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All Platforms
- Changed top level Steam navigation to highlight both You and the Steam Community
- Added new Community Home page which shows the most popular content across all games
- Improved handling of international characters in text entry fields
- Improved web proxy detection logic
- Fixed Steam UI glitches when navigating to a new page and quickly pressing the Stop button
- Fixed an issue where Back/Forward on web pages would forget the scroll position
- Fixed issues preventing some Counter-Strike owners from joining the Counter-Strike Beta
- Fixed issues relating to converting Counter-Strike to the new content download system
- Fixed problems with the web page load indicator
- Added automatic repair capabilities for critical Steam files, no internet connection required
- Fixed cases where Steam could get stuck in offline mode and be unable to launch
- Fixed a crash that could occur when cancelling a client update or repair operation
- Removed an error message that appeared when cancelling the client update process
- Fixed a problem with re-installing Half Life 1 after uninstalling related game mods
- Fixed an issue that prevented users from claiming games bundled with special hardware promotions

Windows
- Added an error message when unable to launch due to an inaccessible folder name
- Fixed downloading video driver updates
- Improved reliability of client updates when interrupted by system reboot or power loss

Linux
- Fixed an issue where Steam was briefly unresponsive while uploading error reports
- Fixed Big Picture Mode window losing focus after a game quits
- Suppressed the new driver popup when running in Big Picture Mode
- Updated runtime with the final SDL 2.0 ABI

Monster Loves You! is Now Available on Steam and to celebrate is 10% off*1

Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Monsters and Humans have been at odds for centuries, and there are Human villages on the other side of the enchanted woods. When Human children get lost in those dark and winding thickets, do you terrorize them for fun (+1 Ferocity)? Do you help return them to Human civilization to prove that not all Monsters are to be feared and hated (+1 Kindness)? Or do you fatten them up for Human foie gras — a Monster delicacy? All this, to the backdrop of increasing tensions between Monster- and Humankind

*Offer ends March 25th at 10AM Pacific Time.

Cart Life is Now Available on Steam and is 30% off!

Cart Life is a retail simulation for Windows which showcases the lives of street vendors in a small city which is located in the Western United States.
Each of the playable characters has specific goals and special traits, but also unique addictions which the player must accomodate in order to succeed within the game.
Permits are required, but get expensive. Is it worth risking a fine to operate without one?
The player also needs to accommodate their customers by paying attention to differing tastes, buying habits, and levels of patience.
Most customers will tip well when their order is filled quickly and accurately, so do your best!
Work Harder, Hard Worker.

*Offer ends March 29th at 10AM Pacific Time

A Windows version of Polytron's infinite puzzle dimension portal Fez will be released on May 1, as revealed by the game's new Steam page. Like the XBLA version, it's listed as developed by Polytron and published by Trapdoor.

The Steam page does not show any new features, but at the very least it'll be easier to take screenshots of all the beautiful things you'll see, and, for the sake of your own sanity, the occasional screenshot of a glyph you hope to translate later. Patches should be easier too.

If you'd like to start the fun before the release of the game, you can ask creator Phil Fish anything on Reddit right now.

Today's Deal: Save 66% on Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity!

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Save up to 75% on this week's Week Long Deals on Steam, available now until March 25th at 10AM Pacific time!

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow may swing onto PCs, given its appearance in Steam's registry. As spotted by NeoGAF, the entry's full name is "Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Early Access Comp," with no '2' in sight - the upcoming sequel was announced last August as coming to PC as well as PS3 and Xbox 360.
When a series comes to new platforms we tend to see previous entries follow suit, so it would make sense to whip up a PC version of MercurySteam's reboot. Our only ask is publisher Konami somehow infuses the PC port with even more Patrick Stewart, because you can never, ever have enough Patrick Stewart.

Incredipede is Now Available for both PC and Mac and is 33% off*!

This game was picked with help from the Steam Community. To vote for other games youd like to see made available on Steam, please visit Steam Greenlight.

Incredipede is a puzzle game that celebrates the vast diversity of life in the world. The game follows Quozzle, a lone Incredipede on a quest to rescue her sisters. She has a unique ability to grow new arms and legs wherever she needs them, transforming into a snake, a spider, a horse, a monkey - anything you can imagine. You can give her antlers or a tail, use nature as a blueprint or strike out in weird new directions. Control Quozzle as she learns to swing through the trees, climb sheer cliffs, dance over rivers of lava, and even soar through the air on thermal winds.

*Offer ends March 29th, 2013 at 10AM Pacific time.

Incredipede hits Steam for PC and Mac on Monday with a sale that knocks $5 off the final price, bringing that bad mama down to $10.

Steam's Incredipede is what developer Colin Northway calls version 1.5, since it adds a plethora of new features: 60 new levels in "normal" difficulty, two new muscles controlled with the right hand (think QWOP with creatures), and real-world achievements that ask players to go outside and play with bugs. Yes, outside.

Incredipede launched via Northway's site on October 25, and while many players enjoyed its wood-cut art style, the gameplay offered a special kind of challenge; the 60 new levels are designed to make the game more accessible. Incredipede has traveled a long, convoluted path to Steam, after Northway initially found fault in Greenlight. Incredipede was later nominated for an IGF award for Excellence in Visual Art, throwing the game on the fast track to Steam distribution. Delve into the details of Incredipede's journey in our recent interview.

Day 4 of the Ubisoft Publisher Weekend has kicked off today. The Daily Deal for today is the Assassin's Creed Franchise at 50% to 75% off!

During the weekend, titles in the *Ubisoft catalog are on sale for 35% to 50% off. Plus, check out the Ubisoft Collector Pack, which contains a selection of Ubisoft's greatest hits!

*Some titles not discounted.

Today's Deal: Save 75% on Killing Floor!

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Day 3 of the Ubisoft Publisher Weekend has kicked off today. The Daily Deal for today is Far Cry 3 at 40% off and Far Cry 1 and 2 at 75% off! Be sure to check back each day for new deals.

During the weekend, titles in the *Ubisoft catalog are on sale for 35% to 50% off. Plus, check out the Ubisoft Collector Pack, which contains a selection of Ubisoft's greatest hits!

*Some titles not discounted.

Today's Deal: Save 50% on Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning™!

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GameMaker: Studio Linux, an all new exporter for GameMaker: Studio Professional is Now Available on Steam!

GameMaker: Studio now supports publishing to Linux for the first time, with GameMaker: Studio Ubuntu Export.

As the worlds third most popular desktop operating system, Ubuntu reaches 20 million users around the globe, providing a new marketplace for the GameMaker development community to distribute and monetize games.

With GameMaker: Studio Ubuntu Export it couldn't be easier to publish games to the Ubuntu Software Center and take advantage of this opportunity to reach a new audience. Developers can simply export their newly created and pre-existing games as an Ubuntu Software Center-ready application, all from the one code base and all at the touch of a button.

Left 4 Dead 2 Workshop Manager
- Updated scheme
- Added new tags
- New field for change notes when editing existing workshop items

This spring, Left 4 Dead 2 characters, including the survivors and the Witch and Mini Tank infected, will make their way into Resident Evil 6's The Mercenaries No Mercy mode, while enemies from RE6 (Lepotitsa, Napad, and Ogroman) will appear in Left 4 Dead 2.

RE6 owners will get to play the new content in that game starting April 5, while the L4D2 update will arrive in a more Valve Time-compliant "spring" release window. Both crossovers will be free to download for owners of either game.

There, now the stuff with the Xi3 computer is no longer the most baffling news to come out of Valve in the last month.

Day 2 of the Ubisoft Publisher Weekend has kicked off today. The Daily Deal for today is Rayman Origins and I Am Alive at 66% off and From Dust at 75% off! Be sure to check back each day for new deals.

During the weekend, titles in the *Ubisoft catalog are on sale for 35% to 50% off. Plus, check out the Ubisoft Collector Pack, which contains a selection of Ubisoft's greatest hits!

*Some titles not discounted.

Today's Deal: Save 75% on Train Simulator 2013 !

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Fractured Soul, the delightfully difficult 3DS action game, will soon be available on single screens. Developer Endgame Studios has submitted a PC, Mac, and Linux version to Steam Greenlight, with additions like an optional easy mode, more advanced timers for speedrunning, and video export.

Lacking two discrete screens, Fractured Soul's Steam version uses an unusually skewed splitscreen. It's an interesting effect visible in the above trailer.

1.0.2.0
New Additions
- Two new monsters
- Five new recipes
- Four new items
- Two new weapons

Critical Fixes
- Fixed Shrinking Inventory / Dropped Item crash
- Fixed Projectile crash
- Fixed equipping/dropped armor crash

Other Fixes
- Fixed various outlying issues
- Greek letters on key-card doors no longer display when door destroyed
- Characters wearing self-contained armor or who are immune to radiation no longer affected when in an irradiated room
- Play Again remembers Difficulty setting
- Fixed Hero SotSwich achievement unlocking prematurely

Other changes
- Added reload value to weapon stats
- Irradiated rooms now show effect for visual warning
- Tweaks to auto-save to make it more robust
- Three auto-save slots, one for each character class (meaning you can now have three different games on the go , one for each character)
- Added mouse targeting for weapons
- Increased force field belt duration
- Added access to SotSDex in main menu
- Decrypted recipes messages now unlock recipes in SotSDex automatically

- Added region for South Africa.

GAMEPLAY
- Clinkz: Fixed Death Pact healing Clinkz under Ice Blast debuff.
- Gyrocopter: Fixed Flak Cannon killing couriers
- Sniper: Fixed Headshot not working on units like Spirit Bear, Warlock's Golem, etc.
- Sniper: Fixed Shrapnel doing slightly less damage than intended to towers.
- Sniper: Fixed Headshot's physical damage bonus being blocked by Magic Immunity.
- Spectre: Added a short grace period to walking off the Spectral Dagger path before collision is restored
- Spiritbreaker: Fixed Magic Immune units being ignored by the AOE greater bash procs from Charge of Darkness and Scepter Nether Strike.
- Tusk: Fixed some cases where Ice Shards could get units stuck
- Wisp: Fixed Tether sometimes ending prematurely if Relocate was cast before Tether.
- Wisp: Fixed Relocating units sometimes walking away to do a previous behavior.
- Fixed Roshan's aoe Slam damage type being physical rather than magical (and thus hurting Familiars).
- Fixed creeps and neutrals sometimes not responding to long range spells.
- Fixed Blink Dagger self-cast to work consistently.
- Visage: Fixed a number of incorrect spell interactions with Familiars.
- Fixed Cheese not having a cooldown
- Fixed Cheese not stacking in inventory
- Enabled Timbersaw in Captain's Mode in Latest Version (Tournament Version next week)
- Local games are no longer automatically unpaused.

AUDIO
- Added sound effects to the Dashboard.
- Added sound effects for various Tiny deaths.
- Updated Mjollnir sound effect.
- Updated Maelstrom sound effect.

UI
- Items held by the courier are now included in a player's Net Worth.
- Fixed the sorting of Teams List under the Community tab.
- Fixed courier and ward previewing in the backpack.
- Fixed the scrollbar being hidden when a schedule had a full page of tournaments in a single month.
- Live games list now displays the game mode.
- Fiery Soul of the Slayer's custom minimap icon only draws for the player that owns the item.
- Re-positioned end game survey to not block the chat.
- Teams that haven't played a team matchmaking game in the last 7 days will now show up as being "inactive" in WebAPI calls.
- Improved performance of chat channels in the Dashboard.

VISUALS
- Revised overhead Soul Assumption indicator.
- Fixed Smoke of Deceit AOE visual effect showing for enemies if the caster is hidden
- Added in-game models for when the following items are dropped from inventory into the world: Divine Rapier, Healing Salve, Clarity, Dust of Appearance, Bottle, and Bootes of Speed

BOTS
- Added Lion bot.
- Added Omniknight bot.
- Made a number of adjustments to loadouts and builds based on community feedback.
- Bots now know how to use Rod of Atos, Tranquil Boots, Abyssal Blade, Heaven's Halberd, and Veil of Dischord.
- Bots will no longer go to the Side Shop with a full inventory if they aren't willing to sell anything.
- Generic summoned units (Necro units, Illusions, etc) now have basic bot AIs, so they can act independently from their owner.
- Fixed bots interrupting their teleports.
- Bots will be less aggressive when they have stacks of Sticky Napalm on them.
- Bots will now only use Refresher Orb if they want to cast big ticket abilities.
- Fixed Witch Doctor bot spam-toggling Voodoo Restoration when he simply wanted to activate it.
- Witch Doctor is less likely to use Death Ward on units that are about to die anyways.
- Bots now establish their lanes at 0:15 (changed from 0:30), which makes jungling the initial creep spawn eaiser without confusing them about what lane you're in.
- Bots will no longer go for runes that may or may not be there if it's been a while since their spawn time.
- When there are no wards up, bots are now smarter about only warding the closer rune location.

WORKSHOP
- Added general support for importing any Ability/Spell related model. Currently just supporting Beastmaster Boars.
- Reworked the "View My Submissions" page to better handle a large number of submissions (sorting/pagination/bug fixes)
- Fixed submission preview images not being set correctly.
- Fixed a bug where updating an existing submission could set incorrect tags on the submission.
- Disabled the Workshop in the Test client to prevent confusion.

Today we released second major update for Miner Wars 2081:
- Full game and engine (VRAGE) source code released for easy modding
(360,000 lines of code) - available at our GitHub repository:
https://github.com/KeenSoftwareHouse/Miner-Wars-2081
- Rendering engine has been rewritten from XNA to DirectX (better stability and performance, no more alt-tab crashes)
- Cooperative game saves inventory even for a non-host player (visitor)
- Normal and easy difficulty got a bit easier, hard difficulty got a bit harder
- Czech language localization

Version 1.0.5491 changes:
- Reduced network traffic for all cooperative and multiplayer modes
- Reduced memory footprint after switching levels
- Added new MOBA map: Transit
- Added Multiplayer announcements for MOBA, Domination and multi-kills
- Added level scan progress to message log window
- Added Domination and Team Deathmatch support to some Deathmatch levels
- Improved dedicated server, including auto restart feature
- Improved placement of corruption in some campaign levels
- Improved joystick support
- Improved readability of control binding screen
- Improved 3DVision passive stereographic rendering (currently best with Low lighting detail)
- Replaced MOBA creeps with switching bots
- Fixed missing weapon after re-loading levels on which the weapon was acquired
- Fixed Steamworks achievements not being uploaded
- Fixed tutorials showing only default keyboard controls
- Fixed co-op spawning times lasting too long during extended engagements
- Fixed some co-op spawn points inside objects
- Fixed smoke bomb allowing many smoke screens and reducing performance

Stealth Bastard Deluxe - The Teleporter Chambers, all new content for Stealth Bastard Deluxe is Now Available on Steam.

This Stealth Bastard Deluxe level pack contains 20 brand new levels that will test your prowess with teleporters. These handheld devices can be placed on any surface to create warp points, helping you to evade the cameras steely glare. But watch out the enemies in these levels are wise to your game, and theyll be doing everything in their power to snuff out your precious little life…

Save 60% on the award-winning Little Inferno as part of this week's Weekend Deal!

Burn flaming logs, screaming robots, credit cards, batteries, exploding fish, unstable nuclear devices, and tiny galaxies. An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall.

Play Ace of Spades for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also pickup Ace of Spades at 50% off the regular price!

Say hello to the creative shooter. Ace of Spades is the first-person shooter that lets you create your battleground, destroy it, then create it again. Up to 32 players choose from 4 unique classes and jump into team-based, multiplayer mayhem across an endlessly evolving battlefield, to construct, destruct and take out the opposition. Its like war, only better.

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

Today's Deal: Save 50% on Miner Wars 2081!

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Day 1 of the Ubisoft Publisher Weekend has kicked off today. The Daily Deal for today is the Anno 2070 series at 60% to 66% off! Be sure to check back each day for new deals.

During the weekend, titles in the *Ubisoft catalog are on sale for 35% to 50% off. Plus, check out the Ubisoft Collector Pack, which contains a selection of Ubisoft's greatest hits!

*Some titles not discounted.

This is kind of cool. When Gabe Newell accepted his BAFTA fellowship last week, he crowd-sourced his speech in the Valve offices. All he received was sarcastic responses, which he then told to the audience. He was then interviewed backstage, and without the yoke of his cruel workmates he dropped a few amazing stats. The first one is that Valve’s business grew massively in the last year, by about 50%. I’ll bet it’s mostly Dota 2 related. And it’s an easy way to put paid to the notion that Valve’s recent lay-offs might be because of financial trouble. That was never going to be the case, but now it’s unfathomable. The other one is actually more impressive, and I’ll tell you that and include the video below. You’ll never guess.(more…)

Incredipede was one of last year’s most delightful surprises, and you should feel ashamed for not playing it. The grotesquely adorable creature constructor was not, however, without its flaws, and creator Colin Northway has no trouble admitting it. Now, though, Qwozzle’s got her tiny yet mighty sights set on Steam, and she’ll be completing her dogged climb into Newell’s house of wonders (and hopefully apples) on March 18th. But this isn’t the same game the most beautiful and handsome among you played late last year. Among other things, version 1.5 includes an entire new set of less-punishing Normal mode levels, a much more versatile control scheme, and eagles (!!!). After the break, you’ll find a trailer of the new features and levels in action, plus a rather massive chat with Northway and artist Thomas Shahan. So go forth! Peruse!

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