Mar 19, 2013

Midweek Madness - Magic The Gathering, 50% Off

Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 - Valve

Save 50% on Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 during this week's Midweek Madness*!

Face a greater challenge with Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013!

In the latest version of this hit franchise, play with friends or the AI as you travel across fantastic planes, take on new encounters and opponents, solve challenging puzzles, and face up to three other players in the Planechase multiplayer format. After honing your skills, pit yourself against the ultimate villain of the Multiverse, the dragon Planeswalker Nicol Bolas.

Featuring ten customizable decks, Magic 2013 offers new features including individual records for your game play, new game items to unlock, and, for those already skilled in slinging spells, the option to choose what lands to tap when you cast your spells.

*Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time

Mar 19, 2013

Midweek Madness - Saints Row: The Third, 66% Off

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Save 66% on Saints Row: The Third during this week's Midweek Madness*!

Years after taking Stilwater for their own, the Third Street Saints have evolved from street gang to household brand name, with Saints sneakers, Saints energy drinks and Johnny Gat bobble head dolls all available at a store near you.

The Saints are kings of Stilwater, but their celebrity status has not gone unnoticed. The Syndicate, a legendary criminal fraternity with pawns in play all over the globe, has turned its eye on the Saints and demands tribute. Refusing to kneel to the Syndicate, you take the fight to Steelport, a once-proud metropolis reduced to a struggling city of sin under Syndicate control.

*Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time

Mar 19, 2013

New DLC Available - Aliens: Colonial Marines - Bug Hunt DLC

Aliens: Colonial Marines Collection - Valve

Aliens: Colonial Marines - Bug Hunt DLC, all new content for Aliens: Colonial Marines is Now Available on Steam.

This pack lets up to 4 friends play together, across 3 new maps, in an all new multiplayer mode - Bug Hunt.

Bug Hunt is an objective based horde mode where accuracy and teamwork are key as you battle to survive 30 waves of increasingly challenging xenos and enemy Weyland-Yutani soldiers. Fight the fear across 3 brand-new maps: Broadside, Mercenary and Tribute. Spend money earned from killing xenos and enemy soldiers on extra guns, ammo and health as well as opening up access to new areas of the map and suppressing enemy waves by capturing beacon points.

Users that own the Season Pass will receive the Bug Hunt DLC and do not need to purchase it separately.

To celebrate, Aliens: Colonial Marines is 33% off until March 26th at 10AM Pacific Time.

Mar 19, 2013

Now Available - Lunar pack, 20% off!

Lunnye Devitsy - Valve

Lunar pack is Now Available on Steam and is 20% off!

Includes two great Indie games Lunnye Devitsy and Wake from the developers of Really Big Sky.

Lunnye Devitsy is the story of an alien who falls from the moon onto a huge mountainside on the planet below. Explore strange locations, aid mysterious characters and find your way home.

Wake is the story of an engineer trapped on a sinking ship. Navigate through the ship however you want to find your way to the surface above, but avoid the ship's corrupted security system!

*Offer end March 26th at 10AM Pacific Time

Mar 19, 2013

Worms Armageddon Update Released

Worms Armageddon - Valve

Updates to Worms Armageddon have been released, this will update your game to version 3.7.2.1. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes from Deadcode and CyberShadow include:

• Added support for loading WormKit modules.
• Added an option to select a graphics API to use. Available options are: 8-bit DirectDraw, 32-bit DirectDraw, Direct3D 7, Direct3D 9 (CPU palette transform), Direct3D 9 (shader palette transform). The Steam overlay is now accessible when using the Direct3D API.
• Added options to control vertical synchronization and enable additional assisted vertical synchronization.
• The "/open" command can now be used to reopen WormNET games.
• Translatable strings have been moved into external text files. Various translations have been updated with user-contributed improvements.
• Various other fixes and improvements. A full change log with more details is available in the "Worms Armageddon Update Documentation" file included with the game.

Mar 18, 2013

Now Available - Pro Evolution Soccer 2013, 10% off!

Product Release - Valve

Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 is Now Available on Steam and is 10% off!

Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 returns to its roots with the emphasis on the individual skills of the world’s best players and giving the player the total freedom to play any style of ball, to any teammate, anywhere on the pitch. It is the most faithful re-creation of modern day football to date.

Enjoy the authentic football experience through a variety of modes. You can play as a team to win various cups, experience the football player life (Become a Legend), manage your team to become true champions (Master League), and join the excitement of many more challenges through both offline and online features.

*Offer ends March 25th at 5PM Pacific Time

Mar 18, 2013

Guns of Icarus Online Update Released

Guns of Icarus Online - Valve

Update 1.1.5

Features

- Added support for most character sets in chat, including Cyrillic alphabet
- Added AI name tags with class indicator
- Announce part destructions and kills from the Tar Barrel skill (as with ramming, destructions are credited to the player on the helm)
- Spectators: new UI providing detailed information on ships and crew.
- Spectators: always show crewmembers on a ship you’re orbiting

Balance

- Rebalanced rebuild game so that engines are slightly easier to repair than before.

Fixes and Optimization

- Fixed excessive lens distortion on high-zoom scoped weapons (e.g. Mercury)
- Fixed gun rotation bug that led to shots not going where expected when the gun was rotated partially in both axes
- Enabled new packet CRC functionality; this should fix router-specific disconnection errors (WRT54G and others)

- Made a number of server fixes to improve performance and reduce/eliminate slow-time:
-- Eliminated the (completely pointless) physics cost for spectators
-- Improved physics performance in general
-- AI crewmembers raycast for line-of-sight less frequently
-- Improved networking performance; in particular, the amount of load per-user-per-object has been reduced.

- Fixed a number of bugs related to asset loading
- Fixed a bug where map name would not update after a vote
- Fixed a number of Explicit AFK bugs, particularly related to respawn

- Made several changes to graphics options (will be reset to default values):
-- Excessive/redundant entries in graphics options removed
-- Fixed a bug with initial resolution detection
-- Fixed several bugs related to resolution settings

- Fixed an issue where AI gunners would not perform the correct line-of-sight check under 300 meters
- Fixed shader issue that could cause aliasing around objects silhouetted against smoke particles
- Fixed trails so they properly fade out.

Mar 18, 2013

Now Available - DLC Quest

DLC Quest - Valve

DLC Quest is Now Available on Steam and is 20% off!

What happens when DLC practices go too far? An indie developer makes a game that mocks the industry and its foibles, that's what! Defeat the bad guy, save the world and get the girl! But first you'll need to find coins to buy DLC to enable animation, sound and even pausing.

Thankfully this is just satire and all the DLC is purchased with in-game coins. But consider it a cautionary tale for the future...

*Offer ends March 25th at 10AM Pacific Time

Mar 18, 2013

Now Available - Ultratron, 50% off!

Ultratron - Valve

Ultratron is Now Available on Steam and is 50% off*!

Experience the addictive gameplay of old-school arcade favourites, updated and improved for the 21st century!

The last human has been slain by evil killer robots. You are the one remaining humanoid battle droid. Your mission: avenge the human race! Boost your battledroid with powerups, buy cute but deadly pets in the shop. Blast your way through 40+ glowing neon levels, avoiding Chasers, Turrets, Spawners, Minelayers, bombs, and bullets, and take on the four giant boss 'bots of the Apocalypse - Ieiunitas, Bellum, Lues and Letum!

*Offer ends March 29th at 10AM Pacific Time