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MDK2 HD is Now Available on Steam!

Overhaul Games brings MDK2 back to the PC in incredible high definition, with enhanced graphics, sound, and gameplay. See the classic action platformer the way it was meant to be seen, heard, and played... on a PC!

Kurt Hectic in his snazzy suit with ribbon chute is back to save the universe. This time he is teamed with the genius Dr. Hawkins and the 6-legged gun-toting robotic dog, Max. Together they must out-sneak, out-blast and out-think their enemies as they attempt to reclaim the Earth from a vile alien menace.

And this time they're in HD.

*20% off loyalty discount for original owners of MDK 2 on Steam.

The Steam Raider Pack, new content for Tribes: Ascend is Now Available on Steam and 50% off until Monday, August 6 10AM PDT.

The Tribes: Ascend Raider is a durable attacking class that can wreck havoc on defenses. The Raider Pack Includes the Raider Class, 13 weapons, and 2 skins.

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Critical fixes:
+ Fixed a post-combat crash related to node cannon effects.


Other fixes:
+ Made general optimization passes to speed up turn times, AI processing and star system selection responsiveness.
+ Zuul no longer immigrate to other factions.
+ Population Manager and Comparative Analysis buttons are now disabled between turns.
+ Corrected 'pirate encounter freighters destroyed' news event messages.
+ Fixed graphical glitch caused by moving defense assets.
+ Battle riders destroyed by node cannons no longer continue to tie up
carrier space.
+ Fixed ownership display of systems in sensor range.
+ Corrected intel result rolls.
+ The intel success rate is now correctly reflected in the UI.
+ Fixed some cases where fleets were spawning at the wrong locations in combat.
+ Diplomacy panels are now disabled for defeated empires.
+ Fixed some odd behavior with ship rolling in combat.


Other changes and additions:
+ Factions now get population bonuses when immigrating.
+ The F key now functions as an alternative button for focusing on the
object under the mouse pointer in combat.

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Critical fixes:
+ Fixed crash related to station construction.

Other fixes:
+ Addressed issues related to combat stance behavior and sensor range.
+ Immigration rate now affects corruption.

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GAMEPLAY
- Fixed being able to miss Vendetta
- Fixed Meld sometimes not hitting if you moved quickly after attacking
- Fixed some FOW issues with Spirit Form Illuminate
- Fixed Soul Assumption gaining charges from Illusions
- Fixed some movement formation issues with Familiars
- Fixed Stone Form stun not going off if a Familiar died while casting it

DOTA 2 BOTS
- Fixed bots never using Cheese.
- Fixed bots never using TPs to get back to base.
- Bots will no longer figure out illusions based on the damage the potential illusion is doing.
- Lowered bot farm desire at low health.
- Lowered retreat desire just to pick up items.
- Added a mild distance factor to Roshan desire.
- Baseline push desire is now calculated using the opposing team's total offensive power rather than a constant value (so bots will want more power later in games).
- Bots now just want to equalize power when defending, rather than overwhelm.
- Capped maximum defend desire so that it doesn't trump their attack desire.

Ronimo Games' plucky little MOBA, Awesomenauts, will launch on PC via Steam next Wednesday. While the game's Steam page still hasn't listed a price, we assume it'll be roughly in line with its $10 console price tag.

As evident in the screenshots below, the PC version launches with the game's recently released character DLC built right in. No word on a release date for the Mac version of Awesomenauts, though Ronimo's last update on the subject said it'd be out "shortly after" the PC version.

Wanderlust: Rebirth is Now Available on Steam and 25% off until Friday, August 3rd 10AM PDT.

Take control of one of four uniquely crafted character classes, each with a distinctive play style, and use your abilities with finesse along side the other heroes to gain high-scores and legendary items. Band together and plan your assault, for the minions of the underworld fear no blade, and only in Epic mode will the true heroines rise victorious.

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The Invaders From Space DLC, new content for Crazy Machines 2, is now available on Steam and 10% off until Friday, August 3rd at 10AM PDT!

Invaders from Space have come to add extra terrestrial challenge to Crazy Machines 2! Meet Flinky, the bouncy alien and slimy Species 1337 as you take on anti-gravity, break out the robots, and aim your laser beams! Use your wits and be ready to encounter alien intelligence in the craziest mission ever from outer Space!

HIGHLIGHTS:
- Added Nyx Assassin, Keeper of the Light, and Visage to the Matchmaking Hero Roster and Captain's Mode!
- Added a cooldown to being able to find a match when a player declines or abandons a game.
- Added notification for when a Tournament has a live game currently running.

GAMEPLAY:
- Beastmaster: Fixed Wild Axes working with Refresher.
- Beastmaster: Wild Axes no longer provide vision when they aren't flying.
- Naga Siren: Fixed Dust of Appearance not working against units slept by Song of the Siren.
- Naga Siren: Fixed Ice Blast debuff not getting added to units slept by Song of the Siren.
- Naga Siren: Fixed Weave not affecting units slept by Song of the Siren.
- Phantom Lancer: Fixed Doppelwalk illusions not correctly replicating their inventory item slots.
- Rubick: Fixed Wild Axes being left around when another ability is stolen.
- Sand King: Neutrals can now be damaged by Sandstorm.
- Templar Assassin: Fixed Meld initial attack doing too much damage.
- Slardar: Fixed Bash working while doomed.
- Neutrals damaged by an invisible enemy will now try to run away.

SPECTATING:
- Multiple tweaks to director events and framing.
- Fixed particle effects sometimes not drawing while in Player Perspective mode.

UI:
- Added notification for when a Tournament has a live game currently running.
- The kill card now shows a randomly selected item that the killer is wearing. Also reduced its size.
- Fixed equipping an item in the backpack not jumping to the correct hero in the loadout
- Added Buyback to the spectating stats dropdown.
- Added a cooldown for being able to find a match when a player declines or abandons a game.
- Fixed Storm Spirit Mega-Kill announcer having the incorrect equip slot.

VISUALS:
- Fixed Rubick retaining incorrect skins from stolen abilities when returning to his normal model.
- Meld damage display is now only shown for successful hits.

BOTS:
- Significant revision of how bots determine their high-level desires
- Roshan desire has been significantly reworked. It's now based on how quickly Roshan can be killed given the available heroes and how quickly enemies can show up.
- Evasion desire is now more granular. Things like Blade Fury now cause a range of evasion desire based on the bot's current health.
- Fixed case where bots were trying to path to an invalid location when defending their base.
- Made bots more aggressive about attacking when defending a lane.
- Cleaned up inferred human modes for pushing and defending lanes.
- Made bots less concerned about distance when considering an attack on a pinged target.
- Fixed bug that made pinged towers less likely to attract allied bots that were doing other high-priority stuff.
- Tuned retreat desire values when hurt and close to the fountain.
- Made bots somewhat more likely to buy a flying courier.

WORKSHOP:
- Added a new Import Wearable option to the Publish New Item section of the in-game workshop UI. It will compile, validate, and preview your model before you submit it. When submitting, it also packs the files into a format that makes it much easier for us to bring it into the game.

Mensa Academy is now available in most territories on Steam!

Get ready to stretch your grey matter as you put yourself through more than 100 interesting and challenging puzzles designed to stretch and train your brain in key areas including logic, language, visual and more! Mensa Academy is the only brain training game backed by Mensa, the high IQ society, so for the first time in a brain training game youll be able to put all that practice into action by taking on real Mensa-style questions, like the ones you see in the Mensa IQ tests. What will your Mensa Academy score be?

If your hatred of (and resulting need to kill) orcs has historically been outweighed by your commendably responsible fiscal nature in these trying economic times, you may not yet have acquired Robot Entertainment's Orcs Must Die!. You hate orcs, sure, but those $10 could be spent on something practical, like gas.

This weekend though, Orcs Must Die! is only $2.50 over on Steam, and when a video game costs less than a gallon of fuel, all financial guilt associated with its purchase is essentially eradicated. Similarly, Orcs Must Die 2 has had 10 percent brutally chopped off its pre-order price -- think of it as an investment in a sustainable future-hatred of orcs. Investing is what grown-ups do.

Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

- Fixed some HTML panels not showing up
- Fixed HTML panels being distorted
- Fixed HTML panel clicks being offset
- Added update notice to menu screen

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed™ - Ultimate Sith Edition is now available on Mac and 35% off!* Buy it once. Play it on both Mac & PC!

The story and action of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed™ expands with the release of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed™ - Ultimate Sith Edition, a special new version of the game that will show gamers the deepest, darkest side of the Force in a story that puts them on a collision course with Luke Skywalker himself. The Ultimate Sith Edition includes all of the original missions found in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed as well as content previously only available via download and an all-new exclusive bonus level.

*Offer end Aug 2nd at 10AM PST.

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Borderlands 2 is now available for pre-purchase!

A new era of shoot and loot is about to begin. Play as one of four new vault hunters facing off against a massive new world of creatures, psychos and the evil mastermind, Handsome Jack. Make new friends, arm them with a bazillion weapons and fight alongside them in 4 player co-op or split-screen on a relentless quest for revenge and redemption across the undiscovered and unpredictable living planet.

Save 10% on your pre-purchase of Borderlands 2 if you own the original Borderlands! This weekend only.

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Act now and save 75% on Orcs Must Die! during the Weekend Deal!

Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.

Pre-Purchase is also available for Orcs Must Die 2! Visit the game page for more information.

The St. Petersburg expansion for Cities in Motion is now available on Steam for both Mac and PC!

The great Window to the West, St. Petersburg, offers many new challenges. The traditional trolley buses offer a new mode of transport and give the city its unique athmosphere. A new campaign consisting of three scenarios highlights key points in St. Petersburg's history while presenting the player with interesting and challenging tasks.

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Offline / Online saves compatibility first implementation:
- Currently only the progress of unlocking the campaign maps gets synchronized.
- Only progress that has been achieved while playing online will get synchronized. Campaign progress unlocked in offline mode is not synchronized. Progress that has been achieved while being offline is only available on that specific machine.
- The progress will only be synchronized if it has been achieved with a default (online) hero. Progress that has been made with heroes whose affinity has been switched (e.g. from blood to tears) or with custom heroes will not be synchronized.
- The progress of heroes (reputation/skill/level) within a campaign will not be saved/synchronized.

Pirates Of the Savage Sea Adventure Pack - The Fortunes of Captain Hack map:
- Fixed the trigger for the dialog after the battle with Jon
- Reduced the amount of obligatory battles against the Elementals in the northern tunnels
- Fixed the final cutscene: Crag now appear on his horse instead of on foot
- Fixed the trigger for the achievement "The seas run red".

Pirates Of the Savage Sea Adventure Pack - The King of the Savage Sea map:
- The dialogue triggering the bonus reputation quest now appears in the course of the map, not right at the beginning.

Artifacts:
- Pendant of Conflux - Inconsistency between the tooltip and the behavior for the Pendant of Conflux artifact
- The "Bracers of the Druid" artifact tooltips are incorrect.
- The "Gauntlets of the Khan" artifact's second ability (+1 to friendly creatures might damage) doesn't work
- The Cloaks that increase magic defense by 10 for each magic school don't work
- The "Frozen Chrysanthemum" Artifact doesn't work
- The "Boots of the Waverider" does not grant "1 creature movement on sea"
- The "Winterwind Peace Circlet" Artifact doesn't work
- The "Flamegold Shield" artifact does not award fire resistance.
- The "Pendant of Mastery" does not award a bonus to the racial gauge as stated in its description.
- The "Shantiri Armor" does not grant magic defense against the Prime magic school even though it is stated to do so.

Units:
- The growth for the "Harpy" unit is 7 instead of 8
- The growth is 11 instead of 12 for the Demented.
- The growth is 8 instead of 9 for the Maniac.
- The Maximum melee damage of the "Fury" unit is 8 instead of 9
- Vampire Lord weekly growth reduced to 6 units instead of 5
- The Skeletal Spearman unit has the maximum ranged damage 7 instead of 6

Abilities / Spells:
- The chilled effect provided by the "Eternal Winter" ability is increased by 1 instead of 2
- The "Toughness I" ability does not increase the maximum health of the hero's units by 5%.
- The "Toughness II" ability does not increase the maximum health of the hero's units by 4%.
- The "Toughness III" ability does not increase the maximum health of the hero's units by 5%.
- The "Mentoring" ability gives a 75% increase in experience instead of 50%
- The "Arcane Exaltation III" spell gives 4 points instead of 5
- Lich's dark embrace passive ability has been buffed to 30% instead of being reduced to 15%
- The "Blizzard" spell has a 2 turns duration instead of 3
- The "Fire Ball" spell has an Area of effect of 3x3 instead of 4x4
- The "Chain Lightning" spell has a cost of 65 mana instead of 50

Others:
- Tree Of Plenty - The player placed on the first slot starts with the Main Hero on the central island.

The Total War: SHOGUN 2 Saints and Heroes Unit Pack is now available on Steam!

Honed by years of relentless training and tempered in the fires of battle, these nine elite warrior units excel in their fields, and stand head-and-shoulders above their rank-and-file brothers.

General fixes

• Fixed cavalry exploit where players could engage infantry with minimal losses and cause unit to rout.

• Fixed issue where blood would not appear on face and left arm of units in Blood Pack DLC.

• Various audio fixes.

• Correct banner is now shown by Tosa standard bearers.

• Fixed morale bug that could cause the player's army to rout if a reinforcing army had enough Gatling guns.

• Fixes for additional multiplayer campaign desync occurrences where identified.

• Fixed graphical clipping issue with Shinsengumis cape.

• Revolver Cavalry is now capped at 4 per army in multiplayer.

• Hosts should now correctly leave a multiplayer campaign when client quits after a battle.

• Fix for certain Daimyos portraits being stretched.

• Saga's clan attributes should now be working correctly.

• Pro-imperial clans should now be able to recruit Shogitai after changing allegiance.

• Clan Development "Modern Rifles" and the trait gained from "French Military Mission" will no longer affect artillery units.

• Daimyo retainer's "British Naval Engineer", "British Railway Engineer", "Francois Leonce Verny" and "Inudstrialist" should now be working correctly.

• Daimyo retainer's "Logistics" and "Scourge" should now correctly stack to provide a 15% replenishment rate.

• Daimyo retainer "Over-ambitious mistress" should now have an effect on Daimyo honour.

• Daimyo retainer "Sir Harry Smith Parkes" should now have a description attached.

• Dilemma "Koyosha" now correctly decreases research rate, rather than increases research rate.

• Various typographical fixes.

• Event "Security Matters" should now have a relevant penalty.

• Mission "Developing our potential" should now be correctly displayed when skipping the first cut-scene.

AI improvements

• Naval AI will now repair damaged fleets in battle.

• Improvements to AI defending to take into account distance and relative strength between AI and human units when selecting targets.

• Improvements to AI defence when AI has missile superiority.

• AI non-missile/cavalry units will now more frequently move through missile units defending the front line of a battlegroup if they are being charged by a player.

• Further improvements made to reinforcing army AI to limit idle army behaviour.

• Fixed issue where AI would occasionally send in single, unsupported units to attack the player. Units will now co-ordinate better and attack in larger numbers.

• Other AI units will attack player-friendly units that are protecting the flanks of the AIs primary target unit.

Stardock has announced that Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, the latest stand-alone expansion of the acclaimed RTS hit, has broken company records and become its fastest-selling release to date. The game has sold over 100,000 units since its launch last month, which is not only a solid number for any indie game but also beats the first 30 days of the original Sins of a Solar Empire.

Though the original Sins was also released at retail, Rebellion was not, and the digital plan ended up working better than any of the company's PC retail releases. Stardock's CEO, Brad Wardell, said he believed that selling the game on Steam would take sales away from other channels, but Steam sales of the expansion "didn't cannibalize its GameStop or direct sales."

Releasing digitally had other benefits as well, like letting Stardock announce the release at the last minute. Wardell says both of Stardock's other games this year, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress and Political Machine 2012, will follow the same launch plan.

#pc We haven't checked in on a Steam system survey in a while, so let's fix that today. Every month, Valve publishes the results of a survey that drags in all kinds of information on its customer's computers, from what graphics card they've got installed to the kind of browser they're running. More »

#left4dead The add-on campaign created by the loyal Left 4 Dead community was supposed to launch about a year ago. It's finally hitting Windows and Mac platforms today as a free update. The official site teases that the DLC will land on Xbox Live soon. More »

Valve head honcho Gabe Newell stepped away from his desk - or, pushed his desk away from him, since apparently it has wheels so he can maneuver it around the office - to discuss the future of open platforms, Linux and wearable computing at Seattle's Casual Connect conference last night. Newell even weighed in on Windows 8, calling it a "catastrophe," All Things D reported.

"I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space," Newell said. "I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality."

Newell's alternative is Linux, and he hopes to have all 2,500 games on Steam running on Linux as part of a "hedging strategy."

Newell also sees open, free-to-play-inspired platforms as critical to building healthy markets in the future - not just in gaming, but across all of technology. One Steam user in Kansas makes $150,000 a year making hats for TF2, Newell reported, and the same system can be implemented within services such as Photoshop, if only software companies could see its potential.

"That causes us to have conversations with Adobe, and we say the next version of Photoshop should look like a free-to-play game, and they say, 'We have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, but it sounds really bad,'" Newell said.

Valve predicts the future of computing mechanics lies within wearable computing in a post-touch world. It has so far built a $70,000 wearable rig that overlays information on physical objects, and Newell thinks "we will have bands on our wrists, and you'll be doing something with your hands, which are really expressive."

Maybe our hands will do something like hold a real-life, working portal gun. Maybe? Please?

The Carbon Cub Deluxe, new content for Microsoft Flight, is now available on Steam and 25% off until Wednesday, August 1st 10AM PDT!

Explore the exciting world of bush flying and get those hard-to-reach Aerocaches in the Carbon Cub! Cub Crafters' modern, high-performance aircraft reinvents the classic plane using carbon fiber, computer-aided design, and sporting a lightweight 180-hp engine for spectacular performance. Expand your world: This versatile, cargo-capable aircraft allows you to take off and land just about anywhere!

Valve head honcho Gabe Newell stepped away from his desk - or, pushed his desk away from him, since apparently it has wheels so he can maneuver it around the office - to discuss the future of open platforms, Linux and wearable computing at Seattle's Casual Connect conference last night. Newell even weighed in on Windows 8, calling it a "catastrophe," All Things D reported.

"I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space," Newell said. "I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality."

Newell's alternative is Linux, and he hopes to have all 2,500 games on Steam running on Linux as part of a "hedging strategy."

Newell also sees open, free-to-play-inspired platforms as critical to building healthy markets in the future - not just in gaming, but across all of technology. One Steam user in Kansas makes $150,000 a year making hats for TF2, Newell reported, and the same system can be implemented within services such as Photoshop, if only software companies could see its potential.

"That causes us to have conversations with Adobe, and we say the next version of Photoshop should look like a free-to-play game, and they say, 'We have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, but it sounds really bad,'" Newell said.

Valve predicts the future of computing mechanics lies within wearable computing in a post-touch world. It has so far built a $70,000 wearable rig that overlays information on physical objects, and Newell thinks "we will have bands on our wrists, and you'll be doing something with your hands, which are really expressive."

Maybe our hands will do something like hold a real-life, working portal gun. Maybe? Please?