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Kick off the weekend by playing Tropico 4 for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time.

You can also pickup Tropico 4 and DLC this weekend only at 25%-66% off the regular price! Sale ends Monday, May 7th at 10AM Pacific Time.

If you already have Steam installed, click here to install or play Tropico 4. If you don't have Steam, you can download it here.

Dynamite Jack is Now Available on Steam and 20% off until Friday, May 17th 10AM PST.

Dynamite Jack must blast his way to freedom! Jack, a brave space marine, armed with only bombs and a flashlight, must escape the Anathema Mines! Use stealth to sneak past guards and bombs to obliterate enemies in this intense top-down action-adventure.

Today's Deal: Save 50% off Bunch of Heroes!

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The 1 Machine and The Hearse DLC is Now Available on Steam!

The machine that started the legacy & a gloomy hearse.

This weekend only, save 80% on Company of Heroes games!

Lead your squad in the thrilling real-time strategy Company of Heroes titles, which bring the sacrifice of heroic soldiers, war-ravaged environments, and dynamic battlefields to life.

Discount ends Monday 10am Pacific Time.

#rumor A GameStop source has told Kotaku that, given the relative failure of the company's push into online PC sales via its purchase of Impulse, it's now trying something a little more practical. Namely, selling Steam vouchers in its bricks-and-mortar stores. More »

(Build 154741)
- Middle mouse button didn't work on OSX. Fixed.
- Mouse wheel didn't work properly on OSX. Fixed.
- Fixed wrong calculations of tangent space for plane-mappings in vertex shaders.
- Fixed problem with black screen on Mac systems with ATI GPUs and OS X Snow Leopard.

An update to the Source SDK has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

- Fixed faceposer crash in Source Multiplayer
- Added Maya 2012 support
- Updated Maya launch scripts and configs
- Added itemtest.com which is a command line driven non-gui version of itemtest for batch processing of items

Today's Deal: Save 75% off Wolfenstein 3-D!

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The Dream Machine, the award-winning point-and-click adventure from Cockroach Inc., is hitting Steam on Friday, May 11. To celebrate, Cockroach has unleashed the above trailer, which shows off The Dream Machine's cardboard and clay art style, while hinting at the dark secrets buried deep within the game's conscious plot.

The Dream Machine has been nominated for IGF, Indiecade, and Indie Game Challenge awards, and has won Into the Pixel and indiePub contests. If you can't wait for the Steam launch or want to give the game a go, chapters one through three are available now via its main site, and all five planned chapters are available for purchase from the same place. Chapters four and five are expected to drop "as soon as they're done," which Cockroach almost-clarifies as being "in a slew of months."

Like one of those headless-yet-somehow-screaming dudes popping out of nowhere, Croteam has managed to surprise us with a DLC announcement today. Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter will receive the Legend of the Beast DLC pack on May 15, extending the campaign and multiplayer experiences. The Legend of the Beast costs $4.99 and adds three new campaign missions, along with three new maps each for Brutal Survivor mode and Chaotic Versus mode. And again (weirdly), this is DLC for Serious Sam's second HD game, not the most recent Serious Sam 3.

In addition to the DLC, all Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter's multiplayer modes - which include both co-operative and competitive-based modes - will be free for all through Steam on May 15. All you have to do is download the free, standalone multiplayer on or after May 15 and you're good to go.

Everyone, hold onto your hats. I have some shocking and unbelievable news for you, and they may use your brief window of vulnerability as a chance to escape. So, remember when Alan Wake’s American Nightmare not-so-silently planted its flag of star-spangled terror in Steam’s registry? Turns out, that wasn’t just some incredibly unlikely fluke that had to pass across the desks of many intelligent people! It is, in fact, coming to PC – on May 22 no less. This has probably never happened.

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Save 50% on Alan Wake during this week's Midweek Madness!

When the wife of the best-selling writer Alan Wake disappears on their vacation, his search turns up pages from a thriller he doesnt even remember writing. A Dark Presence stalks the small town of Bright Falls, pushing Wake to the brink of sanity in his fight to unravel the mystery and save his love.

Additionally Alan Wake's American Nightmare is now available for Pre-Purchase on Steam.

Alan Wake's American Nightmare is now available for pre-purchase on Steam! Pre-purchase now and receive 10% off. Own the original Alan Wake on Steam and receive an extra 15% off.

In this brand new standalone experience, Alan Wake fights the herald of darkness, the evil Mr. Scratch! A thrilling new storyline, hordes of creepy enemies, serious firepower and beautiful Arizona locations, combined with a fun and challenging new game mode make this a must for Alan Wake veterans, and the perfect jumping on point for new players!

It would seem Alan Wake isn't finished giving gamers nightmares. A product page has appeared on Steam for Alan Wake's American Nightmare, revealing that the previously XBLA-exclusive adventure is coming to PC.

Remedy confirmed to Joystiq the game will hit Steam on May 22.

In April, American Nightmare appeared on the Steam registry, indicating a PC release was imminent. Based on the product description, it doesn't appear that the PC version will feature any new content. American Nightmare is currently available for pre-order on Steam at 10% off its regular $15 price point.

The Collection 1 DLC is Now Available on Steam and includes 4 Multiplayer/Survival Mode Maps & 2 Special Ops Missions for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Armed with just this one content pack, players can choose between heading to a militarized Central Park in Liberation, destroying scenic vistas in a seaside Italian getaway in Piazza, raining glass on New York passersby from 70-stories-up in Overwatch, and battling beside a downed Air Force One in Black Box.

As if that breadth of multiplayer variety wasnt enough, fans of Special Ops can hop aboard snowmobiles to infiltrate a diamond mine in Black Ice or head to India, where Negotiator will leave the fate of hostages in their hands.

Warlock: Master of the Arcane is now available on Steam!

The latest game in the popular Majesty series, Warlock: Master of the Arcane introduces turned-based strategy and global conquest to the fantastic world of Ardania. In a time of chaotic upheaval, the player takes the role of a great mage, a warlord vying for ultimate power. Your mission is to build an empire, expand your borders, research new spells and conquer your enemies. Become the ultimate Warlock and rule over all of Ardania!

Today's Deal: Save 66% off Anomaly: Warzone Earth!

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#portal Today's the day when the amount of teleporting happening on computers anywhere will start increasing exponentially. Or in the words of Cave Johnson, "You should be designing test chambers, right now and at all times, or by God I will fire you." The Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC that lets players create and share their own puzzle rooms for Portal 2 hits Steam today. Go make something tricky or beautiful or both. More »

Botanicula, the latest from Machinarium developer Amanita Design, has finally planted itself on Steam for PC and Mac. In addition, those willing to snag the organic adventure before 10:00am Pacific on May 14 can do so for only $8.99, a buck off the usual $9.99 price tag. Seems only fitting that buying Botanicula should save you a little green, right?

Today's Deal: Save 80% off Nation Red!

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#bindingofisaac No joke, it really is! It's called Wrath of the Lamb, and for $3 you'll get new chapters, new enemies, new achievements, new bosses, new room types and even a "new final (final) chapter and boss with new endings". More »

Waveform Update Released

Announcement:
-The second Leaderboard Challenge has come to and end. Thanks to all participants and congratulations to the top 5 finishers, all of whom will receive a free Steam copy of the indie game Capsized!

Bug fixes:
-Fixed a problem where the title screen would only display a portion of the normal screen (black background with a star field and the cursor) and make it impossible to get into the game
-Fixed the end tutorial screens on Pluto 2 and Pluto 4
-Improved game initialization load times
-Fixed text overlapping for short names and large scores when on the loading screen for a Deep Space Mode
-Fixed a bug on Earth 4 that prevented one Light Orb from being collected by a Fireworks while in the Hyper challenge mode
-Fixed text wrapping on loading screens for 1280x1024 screen resolutions
-Fixed the Pulse challenge mode for Asteroid Belt 6

Today's Deal: Save 50% off AquaNox + AquaNox 2!

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Today's Deal: Save 75% off Chime!

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Pre-purchase now and get ready for Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops II propels players into a near future, 21st Century Cold War, where technology and weapons have converged to create a new generation of warfare.

*Changes
1) Fixed the Russian Language encoding problem
2) Fixed a bug that causes a hard crash from VCD playback
3) Fixed a bug where players would get stuck on missions
4) Added additional dialogue to the game for helpful instruction
5) Fixed several lighting issues

- Fixed bug where Doppelwalk illusions werent getting stats from their attribute bonus.
- Fixed bug where a red ring was visible to the opposing team under an invisible PL after his Doppelwalk illusion died.
- Fixed bug when Doppelwalking where there would sometimes be a visible jump in PLs health bar to the enemy team.
- Fixed some values in damage output/input from Juxtapose illusions.

ORION: Dino Beatdown is Now Available on Steam and 10% off until Friday, May 11th 10AM PST.

ORION: Dino Beatdown is an Open World, Class-Based Cooperative Survival Sci-Fi FPS. The game puts five players together in huge, endless environments in which they must work together to accomplish objectives and survive the devastating Dinosaur horde.

Today's Deal: Save 50% off Titan Attacks!

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