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Waveform Update Released First Weekly Leaderboard Challenge begins today! -Access the weekly challenge from the level select screen and compete against the worldwide community for one of the top spots on the Leaderboard and win a copy of Atom Zombie Smasher on Steam! -The challenge is only accessible for one week and ends Sunday April 22nd at 11:59 PST New functionality: -A new launch menu has been added to the initial startup of Waveform. This will allow users to customize their resolution settings before entering the game, which will help address issues some users have been having with resolution incompatibilities Bug fixes: -Options no longer reset after each update of the game retrieved through Steam -Fixed score inconsistency in Jupiter 2 http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/204180/capsule_231x87.jpg View the full article

Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP is Now Available on Steam and 25% off until Monday, April 23rd 10AM PST. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an exploratory action adventure with an emphasis on audiovisual style. Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries. Co-operate with friends via Twitter, experience a videogame world that is affected by moon phases & help a wandering warrior monk complete her woeful errand. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/204060/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

Today's Deal: Save 50% off James Bond: Blood Stone! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/42730/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

Today's Deal: Save 50% off Fractal: Make Blooms Not War! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/61310/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

- Fixed Spirit Bear having incorrect damage type - Fixed Batrider being stuck on a unit if Firefly ends on top of another unit - Fixed being able to get two heroes during Random Draft if you disconnected at a specific time View the full article

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: - Next Mutation: Last Man on Earth View the full article

Today's Deal: Save 75% off the Gothic & ArcaniA series Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! http://cdn.steampowered.com/v/gfx/subs/12075/header_586x192.jpg View the full article

Disciples III Gold is Now Available on Steam! Disciples III: Renaissance and Disciples III: Resurrection are now available in one package. Disciples III: Gold is the ultimate game experience for all turn-based strategy game enthusiasts with over 140 hours of gameplay! http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/subs/14181/header_586x192.jpg View the full article

GAMEPLAY - Enabled Random Draft mode! - Enabled Lone Druid in Captain's Mode. - Ancient Apparition: Fixed Ice Blast impact damage not hurting illusions. - Ancient Apparition: Fixed Chilling Touch affecting Spirit Bear and Warlock's Golem. - Axe: Fixed Culling Blade ending after death effects like Diabolic Edict and Epicenter. - Bane: Fixed Nightmare putting Juggernaut to sleep while Omnislashing. - Bane: Fixed Fiend's Grip doing one tick less damage than it should have. - Batrider: Fixed Firefly destroying trees in a bigger aoe than intended. - Batrider: Fixed Flamebreak hitting magic immune units (6.74b change). - Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture interaction with spells like Omnislash, Ball Lightning, etc. - Faceless Void: Fixed Chronosphere not freezing invulnerable towers. - Juggernaut: Fixed Omnislash considering ancients as valid targets. - Juggernaut: Fixed Omnislash ending prematurely if a target becomes invulnerable. - Lifestealer: Fixed being able to hide inside an enemy Spirit Bear/Golem with Infest (wasn't doing damage to it though) - Lifestealer: Fixed Infest not removing buffs before jumping in. - Lifestealer: Fixed Feast bonus damage type allowing it to critical strike. - Lion: Fixed Mana Drain missing its last 1/4 tick. - Lone Druid: Fixed Entangle not affecting magic immune units. - Lone Druid: Fixed Entangle not interrupting channeling spells. - Mirana: Fixed Moonlight Shadow not affecting allied units sometimes (Disrupted, Phase Shifted, etc). - Morphling: Fixed Replicate being castable on Spirit Bear and Warlock Golem. - Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Sanity's Eclipse mana drain logic. - Puck: Fixed Ethereal Jaunt not dodging projectiles properly. - Pudge: Reduced the delay before being able to issue orders after Meat Hook. - Razor: Fixed some bugs with Unstable Current killing a target after its ability starts (like Omnislashing while dead). - Razor: Fixed Plasma Field not giving aoe vision following Razor. - Slardar: Fixed Slithereen Crush affecting couriers. - Silencer: Fixed Global Silences affecting couriers abilities. - Spectre: Fixed permanently losing the ability to block creeps after the first Spectral Dagger use. - Spirit Breaker: Fixed being unable to target magic immune units with Netherstrike. - Sven: Fixed Great Cleave working on denies. - Tinker: Fixed March of the Machines spawn per second from 30 to 24. - Tinker: Fixed March of the Machines movement speed from 500 to 400. - Tinker: Fixed Heat Seeking Missle hitting Spirit Bear and Warlock's Golem. - Tinker: Fixed March of the Machines killing couriers. - Tiny: Fixed Aghanim tree doing too much damage to buildings. - Tiny: Fixed Aghanim tree cleaving when attacking buildings. - Vengeful Spirit: Fixed Vengeful Spirit's Wave of Terror affecting couriers. - Viper: Fixed Viper Strike being an instant effect instead of a dodgeable projectile. - Weaver: Fixed Weaver's Swarm getting one shotted by attack spells like Impetus and Arcane Orb. - Weaver: Fixed bug where Swarm bugs would cause some heroes to spin when attacking them, or not be able to attack them at all. - Windrunner: Fixed being able to Shackleshot onto Ancients/Roshan. - Fixed units/wards being unable to attack animation cancel if they are unable to move. - Fixed abilities going into cooldown if the target dies while paying manacost (ie. from Nether Ward). - Fixed Alchemist's Unstable Concoction and Bounty Hunter's Track being castable on Spirit Bear/Golem. - Fixed cleave damage not waking up Nightmared units. - Fixed Mjollnir and Maelstrom having orb selection priorty when attacking buildings. - Fixed Armlet lifedraining on Illusions. - Fixed DisableHelp not working for Chen's Persuasion. - Fixed Roshan not disabling Blink Dagger. - Fixed Tranquil Boots going into a short cooldown whenever you took damage. - Reordered Mekansm recipe list to have Headdress first. - Fixed Pudge's Meat Hook and Mirana's Arrow not hitting Spirit Bear. - Fixed Vampiric Aura showing buff on things it does not affect. - Fixed neutral units being able to cast their spells while disabled/silenced when they aren't player controlled. - Fixed Double Damage rune not granting a fake buff to nearby illusions. - Fixed neutral Centaur attack speed aura increasing speed by percentages instead of constant amounts - Fixed being unable to purge an offensive Decrepify - Fixed Ethereal Blade interaction with Spirit Bear. - Fixed a bug where if Nature's Prophet cast Sprout on Lycan in wolf form while he was running, Lycan could run through the trees and escape the sprout. UI - Illusions now fake display the same crit overhead values as the real hero. - A global message is now displayed when you random a hero. - There is now a 2 second cooldown on unpausing a paused game, to prevent two people trying to pause the game at the same time and accidently unpausing. - Fixed being unable to Glyph while disabled. - Fixed printing the wrong kill message when an illusion kills a tower - Fixed spectator FOW keys broken. - Fixed the courier failing to pick up an item from the stash resulting in the item teleporting to the hero's feet. - Items that are dropped on the ground as a result of a full inventory will now always be usable in item combines, even if they cannot be dropped right next to a hero. - While watching a replay, you can now click on the pips (Hero/Tower Kills) on the XP and Gold panels to jump to 5 seconds before that moment happens. - Fixed team-only chat in games created via private lobbies. VISUALS - Updated Nevermore's animations. - Updated Shadow Demon's Shadow Poison projectile effect. - Updated Faceless Void's Backtrack effect. BOTS - Bots will no longer attempt to use a Tango when being attacked or when defending an ally. - Adjusted some numbers to hopefully make it less likely for bots to try to TP out of a gank attempt when they were obviously going to die before it finished. - Fixed bug where Zeus would killsteal when his target thought they were safe, even if they weren't. - Cleaned up sellability of a bunch of bot items, should prevent cases where bots buy recipes for components they've previously sold. - Added additional items in the builds for Sniper and Juggernaut, they should no longer run out of items to buy in long matches. - Fixed bug where bots wouldn't realize that Antimage was a hard carry for lane selection purposes. - Fixed bug where any players in spectate/broadcast slots would prevent bots from picking a hero. - Bots will now wait to activate until all hero picking is completed. - Fixed bug where the matchmaker wouldn't try to match bot difficulties when finding a Coop game. - Fixed bug where bots might still pick up Aegis/Rapier immediately upon them dropping rather than waiting a couple seconds for humans to have a shot at them. - Added generic attack desire bonus to any enemy hero that is currently stunned. 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r20587b ------ Critical Fixes: + Fixed a known defense manager fleet list crash. + Fixed an end of combat crash related to combat involving neutral factions. + Made numerous sound system changes to help with frame rate issues. + Fixed a crash related to queued station modules. + Fixed a minefield related crash in combat. + Fixed a crash in the design screen related to selecting and submitting defense platforms. + Fixed a combat retreat crash. + Fixed a crash related to entering and exiting the empire manager. + Fixed known memory leaks in transitions to and from the star map. + Fixed a silent multiplayer crash related to random encounters. + Fixed a crash that could occur when opening the build screen. + Fixed a multiplayer hang that could occur versus lone gate ships. Other Fixes: + Reduced ship spark effect density to help with frame rate issues. + Fixed an issue preventing the Repair All function from working. + Fixed an issue where a VN disintegrator beam could remain linked to ships that left its range. + It is no longer possible to cancel return missions for retreating fleets. + Fixed the issue where colonies were firing at targets outside of sensor range. + Fixed the issue where planets would mysteriously disappear from the list of colonization options. + Fixed an multiple combat round issue where the game would try to select eliminated fleets. + Fixed the issue where construction missions would leave stations under construction if the construction ships were destroyed. + Fixed known issues of missiles spinning in space. + Fixed a bug that was causing prototyped ships to become too cheap. + Fixed known issues where diplomatic actions could result in a negative cost, adding to a player's RDP instead of subracting from it. + Addressed issues that were causing the AI to declare war too frequently. + Fixed the missing news event notifying players of war declarations against them. + Fixed an issue where colonies were not correctly reporting when they were developed. + Fixed an issue that was preventing Hivers from upgrading gate stations fully. Other Changes: + Build and design screens now show design attributes. + Made some improvements to the mine field placement flow in the defense manager. + Tracking weapons can now target the dish on a command monitor. + Fleets involved in multiple rounds of combat will lose additional endurance. + Non-Zuul factions are now attacked by pirates. + Developing colonies no longer support fleets. + Improved the research and feasibility study complete dialogs. + Variety of tweaks and corrections to ship turrets for all factions. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/42990/capsule_231x87.jpg View the full article

Men of War: Condemned Heroes is Now Available on Steam! Men of War: Condemned Heroes tells the story of one of the infamous Soviet penal battalions during the WWII. These battalions are famous for being formed under Stalin’s "No step back!" order #227. They consisted of court-martialed officers that were given a chance to redeem their crimes, or incompetence, in blood by serving as the lowest enlisted rank in a battalion that was assigned the most dangerous tasks. These battalions’ images are surrounded by many myths, and this game tells the truth about these regiments based on real evidence from their former members. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/204860/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

Today's Deal: Save 66% off Nuclear Dawn! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/17710/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

This weekend only, save 40% on Wargame: European Escalation! Plus, the new Wargame: European Escalation - "New Battlefields" DLC is Now Available! This FREE DLC includes new AI, 7 new multiplayer maps, and a new Flare system to coordinate your battles. 2 sides, 8 nations, and one battlefield: Europe! Wargame: European Escalation is an intense and spectacular Real Time Strategy game, where realism and strategy are brought to the front lines. With a phenomenal range of vehicles and units (over 350 different models), build your army and enter a huge military campaign across Europe of the 80's, as the Cold War is about to become World War 3. Offer ends Monday at 10am Pacific Time. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/58610/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

This weekend only, save 50% off Might & Magic Heroes VI and Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes! Plus, kick off the weekend by playing Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. Heroes VI is a fast-paced epic story where Angels plot to end -- once and for all -- an unfinished war with their ancient rivals, the Faceless. Might & Magic Clash of Heroes takes place 40 years before the Heroes V saga. Scattered across five different regions of Ashan, five special heroes must travel their own dangerous paths to grow in strength, unravel a demonic plot, and ultimately save the world from Chaos. Offer ends Monday at 10am Pacific Time. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/48220/capsule_467x181.jpg http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/61700/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

Cities in Motion: ULM is now available on Steam for both Mac and PC! Ulm is a quaint, idyllic German city best known as the birthplace of physicist Albert Einstein. Despite its’ small size, Ulm requires the updated and encompassing transportation network its’ citizens deserve. In this condensed environment, careful planning and slow expansion are the keys to success. Are you up to the challenge? http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/206712/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

GAMEPLAY - Enabled Random Draft mode! - Enabled Lone Druid in Captain's Mode. - Ancient Apparition: Fixed Ice Blast impact damage not hurting illusions. - Ancient Apparition: Fixed Chilling Touch affecting Spirit Bear and Warlock's Golem. - Axe: Fixed Culling Blade ending after death effects like Diabolic Edict and Epicenter. - Bane: Fixed Nightmare putting Juggernaut to sleep while Omnislashing. - Bane: Fixed Fiend's Grip doing one tick less damage than it should have. - Batrider: Fixed Firefly destroying trees in a bigger aoe than intended. - Batrider: Fixed Flamebreak hitting magic immune units (6.74b change). - Bloodseeker: Fixed Rupture interaction with spells like Omnislash, Ball Lightning, etc. - Faceless Void: Fixed Chronosphere not freezing invulnerable towers. - Juggernaut: Fixed Omnislash considering ancients as valid targets. - Juggernaut: Fixed Omnislash ending prematurely if a target becomes invulnerable. - Lifestealer: Fixed being able to hide inside an enemy Spirit Bear/Golem with Infest (wasn't doing damage to it though) - Lifestealer: Fixed Infest not removing buffs before jumping in. - Lifestealer: Fixed Feast bonus damage type allowing it to critical strike. - Lion: Fixed Mana Drain missing its last 1/4 tick. - Lone Druid: Fixed Entangle not affecting magic immune units. - Lone Druid: Fixed Entangle not interrupting channeling spells. - Mirana: Fixed Moonlight Shadow not affecting allied units sometimes (Disrupted, Phase Shifted, etc). - Morphling: Fixed Replicate being castable on Spirit Bear and Warlock Golem. - Outworld Destroyer: Fixed Sanity's Eclipse mana drain logic. - Puck: Fixed Ethereal Jaunt not dodging projectiles properly. - Pudge: Reduced the delay before being able to issue orders after Meat Hook. - Razor: Fixed some bugs with Unstable Current killing a target after its ability starts (like Omnislashing while dead). - Razor: Fixed Plasma Field not giving aoe vision following Razor. - Slardar: Fixed Slithereen Crush affecting couriers. - Silencer: Fixed Global Silences affecting couriers abilities. - Spectre: Fixed permanently losing the ability to block creeps after the first Spectral Dagger use. - Spirit Breaker: Fixed being unable to target magic immune units with Netherstrike. - Sven: Fixed Great Cleave working on denies. - Tinker: Fixed March of the Machines spawn per second from 30 to 24. - Tinker: Fixed March of the Machines movement speed from 500 to 400. - Tinker: Fixed Heat Seeking Missle hitting Spirit Bear and Warlock's Golem. - Tinker: Fixed March of the Machines killing couriers. - Tiny: Fixed Aghanim tree doing too much damage to buildings. - Tiny: Fixed Aghanim tree cleaving when attacking buildings. - Vengeful Spirit: Fixed Vengeful Spirit's Wave of Terror affecting couriers. - Viper: Fixed Viper Strike being an instant effect instead of a dodgeable projectile. - Weaver: Fixed Weaver's Swarm getting one shotted by attack spells like Impetus and Arcane Orb. - Weaver: Fixed bug where Swarm bugs would cause some heroes to spin when attacking them, or not be able to attack them at all. - Windrunner: Fixed being able to Shackleshot onto Ancients/Roshan. - Fixed units/wards being unable to attack animation cancel if they are unable to move. - Fixed abilities going into cooldown if the target dies while paying manacost (ie. from Nether Ward). - Fixed Alchemist's Unstable Concoction and Bounty Hunter's Track being castable on Spirit Bear/Golem. - Fixed cleave damage not waking up Nightmared units. - Fixed Mjollnir and Maelstrom having orb selection priorty when attacking buildings. - Fixed Armlet lifedraining on Illusions. - Fixed DisableHelp not working for Chen's Persuasion. - Fixed Roshan not disabling Blink Dagger. - Fixed Tranquil Boots going into a short cooldown whenever you took damage. - Reordered Mekansm recipe list to have Headdress first. - Fixed Pudge's Meat Hook and Mirana's Arrow not hitting Spirit Bear. - Fixed Vampiric Aura showing buff on things it does not affect. - Fixed neutral units being able to cast their spells while disabled/silenced when they aren't player controlled. - Fixed Double Damage rune not granting a fake buff to nearby illusions. - Fixed neutral Centaur attack speed aura increasing speed by percentages instead of constant amounts - Fixed being unable to purge an offensive Decrepify - Fixed Ethereal Blade interaction with Spirit Bear. - Fixed a bug where if Nature's Prophet cast Sprout on Lycan in wolf form while he was running, Lycan could run through the trees and escape the sprout. UI - Illusions now fake display the same crit overhead values as the real hero. - A global message is now displayed when you random a hero. - There is now a 2 second cooldown on unpausing a paused game, to prevent two people trying to pause the game at the same time and accidently unpausing. - Fixed being unable to Glyph while disabled. - Fixed printing the wrong kill message when an illusion kills a tower - Fixed spectator FOW keys broken. - Fixed the courier failing to pick up an item from the stash resulting in the item teleporting to the hero's feet. - Items that are dropped on the ground as a result of a full inventory will now always be usable in item combines, even if they cannot be dropped right next to a hero. - While watching a replay, you can now click on the pips (Hero/Tower Kills) on the XP and Gold panels to jump to 5 seconds before that moment happens. - Fixed team-only chat in games created via private lobbies. VISUALS - Updated Nevermore's animations. - Updated Shadow Demon's Shadow Poison projectile effect. - Updated Faceless Void's Backtrack effect. BOTS - Bots will no longer attempt to use a Tango when being attacked or when defending an ally. - Adjusted some numbers to hopefully make it less likely for bots to try to TP out of a gank attempt when they were obviously going to die before it finished. - Fixed bug where Zeus would killsteal when his target thought they were safe, even if they weren't. - Cleaned up sellability of a bunch of bot items, should prevent cases where bots buy recipes for components they've previously sold. - Added additional items in the builds for Sniper and Juggernaut, they should no longer run out of items to buy in long matches. - Fixed bug where bots wouldn't realize that Antimage was a hard carry for lane selection purposes. - Fixed bug where any players in spectate/broadcast slots would prevent bots from picking a hero. - Bots will now wait to activate until all hero picking is completed. - Fixed bug where the matchmaker wouldn't try to match bot difficulties when finding a Coop game. - Fixed bug where bots might still pick up Aegis/Rapier immediately upon them dropping rather than waiting a couple seconds for humans to have a shot at them. - Added generic attack desire bonus to any enemy hero that is currently stunned. 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Shoot Many Robots has been Updated Update notes: Saves work reliably if you have a Windows profile names that contains Unicode characters Fix for a crash when the host quits while a client has a quit confirmation dialog up Fix for a crash when the host toggles vertical sync during a multiplayer match Reduced brogue duration for the Souvenir Tam O'Shanter smrconfig.ini file is written right away when the game launches, so that you can manually edit settings before you've changed them from the defaults Additional graphics options exposed in smrconfig.ini, so that you can disable them if you have a lower-spec machine: Anti-aliasing Fog Outline rendering Global illumination Shadow filtering http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/96400/capsule_231x87.jpg View the full article

Legend of Grimrock is now available on Steam and 10% off*! Legend of Grimrock is a dungeon crawling role playing game with an oldschool heart but a modern execution. A group of prisoners are sentenced to certain death by exiling them to the secluded Mount Grimrock for vile crimes they may or may not have committed. Unbeknownst to their captivators, the mountain is riddled with ancient tunnels, dungeons and tombs built by crumbled civilizations long perished now. If they ever wish to see daylight again and reclaim their freedom the ragtag group of prisoners must form a team and descend through the mountain, level by level. *offer ends April 18th at 10AM Pacific Time. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/207170/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

Today's Deal: Save 50% off Harvest: Massive Encounter! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/15400/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

Avernum: Escape From the Pit is now available on Steam and is 20% off until April 18th at 10am Pacific Time! Avernum is an epic fantasy role-playing adventurer set in an enormous, subterranean nation. Avernum is a land underground, a subterranean nation full of rogues, misfits, and brigands, struggling for survival and wealth in the monster-infested darkness. You have been banished to the underworld, never to see the light of day again. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/208400/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/41300/capsule_231x87.jpg================================================================= April 4th, 2012 * New maps * New gameplay UI options and feedback * New console commands * New dedicated server configuration options * Bug fixes ================================================================= View the full article

Sol, does the windows version also contains fix for getstatus exploit? Also can you please elaborate on Invalid .PK3 files referenced error ?

Get a collection of fully equipped military vehicles for your garage and the full Nyte Blayde collection with the Saints Row: The Third Special Ops Vehicle Pack and Nyte Blade Pack. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/55230/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is now available for Pre-purchase on Steam and 25% off*! In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures as you make your way toward the center of the mysterious Shadow Planet! Solve complex puzzles and upgrade your ship with alien technology as you fight to save your home world. *Offer expires April 17th at 10AM Pacific time. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/205730/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article