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The Sims 3: University Life, all new content for The Sims™ 3 is Now Available on Steam

Create and control Sims by customizing everything from their appearances and personalities to their homes. Then send them off to university where they will enjoy new opportunities, like social connections and career growth. From class activities to major-specific objects, your Sim will find new ways to learn! And university isnt just about hitting the books. Join a protest, flirt at a bonfire party—theres a lot to explore outside of lectures at the student union. With new locations like the bowling alley and SimBurger to visit, and new activities like juice pong and spray painting murals to enjoy, your Sims are sure to have the time of their lives!

Save 50% on RPG Maker VX Ace during this week's Midweek Madness*!

RPG Maker VX Ace improves every aspect of RPG creation, making it not only the latest, but also the greatest engine in the RPG Maker Series. With multiple tileset support, full autoshadow control, and a flexible features system, Ace gives you the most powerful RPG making tools ever. Simple Enough for a Child; Powerful Enough for a Developer.

Plus, check out the new Resource Packs:

• RPG Maker: High Fantasy 2 Resource Pack
  
• RPG Maker: DS Resource Pack
  
• RPG Maker: Samurai Resource Pack
  
• RPG Maker: Futuristic Tiles Resource Pack
  

*Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time

Save 66% on Darksiders II and 75% on Darksidersduring this week's Midweek Madness*!

War and Death of the legendary Four Horsemen, embarks upon a quest of vengeance , vindication and restoring mankind.

*Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time.

Today's Deal: Save 75% on Legacy of Kain Collection!

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#tmnt Ready to feel like a teenager again? No? Me neither. But one part of gamers' youths will coming back in the form of four mutated reptiles who wield deadly martial arts weapons. More »

The Arma 3 Alpha is now available for purchase on Steam!

Purchase the Arma 3 Alpha now to receive immediate access to the Alpha, 3 Alpha Lite invites for your friends (available March 14th to June 18th 2013) as well as Beta access and the Full game upon it's release!

In the Alpha, you'll be able to explore Stratis Island, enjoy a taste of Arma 3's diverse gameplay, and team up with your friends to fight against enemies in 2 co-op mulitplayer scenarios! There are also 8 different vehicles featured in the Alpha and a collection of weapons to help customize your loadout.

In celebration of the Alpha's launch, we're also discounting all previous Arma titles! Now until March 12th at 10AM Pacific time, take 50% off the entire Arma and Arma II series of games!

This week Steam is hot and cold (yes and no, in and out, up and down), taking a trip to the Asian tundra with a 75 percent off sale on Syberia 1 and 2, and then down to tell the tale of Violette Summer in Velvet Assassin.

Also 75 percent off this week are casual platformer Spectraball, action-adventure Gatling Gears and strategy game Greed Corp, which we will pretend take place in hot, cold and hot climates. All six games are on sale through March 11 at 10 a.m. PT.

Save up to 75% on this week's Week Long Deals on Steam, available now until March 4th at 10AM Pacific time!

Today's Deal: Save 66% on Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity!

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Sunday is a great day to explore and conquer new lands, whether across the Mediterranean, throughout Asia, or around the fresh vegetable aisle of your local supermarket. Steam is here to help with this quest, offering Sid Meier's Civilization 3, 4 and 5 for 75 percent off.

Civilization 3 Complete is $1.25 today, Civilization 4 is $5 and 4: The Complete Edition is $7.50. The Civilization 5: Gold Edition bundle is $12.50 and includes the game, the Gods and Kings DLC pack, five scenario packs, four Cradle of Civilization packs, the Explorer map pack and the Babylon DLC pack. Each bit of content is 75 percent off on its lonesome, if you simply need to bulk out your Civilization library.

Today's Deal: Save 75% on Sid Meier's Civilization V, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition & Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete!

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Today's Deal: Save up to 80% on Serious Sam Complete!

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Robot Entertainment is celebrating four years of game development with a sale highlighting library of releases: Orcs Must Die, Orcs Must Die 2, and Hero Academy.

Purchase of any item from the studio's official store will net you a Steam key to activate the item on Valve's digital distribution platform. Highlights include Orcs Must Die 2 for $3.74 and Hero Academy, with all DLC, for $4.24.

Robot Entertainment rose from the ashes of Ensemble Studios, the Halo Wars developer Microsoft shut down back in 2008. When Ensemble was shuttered, the founders went off and formed Robot Entertainment; others would go on to form Bonfire Studios.

Rochard: Hard Times, all new content for Rochard is Now Available on Steam

The new content includes four new, incredibly challenging puzzle levels: 'Container Chaos', 'Shaft Shuffle', 'Brainyard' and 'Assembly Line'. These levels were created as a response to fans that found the original stages a bit too easy. The Hard Times content is designed to use all of the existing game mechanics, with an emphasis on puzzle-solving as opposed to combat, and offers a difficult test for even the most experienced players.

Today's Deal: Save 75% on Cave Story+!

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Pre-load Tomb Raider now and be ready to play when it releases!

Plus, all Steam Pre-Purchasers receive a free copy of "Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, "Tomb of the Lost Adventurer" DLC, and the Shanty Town Multiplayer Map!

Check out the game page for more details.

- Added Mechanics I for new players!
- Added 7 new item sets to the Dota store.
- Immortal and Tournament items can now be traded on the Steam Community Market.

GAMEPLAY
- Clockwerk: Fixed Power Cogs pulling more than just heroes inside the cogs.
- Huskar: Fixed Berserker's Blood not stacking at the proper health thresholds.
- Keeper of the Light: Fixed Mana Leak accumulating mana loss during magic immunity.
- Phantom Lancer: Fixed an issue where illusions made by a player on the other team would create uncontrollable Juxtapose illusions.
- Tusk: Fixed a case where heroes with very small collision size could escape Ice Shards.
- Tusk: Fixed a rare bug where teleporting could cause Walrus Punched units to end up in odd positions.
- Fixed various aspects of Spectral Dagger logic being dispellable.
- Fixed sometimes being revealed if your projectile hits the target after you become invisible with Shadow Blade.
- Improved TP interaction with FoW
- Fixed being able to get units stuck with Telekinesis and Vacuum around the rune area

UI
- Added the ability to examine chests.
- Added a Game History tab to the Team Profile.
- Added checkbox for filtering Live Games to just Team games.
- You can now click on Team names in Live or Recent games to view their team profiles.
- Added a post-game Match Quality survey panel.
- Added an icon to backpack slots if that item is currently equipped.
- Fixed the courier delivery icon popping when the courier collected stash items.
- Fixed courier delivery being delayed by 0.5 seconds if there were no items to get from the stash.
- Fixed courier move orders not clearing the transfer items buff icon.
- Players can now set a custom rich presence status that can be displayed on the UI.
- Fixed Lina's Fiery Soul buff not showing the correct cooldown if it was refreshed with 3 stacks.

BOTS
- When a push is happening into a base, global desire to farm is significantly decreased.
- Fixed a case where bots far from the lane front could thrash into and out of Push Lane mode.
- Single-player bot games now run locally on the user's machine.
- Increased reaction time by about 50% in all modes.

AUDIO/VISUAL
- Updated Arc Lightning's visual effects and sound
- Updated Shadow Shaman's attack sound
- Updated Ether Shock's visual effects and sound
- Updated Mjollnir and Maelstrom visual effects

Armada 2526 Gold is Now Available on Steam and is 15% off.

Lead one of 18 different alien races to become a mighty pan-galactic empire. Manage your colonies, deploy your fleets and conduct research. Plot your strategy and turn your planets into mighty bastions. Explore new star systems, where you may encounter tachyon storms, psychic plants, primitives or find abandoned alien technology. Diplomacy is of utter importance in being successful. Make pacts and alliances, make threats or ask for favours - and when the time is right, replace diplomacy by space combat and fight it out in real-time 3D.

*Offer ends March 7th at 10AM Pacific Time.

There is also a special loyalty discount for owners of Armada 2526. Please login to Steam and check the store page for details.

Egosoft is happy to announce that from today, a Japanese text translation for X3: Terran Conflict and X3: Albion Prelude is available on Steam for all users. This translation is provided with thanks to our publishing partner zoo.co.jp and should fix the problem some users were experiencing when installing the Japanese version on an account where the international version was already installed.

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)

• Improved performance for the Linux version
  

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed a problem that was preventing some older demos from being played
  
• Fixed a client/server crash when a flamethrower gets destroyed while firing
  
• Fixed missing buttons on the item import tool
  
• Removed the promo restrictions from the Shred Alert, the Brutal Bouffant, and the Buck Turner All-Stars
  
• Updated the Vaccinator with its own uber-off sound and a sound when toggling resist types
  
• Updated some of the animations for the Shred Alert taunt
  
• Updated a couple HUD panels to support team scores with more than two digits
  

Awesomenauts - Kage Genji, all new content for Awesomenauts is Now Available on Steam!

From the land of wind, fire, water, lightning and earth comes Kage Genji. Defending the village of the Hidden Cocoon from all forces that would oppose it, Kage Genji holds the highest religious rank an Entin disciple can attain. Are you a weary traveler looking for spiritual guidance? Then turn your clouded gaze to Kage Genji!

Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Revolution, all new content for Call of Duty: Black Ops II is Now Available on Steam

The 21st Century Cold War is heating up. With technologically-advanced weaponry, drones and advanced robotics, Call of Duty: Black Ops II redeploys with Revolution, a new downloadable content pack boasting 4 brand-new Multiplayer Maps

And for the first time ever, players will enter these firefights with a bonus weapon the Peacekeeper hybrid SMG-Assault Rifle yours to level up and customize on all Call of Duty: Black Ops II multiplayer maps.

This first map pack also includes a healthy dose of the undead, as Treyarch introduces the brand new Zombies Co-Op Map, Die Rise, bringing a terrifying new twist that will turn your undead world upside down. And for even more zombie-stopping action, the new Zombies game mode, Turned, flips the battle around, putting players into the role of the zombie fighting for survival against a human opponent.

Trials Evolution Gold Edition is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam!

Pre-Purchase and receive access to the beta to play now!

Trials Evolution: Gold Edition contains all the content of the original, best-selling XBLA game Trials Evolution, plus all of the single player tracks and skill games from Trials HD.

Trials Evolution: Gold Edition is optimized and enhanced for the PC gaming platform. All of the features of its forerunners from the in-game editor, player sharing of tracks, and global Leader Boards, will be re-integrated into the game in a way that fits the new platform.

Save 66% on Mark of the Ninja as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! Checkout the title that Destructoid said "stand(s) as the benchmark by which all stealth games are now measured."

In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options. Will you be an unknown, invisible ghost, or a brutal, silent assassin?

*Offer ends March 4th at 10AM Pacific time

Play War of the Roses for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also pickup War of the Roses at 75% off the regular price!

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

War of the Roses is a team based third person action game set in 15th century England. Two rival branches of the Royal House of Plantagenet - the house of Lancaster (the reds) and the house of York (the whites) fight over the throne, and the player is thrown into the fray. Players go toe-to-toe with their opponents using authentic and visceral weapons of the time period including broad swords, long bows and battle-axes.

Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army is Now Available on Steam

Featuring a co-op campaign for 1 to 4 players, Nazi Zombie Army is a horrifying new stand-alone expansion of the award-winning Sniper Elite series. In the dying flames of World War II, a despairing Hitler unleashes one final, unholy gamble a legion of undead super soldiers that threatens to overwhelm the whole of Europe. You are Karl Fairburne the sniper who shaped world history. You are one of the last living souls in Germany. You must team up or die. American, German, Russian previous military allegiances no longer matter. Now it's just the living versus the dead. Only a Sniper Elite with nerves of steel and a steady aim stands a chance against Hitlers Nazi Zombie Army!

3DMark 11 has been updated to version 1.0.4 and is now fully compatible with Windows 8. This update addresses compatibility issues and a few uncommon bugs. Benchmark scores are not affected and scores from this new version can be compared with scores from the previous version 3DMark 11 v1.0.3. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Improvements
* Keyboard focus is no longer checked during the demo or when running the benchmark in a loop. Note that if the display switches to the desktop due to a popup window during the benchmark, the run will still be aborted as the display mode is no longer the same.
* 3DMark 11 now remembers the last custom resolution used.
* GPU count detection for multi-GPU systems is now correct even when SystemInfo is explicitly disabled.
* 3DMark 11 will now prevent Windows from entering Sleep during the test.
* The license key is now reset when the benchmark is reinstalled, allowing removal of invalid keys.

Compatibility
* SystemInfo updated to version 4.15 for full Windows 8 compatibility.
* Updated DirectX redistributable.
* Now using static Visual C++ 2010 runtime libraries to fix rare installation issues on some systems.
* Removed dependency on EvaDotNet.dll and EvaDotNet.DirectX.dll for GPU enumeration to fix compatibility issues with some systems.

Bug fixes
* Fixed display initialization code that caused "SetFullscreenState failed: DXGI_ERROR_NOT_CURRENTLY_AVAILABLE" errors on some systems.
* Fixed several memory and texture leaks, improving stability during very long looping runs.
* The HUD timer no longer rolls over if a single test takes more than ten minutes. (Yes, this could happen during the Combined Test on some low end DirectX 11 cards.)

This latest version is primarily for bug fixes. We have also (re)added a keyboard shortcut for approving selected transactions.

Full list of changes:

*NEW*

- Ctrl/Cmd-K is the new "Approve Selected Transactions" shortcut key.

*FIXED*

- YNAB No longer prevents shutdown on Macs.
- Only the relevant portions of split transactions are shown when viewing the transaction list in the Spending by Category report.
- Inflow transactions that are categorized as a normal category (as opposed to Income) will now correctly be counted against the spending of that category on the Spending Trends report.
- Split transactions with a positive (inflow) total no longer ignore their sub-transactions on the Spending Trends report.
- When matching two imported transctions, YNAB now tries to organize things behind the scenes so that the transaction won't get re-imported from your bank again.
- Selecting "All Dates" on reports now correctly starts with the first month that you have data, rather than January of the first year you have data.
- Extra transactions could be visible in the transaction popup on reports when multiple sub-categories had the same name (but different master categories).
- Fixed a rare error that could occur when moving a transfer to or from an off-budget account.
- The right Alt key on some Polish keyboards in Windows no longer triggers CTRL shortcuts in the register. (Most notably, typing Alt-N will no longer create a new transaction) Fixed a rare error that could happen after adding a new transaction, scrolling, and resizing the window.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when jumping to a transaction list containing matched transactions from the Payee Settings screen.
- Fixed a rare error that could occur when checking for updates.
- The total row is now always at the end of the list. Under rare circumstances, it could get placed elsewhere, which would cause an error when clicked.
- Fixed a rare error that could occur when viewing the running balance of a certain transaction.
- Some computers can't display HTML pages within YNAB, and YNAB will now simply offer a link to the content that can't be displayed, rather than displaying an error.
- Fixed a very rare error that could prevent YNAB from running on Windows.

Oh boy, gaming’s favorite brain-dissolving apocalyptic disaster is back! And in the game, naturally. After a sojourn away from Steam due to excessively shady dealings and unforgivably poor quality, The War Z’s been re-listed on Valve’s ubiquitous storefront. So then, the natural question: what’s changed? Well, this probably warrants further investigation (yuck) inside the game, but for now, the answer appears to be “not a whole lot.” You will, however, notice the omission of some flat-out untrue promises from War Z’s last wibbly wobbly go-’round.

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Wargame: European Escalation is now available on the Linux!

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.