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All right guys, here's the plan: You see that game over there, Payday: The Heist? Well we're gonna boost it. First, we have to get past the 18 layers of invisible infrared lasers that line the hallway leading to the safe room. Concord will be introducing his own beams into the system, so if all goes according to plan, those should be no problem.

After that, Harwell is going to use a complicated system of ropes and pulleys to suspend ... What? What do you mean, "Payday: The Heist is free on Steam until 4 PM Eastern, March 4." Patsy, I spent weeks putting this job together. Fine, you know what? You're all fired.

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GAMEPLAY
- Added Bane!
- Added Co-op matchmaking games versus bots.
- Fixed bug with kill credit when illusions get the kill.
- Charge of Darkness and Wrath of Nature no longer alert the target to attack the caster if the target is far away.
- Fixed Mekansm not healing you if it activated right after you come out of Astral Imprisonment.
- Fixed bug with Astral Imprisonment disappearing from invisible units.
- Fixed Essence Aura triggering on zero cooldown spells (like Ball Lightning).
- Fixed being able to trigger Essence Aura with Toss when there are no valid targets to Toss
- Enabled Outworld Destroyer in Captain's Mode.
- Restored previous Blink double click behavior.
- Fixed Courier Speed Burst canceling Transfer Items.

UI
- Fixed dragging an item from the courier to a hero's inventory not combining an item properly.
- Fixed some audio settings are not saving correctly (speech level, background sound, boostgain).
- Selling items no longer factors into gold-per-minute.
- Added an option to autoselect summoned units and illusions to the game settings.
- Fixed bug with camera jumping up and down when moving the mouse in the minimap while in spectator chase cam.
- Fixed bug with moving the camera and creating selection windows while in spectator chase cam.
- Fixed bug with some heroes having their Ultimate fire when ALT-TAB (or Windows key hit).
- Fixed some game interface settings not saving.
- Fixed bug where having legacy selected at load wasn't disabling the hero, courier, and neutral binds.
- Added specular, texture quality, and render quality to video settings as performance trade-offs
- Various improvements to unit selection/targeting feedback
- Increased maximum number of people in each chat channel.
- Accepting a game invite via Steam will join that person's party.
- Ignore/unignore options now shown for friends in the main menu.

VISUALS
- Added a number of aura effects.
- Fixed Tiny's tree not being properly equipped in his stone grip.
- Fixed an issue where hero movement would stutter on some network connections.

AUDIO
- Added rival death-taunts and other miscellaneous lines to flesh out dialog set for Sand King.

BOTS
- Made bots want to pick up Cheese with the same rules that they use for picking up Aegis and Rapier.
- Improved bot last-hit logic.
- Bots will now deny using the same logic they use for last-hitting.
- Bots now last-hit and deny while farming a lane, just as they do during the laning phase.
- Fixed issues with loadouts of Bane, Kunkka, and Sniper.
- Fixed bugs with bots geting stuck trying to purchase an item, failing to purchase an item, or dumping items on the ground due to a full stash.
- Bots will stop farming just for buyback when they have 1.5x their current buyback cost.
- If a bot's stash is completely full, they are now more likely to pick their stuff up regardless of its value.

This weekend only, save 50% on Saints Row The Third and 75% on Saints Row 2!

Take a tank skydiving, call in a satellite-targeted airstrike on a Mexican wrestling gang, and defend yourself against a highly-trained military force using only a sex toy in the most out- landish gameplay scenarios ever seen, igniting a city-wide war that will set Steelport on fire. Strap it on.

Updates to the Left 4 Dead SDK are now available. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

- Fixed the preview window in modelbrowser.

Pandora Saga: Weapons of Balance is Now Available and Free to Play on Steam!

Pandora Saga's engaging gameplay features mounted combat, an immersive story, and a rich community. Vivid graphics, uplifting music, and exciting adventures lead the player through a vast and challenging world. Main and side quests prepare players for endgame wars and dungeons!

Jump in before March 13th and receive a free Golden Cloak and Beginner's Package!

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Vessel is now available on Steam and is 10% off until March 8th at 10AM Pacific Time!

Living liquid machines have overrun this world of unstoppable progress, and it is the role of their inventor, Arkwright, to stop the chaos they are causing. Vessel is a game about a man with the power to bring ordinary matter to life, and all the consequences that ensue.

Design Dreams, new content for Cities in Motion, is now available on Steam for both Mac and PC!

This expansion brings you five all new vehicles to add to your cities! New vehicles include an all new Tram, Helicopter, Bus, and two new Metros!

Spiral Knights: Operation Crimson Hammer the DLC for Spiral Knights is Now Available on Steam and 33% off until Monday March 5th Noon PST.

Warmaster Seerus is the evil master of munitions within the gremlin's all-powerful Crimson Order. Thought to be the true mastermind behind the Roarmulus Twins and countless other gremlin weapons, he is the Crimson Orders creator and supplier for their diabolical engines of war.

Painkiller: Recurring Evil is now available on Steam and is 20% off until March 7th at 10AM Pacific Time!

Battle never ceases in the realm known as Hell. This time around it's a battle for the freedom of your very soul. Experience the magnificent dark atmosphere of the good (or evil?) Painkiller, the only true oldschool First Person Shooter, tough as nails, without a trace of remorse, without a glimpse of motion blur or other technological makeup. Just Painkiller and nothing else matters!

Additionally, you can grab the Painkiller Complete Pack for 20% off this week and get up to speed with all of the Painkiller action!

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Interested in buying a fancy virtual house? Beyond a handful of new objectives on an island paradise (Gallow's End), that's exactly what you'll get out of the upcoming downloadable content for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, arriving on March 20 to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.

The content claims to add 15% more space to the overall world map in Reckoning as well, and introduces new enemy types, dungeon areas, and loot. More importantly, though, it introduces Gravehal Keep, a fancy new domicile for your fate-less explorer to, presumably, throw garish parties. No pricing was given for the content, but we'd wager a dollar that it'll cost at least $10 when it arrives later this month.

Keep the cash flowin' with the new Saints Row: The Third Bloodsucker Pack. You'll earn respect and get cash bonuses but it doesn't stop there! You also get payments, money drop, and the ability to regain health through your human shields with The Dracula skill.

Take 50% off Assassin's Creed Revelations during this week's Midweek Madness*!

In Assassins Creed Revelations, master assassin Ezio Auditore walks in the footsteps of the legendary mentor Altair, on a journey of discovery and revelation. It is a perilous path one that will take Ezio to Constantinople, the heart of the Ottoman Empire, where a growing army of Templars threatens to destabilize the region.

Additionally, the newest DLC for Revelations, The Lost Archive, is also now available on Steam!

*Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific time.

EA has not been crawling your computer, looking for that one file that you think is hidden really well, but is really just labeled "My Little Pony Season 1," right on your desktop. Hiding in plain sight and all that.

Yesterday some Origin users noticed that a few EA games they'd previously bought through other distributors -- Steam, mostly -- were automatically added to their Origin games list. EA has confirmed that it is testing out a feature to add older games to users' Origin libraries, but that it doesn't snag the games by accessing anyone's computer.

"At no time was any information on your computer accessed, all of this information was obtained directly from our game registration records," a statement from EA reads. Most likely the transfer is made via the email address users register their EA games under, though EA's statement, which you can read in full below, doesn't clarify directly.

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4.02
- Replaced shaders with static graphics for invincible enemies
- Fewer particles on Low settings
- Removed Cascade Event shaders on Low settings
- Performance Graph disabled on new save files
- Further optimisations
- Motion Blur effect only appears on High settings
- Bullet Orbs move faster during Warp speed
- Added appearance counter to Library items
- Fixed a bug that stopped narration on death
- Fixed a Jukebox selection bug
- Added Twitter upload to Score screen

EA's Origin service may know more about your gaming habits than even you realize: Remember Dead Space 2? All the hours you spent on Steam last year, searching for ammo and creeping through alien-infested day care centers, just to finish it and never boot it up again? Even if you don't remember, EA does. Muhahahaha.

EA is able to add games bought on other services, such as Steam, to players' Origin accounts, a forum post on Day One Patch reveals. Many players notice Dead Space 2 and Mass Effect titles popping up in their Origin game lists, even though the titles were bought through Steam. Origin is known to check out the file names on users' computers -- without reading or transmitting any private information back to EA, of course -- and it now uses that power to streamline your EA games lists. In other words, EA is using its power for good. And to better market its own titles.

[Thanks, Matt.]

We have upgraded the Steam integration DLL which fixes an incompatibility issue with the latest version of the Steam client that stopped achievements from unlocking. With this new upgrade, all Blackwell achievements will now unlock properly.

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- Fixed a bug that disabled the volume setting
- Fewer objects on low and medium quality settings
- Typo's have ben fixd
- Removed posting scores to Twitter
- Increased memory efficiency
- Added option to disable the gameover graph to help system performance
- Fixed "Standing in the Swamp of Freaks with a Toad Named Keiran" not displaying on the Options unlock graphic

(Previous update)
- Optional laser sight (enabled by default)
- Mini guides displayed during load screens (enabled by default)
- Data Wipe screen
- Wiped data also erases Ultra Weapon purchases and spendable starbits!
- New displayed score method
- Pause gameplay, press ESC on the keyboard (no controller option, sorry!) to pause and resume
- Fixed a graphic positioning bug with the upgrade highlighter
- Reduced maximum number of firewall enemies
- Ultra weapons added to Classic Mode! Once a stat is maxed out, a one-off, re-purchasable version can be bought. Only usable by Player 1. Each weapon ups difficulty.
- Gas Clouds destruction tidied up (better performance)
- Reduced frequency of unique Hell Mode enemies
- Removed Back Pressure Buildup perk from Hell Mode, Hell Mode now has a base BPB rate better than the perk
- Fixed a bug when using the mouse to leave the upgrade screen would buy a Wing Cannon upgrade
- Added a new original song - Clouds by Mr Pineapple
- Added a new original song - Hiding Amongst the Freaks with a Toad Named Kieran by Tom Engels
- Removed the ability to quit by pressing ESC
- Improved the way resolutions are set
- Increased speed of Boss 4's movements and laser attack movement
- Added a limit to how many Spike Cascade obstacles can be on screen at once
- Added a graphic to early Retro Mode eras to increase visibility
- Darkened star bit collection graphic
- Perk Screen Plus Mode now has a warning indicator
- Added a new attack pattern to Boss 4 for higher difficulty levels
- Shortened length of distortion effects
- Upgrades that are too expensive are less visible than affordable upgrades
- Changed some Retry text
- Naked Mode mode multiplier raised a lot
- Boss Rush mode multiplier raised slightly
- Slowed down overall enemy speeds slightly
- Halved enemy speeds during Warp Speed
- Visit the shop after selecting Replay on Classic Mode and when starting up on that mode
- Decreased chance of Powerup Orb appearing by 50%
- Removed leftover score graphics from Peaceful? Mode
- Added dust trail to Boss warning meteors
- Balanced Remix Mode scoring
- Moved the left option select button 7 pixels right
- Increased visibility of menu highlight transparency by 5 shades
- More stats added to the Super Stats page
- Boss sequence randomised on Boss Rush mode, but will never play the same boss in a row
- Added new attack pattern for Boss 3
- Added new difficulty based formulas to Boss 3
- Pandora Box now affects Star Bit movements too
- Reduced explosion damage on Boss 2
- Added new difficulty based formulas to Boss 2
- Less difficulty based HP on Boss 1
- Boss 3's neck changes colour depending on it's current HP level
- Boss 1 beam changes colour depending on it's current HP level
- Firewall and Bullet Orb events spawn more enemies at once depending on the difficulty level
- Added in control limits
- Fixed a bug where Cascade Events weren't ending on death
- Added a shortcut to the upgrade shop from the main menu
- Fixed a stat issue where boss kills contributed to the number of spawned motherships
- Invincible enemies no longer create particles when attacked
- On higher difficulty levels Enemies move at their normal speed
- Wormhole scoring changed
- Added a PLAY+BACK button to the shop menu
- Fixed a bug where the background colouriser wouldn't show up on other modes after Retro Remix
- Charge beam power halved
- Fixed a bug that caused some new games to get stuck on a message screen
- First time games will always display the Replay and Continue text without the other silly versions
- Altered background graphics to be more like the original Big Sky
- Players can now flip the drill around and shoot in Retro Mode by pressing the right bumper
- Shortened reload times after death
- Fixed a bug to stop narration when player dies in tutorial
- Killing a boss adds 5 to the multiplier amount
- Left bumper is now a shortcut to the Steam screenshot function (in-game only, doesn't work in menus)

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Gameplay:
- Made Kevlar and helmet purchasable separately.
- Made defuse kits buyable.
- Based on pro feedback, fixed grenade spamming from the buyzone by limiting buy of one of each grenade type per round.
Maps:
- Fixed many instances reported in forums of players being able to access areas that should be inaccessible.
- Fixed several issues with transparent walls / other elements.
- Fixed a few instances of incorrect effects associated with materials (sparks on plastic, etc.).
- Fixed some problems with the bomb being able to float in mid-air after being planted.

AI:
- Made bots less prone to getting stuck in certain areas.
- Tuned bot difficulty. They should be initially less deadly now.

UI:
- Made international characters display correctly in the UI.
- Redesigned win panel and made it team-specific.
- Fixed bug that caused player ID chevrons to remain over dead players sometimes.
- Fixed bug that caused player ID chevrons to linger when the pause menu was up.
- Addressed many UI issues that could occur when playing the game in standard definition
- Fixed the screen resize options screen.
- Adjusted the bombsite markers on the radar for some maps to reflect their locations more accurately.
- Fixed issue that sometimes caused death notices to overlap with mini-scoreboard.

Audio:
- Added new music for the front end.
- Added new music for many in-game events.
- Fixed deathcam music playing twice in competitive mode.
- Addressed issue with front end music not stopping when playing via a CONNECT command
- Made some more adjustments to volume level of footsteps on various surfaces.
- Tuned ambience levels for all maps.

- Changed quickmatch to de_train

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Critical Fixes:
+ Fixed plague-related crash.
+ Fixed a crash with the asteroid encounter.
+ Fixed a rare crash bug with interdict missions.
+ Fixed a crash related to building stations that could be caused by
loading older save games.

Other Fixes:
+ Fixed graphical bug where SDB's would not sit in correct slot.
+ Added missing cancel button to treaty request dialog.
+ Fixed an issue where armor display would not update correctly when
switching designs in the design screen.
+ Fixed a couple of lingering missing localized text.
+ Fixed Hiver and Liir Deep Scan bonuses not being applied.
+ Fixed planet scale in the battle manager.
+ Having a population hovering at 50% no longer saps resources from planets.
+ Fixed an issue with slavers no removing their fleets in some cases.
+ Naval stations now include Command Modules in CP calculation.
+ Players may no longer request gates of non-Hiver players.
+ Fleet positions set in the battle manager no longer carry over to
other star systems.
+ Fixed a potential issue where the AI could go bankrupt early in the game.

Other Changes:
+ Stations are now labelled in the battle manager.
+ Added confirmation for leaving build screen without committing a
pending order.
+ Abandoned colonies no longer remove science and naval stations.
+ Hooked up sounds to cancel mission events.
+ Added Pathfinder and Livingstone admiral traits.

Known Issues:
- Deep Scan designs from older saves may not work correctly when loaded into newer versions of the game.
- Drone variants have been added, but thier behaviour has not.

The update 2.0 of X3: Albion Prelude has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

New Features and Improvements:
- New mini-plot: The HUB
- New mini-plot: Player HQ and UFJD
- New ships
- New graphs
- Added option to disable war reports
- Megalodon and Xenon I rebalanced and adjusted
- Introduced setup time for new lasertowers
- Made USC Baldric Miner available for purchase
- New sector music tracks in certain sectors
- Prevent purging all marines, so theres always some available
- Improved UI handling of typing repeated letters in text fields
- Improved graph axis display to use round numbers where possible
- Added minimum notoriety requirement for buying Lasertowers.
- Added achievements for new mini-plots
- Added war missions to stats export

Fixes:
- Fixed Major Miner achievement
- Fixed more cases of stuck comms windows
- Fixed formatting of numbers in certain cases
- Fixed issues with missing voice when loading saved game in a different language
- Fixed attacked signal for Sector/Universe Trader
- Fixed weapon switching when going out of sector
- Fixed menu display for Defend Sector command
- Fixed RRF stopping ship commands when it shouldn't
- Fixed emergency jump and 100% shield recharge for RRF ships.

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Really Big Sky is Now Available on Steam and 10% off until Friday March 2nd at 10AM PST.

REALLY BIG SKY! A super fast, twin analogue shooter for the modern age!

Way over in the big void of space live some aliens. They coveted [your planet] and would do anything to live there themselves. So what's [your planet] to do? Yeah, blast through them all! Face off against waves of enemies, bosses, big laser planets, blackholes, wormholes, giant lasers, planets and asteroids across 11 game modes!

So you've been abroad for the past few years, backpacking across Europe or whatever it is you were doing -- we didn't want to ask. It's none of our business what you were up to, but now that you're back, maybe you want to dust off your keyboard, boot up your PC and see what you've missed?

If you're a Serious Sam fan you've missed quite a few games. As if celebrating your return, Steam is offering a Serious Sam bundle on sale. It collects eight different games for $28.90. These include the classic Serious Sam games and their HD remakes, the sequels Serious Sam 2 and Serious Sam 3: BFE, and the Mommy's Best Games indie effort, Serious Sam Double D. Once this deal expires on February 27, the bundle cost $84.99.

Accompanying the sale is a nice retrospective video that looks back at the iconic PC series, which you can watch above this chunk of text. Convenient.