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Founders Packs for Marvel Heroes are Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam!

Marvel Heroes is the Marvel MMO that you have been waiting for! Play as Iron Man, Thor, Wolverine, Hulk, Spider-Man, Captain America and many more as they team up to try and stop Doctor Doom from devastating the world with the power of the Cosmic Cube. Marvel Heroes features a deep leveling system unique to each Super Hero, diverse locations set across the expansive Marvel Universe, a robust crafting system, action-packed player-versus-player (PvP) and much more. Marvel Heroes is a free-to-play Massively Multiplayer Action RPG for PC created by David Brevik, the visionary behind Diablo and Diablo 2 with an extensive original story crafted by Marvel super-scribe Brian Michael Bendis.

For this weekend only, all Steam users can jump in and get a taste of Marvel Heroes during their Final Beta Weekend*! Click Here to download the client and get your account ready for action! Must have Steam installed.


*Beta Weekend runs until May 13th at 10AM Pacific time

Coffee Stain Studios' first-person tower defense/shooter hybrid is getting a sequel on May 15. As usual, pre-ordering nets you extra goodies, but in this case, you get something far better than an extra gun skin. Super Sanctum TD, which is also available separately for $4, is a retro re-imagining of Sanctum featuring traditional tower defense gameplay (with a dash of variety in the form of an active skill system). It features towers from both the first and second games, and a set of leaderboards to go with its levels, along with a large amount of achievements. Super Sanctum TD [Steam]

Play Call of Duty: Black Ops II for FREE until Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also purchase Call of Duty: Black Ops II at 33% off during this time.

If you already have Steam installed, click here to install or play the Multiplayer portion of Black Ops II. If you don't have Steam, you can download it here.

Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops II propels players into a near future, 21st Century Cold War, where technology and weapons have converged to create a new generation of warfare.

Nearly everything in Gaijin Games' esteemed Bit.Trip series has been marked down on Steam, from now until Monday, May 20.

For instance: Bit.Trip Collection, which includes Bit.Trip Beat, Bit.Trip Runner, Bit.Trip Core and Bit.Trip Void, has had its price cut by 75% and is now just $11.98. Likewise, all of those games can be purchased individually at a discounted price of $2.49. Even last year's gorgeous Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien has had its price dropped to less than $12 - we recommend gettin' while the gettin's good, as our very southern mom would say.

The Forest is a first-person horror game currently in development for the PC and Oculus Rift. After surviving a plane crash at the outset of the game, players must build and thrive in a mysterious forest, scavenging materials throughout the day and defending against an indigenous enemy by night.

Developer Ben Falcone promises changing weather and tides that shift with the day/night cycle. Players will have to chop down trees to build and make fires, scavenge food or plant seeds to grow, while traps will be necessary to maintain a safe perimeter and defend the home. On the game's about page, the nocturnal ne'er-do-wells are described as "a clan of genetic mutant enemies that have beliefs, families and morals."

The Forest is tentatively scheduled to launch in late 2013, and is now vying for a spot on Steam Greenlight.

Getting accepted through Steam's community-voting service, Greenlight, is an ongoing, complex project for many indie developers - and for Steam itself. Valve hosted a chat with Greenlight developers this week to discuss concerns, suggestions and propose what Greenlight may look like in the future.

Valve is "actively looking into" releasing the Steamworks API so developers can prepare their games prior to being Greenlit, though it has no timeframe to make that public. Currently all games go to the same Greenlight, but Valve said it would discuss the idea of separating the service by "games that are ready to go" and "games that are in development."

On May 1, Valve Greenlit a mini batch of games, and this system will most likely be the new standard, the team said: "Unfortunately, we have limited resources at the moment, so we cannot ship every game that we want. We're working toward having an open platform that Gabe has talked about, but we're not there yet."

May 9th, 2013 -- Ugly Baby Update -- Waffles!

Are you hungry? Amy apparently wants you to be. Whats that, you say? Staying away from the carbs? Well, hopefully this update is just as delicious.

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE: Michael went all crazy with the UI! Brand spanking new graphics to tickle your eyes. Hes a perfectionist, so he says hes not done yet. How do you think its coming along? What can you figure out from it? What doesnt make sense?

GAMEPLAY: A new stunt has joined buzzes and grooves, because they were getting lonely. Meet the NEEDLE! Can you figure out how to do it? Gameplay has changed slightly, so listen closely. Get near anything to buzz an object. Orient the world to your stomach (bottom of the screen), to groove. If you hit things, you damage your sensor. If your sensors damaged, you cant do stunts! As your sensor detects stuff, you build up a score multiplier, so keep doing stunts!

VISUALIZER: Daves research continues to pay off. Play level one with some fast/heavy music. Dubstep, Rock, Death Metal, EDM. Thats all Im sayin.

Wed like to personally call out, the progress bar feature in this recent update was due in part to a user suggesting it. Im an awful person and cant remember who did originally, so if it was you, thank you, keep em coming!

As always, tell us what you love, what you hate, and where you think Michaels running off to next week. He wont tell us.

Update 1.05 Now available!
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army ups the ante with Spring updates

Two major new features added in less than a month based on player feedback

Independent UK developer Rebellion has today released update 1.05 for co-op survival shooter Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army, not only enabling co-op players to multiply the numbers of enemies they face, but also adding support for drop in / drop out functionality.

Hot on the heels of Aprils popular Multiplier update - allowing solo-players to multiply the numbers of enemies they face to terrifying levels - this update is the second major feature added to the game in less than a month based on suggestions and comments from the games growing community.

Update 1.05 also includes a small selection of fixes.

Key Features:
Drop in / Drop out functionality added. (See technical notes below)
Co-op enemy multiplier added. (e.g 2 players can play against 4 player numbers of enemies)

Fix list:
Fix for potential progression blocker on Cathedral level.
Fix for progression blocker on Library Of Evil.
Fix to make sure Bullet cam "minimal" settings reduces bullet cameras in game.
Fix to stop score points exploit on skeletons.

Known issues:
Some single player inter level saves will be invalidated with this update. This was due to level progression fixes. If problems are encountered a level restart may be required.

Technical notes on drop in /drop out:
- Can only join whilst players are in lobby or in actual gameplay.
- Cannot join whilst in loading, waiting for players, syncing, cutscenes or end game menus.
- Private match option blocks all joining.
- Quick match can be found and joined by any player unless private match is selected.
- Private game can only be found and joined by friends, either through an invite from host or by selecting to join game from steam in-game overlay, unless private match is selected.
- The private match option can be toggled both in the lobby and in game via the pause menu.
- The private match option is not available when in cutscenes or end game menus.

- Players joining outside safe zones will spawn at the host position.
- If the enemy multiplier is set to default then when a player joins the enemies increase to match the number of players.
- If the enemy multiplier is set to default then when a player leaves the number of enemies will only decrease to match the player numbers when a safe zone is reached.
- Host must wait for players joining a game to be fully in gameplay before being able to restart a game - a message box will popup informing the host of this.

Insurgency has just been updated on Steam.

Update Includes:

- Resolved a crash occurring during changelevel that a lot of servers have been experiencing
- Fixed some issues with Linux Dedicated Server (see this post for more information)
- Updated District and Heights
- Heights now supports Battle, Firefight and Occupy game modes
- District and Market now support Firefight game mode
- Fixed a bug in Push where defenders can re-capture points
- Fixed an issue with helmets not being precached properly
- Tweaked shotgun slug damage
- Adjusted supply rate so it's closer to what it was before the 5/4 update
- Adjusted reinforcement times based on community feedback
- Tweaked AI placement on Heights_Coop
- Fixed a bug in the server browser causing the Battle game mode not to display under Modes
- Improved syncing between player animation and movement speeds

Now until May 20th, save 25% to 75% on all of the BIT.TRIP titles!

Save 50% on Go Home Dinosaurs!! Offer ends Thursday, May 16 at 1PM Pacific Time

Changes:
- Fixed dedicated server depots missing shared content
- Fixed dedicated servers not registering properly with the master server
- Fixed yellow screen corruption that occurs on AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series hardware
- Updated database to include video cards from the Steam survey through April 2013.
- Adjusted add-on sorting when loading the main menu so Mutation add-ons can override UI elements.

Afterfall Insanity - Dirty Arena Edition is Now Available on Steam and is 25% off!*

The post-apocalyptic version of survival mode from Afterfall Insanity - Extended Edition, is now available as a stand-alone game!

In Afterfall Insanity - Dirty Arena Edition the player has to survive waves of enemies, mini-bosses and bosses as they try and survive the Arena!

*Offer ends May 16th at 10AM Pacific Time

Play Sanctum for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also pickup Sanctum at 75% off the regular price*

You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the worlds first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.

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

*Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time

Sanctum 2 is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam!

Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the worlds first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence. Outfit your character exactly the way you want through the new and extensive customization system. Choose your own loadout of towers, weapons and perks, but choose wisely because you are humanitys last defense against the unrelenting hordes set out to destroy it.

Save 25% on Trials Evolution: Gold Edition as part of this week's Weekend Deal*!

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.

*Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time.

Today's Deal: Save 66% on Fallen Enchantress!

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Thunder Wolves is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam and is 20% off!

Put yourself in the pilots seat of a combat helicopter and become a member of the most experienced and dangerous helicopter team in the world, the Thunder Wolves! Support the Thunder Wolves in their global battle against terrorism. Take part in varied operations and do whatever it takes to thwart the diabolical plans of your enemies! Defeat them once and for all, and save the world!

Total War™: ROME II is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam!

The award-winning Total War series returns to Rome, setting a brand new quality benchmark for Strategy gaming. Become the worlds first superpower and command the Ancient worlds most incredible war machine. Dominate your enemies by military, economic and political means. Your ascension will bring both admiration and jealousy, even from your closet allies.

Pre-Purchase and receive The Greek States Culture Pack

The Greek States Culture Pack includes three new playable Factions for use in Single or Multiplayer Campaign modes and Custom and Multiplayer Battles. These faction are the diplomatic Athens, shrewd Epirus and formidable Sparta as playable factions. Each offers range of special tactics to achieve cultural and martial victories, and lethal elite units to crush foes in battle.

Most Wanted Entertainment's explosion-filled, arcade-style helicopter action game Thunder Wolves will light up the skies over Steam next Wednesday, May 15, publisher bitComposer Games announced today. Folks who pre-order will receive 20 percent off the game's regular price of $10, though the game's Steam page does not appear to be live as of press time.

BitComposer reiterated in its announcement that Thunder Wolves is also coming to XBLA and PSN, though no release date or price points for those versions have been released.

Patch Notes for Eador: Masters of the Broken World (May 7th)

Version 1.06

A new update is now available for download. Here are the 1.0.6 patch notes:

— Improved HUD for units on the tactical map.
— The way unit speed animation changes has been improved.
— Optimized tooltip display for mouse cursor movement.
— Improved support of displays with 768 vertical pixels resolution.
— Fixed Lighting change mode functioning.

Multiplayer:

— Mistiming problems fixes.
— Fixed disconnection problems between the server and the games client in a multiplayer game and in the lobby.
— There are now two game modes in multiplayer:

1) Advanced mode — number of points depends on the number of played games and achieved victories;
2) Classic mode — every player has an equal number of points (1000 at the moment).

— Added icons for player statuses: Player is looking for an opponent, Player is in the game.
— Added information display of other players spent points.
— Updated prices for units, spells and items.
— Improved chat.

List of Fixed Bugs:

— Endless siege bug.
— Berserk barbarian animation caused the game to crash.
— Selected building is not correctly highlighted in the city screen.
— Effects bug of A portal to Chaos event.
— Battle starts before some of the dialogues are over.
— Capitals generating on neutral terrain types.
— AI controlled hero doesnt attack the castles garrison while its under siege.
— Delays in selection, giving orders and showing tooltip for units.
— Problem with necromancy skill and hero information display after the battle.
— Inability to sell an item in some cases.
— Bug that caused heroes to receive new skills and parameters earlier than intended.
— Attack of the enemy castle with no units in the garrison.
— Bug with provinces capturing where defenders could become guards in some cases.
— Karma transfer from the shard map to the astral.
— Killing a skeleton during a battle could cause the game to crash.

RaceRoom Racing Experience Open Beta 0.1.2.1050 has been updated.

- Added new liveries for the new content.
- Added menu images for the new liveries.

Source Filmmaker version 0.9.7.6 has been released. This update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• fixed startup crash introduced in 0.9.7.5
  

Call of Juarez - Gunslinger is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam!

Pre-Purchase and receive a copy of Call of Juarez - Bound in Blood to play now! Already own it? Give the extra copy to a friend!

From the dust of a gold mine to the dirt of a saloon, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger is a real homage to the Wild West tales. Live the epic and violent journey of a ruthless bounty hunter on the trail of the Wests most notorious outlaws. Blurring the lines between man and myth, this adventure made of memorable encounters unveils the untold truth behind some of the greatest legends of the Old West.

Today's Deal: Save 66% on From Dust!

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Valve tinkers with a lot of things - whatever it feels like, mostly - but has a particular interest in biometrics and direct player feedback within games. At the Neurogaming Conference last week, Valve Experimental Psychologist (seriously, whatever if feels like) Mike Ambinder described a few tests he'd recently run, as reported by Venture Beat.

In one test, Valve measured how much players sweat while playing Left 4 Dead, as correlated to their levels of arousal - just as Valve boss Gabe Newell specified back in March, concerning biometrics in the Steam Box. Another experiment gave players four minutes to shoot 100 enemies, and the game would move more quickly as the player showed signs of nervousness.

Valve also created a successful version of Portal 2 controlled with players' eyeballs, but it was necessary to separate aiming and viewpoint - where your eyes are looking and where your head is facing - for that to work properly.

The Steam Box will host some sort of biometric scheme, Newell said in that March interview.

"What we've found is you can directly measure player state and it turns out to be very useful," Newell said. "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 tinkers with a lot of things - whatever it feels like, mostly - but has a particular interest in biometrics and direct player feedback within games. At the Neurogaming Conference last week, Valve Experimental Psychologist (seriously, whatever if feels like) Mike Ambinder described a few tests he'd recently run, as reported by Venture Beat.

In one test, Valve measured how much players sweat while playing Left 4 Dead, as correlated to their levels of arousal - just as Valve boss Gabe Newell specified back in March, concerning biometrics in the Steam Box. Another experiment gave players four minutes to shoot 100 enemies, and the game would move more quickly as the player showed signs of nervousness.

Valve also created a successful version of Portal 2 controlled with players' eyeballs, but it was necessary to separate aiming and viewpoint - where your eyes are looking and where your head is facing - for that to work properly.

The Steam Box will host some sort of biometric scheme, Newell said in that March interview.

"What we've found is you can directly measure player state and it turns out to be very useful," Newell said. "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."

This patch let's you change the order in which types of jobs are performed. For example, previously gnomes would always perform jobs created directly by the player before say from a workshop. Now, per profession, you can set the order of those job types. Individual jobs of the same type are still prioritized as they were before, whether by distance to the job or the priority setting of the workshop, farm, grove, pasture or stockpile. Jobs that are directly created have been split up into 4 groups:

Mining - mine wall, dig stairs, etc
Agriculture - Fell tree, forage, etc
Build - Build workshop, furniture, etc
Mechanic - Reset trap, flip lever, etc

As an example, you could create 2 professions with Woodcutting and Carpentry enabled. One profression has Agriculture first and the other has Workshop as the highest priority. Gnomes in the first profession would act as before and fell trees before cutting planks while the other profession would do the opposite. Splitting up your workforce this way will allow you to work on both tasks simultaneously and let some gnomes act as "backup" and work on another task if their main one is finished.

General
• Added option to change the priority of job type per profession
• Added a tool tip when assigning a profession to a gnome in the population window, which displays that gnomes skills relevant to the profession
• Added tool tip to display the top 5 skills of a gnome in the population window

Fixed
• Crash when deconstructing a wall at the top of the map
• Crash when building a ramp, stairs or incline at the top of the map
• Crash with a civillian has a uniform with a ranged weapon and is trying to refill ammo
• Crash when firing a ranged weapon in some cases
• Tool tips for items in a drop down list, sometimes not disappearing
• Large tool tips going beyond the borders of the screen
• Liquids not flowing when a mechanical wall is lowered
• Liquids not working properly when raised a level by a mechanical wall

Source Filmmaker version 0.9.7.5 has been released. This update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• fixed Publish Image To Steam menu item incorrectly mapped to Publish Models
  
• -game command-line parameter now overrides VMOD/VPROJECT for easier mod switching
  

Driver Fusion is Now Available on Steam and is 30% off


Driver Fusion is the complete device and driver solution for your PC. It helps you to manage your hardware devices and assist with a complete uninstall of old system drivers in the easiest possible way. With Driver Fusion you can keep your PC running efficiently and effectively with advanced system driver removal, which even deletes those files, directories and registry entries that are left behind by the normal vendor uninstallers. By removing old drivers before installing new drivers you will ensure that your PC will reach its maximal potential and performance.


*Offer ends Monday, May 13th at 10AM Pacific Time