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Defense Grid update: - NEW: Added a scrolling marquee to the Main Menu and Mission Selection to individually thank all of our Kickstarter donors! - Added in some logging to track down leaderboard issues a few people have been having. - SECOND WEEKLY GAME UPDATE OF FIVE: To celebrate the new Defense Grid 2 Kickstarter well be updating the game with new content over the next four weeks. To view and enter the contests, go to the Contest button on the Main Menu. - NEW CONTEST: Play the new mode, Shredder, added to the Borderlands map Infiltration. - NEW CONTEST: Play the mode Fully Loaded, in The Awakening map Barrier to Entry. - NEW CONTEST: Play the Alien Breeder mini-game. - NEW CONTEST: Create your own Defense Grid fan trailer video. - NEW CONTEST: Create the most popular Defense Grid fan trailer video. - Cheat codes that may help in creating your fan trailer. While playing a level, each cheat code is entered on the keyboard and must be proceeded by = or 4. Then type one of the codes listed below. - happerdown = Enables/disables music playback. - hideui = Show/hide the user interface. - hidecursor = Show/hide the reticle in the center of the screen. - riotmod = Enter/exit free camera mode to let you fly around the level. The camera can ONLY be controlled by using a game pad. - Left thumbstick = Rotate the camera up/down/left/right. - Right thumbstick = Move the camera up/down/left/right. - Left shoulder button = Move the camera forward. - Right shoulder button = Move the camera backward. - The A and B buttons still function as normal to build and upgrade towers. View the full article

Some bug fixes in various features, such as: • Various random crashes fixed • Various issues with Steward and Routes fixed • Various updates applied to missions • Some display issues and typos fixed A number of community requested improvements have been added: • Advisor hints are less frequent and more appropriate • Shipyard, even when the player's rank has raised, still offer small vessels for sale • You know see your reputation improve when you hunt pirates and destroy pirate lairs • Looting towns is now more rewarding • Mission rewards for commodities transport missions has been leveled • You now have access to more missions essentially missions given by Governors and even sabotage missions • The steward may now also buy commodities • You may click on citizens (and listen to their feedback about the current situation) • If a town needs construction materials, the price for those materials also increases on the market • When you play on your own, you may now choose your own color • You now have access to more starting options when you play a Free Game • You may now set game speed to 0 • Player convoys may now only be set on Patrol mode in your own town to protect it (if that convoy is fighting, no one else can attack the town) • Convoys on Patrol will automatically optimize their fighting power after each battle they win • Shipyards in player towns will now have more frequently vessels to sell • Doubled the view range of convoys • Special buildings can now only be built when the player achieves a specific rank Some improvements have been made to naval battles: • Explosive barrels are easier to use as they last longer • Explosive barrels have a larger range • You may now also use the middle mouse button to dispatch explosive barrels • Sail damage now has bigger impact (and makes boarding easier) New features • Try your luck to make some money in Taverns • The Treasure fleet is implemented: convoys are easily spotted on the sea map and transport a lot of gold (especially when going back to Europe) • More animated portraits, for instance for reports from town administrators and viceroys • Two new commercial routes strategies are available to either distribute resources among warehouses or to centralize them in one warehouse • The strategy Empty warehouse now empties only the first warehouse on the route • You may now use an Xbox gamepad to play Port Royale 3 • If, on the sea map, you click on a town using the middle mouse button, the building menu for that town will open and you don't have to go into that town anymore to build things http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/205610/capsule_231x87.jpg View the full article

X3: Albion Prelude update 2.1a - Fixed plot stopper bug in Lasertower deployment mission http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/201310/capsule_231x87.jpg View the full article

The Steam Summer Sale continues today with huge savings throughout the store! Today's Daily Deals Include: Call of Duty: Black Ops Wargame: European Escalation Spec Ops: The Line Stronghold 3 Gold Grand Theft Auto Franchise Railworks 3: Train Simulator 2012 Company of Heroes Franchise LIMBO Indie Bundle V - featuring Defcon, Aaaaa for the Awesome, Ticket to Ride, TRAUMA, SpaceChem Don't forget to check back for a new Community Choice vote every 8 hours and new Flash sales throughout the day! You can also grab the Steam mobile app to make sure you never miss any great deals while you're on the go! Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales, Community Choice Votes and more may be found on www.steampowered.com. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/630/extras/summer_sale_capsule2.png View the full article

Orcs Must Die! 2 is now available for pre-purchase on Steam and is 10% off until launch! Youve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year! http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/201790/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

July 16, 2012 UPDATE Voice Communications on/off now properly works when setting it in the game options. Life Side Camera now properly works in the game settings. Fixed a sound bug with some single shot weapons. Fixed a bug that did not properly update WP/GC when buying items. Fixed the experience progression bar on the My Merc screen. Fixed a bug on some video cards that received the error "ERROR: missing shader file DataShadersDX9_P1SSAO_PS.hls" Fixed a bug with the Deathcard UI remaining on the screen after respawn. Fixed a bug with Revenge award being given when it should have. You are unable to use consumables before the game starts now. Fixed a bug where the Soflam icon would show up for all of your items. Fixed a bug that showed the incorrect amount of WP for the Mega Loot crate. View the full article

Patch Notes 1.2 Multiplayer and Diplomacy • Players can now play Multiplayer games! (Steam is required). • New Diplomacy system in Multiplayer and Single play: Now when a player sends a proposal to rival Mage it will be delivered on the beginning of his/her turn. You will receive an answer on your subsequent turn. The Diplomacy Screen was modified accordingly. Also a player will never know for sure if hisher proposal would or would not be accepted - there will be seen only a prediction of it before the message is sent. • Changed diplomacy effect of relations with gods • Behavior of AI Mages improved with personalities and new factors "Lords and Artifacts" • Mighty Lords come to your service! They can learn faster than normal units and receive many powerful abilities as they progress through level-ups. You can hire these heroes as they come occasionally searching for job, find them in monster layers or even receive them as quest reward. • Lords can use powerful Artifacts which could be found in monster dens, received as quests rewards, gained and lost during battles, bought from Trader of Artifacts or smelted to mana. Bug Fixes and Improvements • A player may turn on/off Victory Conditions on the Game Start. • Player can now destroy his buildings from city interface • Mages, Veterans and Halberdies got new skills. Mages can learn to cast fireballs and Veterans now have ZoneOfControl perk. • New actions for Galleons units of humans and mosters • Implemented a News message when you successfully research a new spell. • Implemented a News message when any of the Great Mages controls a certain percentage of Holy Grounds. • The Unity Spell cannot be counterspelled anymore, but its casting time was made longer. Also starting to cast a Unity spell worsens relations with all Great Mages. • A Message "A Great Mage is Defeated" now looks better. • AI now uses Dispels smarter and more aggressively. • Teleportation spells casting interface logic is more intuitive: now you can select a spell, then a target unit, and then a hex to move. • Fixed an issue: an enchantment cast on a unit in transport ship is now shown properly on unit when it disembarks. • Game loading has become faster. • Great Mages now think 10-15% faster. • Settlers do not receive experience points any more. • Fixed an issue when a player could remove a "self-destruct" perk from units summoned by other units. • Fixed a crash on clicking on a News message about a new unit if the city was destroyed. • Fixed an issue with the unit's experience when a unit is upgraded twice the same turn. • Fixed an issue with game camera position at the game start. • Fixed an issue when unit movement points and "cooldown" timers could be higher than their current maximum. • Fixed some issues with duplicating perks. • Fixed a rare crash when a player disbands his unit. • Fixed bug with flying units teleportation on water hexes Known issues • Sometimes you cannot enter text - fixes with restarting game from menu • Disconnect not always works well http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/203630/capsule_231x87.jpg View the full article

The Steam Summer Sale continues today with huge savings throughout the store! Today's Daily Deals Include: Assassin's Creed Franchise RAGE Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Age of Empires III: Complete Collection Metro 2033 Iron Front: Liberation 1944 Men of War Franchise Dear Esther Indie Bundle V - featuring AudioSurf, Greed Corp, Gemini Rue, The Tiny Bang Story, Ys: The Oath in Felghana Don't forget to check back for a new Community Choice vote every 8 hours and new Flash sales throughout the day! You can also grab the Steam mobile app to make sure you never miss any great deals while you're on the go! Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales, Community Choice Votes and more may be found on www.steampowered.com. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/630/extras/summer_sale_capsule2.png View the full article

The Steam Summer Sale continues today with huge savings throughout the store! Today's Daily Deals Include: Saints Row: The Third The Darkness II The Walking Dead The Hitman series The Mount & Blade series Serious Sam 3: BFE Cities XL 2012 Trine 2 Indie Bundle IV - featuring A Valley Without Wind, Atom Zombie Smasher, Blocks That Matter, Sanctum, and Superbrothers EP Don't forget to check back for a new Community Choice vote every 8 hours and new Flash sales throughout the day! You can also grab the Steam mobile app to make sure you never miss any great deals while you're on the go! Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales, Community Choice Votes and more may be found on www.steampowered.com. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/630/extras/summer_sale_capsule2.png View the full article

Due to popular demand, we've added the complete remixed soundtracks (by DM Ashura and Woofle) and original soundtracks for all three games in the Gundemonium Collection (Gundemonium Recollection, GundeadliGne and Hitogata Happa) in celebration of the Steam Summer Sale. That's a total of 75 tracks, counting some new bonus tracks! The soundtracks are also available to those who have previously purchased the games, so no one will be left out. After downloading or updating any Gundemonium Collection game, you can access its songs in the "Soundtrack" subfolder, inside of the game's install folder. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/92210/capsule_231x87.jpghttp://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/92200/capsule_231x87.jpghttp://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/92220/capsule_231x87.jpg View the full article

The Steam Summer Sale continues today with huge savings throughout the store! Today's Daily Deals Include: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Dead Island Orcs Must Die! Dirt Showdown Tropico 4 Two Worlds II Borderlands Frozen Synapse Indie Bundle III Don't forget to check back for a new Community Choice vote every 8 hours and new Flash sales throughout the day! You can also grab the Steam mobile app to make sure you never miss any great deals while you're on the go! Complete information on all the savings, Flash Sales, Community Choice Votes and more may be found on www.steampowered.com. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/630/extras/summer_sale_capsule2.png View the full article

Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition is Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam! Dark Souls is the new action role-playing game from the developers who brought you Demons Souls, FromSoftware. Dark Souls will have many familiar features: A dark fantasy universe, tense dungeon crawling, fearsome enemy encounters and unique online interactions. Dark Souls is a spiritual successor to Demons, not a sequel. Prepare for a new, despair-inducing world, with a vast, fully-explorable horizon and vertically-oriented landforms. Prepare for a new, mysterious story, centered around the Kings Crowns and the original, now dying flame at the center of the world. But most of all, prepare to die. Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition will include an untold chapter in the world of Lordran where the player must stop the spread of darkness at all costs by facing and defeating the Dark Knight Artorias. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/211420/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

July 13, 2012 UPDATE Added password option when creating premium games Fixed bug where respawn beacons would stop working View the full article

Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2:DM) Fixed a client crash on exit (after connecting to a server using sv_pure) View the full article

change list -Director updates for improved and challenging AI -Level 1 Chapter 1 remade -Environmental Content Update for all levels -Keybinding Config Fixed for new installs -Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian & Swedish localization updates http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/201070/capsule_231x87.jpg View the full article

1.0.9 CHANGES AND ADDITIONS - Added the G2G vote results concerning the "Anti-Expansionist" Horatio faction trait. FIXES - Fixed an issue where the ship design information will only display the first module of each class. - Fixed an issue where the random event duration doesn't depend on the game speed. All the version notes since the alpha version can be found at: http://forums.amplitude-studios.com/showthread.php?446-Release-Notes View the full article

- Added Templar Assassin! - Enabled Templar Assassin, Disruptor and Undying in Captain's Mode. GAMEPLAY - Bounty Hunter: Fixed Jinada proccing on Tombstone. - Broodmother: Fixed Spiderling passive proccing on magic immune units (like zombies) and spawning mass spiderlings. - Disruptor: Fixed Kinetic Field sometimes causing heroes to fail to attack a hero who is being trapped in the field. - Earthshaker: Fixed Echo Slam inital damage not hitting units through magic immunity. - Leshrac: Fixed Pulse Nova procing Essence Aura. - Lone Druid: Fixed Spirit Bear not aggroing creeps when it attacks a hero - Luna: Fixed Moon Glaive bouncing on ward type units - Luna: Fixed Moon Glaive bounce order. - Lycan: Fixed wolves having max speed for their duration after Shapeshift ends if summoned during Shapeshift. - Necrolyte: Fixed Death Pulse not healing allied magic immune units - Puck: Fixed Phase Shift proccing Essence Aura. - Rubick: Fixed being able to steal spells from their being toggled off. - Rubick: Fixed getting stuck in Flesh Golem form when respawning with the buff. - Rubick: Fixed some abilities being broken when re-stealing them, now re-stealing an ability will have no effect on your currently stolen ability. - Shadow Shaman: Fixed Ether Shock ignoring Linken's Sphere. - Spiritbreaker: Fixed Greaterbash affecting Magic Immune units when procced via other abilities - Undying: Fixed Tombstone interaction with Refresher Orb. - Undying: Fixed Deathlust sometimes not working properly. - Undying: Fixed a bug where Deathlust would sometimes not go away. - Undying: Decay now makes the target lose exactly 76 health when cast and heal exactly 76 when it ends. Before the health scaling was causing the target not to lose then gain the correct amount of health. - Wisp: Fixed Spirits exploding on illusions. - Wisp: Fixed Relocate to not teleport Wisp while dead - Improved AFK detection. - Fixed Smoke of Deceit dodging incoming projectiles if there are nearby enemy heroes. - Fixed Ethereal Blade and Black King Bar interaction. - Fixed completely-avoided damage from triggering blink dagger's cooldown. UI - Rich Presence now shows if you're casting a game. - If you buy an Aghanim's Scepter on a hero with no upgrade, this is now shown in the ability. - Battle point rate and any equipped bonuses are now shown in the inspect panel. - Numerical battle points earned (split into base and bonus) are now shown on the game end screen. - The play panel now shows matchmaking game modes and regions from the party when finding a match. - Improved unpause countdown, added UI sound. - Fixed case where we weren't properly crediting damage from summoned units/wards to their hero in the combatlog. - Added an interface setting to prevent the camera from moving upon respawn - Neutrals now have yellow healthbars when spectating. - Roshan's healthbar is now slightly bigger. - We now hide all match details until you reveal the winner. - Team names and logos are now shown on match details panel. - Fixed a handful of issues with the message and chat system when watching replays. - The killcam card now flips over to show the full body portrait. DOTA 2 BOTS - Improved how bots manage their movement while doing evasive maneuvers -- they will now consider a range of escape directions and select the best one based on other nearby avoidance zones. - Added avoidance to Disruptor's Kinetic Field (while it's forming) and Static Storm. - Improved how bots request items from the stash via the courier. The courier will now only deliver items the hero has room for, and bots will take into account projected item combines. VISUALS - Added overhead messages when items or abilities cause unnatural mana gain or loss (such as Arcane Boots). ECONOMY - A new chest with exclusive items has been spotted. - Announcers, couriers and several rare items on sale. - Added Storm Spirit announcer. - Added over 50 new community created items. View the full article

- Added latest localization files. - Fixed a crash when viewing the Achievements screen in a non-English language. View the full article

July 12, 2012 UPDATE Adjusted the amount of time you are invulnerable when spawning based on map size. Small maps will have a much smaller duration of invulnerability on spawn. UAV is easier to control now. Practice games have been removed. Sabotage is now in the Create Game menu. Misc bug fixes. View the full article

Get an extra 30% in-store credit when you trade your old games toward the purchase of Steam Wallet currency during the Steam Summer Sale!* Trades must be in full working condition to receive full value. Cannot be combined with any other offer. Trade-ins subject to manager approval. Offer valid only toward games normally accepted in trade. See store associate for details. No dealers. Offer valid in the United States, Puerto Rico and Guam only. Void where prohibited. GameStop, Inc. reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the offer for any reason, without notice. *Offer valid between 7/12 - 7/23 http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/203830/extras/gamestop.png View the full article

Nuclear Dawn Update 6.5 New Content - Added new map, Gate, one of the community mapping contest winners Enhancements - Added option to disable sniper auto-rezoom. - Added sound to notify when a vote appears. - Added community-contributed loading screen tips. Fixes - Fixed gizmo effects sometimes taking a second spawn to apply. - Fixed sorting in gizmo selection window to show the no gizmo option first. - Fixed gizmo selection panel sometimes being stuck open. - Fixed radar kit viewmodel not going invisible when stealthing. - Fixed HTML server motd messages not displaying on Macs. - Fixed Whats New update news screen not working on Macs. - Fixed Mac http custom content downloads timing out when system is configured to use a proxy server. - Fixed rank name for rank 58, Lieutenant General First Class. - Fixed sound not playing for Destroy radio command. - Fixed checkbox and radio button glyphs not displaying properly in some dialogs on Mac. - Fixed Mac showing Half-Life 2 icon when running the game. - Fixed numerous cases where a building hologram would get stuck on the build grid. - Fixed issue with invalid build button grid and unbuildable builds when first selecting assembler, then selecting control group containing units that no longer exist. - Fixed resource counter showing incorrect amount to spectators. - Fixed no commander message always displaying to spectators even when spectated team had commander. - Fixed issues with NX300 flame sometimes persisting too long in spectated view. - Fixed a case where unpowered walls were not properly taking health decay. - Fixed turret radius display being stuck on screen for commanders if leaving chair during first phase of build. - Fixed radar kits disappearing on death. - Fixed being able to move when armory class menu is open if scoreboard is also up. - Fixed chaingun spinning sound persisting through reload. - Fixed sniper overlay flash that would occur after shooting when using hold-to-zoom ironsight controls. - Fixed bots sometimes getting stuck on Consortium transport gates. - Fixed some cases where the scoreboard or MOTD panel could show over top of the map load screen. - Fixed hitgroups being ignored on in-chair commander for headshot tracking and armor calculation. - Fixed bloodspatter not showing on in-chair commander. - Fixed rare client crash when switching weapon. - Fixed U23 grenade kills showing and logging as from P12 grenade. - Fixed area in Oilfield where players could get stuck behind tanker truck near Empire base. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/17710/capsule_231x87.jpg View the full article

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include: Added Pyromania cosmetic items to the Mann Co. store All ash-related items have been faded away to dust Fixed Strange Escape Plans not counting kills Fixed missing strings for the ESL medals View the full article

Hard Reset: Exile is Now Available on Steam! Hard Reset: Exile continues the original story. Follow Major Fletcher into the Barrens - dangerous lands beyond the last human city of Bezoar, where our hero will meet new foes and make new friends. Get ready for more machine madness! Hard Reset: Exile features: - Five new levels outside Bezoar - Four new enemy types - New boss fight - Two new survival maps - Additional achievements Hard Reset: Exile is Free to all owners of Hard Reset. http://storefront.steampowered.com/v/gfx/apps/98421/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article

Source Filmmaker version 0.9.5.8 has been released. This update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: added missing view model for snipers macheteloosened resolution restriction to allow rendering in 1080p at any game window size View the full article

Today's Deal: Save 75% off Defense Grid: The Awakening! 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/18500/capsule_467x181.jpg View the full article