Updates to King Arthur – The Role-playing Wargame have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.
The major changes include:

King Arthur – The Role-playing Wargame v1.02

• Improved movement during melee
• Increased battle sound range
• Added “beginner” difficulty level
• Added sounds of unit selection in battles
• Added marking own and enemy units (hotkey Tab)
• Added invert mouse zoom checkbox in battle Options
• Added rotate / strafe camera checkbox in battle Options
• Added camera lock to the selected unit (hotkey Ctrl + Q)
• Added “weakening archers” checkbox in Campaign map Options
• Added divide army and recruiting icons in the army window as well
• Added more detailed information about missing drivers, if any
• Added disband option of units in a visible enemy army removed
• Fixed font size bug on the loading screens
• Fixed game crash bugs
• Console for cheats
• Creating screenshots (hotkey Ctrl + Space)
• 1440×900 resolution available

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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:

Left 4 Dead 2

• Fixed case where game failed to launch in certain machine configurations
• Fixed bug where a burning witch could get into a state where she’s invincible
• Fixed bug where bots would not shoot at Jockeys and Chargers while approaching to save a teammate

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James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game is now available in North, Central, and South America via Steam and is coming Dec 3 to Additional territories.

Check out the PC Digital Exclusive Special Edition, which includes the base game plus 6 additional weapons and 2 skins, one Na’vi and one RDA factions.

About James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game:
Based on the highly anticipated film James Cameron’s Avatar, the video game will take you deep into the heart of Pandora, an alien planet that is beyond imagination. Gamers will encounter the Na’vi, Pandora’s indigenous people and discover other life forms the likes of which have never been seen in the world of video games before. When conflict erupts between the RDA Corporation, a space-faring consortium in search of valuable resources, and the Na’vi, gamers will find themselves thrust into a fight for the heart of a planet and the fate of a civilization.
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RailSimulator.com has released the V2 Steam Locomotive DLC which includes the Gresley V2 2-6-2 Steam Locomotive, 3 new rolling stocks, and 6 new scenarios!
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Zeno Clash, an action/fighting game set in a punk fantasy world is available for 66% off until December 3rd!
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Bethesda Softworks brings to Steam: Rogue Warrior! Rogue Warrior is a character-driven, first-person-shooter, featuring Richard ‘Demo Dick’ Marcinko’s explosive personality in an action-packed single player campaign, and intense multiplayer combat.
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The Empire: Total War™ – Elite Units of America Downloadable Content adds 15 new elite units to the American, British and French factions of Empire: Total War. Pick up this DLC to unlock all 15 new Elite Units of America while playing the single player campaign. The Elite Units of America will also be available in multiplayer and single player battle modes, when playing with the appropriate faction.

Pre-purchase the Elite Units of America DLC and be ready to play the moment the content is released on Dec 7.
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Sam & Max Season One has released additional language support for their titles and is offering the package at 33% off until December 2nd!
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Updates to Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

• Fixed crashing on cut scene with the Ugh Zan boss on some machines.
• Fixed not storing keyboard and mouse bindings on some machines.
• Sound system through XAudio2 API now correctly supports various speakers setups (mono, stereo, stereo LFE 2.1, quadraphonic 4.0, surround 5.0, surround LFE 5.1, 6.1 and 7.1).
• Fixed problem when sound system (XAudio2 API) cannot be initialized on audio configs that support and use sample rate higher than 48KHz.
• Added sfx_iAudioDevice cvar, used to select sound device used by the game (0=default device, 1=2nd device and so on).
• Maximum allowed sample rate used by XAudio2 mixer can now be set with ‘xad_iMaxSampleRate’ cvar (0=unlimited, use what’s set by system).
• Improved dynamic texture upload control, which should lessen stuttering when entering new scenes.
• Updated autodetection for Radeon HD4600 series boards.
• Completely reworked the chat console. It now uses a larger font, scales with the HUD, supports word wrap, limits line length, etc.
• Player name in short list limited to 25 characters.
• Added cvars hud_bShowShortPlayerList and hud_fShortPlayerListScale.
• Added plr_bAllowPlayerAutoJump cvar.
• Added hud_bFixedCroshair cvar.
• Fixed cases where player names would show up as [unknown] in coop games.
• Removed tooltip which collides with the refresh button on join game menu.
• Improved error logging when crashing.
• Updated string input menu to allow menu exit via Num Enter key.

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Updates to Football Manager 2010 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Football Manager 2010 v10.1.1

• Fixed the game running out of memory when entering a match for some users
• Fixed a rare crash in the tactics panel
• Fixed rare issue with score divergence
• Fixed occasional crash when responding to red card

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The Steam Early Holiday Sale ends after today. This is your last chance to get the LucasArts and THQ game packages.

Here are Monday’s discounts:

Quantz – Just 2 USD/2 GBP/2 EUR
The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition – 75% off
Mirror’s Edge™ – 75% off
Evil Genius – 75% off
Section 8 – 50% off
The Chronicles of Riddick™ Assault on Dark Athena – 50% off
Dawn of Discovery® – 30% off
Call of Juarez®: Bound in Blood – 30% off

Also look for deeply discounted publisher packs available throughout the duration of the sale from LucasArts and THQ. TheLucasArts Premiere Pack contains 16 great games and the THQ Complete Pack has 18 top games – both for unbelievably low prices.
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The Steam Early Holiday Sale continues today.

Here are Sunday’s discounts – you have 24 hours to take advantage of these deals before Monday’s games roll in at 8:00 AM PST.

World of Goo – 75% off
EVE Online: Apocrypha – 75% off
Lucidity™ – 75% off
Battlefield 2: Complete Collection – 50% off
Prince of Persia® and everything else Prince of Persia® – 50% off
Guild Wars® Trilogy – 50% off
Trackmania United Forever – 50% off

Also look for deeply discounted publisher packs available throughout the duration of the sale from LucasArts and THQ. Grab the LucasArts Premiere Pack at 60% off, containing 16 classic hit titles like The Secret of Monkey Island®: Special Edition, Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™, and Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™. The THQ Complete Pack has 18 top games for an unbelievably low price.

Visit www.steamgames/early-holiday each day after 8am PST for another bunch of great buys.
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Oh my, the Valve Time countdown timer hit zero and Steam got clobbered. We’ve added more kerosene, primed the engine, pulled the crank and kicked the server a few times and it looks like we can continue with the sale for another day. Thanks for your patience.

The Steam Early Holiday Sale continues today. The sale features a new line-up of select games at deep discounts for one day each – through Monday.

Here are Saturday’s discounts – same drill as yesterday, except this time you only have 23 and 1/2 hours to take advantage of these deals before Sunday’s games roll in at 8:00 AM PST.

Left 4 Dead: Game of the Year Edition – 75% off
Order of War™ – 75% off
Resident Evil™ 5 – 50% off
Ghostbusters: The Videogame – 50% off
SPORE™ and everything else SPORE™ – 50% off
Trine – 50% off
City of Heroes® Architect Edition – 50% off
Borderlands – 33% off

Also look for deeply discounted publisher packs available throughout the duration of the sale. Grab the LucasArts Premiere Pack at 60% off, containing 16 classic hit titles like The Secret of Monkey Island®: Special Edition, Star Wars®: Knights of the Old Republic™, and Indiana Jones® and the Fate of Atlantis™.

Visit www.steamgames/early-holiday each day after 8am PST for another bunch of great buys.
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