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Champions of Regnum: Realm Guard Pack, all new content for Champions of Regnum is Now Available on Steam.

Plus, Champions of Regnum - first update


Less than 10 days after the Steam release, we are happy to release the first update taken straight from the Steam Communitys feedback.
See the summarized list of changes below:
• Modified: XP for killing another player has been raised 50%.
• Modified: Creatures with "Normal" rating or less no longer evade players hits.
• Modified: Mages and Arches initial weapons now have medium and fast speeds respectively.
• Modified: Some of the initial powers has been modified to make the first levels more dynamic.
• Modified: Under level 11 Characters no longer require 15 days to be deleted. This allows new players to experience different realms.
• New: "Brothers in Arms" Quest, rewards a 7 days mount and health and mana elixirs. All Realms.
• New: Visual effect over interact able objects when they are part of the current quest.
• Several other improvements and fixes

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Omerta - City of Gangsters - The Con Artist DLC, all new content for Omerta - City of Gangsters is Now Available on Steam!

A letter arrived today. The envelope was thick with the smell of a woman's perfume. It was an invitation, but not the invitation I expected. It was a call to take part in the "Greatest con of all time." Intrigued, I followed the message to one of the wealthiest parts of Atlantic City. The place was full of rich little good-for-nothings who never had to work for a living - the perfect setting for a scam.

New Jersey, February 1919. A young woman claiming to be Anastasia Romanov disappears after raising a considerable sum of money from local Russian immigrants who supported the royalist regime in Russia. The police suspected a con scheme but the very people that gave the money truly believed that the self-proclaimed Romanov has gone into hiding because of Soviet spies threatening her life.

The Age of Empires series has seen better days. Days like the year 1999, for instance. That’s when Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings charged onto the itsy-bitsy adowwwwable killing fields, and oh what a grand thing it was. It even looked quite nice for the time, eschewing 3D razzle-dazzle in favor of goode ye-olde-fashioned sprites. Times, however, have changed, and monitors have grown wide and voracious in their appetites for tender, succulent resolutions. Thus, Microsoft’s deemed it high-time for a re-release, on that newfangled, installation-frisbee-free Steam contraption that’ll probably never catch on, no less. Graphics, however, aren’t the only thing getting a modern makeover here.

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Nordic Games has announced Mac and Linux releases of Painkiller: Hell and Damnation, the remake of People Can Fly's frantic FPS, along with a mod-kit for the PC version. Nordic says they'll be available sometime this spring, while the game is due out on Xbox and PS3 on April 5.

As for the mod-kit, it'll use UnrealEd and be integrated with Steam Workshop, letting players create items, weapons, multiplayer skins, new maps and games for the Painkiller experience.We can expect the beta for that sometime in April, so mark your calendars for lots of painkillin' around then.

No planet can contain Angry Birds Space, nor can any digital distributor - Rovio's interstellar bird-flinger is now available on Steam, on sale for $4 through March 14 at 10 a.m. PST. Angry Birds Space was previously available for PCs via Google's Chrome store.

The Steam version of Angry Birds Space doesn't feature touch control options like the standard mobile game, but it does include Steam achievements, leaderboards and, fittingly, Steam Cloud capabilities.

GAMEPLAY
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Rocket Barrage firing while under effects like Disruption/Chronosphere/Doom/Hex.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Flak Cannon hurting nightmared units without waking them up.
- Naga Siren: Fixed being able to purge Song of the Siren aura off of Naga Siren.
- Nyx: Fixed Spiked Carapace affecting Juggernaut during Omnislash.
- Outworld Devourer: Fixed Astral Imprisonment not draining enough mana from enemy heroes.
- Timbersaw: Fixed Whirling Death not doing enough damage against strength heroes.
- Fixed Maelstrom and Mjollnir being unable to proc if the initial target is Magic Immune.
- Tweaked Neutral Creep chase timings for the two small camps.
- Fixed a number of bugs in Mechanics I, including all known showstoppers.

UI
- Fixed holding alt causing smoked hero names to be shown on minimap when near truesight.
- Fixed your status showing as playing a local bot game if you were spectating a game
- Hero performance page is now sorted by total number of games played.
- Fixed Dire wins in the Team Game History tab showing up as losses.
- Fixed bug where Team Game History wasn't refreshing properly.
- The Teams List under Community now displays Teams in order of their most recently played match.
- There's now a dialog asking the player to rate their currently-used hero build (if it's not yet been rated).

AUDIO
- Music now plays in spectator and replay modes.

ITEMS
- Added Fiery Soul of the Slayer item for Lina.

Age of Empires 2 HD is taking over Steam on April 9, and until that day it's 10 percent off, or $18. Age of Empires 2 HD is a revamped version of the 1999 real-time strategy game from Ensemble Studios, now under the care of Hidden Path Entertainment.

Age of Empires II HD is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam and is 10% off!

In Age of Empires II: HD Edition, fans of the original game and new players alike will fall in love with the classic Age of Empires II experience. Explore all the original single player campaigns from both Age of Kings and The Conquerors expansion, choose from 18 civilizations spanning over a thousand years of history, and head online to challenge other Steam players in your quest for world domination throughout the ages. Originally developed by Ensemble Studios and reimagined in high definition by Hidden Path Entertainment, Microsoft Studios is proud to bring Age of Empires II: HD Edition to Steam!

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)

• Added a new ConVar sb_filter_incompatible_versions. This will default to true and hide servers on the Internet tab that are running incompatible versions.
  

Angry Birds Space is Now Available on Steam and is 20% off until March 14th at 10AM PST!

The #1 mobile game of all time blasts off into space!

After a giant claw kidnaps their eggs, the Angry Birds chase it into a wormhole and find themselves floating in a strange new galaxy surrounded by space pigs! Luckily the Angry Birds have super powers of their own...

Virtual DJ is now available on Steam and to celebrate is 10% off*!

VirtualDJ is the most complete and extensive DJ software on the market today. It provides an exhaustive set of features for you to take advantage of and create great mixes. Whether you are a beginner or a professional DJ, you will find working inside VirtualDJ to be fun, intuitive and highly efficient.

*Offer ends March 14th at 10am pacific.

Save 50% on Football Manager 2013™ as part of this week's Weekend Deal*!

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.

*Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time.

Save 66% on Max Payne 3 as part of this week's Weekend Deal*!

For Max Payne, the tragedies that took his loved ones years ago are wounds that refuse to heal. No longer a cop, close to washed up and addicted to pain killers, Max takes a job in São Paulo, Brazil, protecting the family of wealthy real estate mogul Rodrigo Branco, in an effort to finally escape his troubled past. But as events spiral out of his control, Max Payne finds himself alone on the streets of an unfamiliar city, desperately searching for the truth and fighting for a way out.

*Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time

Today's Deal: Save 75% on Braid!

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The Brian Blessed Voiceover, new content for War of the Roses, is now available on Steam!

Warriors, gird your loins in preparation as a force stronger than nature itself has emerged to step onto the battlefields of War of the Roses. Let the earth tremble as the unmistakable voice of the acting legend that is BRIAN BLESSED commands you (yes, YOU!) to victory as he becomes the narrator for the finest medieval multiplayer game in the realm!

Tomb Raider - The Final Hours is now available on Steam!

How did Crystal Dynamics reinvent Tomb Raider? The Final Hours of Tomb Raider is a digital book that takes you inside the studio during the four year development of this franchise reboot. Journalist Geoff Keighley chronicles the teams journey, illustrating this 11,000 word story with never-before-seen art and videos from parts of the game left on the cutting room floor.

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (CS:CZ) is now available for Linux players via Steam. CS:CZ is the fifth Valve title to be released for Linux and, with its release, pushes the total number of Linux games available on Steam to 80.

Launched just three weeks ago, the Steam for Linux client is available for free from the Ubuntu Software Center. More Valve titles are heading to Linux in the coming weeks and months.

For more information, please visit http://steamcommunity.com/linux

In October, Incredipede developer Colin Northway introduced us to the Offspring Fling process of submitting an indie game to Steam:

"Apply to Steam, be rejected, release without it, get popular, be noticed by Valve, release on Steam."

Steam has since overhauled its submission process with Greenlight, a crowd-sourced method of voting games onto the service. Now from a developer's perspective, the indie submission system needs a related makeover and a new name. We suggest the Incredipede process:

"Post on Greenlight, be rejected, release without it, get popular, be noticed by the IGF and through an award nomination get a deal to release on Steam without Greenlight at all, haters."

It's a little more complicated and relies on a smidgen more luck, but the Incredipede process is one of many new ways to get an indie game on Steam. No matter the system, the goal remains the same - a Steam launch can propel an indie game from "hobby" to "day job," or change a sales outlook from "disappointing" to "happy."

"More and more Steam is the place to be for indie games," Northway tells me. "If I had $15 for every time I heard the comment, 'I would buy this if it was on Steam,' then I'd be much happier with the sales. Which is why I'm really looking forward to the Steam release."

Through its own convoluted yet successful process, Incredipede is coming to Steam for PC and Mac on March 18.

Dollar Dash is Now Available on Steam!

Find it, rob it, and keep it. Grab the cash in this fast and frenetic top down multiplayer versus game. Dollar Dash will have you shouting for joy, as you make a dash with the cash. You must attack, defend or outrun your competitors in any of the three game modes (Dollar Dash, Save the Safe or HitnRun) using unique and comedic tactics.

Stand out from the crowd by customizing your character, upgrading your favorite weapon, earning perks and unlocking achievements. You can't stand still for a second as combat is crazy and money changes hands frequently. Choose your weapons carefully as you challenge your friends to become the best thief in town and laugh out loud as you smash them with a huge Bolder, peck them with a Mag Pie, while protecting yourself in Jelly!

Primal Carnage has just been updated to include the free "Get to the Chopper" mode and "Battle-Scarred T-Rex" skin. To celebrate Lukewarm Media and Reverb Publishing are offering 66% off Primal Carnage for one week!*

Primal Carnage has just received a new, free update called Get to the Chopper, aptly named after the new objective based game mode. In the Get to the Chopper game mode, human players must rush against the clock (and dinosaurs!) to take a series of objectives before they are able to be extracted by a helicopter.

The Get to the Chopper update adds four new maps and introduces a new playable dinosaur class called the Spinosaurus, both of which are specific to the new game mode. The Spinosaurus is a more powerful tank class designed to better defend against the humans in dire situations.

Lastly, every owner of Primal Carnage gets a Battle-Scarred T-Rex skin, which shows a bloodied T-Rex that's seen its fair share of combat.

To celebrate the release of Primal Carnages new free game expansion Lukewarm Media has teamed up with artist, Infected Mushroom to create a new gameplay trailer showcasing the myriad of action, awe and terror to be expected in the Get to the Chopper game mode, which is set to the heart pumping track, "Nation of Wusses," from the album Army of Mushrooms.

*Offer ends March 13th at 10AM Pacific Time.

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Valve will give Steam Box prototypes to "customers" within the next three or four months, bossman Gabe Newell told the BBC. Newell didn't specify if these customers were developers, anyone in the gaming public or your cat, but he suggested that Valve is focused on the Steam Box's development.

"We're working with partners, trying to nail down exactly how fast we can make it. We're also working hard on the input side to try to take a step forward in terms of the kinds of games you can play," Newell said. "We'll be giving out some prototypes to customers to get their reactions, I'd guess in the next three or four months."

Valve has a few controller prototypes now and will ship those along with the Steam Box. We've long heard of Valve's love affair with biometrics, and some form of player feedback will be implemented with the hardware.

"What we've found is you can directly measure player state and it turns out to be very useful," Newell said. He continued, "You need to be able to directly measure how aroused the player is, what their heart rate is, things like that, in order to continue to offer them a new experience each time they play."

#valve At least a few lucky customers will get their hands on prototypes the Steam Box within the next few months, Valve boss Gabe Newell says. More »

Open Beta 0.1.1.971 is available

Next time you restart your Steam client, you will download this update.

Game:
- Prepared the game for the upcoming content launches
- Added a reverse layout to Lakeview hillclimb
- Added support for more resolution ratios (21/9; 48/9; 48/10)
- Improved physics of the BMW 635csi (Touring Classics class)
- Data display now works in replays as well
- Fixed a backend error that occured for some users when participating in competitions.
- Fixed an issue where some machines would fail to play the intro videos correctly
- Fixed a rare case where the game would fail to recognize the user's account
- Fixed the bug where final gearbox ratio was incorrect when using Amateur driving model
- Updated EGFIS localization
- Fix for a backend error "4294967295"

Portal:
- Added a subscribe feature to the leaderboards that adds a custom widget to the user's dashboard with the selected filters
- It is now possible to share on social feeds after editing screenshots using Pixlr™
- Fixed a geolocation issue that would show the wrong currency for some users
- Improved compatibility with Internet Explorer
- Fixed some issue when adding / removing videos from a user's profile
- Increased overall performance when browsing and scrolling
- Various other bug fixing and improvements

Pre-Purchase Defiance now, receive an invite to the beta once available, and help unlock special rewards. Possible rewards include the A-Tex Growler ATV, a Free Copy of RIFT: Storm Legion, and the RM Nomad M4, XP boosts, discounts on the Season Pass and more!

Check out the store page for more details.

Join a futuristic online open-world shooter where thousands of players scour a transformed Earth competing for alien technology.

Create a unique character and level up with diverse customization options. Hunt alone or with others as you improve your skills and unlock powerful modern and alien weapons that will help you survive the massive battles that await in this constantly evolving online world. Explore vast landscapes on a variety of vehicles and lead the charge in huge co-op battles and fierce multiplayer conflicts. Immerse yourself in the world of Defiance as the game impacts, and is impacted by, the Defiance TV series.

On Wednesday March 6th our Servers will be shut down for about an hour from 9am ET to 10am ET for a full update. We will also be upgrading the Steam client, during this time. You will not be able to see the new servers with the old client, so please update.

The patch fixes our level reset bug that has plagued the game since launch. We have attempted to fix this issue in the past, but were unsuccessful. We have now verified fixes for all known ways of reproducing the issue. We are terribly sorry our users had to experience this, and we really appreciate all your support, and thank you all so much for helping us track it down.

Along with the bug fixes, this patch also includes all our recent enhancement that include:
- Changed pre-round wait time to 15 seconds each.
- Changed TDM score to 60 for faster games
- Filtering error in the server browser
- Added ping display on server browser
- Equipped items are now in a logical order so they're easy to find in your loadout

DmC Devil May Cry: Vergil's Downfall, all new content for DmC Devil May Cry is Now Available on Steam.

Play as Vergil in a brand new chapter of the DmC Devil May Cry adventure. With fierce new weapons, combos, and never seen before content, dont miss out on your chance to unravel the enthralling, untold story of Dantes twin brother Vergil...

Three new songs are Now Available for Rocksmith

Play "Burnin' for You" by Blue Öyster Cult, "Blister in the Sun" by Violent Femmes and "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour.

Plus, the Blue Öyster Cult Song Pack is Now Available.

First off, if you haven't got Retro/Grade yet and you have a PS3, go get it. Right now. It's on sale for $3.49 ($2.44 if you have Plus) until PSN updates. Seriously, go. That's sub-coffee cheap.

Okay, for those of you who want to play 24 Caret's unique backwards-shmup music game on a different platform, the developer has announced plans to bring it to Steam for PC on March 20. This version is more versatile, supporting Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii guitar controllers!