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Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is entering PC airspace early next year in Europe. The 2011 flight combat sim is firing down on retailers and on Steam and Games for Windows Marketplace in Q1 2013, priced at €29.99. Publisher Namco Bandai says the new port has PC-optimized graphics and controls, features "many" of the DLC goodies made available on PS3 and Xbox 360, and grants instant access to additional aircrafts, aircraft skins, skills, and maps. We've reached out to Namco Bandai to confirm a North American release.

Assault Horizon is also docking on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Games on Demand this year, tomorrow (Nov. 28) and December 18 respectively in Europe, and comes to North America's PSN via today's update. Stand-alone versions on both platforms cost €19.99, but PSN also gets an 'Advanced Edition' which bundles in Tokyo and Honolulu maps as well as a fleet of extra aircraft, including the ASF-X Shinden II, F-15S/MTD, Su-37 Terminator, AV-8B Harrier II plus, CFA-44 Nosferatu , and Ka-50 Hokum. The Advanced Edition jets in at €29.99.

District 187: Sin Streets is now on Steam and is Free to Play!

District 187: Sin Streets features cut-throat, urbanized warfare in a player vs. player environment. Game play pits vigilante SWAT agents against ruthless gang members. The battle for this city has reached a boiling point and only you can make the difference!

In case the mobile version of Super Hexagon has left you with a criminally short attention span, we'd like to remind everyone that the PC and Mac version of Terry Cavanagh's brutally challenging game is now available on Steam.

It's currently on sale for two measly dollars, a full dollar off the usual price of three measly dollars. Or, if you really hate your friends, you can snag a two-pack for $3.34, saving a buck and change on the usual price of $4.99.

The Steam Autumn Sale has come to a close, but there are a few Daily Deals that are still available!

Yesterday's Daily Deals Include:

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
  
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  
• The Alan Wake series
  
• Castle Crashers
  
• Legend of Grimrock
  
• The Witcher 2
  

*Offers end Wednesday at 10AM Pacific Time.

Today's Deal: Save 75% on SpellForce 2: Faith in Destiny!

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

Three new songs are Now Available for Rocksmith!

Play "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)" by Parliament, "Super Freak" by Rick James, and "Good Times" by Chic!

Super Hexagon is now available on Steam and is 33% off*!

Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.

"This is the kind of game youre going to pass off to your friends and say, 'Youve gotta check this out.' Its dangerously addictive." 9/10 - IGN

*Offer ends December 4th at 10AM Pacific Time

Updates to X3: Terran Conflict (3.2c) and X3: Albion Prelude (2.5.2) have been released.

In both games, Chinese localization files have been updated. Localized achievements are now available for Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

The update 2.5.2 for X3: Albion Prelude also includes the following changes:
• Added full voice support for Russian language
• Fixed issue where many replacement fighters would spawn at shipyards (existing fighters are removed)
• Fixed issue where captured or boarded ships from war sectors may be removed later
• Fixed duration of subtitles and displayed hints in several languages
• Fixed minor user interface issues

DOOM 3 BFG: Patch Release Notes
NEW FEATURES
• All projectiles cast shadows
• Texture LOD bias added to menu options
• Added option to force v-sync (instead of smart v-sync)
• Adjusted default brightness value
• Shadow casting projectiles added to menu options
• Allow setting anti-aliasing up to 16x on Nvidia hardware. AMD/Intel cap is at 8x
• Adjusted range of vertical sensitivity (allows you to lower sensitivity further than original implementation)
• Added option to disable checkpoints
• Allow left/right to enter resolution menu
• Variable FOV settings options were added into the main menu
• Added controller bind options
• Added additional anti-cheat measures
BUG FIXES
• Fixed blood splatter effects break after reloading save game
• Fixed broken view nodal code that allowed players to see through the world by backing into a wall and looking up
• Fixed weapon impact effects break after using the artifact (heart)
• Fixed leaderboards to work across languages

Steam captured 6,046,207 people signed in at one time yesterday, setting a record for the service. Looks like those Steam sales are working for someone.

In January, Steam reported a concurrent-user high of 5 million during the 2011 Holiday Sale, along with more than 40 million accounts. Today, Steam has an excess of 50 million registered users and more than 2,000 games for them to play.

And, at least for now, some of those games are super cheap. Don't think of the Steam sales as blatant, bold ploys for your user numbers; just think of them as win-win situations.

This is it, folks, the last day of Steam's dangerously tempting Autumn Sale. The final sales include both Alan Wake games with extras for $9.99, The Legend of Grimrock for $3.74, The Witcher 2 or Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for $7.49 and Castle Crashers for $5. There will also be new Flash Sales throughout the day.

As of this writing, you can still pick up yesterday's deals for another 23 hours, and Flash Sales are going on for Tropico 4, the Grand Theft Auto 4, Killing Floor and more. You can also snag some cheap indie games, including Zeno Clash for $0.99, Sword & Sworcery for $3.19, Closure for $4.99, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams for $8.99 and more.

The Steam Autumn Sale continues with next round of Daily Deals and ongoing Flash Sales.

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
  
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
  
• the Alan Wake series
  
• Castle Crashers
  
• Legend of Grimrock
  
• The Witcher 2
  

Please note that new Flash Sales will start throughout the day.

Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

- Added a script that offers to automatically install libpci.3 on linux if it is missing.
- Fixed graphics corruption under OpenGL if game is minimized or "alt-tabbed" while it is loading content.
- Fixed screen-shot grabbing and manual save-game thumbnails not working under OpenGL.
- OpenGL library can now load even if some vendor dependent functions are missing.
- X11 libraries on Linux are now dynamically loaded, so game can properly report and error if something is missing.
- Dedicated server on Linux no longer requires X11 to be installed.
- Fixed problems with filenames of wrong case that happened only with Linux dedicated server.
- Full support for language packs in Workshop. Language mods can now work even in pure (non-moddable) version of the game, and don't require any customization from user side. Just subscribe to them.
- Workshop packages menu is now also available in non-moddable version of application (this allows enabling/disabling of language packs).
- User is now properly notified when Steam Workshop content download fails.
- Fixed issues that might have prevented some user accounts from uploading to Workshop.
- SeriousEditor now displays Steam Workshop sync progress in status bar.
- Upload to Steam Workshop command is no longer available until Steam Workshop sync is finished. Previuously, it locked up the application.
- Fixed an issue causing clients to always see weapon change on HUD at game start.
- Fixed a lockup happening if spectator cameras are linked in a closed loop. This only happened with user-made levels.
- Weapon change attempt is now correctly being indicated on HUD if performed during sprint.
- Fixed popup menus in Serious Editor sometimes going off the bottom of the screen in multimonitor setups.
- Fixed duplicate directory entries being shown in Serious Editor in file browsing for directories inside user-made .gro files.
- Added vertex merge when importing fbx meshes.
- Added facilities in Serious Editor to automate editing on entities from console scripts.
- Added cfuncs edtGetMemberValue(strUserDataPath) and edtSetMemberValue(strUserDataPath, value) used to change entity properties.
- Added cfunc edtSelectEntityPropertyByID(iEntityID).

#steam If ever proof was needed of the strength of PC gaming circa 2012, and in particular the appeal of Valve's Steam service, look no further than this: over the weekend, over six million people were playing PC games on Steam. More »

Jet Set Radio is now available on Steam!

Fight for control of Tokyo-to, mark your turf with graffiti, tag walls, billboards, and even rival gang members! Perform tricks and flips on magnetically driven in-line skates, but watch out for the local police force!

Steam is cranking up the deals for the fifth day of its Autumn Sale, today discounting Dishonored and Torchlight 2 50 percent, for $30 and $10, respectively. The remaining games are each 75 percent off: Civilization 5 ($7.50), Orcs Must Die! 2 ($3.75), Batman Arkham City GOTY ($7.50) and Sonic Generations ($7.50).

Yesterday's deals are still on sale today, for another 23 hours. These still include Borderlands 2 for $30, Deus Ex: Human Revolution for $5 and Mark of the Ninja for $7.50, among others. Indie games on the cheap right now include Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers for $5, Bit.Trip Beat for $4, Home for $1 and Edmund McMillen's Basement Collection for $2.

Of course there are flash sales throughout the day, and boy are those generally hot. They're hot flashes, if you will.

The Steam Autumn Sale continues with next round of Daily Deals and ongoing Flash Sales.

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Dishonored
  
• Sid Meier's Civilization V
  
• Orcs Must Die! 2
  
• Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition
  
• Torchlight II
  
• Sonic Generations
  

Please note that new Flash Sales will start throughout the day.

Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

#piracy Last year, Sports Interactive moved its management simulation/obsession Football Manager over to Steam, citing rampant piracy of the game. At the time, figures the developer cited said for every one person who bought Football Manager 09, four others acquired it illegally. More »

Steam's Autumn Sale, which is running through November 26, continues with big deals today on games such as Skyrim ($29.99), Saints Row: The Third ($9.99) and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron ($29.99). Flash sales for today include Mass Effect 2 ($5.99) and Hotline Miami ($4.99).

The Autumn Sale also features a ton of deals on indie games, such as Limbo ($4.99), Braid ($4.99), Botanicula ($4.99) and Costume Quest ($7.49). Unlike other sales during this promotional period, all indie games included in the Autumn Sale are discounted through November 26.

Other deals on Steam for today include War of the Roses ($14.99), Crysis 2: Maximum Edition ($11.99) and Farming Simulator 2013 ($14.99).

The Steam Autumn Sale continues with next round of Daily Deals and ongoing Flash Sales.

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Borderlands 2
  
• F1 2012
  
• Dues Ex: Human Revolution
  
• Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
  
• Total War: SHOGUN 2
  
• Mark of the Ninja
  

Please note that new Flash Sales will start throughout the day.

Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

The Steam Autumn Sale continues with text round of Daily Deals and ongoing Flash Sales.

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Skyrim
  
• War of the Roses
  
• Saints Row: The Third
  
• Transformers Franchise
  
• Farming Simulator 2013
  
• Crysis Franchise
  

Please note that new Flash Sales will start throughout the day.

Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

The Steam Autumn Sale rolls on with more savings throughout the store!

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• Arma 2 Combined Operations
  
• Max Payne 3
  
• Awesomenauts
  
• Portal Franchise
  
• Sleeping Dogs
  
• Prototype series
  

Remember, new Flash Sales will start throughout the day.

Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.

Hi there Toki Tori fans!!!

It took a while, but today we put a brand new Steam beta online! It's got a huge batch of new content and should play close to final! We're in desperate need of your recordings, so we've basically given you a third of the entire game to play through. Be careful though, since there is a lot of near final content in this build, only play it if you don't want any spoilers!

How to record your session?
To record your playsession, simply press 'R' and press 'Record' before you start playing.

How to submit your session?
To submit your recorded level, press 'Stop' and then 'Show File'. This will open een file dialog. Zip the resulting file and e-mail (tokitori2 [at] twotribes [dota] com) it to us and we are forever grateful!

Thanks!


Two Tribes

Emergency 2012 Patch 2.0

• Multiplayer mode compatible with Emergency 2013
• Re-start mission function available from the Pause menu
• Send units by right-clicking on the mini map
• More information on the crew in the freeplay vehicle selection display
• Increased resolution, less flickering in textures
• Fixed sporadic crashes when loading saved games
• Fixed error in freeplay events looter and demonstration
• Fixed lots of minor bugs

Updates to 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:


Shared Changes (DoD:S, HL2:DM)

• Fixed a client crash when launching the game
  

Day of Defeat: Source

• Fixed the film-grain effect not drawing properly
  

Balance
- Changed combat time-out to 3 seconds (was 1.5) seconds (makes Regeneration and Cloaking less powerful and easy to use).
- Reduced Shade cloaking radius from 20 to 14.
- Re-balanced Crags so they now self-heal, but only give 3% health every 2 seconds (min 10, max 40). (was 5%, min 10, max 50).

Fix
- Fixed error when starting Explore mode.
- Fixed bug where Crags were getting too much health.
- Fixed crash when a render_setup file could not be parsed due to improper formatting.
- Fixed bug where text with multiple lines was not properly printed to the console.
- Fixed bug where the spinner on the loading screen did not display if texture quality was set to medium.

SDK
- Added a second parameter to the callback called from Shared.SendHTTPRequest in the case of an error, which specifies the error message.
- Changed models to use a default material if one wasn't specified in the imported file.

You’d think I would’ve figured this out by now. Every year, Steam hosts one of its wallet-eviscerating sales right around American Thanksgiving (or, as it’s known to many of you, Thursday), yet I consistently fail to budget the necessary amounts of money or time for its incredible bounties. One reason for this might be that it’s impossible. Indeed, it would require setting aside all the money in the world and forever, respectively, and I don’t have either of those things. Alas. But good gravy, these are – as ever – some terrifyingly enticing deals. Can you say Darksiders II for 66 percent off? How about Walking Dead at 50 percent? Anybody want to give me a loan? And, er, immortality?

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Steam's Autumn Sale kicks off today with major discounts on XCOM: Enemy Unknown ($33.50), Magic 2013 ($5), The Walking Dead complete season ($12.50), Darksiders 2 ($17), Terraria ($3.40) and Age of Empires 3 Complete ($10). The Autumn Sale ends November 26.

The Autumn Sale also includes an indie offering, today with World of Goo ($2.50), Lucid ($2.50), QUBE ($3.75), Audiosurf ($2.50), Cave Story ($2.50), Krater ($5) and tons more on sale. Hit up the indie tab for more deals.

Today's flash sales highlight Limbo ($2.50), The Amazing Spider-Man ($25) and Payday: The Heist ($5), among others, all on sale for a matter of minutes and with more to fill in their expired spots.

Yesterday a little birdie told us the Steam Autumn Sale would begin today and run through November 27 (which is now confirmed as November 26), with the Winter Sale scheduled for December 20 - January 4.

#steam Happy Thanksgiving! Time to stuff your turkey with cheap PC games. The Steam Autumn Sale begins right now. More »

The Steam Autumn Sale starts today and lasts through Monday, November 26th, 2012. The Autumn Sale will feature Daily Deals and Flash Sales along with straight discounts.

Today's Daily Deals Include:

• XCOM: Enemy Unknown
  
• Magic: The Gathering
  
• The Walking Dead
  
• Darksiders II
  
• Age of Empires III Complete
  
• Terraria
  

Please note that new Flash Sales will start throughout the day.

Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales and more may be found on www.steampowered.com.