for $8.74. And, as ever, there's still plenty of time to get on board with yesterday's deals.

#steam Miss any big deals during the Steam holiday sale that's been going on for the past couple of weeks? No worries. Valve's got you covered. More »

Gamers will have a final opportunity to get their favorite games on Steam. A select number of the most sought-after titles from the Steam Holiday Sale will reprise their biggest discounts for two additional days. The Encore Weekend begins at 10am PST on January 5th (Saturday) and run until 10am PST on January 7th (Monday).

Check out the Steam homepage for more information!

The Steam Holiday Sale continues with next round of Daily Deals and ongoing Flash Sales.

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Sleeping Dogs
  
• Crysis Franchise
  
• Trine Franchise
  
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  
• RAGE
  
• Forge
  

Check back often! A new Vote starts every 12 hours and there will be new Flash sales throughout the day.

Complete information on the Daily Deals, Flash Sales, Voting and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

Faster than you can repeat a surname, the James Bond games have disappeared from Steam and Activision's own download store. In addition, the download versions of the games 007 Legends, Blood Stone and Quantum of Solace don't show up on Amazon, though of course the disc versions are still available there.

The likely explanation would seem to be expiring rights to the 007 license, but the timing doesn't make sense on that, considering that 007 Legends was just released in October (and November on PC). We're investigating the matter, though not in the sexy, brutal James Bond method: we've just asked Activision about it.

VISUALS
- Added Nightstalker darkness graphic to day/night clock.
- When calculating Net Worth, we no longer include the inventory value of the other Meepos.

GAMEPLAY
- Roshan is no longer pushed by Clockwerk's cogs.

UI
- Added Announcer previewing.
- Fixed backwards day/night indicator.

MISC
- Added Australia server region.
- Failed chunks are now retried when downloading replays. This should address the issue with Error 206.

BOTS
- Bots will now wake up if they're attacked during their initial 15 second slumber.
- Improved decision-making of who should buy wards on a team.
- Fixed Lich bot trolling teammates by using Dark Ritual on creeps that a teammate teleporting to.
- Swapped around Jugg bot's item build (he goes for ring of health and battlefury faster now).
- Carry bots are now allowed to move further from their base laning location when going for last hits.

What are you doing to help pack the coffers at Valve? Seriously, you guys, it's up to each and every one of us to cough up dough for reduced-price games during Steam's annual ludicrous sales. If not you, then who?

Today's Steam Holiday Sale deals run the gamut from meticulous murder simulators to football management simulators called Football Manager. The Thief series is 75% off, allowing you to grab all three entries for $6.74 - if you're into piecemeal, they're $2.49 each. Civilization V and its two predecessors (plus corresponding expansions) are also 75% off each, while Football Manager 2013 is marked down to $19.99 and Bastion is a paltry $3.74.

For the full list of deals, head on over to Steam - oh, yeah, you're already over there. Okay then.

The Steam Holiday Sale continues with next round of Daily Deals and ongoing Flash Sales.

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Football Manager 2013
  
• Civilization V
  
• Tropico 4
  
• Thief Franchise
  
• Bastion
  
• I am Alive
  

Check back often! A new Vote starts every 12 hours and there will be new Flash sales throughout the day.

Complete information on the Daily Deals, Flash Sales, Voting and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

The Steam Holiday Sale continues with next round of Daily Deals and ongoing Flash Sales.

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Painkiller Hell and Damnation
  
• Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition
  
• Magicka
  
• Star Wars: KOTOR
  
• Sniper Elite V2
  
• Tomb Raider Collection
  

Check back often! A new Vote starts every 12 hours and there will be new Flash sales throughout the day.

Complete information on the Daily Deals, Flash Sales, Voting and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

This year's Steam Holiday Sale is winding down, but there's still four more days to practice self-restraint or give into full PC purchasing indulgence.

There's still four hours to grab Deus Ex: Human Revolution for $5. There's also deep discounts on indie favorites The Binding of Isaac and Terraria at $1.49 and $3.39, respectively. Alan Wake's entire very bad vacation is also on sale for $9.99.

As for the deals you'll have a little more time to contemplate: Torchlight, May Payne, Transformers and Total War franchises are all 50 to 75 percent off. The underappreciated Awesomenauts is $3.39, which is a great 2D arena game if you've got some friends to practice with over the holiday.

The Steam Holiday Sale continues with next round of Daily Deals and ongoing Flash Sales.

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Max Payne Franchise
  
• Total War Franchise
  
• War of the Roses
  
• Torchlight II
  
• Transformers Franchise
  
• Awesomenauts
  

Check back often! A new Vote starts every 12 hours and there will be new Flash sales throughout the day.

Complete information on the Daily Deals, Flash Sales, Voting and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

The Steam Holiday Sale continues with next round of Daily Deals and ongoing Flash Sales.

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Fable III
  
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution
  
• Alan Wake Bundle
  
• Terraria
  
• F1 2012
  
• Binding of Isaac
  

Check back often! A new Vote starts every 12 hours and there will be new Flash sales throughout the day.

Complete information on the Daily Deals, Flash Sales, Voting and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

Day 11 of Steam's holiday sale kicks off with Mark of the Ninja for $7.50, the Far Cry franchise pack for $50, the Mount and Blade franchise and Orcs Must Die franchise for $8.75, the Doom games and additional content for up to 75 percent off, and Age of Empires 3: Complete Collection for $10, or 75 percent off.

Yesterday's offers are good for another day (as of today, like right now), and they still include the BioShock franchise for $10, 75 percent off a handful of Grand Theft Auto games, the two Galactic Civilizations games and both Witcher games, Skyrim and its DLC for up to 75 percent off, and Payday: The Heist for $5.

There are only a few days left to splurge indiscriminately, before you attempt to hold yourself to that New Year's resolution and save up some extra cash in 2013. Then there are only a few more days until you break that resolution, but still. Get some games while the getting's good.

The Steam Holiday Sale continues with next round of Daily Deals and ongoing Flash Sales.

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Age of Empires III Complete
  
• Far Cry 3
  
• Mount & Blade Franchise
  
• Orcs Must Die! Franchise
  
• Doom 3: BFG
  
• Mark of the Ninja
  

Check back often! A new Vote starts every 12 hours and there will be new Flash sales throughout the day.

Complete information on the Daily Deals, Flash Sales, Voting and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

The Steam Holiday Sale continues with next round of Daily Deals and ongoing Flash Sales.

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Bioshock Franchise
  
• The Elder Scrolls Franchise
  
• Galactic Civilizations Franchise
  
• Payday: The Heist
  
• Grand Theft Auto Franchise
  
• The Witcher 2
  

Check back often! A new Vote starts every 12 hours and there will be new Flash sales throughout the day.

Complete information on the Daily Deals, Flash Sales, Voting and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.