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Substance Indie Pack is Now Available on Steam!

Pursuing our efforts to reach out to indie developers, our mission is not only to develop the most advanced and innovative texturing tools out there but also to democratize their use, by making them accessible to the wider community of artists and developers.

The Substance Indie Pack includes Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Bitmap2Material and 30 PBR Substances, all in Indie versions.
You can use them for commercial purposes, as long as your company/entity doesnt generate more than 10 000$ per year.

Contains Substance Designer, Substance Painter, Bitmap2Material, and 30 substances included as a free DLC.

Hit ESC on the main menu of Running With Rifles and the words will melt away, leaving your character free to run around the screen. I like that. There is whimsy in this war. Running With Rifles is a top-down soldiererer thing inspired by Cannon Fodder, set in large maps with dynamically throbbing battles. You are a tiny man in a big war, and it’s oh-so cute. There’s a cartoonish edge to the look that pops up speech bubbles as the NPCs shout ‘OMG Grenade!’, and despite the hundreds of bloody deaths that smears the screen, it never fails to raise a smile. I am smiling now because it’s on Steam Early Access, it’s relatively cheap, and there’s a trailer below. … [visit site to read more]

Call of Duty vs. Battlefield. Disney Infinity vs. Skylanders. Every year, intense marketing battles happen over which games will dominate certain categories. Why don't publishers like EA or Activision do what marketplace competitors do in other areas do and simply undercut the price? Read more...

Working an office job can make one feel like a zombie. Corporate Lifestyle Simulator takes the metaphor and runs with it, making you an average cube dweller faced with an office full of zombie coworkers.Read more...

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Lichdom: Battlemage is Now Available on Steam Early Access!
Lichdom: Battlemage is a first-person caster that gives the Mage the spotlight in a way never before seen in games. With limitless magical power at your disposal and brutal enemies around every corner, victory hinges on a combination of skill and strategy. You must carefully craft a vast array of spells and learn to cast them in the heat of combat.

You are your spells! The Lichdom: Battlemage spell crafting system offers an enormous range of customization. Every Mage is the product of of crafted magic that reflects the individual's play style. Whether you prefer to target your foes from a safe distance, wade into combat and unleash your power at point-blank range, or pit your enemies against each other, endless spell customization lets you become the Mage you want to be.

Spell Crafting Basics

• Loot the essence of your fallen enemies and collect components for your spells
  
• Synthesize batches of loot to yield items of higher rarity
  
• Choose among Fire, Ice, or any of 8 spell categories each with its own unique behavior
  
• Designate the nature of the spell as Ranged, Area of Effect, Point-blank, or Defensive
  
• Apply modifiers and bonuses to shape the result for your strategic needs
  
• Then bring them together in your perfect arsenal to make yourself the ultimate Battlemage!

Pillars of Lichdom: Battlemage

• The first game to fully empower the Mage
  
• Deeply customizable spell crafting supports hundreds of hours of action-packed gameplay
  
• Harnesses the awesome power of CryEngine to deliver a beautifully violent experience
  
• Beautiful environments and seamless storytelling provide a rich and compelling backdrop
  
• You will feel everything. Xaviants core design philosophy provides the most immersive experience possible

About Xaviant
Lichdom: Battlemage is currently under development by a team of industry veterans at Atlanta-based studio Xaviant. The team shares the philosophy that embracing community involvement through Early Access will ensure that Lichdom: Battlemage reaches its full potential as a truly unique and exciting experience for players.

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Doctor Who: The Adventure Games is Now Available on Steam!
Join the Doctor as his companion in an out-of-this-world adventure through time and space. You will need all your wits and courage to outsmart and defeat some of the Doctors' most storied enemies like the Daleks, Cybermen, and the Vashta Nerada. Explore the universe, and even see the inner workings of the TARDIS!

• Experience this thrilling adventure game based on the hit TV series, Doctor Who.
  
• Use stealth and puzzle-solving skills to explore other worlds.
  
• Collect bonus cards that enrich the story with Doctor Who trivia.
  
• Become the Doctors companion across time and space!
  

LYNE is Now Available on Steam!

Deceptively simple. Infinitely complex. LYNE is a minimalist puzzle game that will knot your brain as it calms your soul.


Connect the shapes. Fill the board. Lose yourself in the interflowing paths of LYNE.

First released in 1985, Gauntlet was a genre-defining arcade dungeon crawler. Now, it's being re-released for PC, in the form of a top-down co-op action RPG, all prettied up and modernized for a new audience.Read more...

Braveland is Now Available on Steam!

Braveland is a turn-based game inspired by old-school strategies with hexagonal battlefield. You will start as a humble warrior's son whose village was cruelly raided and will end as talented commander of your army.

The story will take place in a hand-drawn world and cover many interesting places and characters. Various warriors will join your army - archers, scouts, healers, footmen, arbalesters and more.

The eyes still have it. Or it still has the eyes, at any rate. The latest iteration of Valve’s Steam Controller has wings its way to GDC, so hopefully one of the RPS attendees will be able to lay hands on it over the next few days. In the meantime, I can bring you a picture, released by Valve, that is in no way exclusive to this site and doesn’t even contain hilariously photoshopped owl ears. Instead, it shows a controller that has lost a couple of its odder features as expected, including the fondlescreen and awkwardly positioned buttons. There are now eight buttons, positioned in patterns and placements that will be familiar to anyone who has ever seen a joypad.

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Stuff got 12 of the 13 Steam Machines due for release this year together, took them apart and tested them out. Then got them all together for this family photo. Check it out for rundowns (and 360-degree gifs) of every machine except Valve's own unit.Read more...

Warlock 2: The Exiled is just about ready to host one-hexagon-at-a-time fights over territories, with its initial turn scheduled for April 10 on PCs. Steam users will also be able to add Ino Co's strategy game to their ever-growing library, with preorders opening up around March 20. The release date was shared on Twitter, a realm in which time travels normally and people fight over review scores and game resolutions instead of land masses.

Over 170 spells will be spread across a roster of 12 mages, each with their own abilities to offer in your conquest to hoard hexagonal spaces. Players can deploy cunning strategies in the game's greater sandbox mode or take on Exile mode's story, which focuses on claiming revenge on those that exiled you from Ardania. [Image: Paradox Interactive]

Deserts aren't great at supporting many types of life, and that's the approaching problem for the inhabitants of Steel & Steam's steampunk universe. No, as in it's literally approaching them - the desert is spreading from the eastern half of the Terra Corpus continent, and if it's left unchecked, they'll find themselves with one hell of a sandbox to play in. Or die in, you know, whichever.

With turn-based combat, optional sidequests and pixel art, Steel & Steam definitely recalls a classic era of RPGs. Thankfully, that means Terra Corpus also harbors an ancient legend, one involving people enlisting help from elemental guardians slumbering within the planet. Players follow protagonists Noah and Alyssa as they seek out this power in an effort to curb the expanding desert.

After securing funds for two episodes last September, Red Meat Games is preparing a PC launch across "worldwide digital platforms" for its first episode on April 2 for $9.99, according to the related press release. Steel & Steam's GreenManGaming page lists a March 28 release however, so it may be available before then. Steel & Steam will reach the Humble Store, Gamersgate, Gamely and is up for votes on Steam Greenlight. Backers will receive the second episode at no additional cost once it's finished. [Image: Red Meat Games]

Sins of a Dark Age, the upcoming MOBA from Sins of a Solar Empire developer Ironclad (who maybe want to get to a confessional or something, since they seem to like sins so much) is now available on Steam Early Access. Soada - as Ironclad refers to it in shorthand - will be free to play when it launches, but Early Access will cost you $4.99.

For that price, you'll gain entrance to the game, as well as a Welcome Chest containing one of three bundles. Each bundle contains a rare skin, an uncommon piece of Hero Gear, a rare skin recipe, and both common and uncommon quality materials for crafting. The game's final pricing structure isn't set in stone, but Ironclad states in its Early Access FAQ that the content of each Welcome Chest includes "far more" than $4.99 worth of content.

[Thanks, Tyler!] [Image: Ironclad Games]

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Batch Converter Plugin, all new content for MorphVOX Pro - Voice Changer is Now Available on Steam!

The Batch Converter Plug-In is a professional plug-in to MorphVOX Pro that allows morphing of a number of files at one time.

This plug-in allows you to easily select a number of source files and assign voices and output them to different destination files. When you have the list of files to be morphed, you just have to hit 'Convert' and your new morphed files will be created!

The Batch Converter Plug-In integrates directly into MorphVOX Pro and uses all the latest voices and effects of MorphVOX Pro. It allows you to select one of the many voices from our stock Voice Alias packs or any custom voices you have created. You can assign the same voice to all your files, or select a unique voice for each file.

With the easy to use interface you can add many source files from a number of file formats, including MP3,WAV and WMA. You can then morph and write new files out to a single folder or assign a unique folder and name for the destination file. The interface also supports drag and dropping source files, allowing you to quickly set up a batch to be morphed.

MorphVOX Pro and the Batch Converter Plug-In allow you to improve your productivity by quickly converting all of your recordings in a single step.

Sins of a Dark Age, the upcoming MOBA/RTS mash-up from Sins of a Solar Empire developer Ironclad (who maybe want to get to a confessional or something, since they seem to like sins so much) is now available on Steam Early Access. Soada - as Ironclad refers to it in shorthand - will be free to play when it launches, but Early Access will cost you $4.99.

For that price, you'll gain entrance to the game, as well as a Welcome Chest containing one of three bundles. Each bundle contains a rare skin, an uncommon piece of Hero Gear, a rare skin recipe, and both common and uncommon quality materials for crafting. The game's final pricing structure isn't set in stone, but Ironclad states in its Early Access FAQ that the content of each Welcome Chest includes "far more" than $4.99 worth of content.

[Thanks, Tyler!] [Image: Ironclad Games]

Pre-orders are now available for Blackwell Epiphany, the finale of Wadjet Eye Games' adventure-driven Blackwell series due out on April 24. Aside from a DRM-free download of Blackwell Epiphany, pre-ordering will grant buyers a redeemable Steam key, access to exclusive videos featuring the game's voice actors and series creator Dave Gilbert, an invitation to a private livestreaming of Epiphany's launch party, and the game's soundtrack.

If you're a bit behind or haven't started the Blackwell series in the first place, the story follows Rosa Blackwell as she copes with the recent death of her aunt, which grants her an odd form of inheritance. After her aunt's death, a ghostly figure straight out of the '30s, Joey Mallone, appears to her and explains that he's been accompanying members of the Blackwell family for a few generations now. With the passing of Rosa's aunt, she's next in line to inherit a ghostly sidekick.

Naturally, the duo go on to solve mysteries together, using Rosa's abilities as a medium to communicate with the dead to piece together narratives. Their search for answers and efforts to help the deceased find peace have extended through four previous games, but Epiphany's press release teases that their work bears a "price," which Rosa and Joey will presumably discover in the finale.

Blackwell's preceding episodes can be bought from GOG's Blackwell Bundle for $14.99, or purchased directly from Wadjet Eye Games for $4.99-$9.99 apiece. The developer also plans to port the Blackwell series over to iOS, but the adventure has yet to appear on the App Store. [Image: WadjetEye Games]

The Rockstar Publisher Weekend continues today with great deals on Rockstar titles! From now through Monday* pick up titles up to 80% off!

Today's Daily Deal features the Grand Theft Auto IV up to 80% off!

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Berlin-based indie developer Thesetales launched a Kickstarter project and Steam Greenlight page for its roguelike game Proven Lands this week. The third-person sci-fi game is available to check out in its pre-alpha state in a proof of concept PC demo.

Proven Lands features an optional five-episode main story arc in which players control Teruo Nakamura, named after a real-life soldier of the Japanese Imperial Army "who did not surrender until 1974." The game also includes an AI-driven story engine that generates a "one-off adventure" based on randomly-generated elements. Thesetales cites Don't Starve and Starbound among its inspirations, which is readily apparent in the hunt-and-gather style gameplay shown in its Kickstarter pitch video. A recent update on the project's crowdfunding page notes plans for multiplayer modes in some capacity as well.

Thesetales is seeking £299,000 ($497,177) by April 12 to bring Proven Lands to PC in the first quarter of 2015, followed by Mac and iOS in the second quarter, then Linux and Android at a later date. Those that pledge roughly $15/£9/11 euros will receive a digital copy of the game when it launches. [Image: Thesetales]

Indie developer Dead Alien Cult introduced its first game on Steam's Greenlight service this week, Viking Ghost. The developer comprises four people, two of which are former PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale developers: Andrew Marquis and John Lawrence.

Viking Ghost is listed as an "Arcade Action Adventure-Dual Stick Shooter-Dungeon Crawler-Rogue-Like-Lite" game with weapons, abilities and an experience point-based upgrade system. The developer cites the Zelda series, The Binding of Isaac and Spelunky among its inspirations for the game, which has eight locations and procedurally-generated levels that liven up every playthrough.

Marquis and Lawrence's former developer Superbot parted ways with Sony in February 2013 before downsizing in April. [Image: Dead Alien Cult]

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- Fix bug causing MMR to intermittently fail to appear on the scoreboard at the end of a ranked match. MMR is visible to all players in the match with a calibrated MMR. It is not visible to spectators or players with uncalibrated MMR. MMR is not recorded in replays.
- Fix bug causing matchmaking cooldowns to escalate too quickly in some circumstances
- Fix bug in team matchmaking causing team details to be occasionally swapped.

Cabela's Big Game Hunter Pro Hunts is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam. Pre-Purchase now and also receive Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 for free.*

Hunt with the pros!

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If I didn’t know any better (and honestly, I don’t), I’d say Valve is really gearing up to finally open the floodgates to Steam, resulting in less direct regulation of every single solitary game that makes it onto the 800 lb gorilla of PC storefronts. That’s just speculation on my part, but it would certainly seem to justify an entire system that allows users to report offensive or otherwise objectionable games. Details below.

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Farm Machines Championships 2014 is Now Available on Steam and 30% off!*

The ultimate farmers' showdown returns with monstrous new machines, brand new events and an expansive new terrain!

Are you the fastest, most accurate and craziest farmer in the competition?

Climb aboard Farm Machines Championship 2014 and sit behind the wheel of tenacious tractors and humongous harvesters to compete in 40 various events. Test your skills in new events, such as racing with forage wagons or transporting grain. Tune up your machines by changing the gearbox, engine or brakes. And change your tractor's look by adding additional elements to its chassis to distinguish you from the rest of contenders including fresh paint, decals, pipes and more.

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