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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has just been updated.

This update includes the following:

- Russian language
- Czech language
- Polish language

to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dawnguard, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Hearthfire, and
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn on Steam.

Primal Carnage - Dinosaur Skin Pack 3, all new content for Primal Carnage is Now Available on Steam.

Expand your prehistoric repertoire with five all new playable dinosaur skins in one handy bundle for Primal Carnage. Display your voracious skills proudly and let the whole world know what a prehistoric monster you truly are in the most glorious of style with:

Blood Horn Carnotaurus
Snakeskin Novaraptor
Shadows Peak Pteranodon
Toxic Jungle Dilophosaurus
Harlequin Tyrannosaurus
Take to the jungles primeval today and wreak your very own unique brand… of Primal Carnage.

DARK is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam and is 15% off!

DARK is a unique stealth-action game with RPG elements in which you take on the role of the ultimate hunter: a vampire. Ambush your enemies from the shadows, roam the darkness and use powerful vampire skills to dispatch your opponents.

The intricate story of DARK will take you into the midst of a world of blood and darkness, where the hunter can easily become prey. Strike down other vampires, improve your character and develop formidable skills such as instantly disappearing from view to take your enemies by surprise.

Strike Suit Zero has launched a New Workshop today on Steam.
In addition Strike Suit Zero - Heroes of the Fleet , all new content for Strike Suit Zero is Now Available on Steam. To celebrate the Strike Suit Mega Bundle is 50% Off!*

Strike Suit Zero Workshop

Adventurous Mod-Makers can now take the Strike Suit Toolset, for a spin...
Use the Strike Suit Toolset to create your own ships, weapons and missions for Strike Suit or break away entirely and make brand new games!

Strike Suit Zero - Heroes of the Fleet DLC

Five battles. Five heroes. The history of the mysterious Black Fleet revealed.

The war is over, but your training is just beginning. Enter the U.N.E. Training simulator and relive five heroic moments from the U.N.E./Colonial War. A new A.I. - Control V2.0 - has been assigned to the simulator and recreated five missions that explore the origins of the Colonial Black Fleet that will push your skills to the limit.

Please be aware that new A.I.'s are prone to malfunction and we cannot be held responsible for the accuracy or safety of the simulations....

*Offer ends May 27th at 10AM Pacific Time

Save up to 75% on new Week Long Deals on Steam, available now until May 27th at 10AM Pacific time!

Today's Deal: Save 50% on March of the Eagles!

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Today's Deal: Save 75% on Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition!

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Today's Deal: Save 75% on Deus Ex: Human Revolution™!

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There are so many videogames! More than I can count with my entire, exceedingly creepy plaster hand collection. Valve tries its darndest to get the best ones on Steam, but they just keep coming. Perhaps throwing the towering Select-O-Tron 9000 and 3/5 into hyperdrive is the answer? Valve’s having a go at it, at least, and so far the result’s been smaller batches of games at an appreciably speedier clip. Last time, that meant three games, but this time it’s six. Hooray, progress! Standouts include the piracy plagued Game Dev Tycoon, Harvest-Moon-meets-Minecraft standout Stardew Valley, and the creatively named RIOT, which is about riots. Details after the break.

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Next week marks the Steam debut of Humble Heart's XBLA darling, Dust: An Elysian Tail. Dean Dodrill, animator and creator of Dust, took to Twitter to announce the May 24 launch date; though there is currently no Steam product page.

Dust: An Elysian Tail is a 2D action platformer in the vein of Metroid and Castlevania, featuring beautiful hand-drawn sprites throughout. Aside from being visually appealing, it's also a delight - a game our review said "doesn't do much to innovate the platform-adventure sub-genre, but it does manage to look and play beautifully throughout, and sometimes that's enough."

The Swapper—the cool-looking sci-fi platformer that’s been in the works for a while—will be coming out for PC via Steam on May 30th. That art style look incredibly creepy/cool.

Now announcing a permanent price drop for Fortix 2.

The former price has been lowered by 80%. Buy Fortix 2 now for only $1.99!

Improvements:
— Turn resolution code has been optimized, resulting in speed improvement during AI turns.
— Better support for scaling interface windows.
— Provinces under AI control will now trigger random events just like the players provinces do.
— Maximum zoom level on strategic map has been increased a little; the camera can be brought even closer to the ground level now.
— AI construction decisions have been improved.

Fixes:
— Fixed an error with the body of a slain hero taking too long to be delivered to stronghold.
— Fixed an error with AI heroes level computation, resulting in AI heroes gaining levels too fast.
— Fixed an error causing the AI to engage into battles with hopeless odds of victory.
— Fixed an error causing the AI to ignore the construction limits, such as constructing 5 first tier military buildings instead of 4.
— Fixed an error causing the AI to overspend on mercenaries.
— Fixed an error in construction window, when clicking to select the Great Temples set of buildings caused selection of the Matter Transmutation set instead.
— Fixed an error with unlocking the Viva la Revolucion! achievement.
— Fixed an error where the unit selected in the garrison window sometimes could not be deselected and dropped from cursor, resulting in the game getting stuck in the garrison window.
— Fixed a misguiding tooltip on a bottom panel button in the citadel interface.
— Fixed a tactical combat interface error with ending turn while a spell is selected.
— Fixed an error with a medal being awarded after winning a shard for conquering every province therein.
— Fixed erroneous display of access conditions for the third foreign quarter building of lizardmen allies.

Bad Bots is Now Available on Steam and is 25% off.

As Sam McRae, last surviving member of the Titan Hauler crew, you must hack and blast your way through an onslaught of truly bad 'bots to find a way to prevent a potential planet-destroying catastrophe. The mystery of what happened to everyone while you were in cryostasis unfolds around you as you wade through the bodies of your fallen shipmates, unloading round after round into your relentless automaton attackers.

*Offer ends May 24th at 10AM Pacific Time.

Hotfix: Unlocking multiplayer maps
Update Anomaly 2 now in order to unlock all multiplayer maps even when playing matches that are not ranked! This update make it easier to gain access to the ELEN'S CHALLENGE - the biggest and most difficult arena in the game!

Today's Deal: Save 50% on Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition!

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Patch 1716:

[Controls] Added possibility to change the keyboard setup in an external file
[Controls] Added default left handed control setup
[Camera] Fixed FoV automatically returning back to 45
[Camera] Improved the out of fight camera
[FX] Fixed rare FX issue with technomancers power on lower configurations
[Graphics] Fixed rare remaining cases where characters could sometime be stuck in the ceiling [Tutorial] Fixed rare cases where a tutorial popup won't close
[Saves] Fixed savegames with UNC path
[Quests] Various quests fixes
[Sound] Added -stereo and -surround command line options to force audio mode selection

If I could clone myself infinitely at will, I’d probably just spend all my time meticulously arranging dramatic horror movie reveal moments with some unsuspecting stranger realizing that everyone in a town is exactly the same. Bartenders, businessmen, old ladies hobbling across the street – you name it. So it’s probably a good thing I didn’t make The Swapper, because we’re instead getting a game of brain/quantum particle entangling puzzles and ruminations on the nature of the human soul courtesy of Penumbra’s Tom Jubert. It looks utterly fascinating, and every in-game object’s apparently handmade. Oh how I long for it, in the same way wannabe dystopian overlords long for soulless clone-based organ farms. Fortunately, the long and short of the situation is that my period of longing will actually be pretty short. Turns out, The Swapper is coming to Steam in just two weeks.

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Rev: 76128

- Updates to Telekinesis gamepad controls: Allow cycling through Telekinesis-enabled objects using shoulder buttons
- Updates to in-game gamepad control screen page & gamepad tooltips, to properly communicate latest control settings
- Updates to in-game control screen page ordering: Show gamepad controls page 1st, keyboard-and-mouse page 2nd
- Updates to customkeys.ini file to provide players with ability to override controls for new Telekinesis focus-cycling commands
- Minor level updates to improve flow when playing with a gamepad (e.g. minor modifications to end-puzzle in level 15)
- Updates to pdf manual gamepad control page

This batch of recently green-lit games looks fantastic, and not just because it includes the game development simulator where piracy battles piracy. Let's take a closer look at the upcoming games that will eventually release on Steam, shall we? Bleed "An action platformer focused on stylist, acrobatic dodging and fluid, challenging gameplay." Game Dev Tycoon "Start your own game development company and replay the history of gaming in this business simulation game. Start your business in a garage in the 80's." Legends of Eisenwald "A unique mix of RPG and strategy set in a realistic medieval world, Legends of Eisenwald combines dynamic campaigns with fast-paced, yet strategic, turn-based combat." The Legend "'The Legend'" is here to leave you afraid of the dark for the entirety of your life." (A tall order!) RIOT "As the economical crisis advances, the discontent of an entire population cannot help but outburst in Riots, where the sounds of many voices get heard at once." Stardew Valley "Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-like RPG with support up to 4-player co-op!" I think I'm looking forward to Stardew Valley and RIOT the most, what about you?

The Swapper - the Indie Fund-ed, clay model-animated, puzzle platformer put together by a few Finnish university students - has been set to hit Steam on May 30. The game has a lone space explorer wandering an alien cave, with a "weapon" that allows him to create clones of himself to solve puzzles and move around.

Facepalm has released a brand new trailer showing that gameplay and the title's excellent graphics, which were created by animating photos of actual clay. The initial release will be for PC, with Mac and Linux coming later, and "maybe something else" after that.

Steam revealed today that Game Dev Tycoon, Bleed and other standout titles are featured in the latest batch of games to earn community approval and platform distribution rights through Steam Greenlight.

Green Heart Games' simulation title Game Dev Tycoon earned a devoted following upon its release last month for its clever in-game approach to anti-piracy protection. Bootdisk Revolution's Bleed, a one-man effort that premiered for Windows and the Xbox Live Indie Games service late last year, combines frantically paced platforming with time-bending, quadruple-jumping gameplay mechanics.

Other games to pass through the latest round of Greenlight approvals include ConcernedApe's open-ended RPG Stardew Valley, The Leonard's "playable documentary" Riot, AustinHand's survival horror title The Legend, and Aterdux Entertainment's Kickstarted strategy-RPG Legends of Eisenwald.

"Hear ye, hear ye," the Newellville town crier bellowed out across the crowded, bustling market. "It is by royal decree, that for the 24 hours proceeding forthwith, respectable denizens of His Highness' Great Sovereign Nation of Valve may acquire the first two entries in the Mass Effect series of merrymaking programmes for $9.99."

"Ad interim," the crier continued, "patrons may avail themselves of substantial discounts on select digital comestibles found within the Royal Steam Marketplace, making it possible to obtain a single issuance of Borderlands 2 for $13.59, or four for $40.79, until May 20. In addition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will be free for interested parties through 1 p.m. Pacific Time on Sunday. Should customers enjoy the experience, a 50 percent abatement will be applied to the purchase price."

Rising Storm is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam and is 15% off!

Pre-Purchase and receive access to the beta! Plus, save 25% if you own Red Orchestra 2!

Rising Storm is the next game in the award-winning Red Orchestra franchise. Rising Storm goes to the Pacific Theater, adding more features, new levels, new weapons and new factions. The game will allow the player to fight across iconic locations from the famous island-hopping campaigns in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, as the US Army and Marine Corps fight it out with the Imperial Japanese army and Special Naval Landing Forces. Players will experience beach assaults, jungle fighting, close quarters night fighting and more across Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Saipan, among other iconic battles. The player is able to take the part of either side American or Japanese battling it out online in multiplayer on up to 64-player servers.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Uprising, all new content for Call of Duty: Black Ops II is Now Available on Steam!

A new era in warfare continues. Call of Duty: Black Ops II Uprising, the latest downloadable content pack, includes four incredibly diverse Multiplayer Maps, including the return of a re-imagined Multiplayer classic: Magma, Encore, Vertigo and Studio.

Anchoring the second map pack is Mob of the Dead, Treyarchs most terrifying Zombies experience to date. Top Hollywood talent rounds out a cast of four Prohibition-era gangsters each with a unique set of skills that are forced to fend off hordes of the undead while imprisoned on San Franciscos notorious Alcatraz Island. While guard towers and new weapons offer tactical advantages, survival offers an unprecedented new challenge for these four lost souls.

Play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also pickup Counter-Strike: Global Offensive at 50% off the regular price*

CS: GO features new maps, characters, and weapons and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust, etc.). In addition, CS: GO will introduce new gameplay modes, matchmaking, leader boards, and more.

*Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time

Today's Deal: Save 75% on the Mass Effect Collection!

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War For The Overworld is Now Available on Steam

War for the Overworld is a Dungeon Management Game that employs your favourite aspects of the RPG, RTS and god game genres.
Control a malevolent Underlord with unrivaled dark power and an insatiable desire for bloody conquest.
Join the Early Access Bedrock Beta today!

A hotfix update has been released for X3: Albion Prelude 3.0, which fixes a crash that some users experienced after loading certain savegames.

There is a line, I think, between metagame-y stuff and full-on gamification, and I’m beginning to worry that Valve might have crossed it. Admittedly, Steam sales have tasked players with accomplishing special goals to earn tangible rewards for ages, but now all of Steam is doing it. Today, Valve introduced the beta for Steam Trading Cards, which can be earned and crafted into badges. Why are badges important? Because this: “Unlike the current badges, crafting games badges earns you marketable items like emoticons, profile backgrounds, and coupons. Level up your badge by collecting the set again and earning more items.” Oh, you can level up now, too. Your whole profile. I guess it’s cool that we’re getting something of worth out of it, but remember when the point of gaming was, well, the games?

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