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He wears sunglasses, kicks asses, and lacks gum, and now the original King is living it up on Steam. Publisher Devolver Digital brings Duke Nukem 3D to the Steam store today in what it's calling the Megaton Edition, which collates the 1996 shooter with three expansion packs for $9.99 - in case you missed DN3D being festively free on GOG last year.

The three bundled-in expansions are Duke Caribbean: Life's a Beach, Duke: Nuclear Winter, and Duke It Out in DC. DN3D supports both PC and Mac, and comes with its own set of Steam achievements. Meanwhile, developer General Arcade plans to bring further features to it down the line including online multiplayer via Steamworks, Linux support, and more expansion packs.

Remember Duke Nukem Forever? I apologise for bringing it up, but it’s important you realise that it was an imposter. A duck in Duke’s clothes. There was a reason we were all excited about the possibility of a Duke Nukem game, and with the surprise release of Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition you can see why. Devolver Digital are bringing a shinier, but not too shiny, version of the classic shooter to Steam, and they magicked up a trailer.(more…)

Worms Armageddon is now available on Steam!

Those intrepid invertebrates return with a vengeance in the much-loved Worms™ Armageddon. Its a whole new can of worms! Its hilarious fun that you can enjoy on your own or with all your friends. Use over 55 weird and wonderful weapons and tools including Earthquake, Freeze and French Sheep Strike as you play through 40+ missions and multiplayer with your friends!

The Bug Hunt DLC for Aliens: Colonial Marines is available today on Steam, Xbox Live, or the PlayStation Network.

Bug Hunt is a new mode in the game that pits up to four players against waves of incoming xenos and enemy soldiers across three new maps: Broadside, Mercenary, and Tribute. You can earn money on the map by killing enemies, and then spend that money to open up extra areas, or buy more guns, ammo, or health.

If you invested in the Season Pass for the game, you'll get this DLC for free. Everybody else has to pony up the equivalent of around $15, though Steam has the game itself on sale for 33 percent off.

Careful, as fighting giant monsters with acid blood in cramped quarters might be exactly as fun as it sounds.

Divekick, the two-button fighting game from One True Game Studios, is trying its luck on Steam Greenlight with an updated launch window of summer 2013, pushed back from this spring.

Divekick was the subject of a successful Kickstarter campaign in July, but Iron Galaxy canceled that fundraising drive once it secured a publishing deal with Street Fighter 3: Online Edition's Iron Galaxy. Perhaps One True Game is hoping to transfer all that unfinished mojo into a Steam launch.

One True Game Studios and Iron Galaxy have plans to bring Divekick to PC, PS3 and Vita this summer. Divekick began as a parody but is now a rising name in the fighting game circuit; it'll be at PAX East in booth 899, if you're around and down for some serious kicking action.

#theswapper Back in 2009, The Swapper looked promising but rough. The core concept was there and you could see how the instant cloning mechanic would make for a fun twist on the typical platformer experience. More »

Creatures of the Night and <Black and White Demons, new content for Impire, are now available on Steam!

Creatures of the Night adds in the Succubus and Warlock into the dungeon.

Black and White Demons adds in new imps for you to choose from.

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)

• Disabled Java for the in-game web browser
  

Team Fortress 2

• Added support for running VR mode on the Oculus Rift
  
• Fixed a server crash related to game stats
  
• Fixed custom paint not showing in the tool tip when you mouse-over an item in your backpack
  
• Fixed the Spy not holding sappers correctly in third person
  
• Fixed a bug where sentries would not rotate to face their target under some circumstances
  
• Fixed a scoreboard bug where domination count was reduced by 2 when a dominated player left the server
  
• Fixed the Fists of Steel not reducing damage from ranged weapons that use energy rings
  
• Fixed the death notice icon for the Eureka Effect
  
• Fixed the Neon Annihilator sometimes floating in the world after death
  
• Fixes for strange parts:
  • The Big Earner can no longer accept Long-Distance Kills strange parts
    
  • The Festive Grenade Launcher can now accept Critical Kills strange parts
    
  • The Neon Annihilator can now accept Sappers Destroyed strange parts
• Removed some description text from the Manmelter that incorrectly stated its projectiles could not be deflected
  
• Updated the Blind Justice so it can be equipped with other misc-slot items on the Demoman's face
  
• Updated the backpack image for the Upgrade to Premium Gift item
  
• Updated Mann Vs. Machine
  • Fixed the boss health bar sometimes disappearing
    
  • Fixed the uber Medics in Wave 4 of the Broken Parts mission charging at the incorrect rate
• Updated the localization files
  

Chosen by the community through Steam Greenlight, Organ Trail: Director's Cut is Now Available on Windows, Mac & Linux on Steam! To celebrate, save 20% until March 25th at 10am pacific!

Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit. Faithfully recreated as if it were on the Apple 2, Organ Trail offers amazing 16 color art and retro beeps and boops. Packed full of zombie mechanics, themes and references, this is a must have for any zombie survival fans.

Cities in Motion 2 is now available for pre-purchase on Steam! Act now and receive the Modern Collection DLC for free!

Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.

In celebration of the pre-purchase, you can grab the original Cities in Motion at 50% off now until April 2nd at 10AM Pacific time!

Three new songs are Now Available for Rocksmith

Play "Lovesong", "Just Like Heaven", and "The End of the World" by The Cure on any electric guitar or bass. Each song includes a new authentic tone accessible in AMP mode.

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is Now Available on Steam and is 25% off!

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a hybrid roguelike game of space exploration, adventure and starship combat set within a peculiar as yet unvisited region of the galaxy known as the Purple Void. Each time you play the game, a new and different "instant space opera" is generated at random; from locations of stars and nebulae to plot-twisting quest events, nothing stays the same.

*Offer ends March 29th at 10AM Pacific Time

Assassins Creed III: The Betrayal, all new content for Assassins Creed III is Now Available on Steam.

The Betrayal is the 2nd episode in the Tyranny of King Washington, in which Washington goes mad with power and rules as tyrannical King. Connor awakes having never become an Assassin and accepts a new mission to fight for freedom. In this new episode, travel to Boston to find an unlikely but familiar ally in your war against the King live history as it never happened and ignite a new revolution!

Save 66% on Saints Row: The Third during this week's Midweek Madness*!

Years after taking Stilwater for their own, the Third Street Saints have evolved from street gang to household brand name, with Saints sneakers, Saints energy drinks and Johnny Gat bobble head dolls all available at a store near you.

The Saints are kings of Stilwater, but their celebrity status has not gone unnoticed. The Syndicate, a legendary criminal fraternity with pawns in play all over the globe, has turned its eye on the Saints and demands tribute. Refusing to kneel to the Syndicate, you take the fight to Steelport, a once-proud metropolis reduced to a struggling city of sin under Syndicate control.

*Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time

Save 50% on Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 during this week's Midweek Madness*!

Face a greater challenge with Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013!

In the latest version of this hit franchise, play with friends or the AI as you travel across fantastic planes, take on new encounters and opponents, solve challenging puzzles, and face up to three other players in the Planechase multiplayer format. After honing your skills, pit yourself against the ultimate villain of the Multiverse, the dragon Planeswalker Nicol Bolas.

Featuring ten customizable decks, Magic 2013 offers new features including individual records for your game play, new game items to unlock, and, for those already skilled in slinging spells, the option to choose what lands to tap when you cast your spells.

*Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time

Today's Deal: Save 75% on Port Royale 3!

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Aliens: Colonial Marines - Bug Hunt DLC, all new content for Aliens: Colonial Marines is Now Available on Steam.

This pack lets up to 4 friends play together, across 3 new maps, in an all new multiplayer mode - Bug Hunt.

Bug Hunt is an objective based horde mode where accuracy and teamwork are key as you battle to survive 30 waves of increasingly challenging xenos and enemy Weyland-Yutani soldiers. Fight the fear across 3 brand-new maps: Broadside, Mercenary and Tribute. Spend money earned from killing xenos and enemy soldiers on extra guns, ammo and health as well as opening up access to new areas of the map and suppressing enemy waves by capturing beacon points.

Users that own the Season Pass will receive the Bug Hunt DLC and do not need to purchase it separately.

To celebrate, Aliens: Colonial Marines is 33% off until March 26th at 10AM Pacific Time.

NeoGAF user canIhasAnAccount discovered a temporary XBLA box art and banner for a new Strider game. Subsequently, users found a Strider entry on the Steam database, complete with icon of Strider Hiryu's face from the Capcom ninja series.

To extrapolate further, user Sega1991 found a Steam Community page connected by number with the leaked Steam information, posted by a user "ascarlston" whose profile offers a first name "Andrew." A quick search finds one Andrew Carlston in the game industry, a junior programmer at Double Helix. He's Steam friends with someone named Jorge Oseguera, a name belonging to a producer at Double Helix. Double Helix is the studio behind Silent Hill: Homecoming, as well as Front Mission Evolved and the Battleship game (based on the movie based on the game.)

As we find ourselves trapped deep within this rabbit hole, we called out to Capcom for verification of any of this. Capcom told Joystiq only that "We have made no announcements in regards to that title." In the absence of more info about that, why not look back at the last attempted Strider reboot, by GRIN Barcelona?

Lunar pack is Now Available on Steam and is 20% off!

Includes two great Indie games Lunnye Devitsy and Wake from the developers of Really Big Sky.

Lunnye Devitsy is the story of an alien who falls from the moon onto a huge mountainside on the planet below. Explore strange locations, aid mysterious characters and find your way home.

Wake is the story of an engineer trapped on a sinking ship. Navigate through the ship however you want to find your way to the surface above, but avoid the ship's corrupted security system!

*Offer end March 26th at 10AM Pacific Time

Updates to Worms Armageddon have been released, this will update your game to version 3.7.2.1. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes from Deadcode and CyberShadow include:

• Added support for loading WormKit modules.
• Added an option to select a graphics API to use. Available options are: 8-bit DirectDraw, 32-bit DirectDraw, Direct3D 7, Direct3D 9 (CPU palette transform), Direct3D 9 (shader palette transform). The Steam overlay is now accessible when using the Direct3D API.
• Added options to control vertical synchronization and enable additional assisted vertical synchronization.
• The "/open" command can now be used to reopen WormNET games.
• Translatable strings have been moved into external text files. Various translations have been updated with user-contributed improvements.
• Various other fixes and improvements. A full change log with more details is available in the "Worms Armageddon Update Documentation" file included with the game.

#watchthis Elements of the source port of Doom integrated into the latest Garry's Mod look really great. More »

DLC Quest is now available on Steam for PC and Mac, cashing in on its Greenlight success with a 20 percent-off sale, making the entire game just $2.40. DLC Quest on Steam includes the original platformer and new Live Freemium or Die campaign, and of course more than 30 DLC packs, all providing commentary concerning microtransactions and the pared-out state of gaming.

But don't fret: All DLC, no matter how essential to the actual gameplay, is purchased with in-game coins. The DLC Quest launch sale runs through March 25 at 10 a.m. PDT, when the game is bumped back up to its regular, super-inflated price of $3.

Clean up on aisle Aliens: Colonial Marines - Sega launched a patch to address a few of the issues in Colonial Marines, including various visual improvements, improved texture resolution, audio fixes, increased enemy and friendly AI responsiveness, modified enemy collision detection and NPC navigation, fixed spawning issues, removal of the ability to walk outside of maps, and many more, listed in full below.

Our favorite from this extensive list has to be, "Addressed an issue where Ripley's Flamethrower (bonus content) would sometimes fire continuously without player input." The update should automatically install on Steam, so unfortunately there's no way to keep that particular glitch (feature?) in your game.

When Colonial Marines launched in February, we found it to be a broken, unfinished mess, and most others agreed. Since it hit stores, developers Gearbox, TimeGate and publisher Sega have yet to agree where the blame lies. TimeGate let go 25 people in early March.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 is Now Available on Steam and is 10% off!

Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 returns to its roots with the emphasis on the individual skills of the worlds best players and giving the player the total freedom to play any style of ball, to any teammate, anywhere on the pitch. It is the most faithful re-creation of modern day football to date.

Enjoy the authentic football experience through a variety of modes. You can play as a team to win various cups, experience the football player life (Become a Legend), manage your team to become true champions (Master League), and join the excitement of many more challenges through both offline and online features.

*Offer ends March 25th at 5PM Pacific Time

#origin Ars Technica reports that a vulnerability on Origin, the game platform by EA, has been found. It's an exploit that allows Origin to become an "attack platform" that can install malware on your computer. More »

Update 1.1.5

Features

- Added support for most character sets in chat, including Cyrillic alphabet
- Added AI name tags with class indicator
- Announce part destructions and kills from the Tar Barrel skill (as with ramming, destructions are credited to the player on the helm)
- Spectators: new UI providing detailed information on ships and crew.
- Spectators: always show crewmembers on a ship youre orbiting

Balance

- Rebalanced rebuild game so that engines are slightly easier to repair than before.

Fixes and Optimization

- Fixed excessive lens distortion on high-zoom scoped weapons (e.g. Mercury)
- Fixed gun rotation bug that led to shots not going where expected when the gun was rotated partially in both axes
- Enabled new packet CRC functionality; this should fix router-specific disconnection errors (WRT54G and others)

- Made a number of server fixes to improve performance and reduce/eliminate slow-time:
-- Eliminated the (completely pointless) physics cost for spectators
-- Improved physics performance in general
-- AI crewmembers raycast for line-of-sight less frequently
-- Improved networking performance; in particular, the amount of load per-user-per-object has been reduced.

- Fixed a number of bugs related to asset loading
- Fixed a bug where map name would not update after a vote
- Fixed a number of Explicit AFK bugs, particularly related to respawn

- Made several changes to graphics options (will be reset to default values):
-- Excessive/redundant entries in graphics options removed
-- Fixed a bug with initial resolution detection
-- Fixed several bugs related to resolution settings

- Fixed an issue where AI gunners would not perform the correct line-of-sight check under 300 meters
- Fixed shader issue that could cause aliasing around objects silhouetted against smoke particles
- Fixed trails so they properly fade out.

DLC Quest is Now Available on Steam and is 20% off!

What happens when DLC practices go too far? An indie developer makes a game that mocks the industry and its foibles, that's what! Defeat the bad guy, save the world and get the girl! But first you'll need to find coins to buy DLC to enable animation, sound and even pausing.

Thankfully this is just satire and all the DLC is purchased with in-game coins. But consider it a cautionary tale for the future...

*Offer ends March 25th at 10AM Pacific Time

Ultratron is Now Available on Steam and is 50% off*!

Experience the addictive gameplay of old-school arcade favourites, updated and improved for the 21st century!

The last human has been slain by evil killer robots. You are the one remaining humanoid battle droid. Your mission: avenge the human race! Boost your battledroid with powerups, buy cute but deadly pets in the shop. Blast your way through 40+ glowing neon levels, avoiding Chasers, Turrets, Spawners, Minelayers, bombs, and bullets, and take on the four giant boss 'bots of the Apocalypse - Ieiunitas, Bellum, Lues and Letum!

*Offer ends March 29th at 10AM Pacific Time

Today were adding three new Community features to the Steam Client; a new Community Home page, the addition of Artwork to hubs, and changes to the main Steam navigation menu. The new Community Home now shows you an infinitely scrolling page of the most popular content across all game and software hubs - including news, screenshots, videos, discussions, ….and artwork.

With this update, youll find a new Artwork tab in Community Hubs, where you can now post or discover all kinds of artwork associated with your favorite Steam games. We posted some concept and character art in the Valve Community Hubs (Team Fortress, Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, etc.) to help get things started. Let us know what kind of neat artwork youve created and share it with the community. To upload artwork, go to the related Community Hub's Artwork tab and look for the "Upload Artwork" button at the top right.

And finally, youll see new drop-down navigation for the main Steam menu, added to accommodate all the major destinations across Steam. Weve separated out all the links that relate to You from links that relate to the larger Steam Community, improving clarity and making for quick access to your favorite destinations.

Shattered Haven is Now Available on Steam and is 25% off!

Shattered Haven is an environmental puzzle game about family, grit, and survival. Follow the story of Darrell and Mary as they try to save their family from a new and unexpected threat through in-game storytelling and painted-style cutscenes. Guide different members of the Williams family through branching story paths that result in one of several endings. Depending on your actions, the story may end very poorly, happily, or anywhere in between.

*Offer ends March 29th at 10AM Pacific Time