Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in Star Ruler, now available on Steam.

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Version 2.4

• Crash: Fixed crash in audio initialization.
• Game: AI now chooses enemy targets on a more random basis.
• Game: Fixed issue with Bruja Heart item not working.
• Game: Camera no longer automatically zooms out after all ships have orders. Player can manually invoke camera reset by clicking mousewheel.
• Game: Fixed Adventure issue where player has no more planets to visit.
• Controls: Q and E now lower/raise the camera.
• Controls: can now use numpad for camera control.

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Updates to Patrician IV have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

1.1.3

• Improved visual quality and detail of world map
• Added individual textures for various regions
• Added individual houses for various regions
• Improved behaviour of user interface for several menus
• Added new missions, sabotage options, marriage and family feature
• Fixed audio sync for tutorial videos
• Game is now paused in trade window
• Added several new events: Fire, Castaway encounters, Harbour blockades, etc. (some events only available on expert difficulty)
• Resolved crashes under rare circumstances
• Event log entries can now be deleted
• Reduced volume of money jingle
• AI players do not comment the building of every structure
• Fixed issues related to convoy management
• Fixed issues related to mission assignments
• Fixed issues while switching between Counting Houses
• Fixed issues with automatic display resolution/refresh rate detection on some systems
• Fixed mouse scrolling issues
• Fixed display errors for trade routes
• Fixed issues related to building city walls
• Fixed volume settings not being saved properly
• Fixed crashes due to task-switching or resolution changes
• New shipyards can no longer construct researched vessels
• Increased variety and frequency of sovereign requests
• In sea battles, a sound is now played for every individual cannon fired
• Pirates are no longer able to travel rivers with Holks
• Improved building behaviour of AI
• After moving from a newly founded town, the player remains a mayer in this town

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King’s Bounty: Crossworlds is the latest addition to the popular King’s Bounty Series. Also available on Steam is the King’s Bounty: Platinum Edition, which features King’s Bounty: Legend, King’s Bounty: Armored Princess and King’s Bounty: Crossworlds.

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You can now enjoy Patrician IV, the sequel to the historical trading simulation and strategy series. Rise through the ranks using your increasing fame and wealth to shape towns from small villages to glorious capitals under your control!

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This weekend, take advantage of huge savings on Monkey Island! Save 50% on The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition, Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ or buy them both with the new Monkey Island: Special Edition Bundle.

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Healthpackalypse, This or That?, The Comic should come in what form?

Healthpackalypse!

No health in this versus game.

Grind down the Survivors and don’t worry about them bouncing back. With no Health kits in Versus, their permanent health is on a one way ride to zero.

This or That?

For the new DLC for Left 4 Dead 1 and Left 4 Dead 2, “The Sacrifice” we have a Comic, Teaser movie and of course the game. Do you prefer to get a more in depth preview through the comic? Watch the teaser? Wait for the game? Or All of the above?

Here are the votes by platform.

Xbox 360

38% All of the above

33% Watch the Teaser

21% Wait for the game

8% Read the Comic

PC

31% Watch the Teaser

30% All of the above

25% Wait for the game

14% Read the Comic

What Form?

We released the Comic on the web last week. Another issues is coming out on Monday. Besides being released on the web, are there other formats you would like to see?

Next week’s mutation: Developer’s Choice!
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Delve Deeper is a turn-based Adventure/Strategy game that combines HD pixel art, tile placement, and RPG elements in a bright and humorous atmosphere. Up to four players take command of Dwarf mining teams in this fast and furious dungeon adventure meets devious puzzler, building the map as you play for an ever-changing, endlessly replayable strategy experience for you and your three best friends, or three devious AI teams.

“Delve Deeper from Lunar Giant Studios is a new turn-based strategy title for the PC that goes into a special class of games close to my heart,” says Patrick Watts of The Adrenaline Vault. Michael Rose of Indie Games says, “It’s seriously good fun and quite unique – I certainly haven’t seen anything like it before.”

Features:

• Gorgeous HD Pixel art, quirky humor, and the ever-present King of Dwarves.
• Pick your own team of 5 Dwarves from Fighters, Scouts and Miners
• Battle 20 powerful Monsters including Goblins, Evil Dwarves, and huge Dragons!
• Collect over 100 relics to power up your Dwarves, and view them later in The Royal Gallery!
• Earn 50 different Steam Achievements
• Track 48 collectible statistics

About Lunar Giant Studios
An independent game company from Batavia, Illinois, Lunar Giant Studios is committed to building ambitious, solidly designed and professionally drawn games with a retro-gaming flair.

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The new featured campaign is City 17. If it seems familiar, it should, it is based on Half-Life 2: Episode 1. While it is may be lacking Gordon, Alyx, and Barney it’s not lacking zombies. And no, they aren’t your head-crab induced zombies, these are full on Left 4 Dead 2 zombies.

This 5 map campaign offers great Coop and Versus gameplay.

To download and play City 17 please visit our friends at L4DMaps.com

Double clicking the vpk should install it but you can also copy the vpk to \Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2\addons Either way that is where the vpks need to end up.

Start up Left 4 Dead 2.

Choose to play online and any available game/lobby in your area will show up. Or you can create your own game and choose addons and select City 17 for the campaign.

Since we have the servers up, you can choose Official Dedicated for server type.

We recently released the covers for all four parts of “The Sacrifice” comic. As soon as we did, we started getting requests for the unadorned artwork for desktop wallpaper. So here they are:

The first part of the comic just came out yesterday and is available here.

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THQ announced today that Warhammer® 40,000®: Dawn of War II ® – Retribution™ will use Steamworks networking and matchmaking to provide co-operative and competitive online play. Dawn of War II – Retribution will be a completely stand alone title in the series and will provide multiple campaigns to play, as well as all six multiplayer races, with new units for each of the existing five races and one new unannounced one.
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Three new game expansions for Elven Legacy are now available on Steam! You can enjoy Elven Legacy: Magic, Elven Legacy: Ranger and Elven Legacy: Siege or purchase the Elven Legacy Collection.

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Football Manager 2011 is the latest iteration of the award-winning Football Manager series, and if you purchase before launch you will receive select games from SEGA Genesis Classics Collections 1 + 2 for FREE!

The 2011 edition of Football Manager will be more polished than ever, and Sports Interactive will again set a new standard for the genre by adding a host of new features.

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Left 4 Dead comics are here!

Welcome to the first chapter in our four-part Left 4 Dead comic, the Sacrifice! Find out what happens after the military rescued Francis, Louis, Zoey, and Bill at the end of the original Left 4 Dead in four weekly installments, each a whopping 40-plus pages of story and art. Then, download the new DLC “The Sacrifice”, where we put the story’s conclusion into your hands.

Read Part One here.

“The Sacrifice” DLC will be available for both Left 4 Dead 1 and Left 4 Dead 2 on October 5th for PC, Xbox 360 and Mac.
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