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Champions Online: Blood Moon Free Weekend!

Atari, Inc., one of the world’s most recognized video game publishers, and Cryptic Studios, developers of Champions Online and Star Trek Online, have released Blood Moon for Champions Online. An all new power set, new undead heroes and more await in the Blood Moon content!

In celebration of this event Champions Online is having a free weekend and a 10% discount offer until Monday!
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Steam Weekend Deal: Call of Duty 4 40% Off!

The action-thriller from the award-winning team at Infinity Ward is available for 40% off through Monday. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare arms gamers with an arsenal of advanced and powerful modern day firepower and transports them to the most treacherous hotspots around the globe to take on a rogue enemy group threatening the world.
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Trine Update Released

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

Trine

  • tweaks the last level, now much easier on Easy/Medium/Hard
  • adds save support for selected controller type
  • adds failsafes for Steam Cloud (savegames are now always saved locally too)
  • adds log support for PhysX errors
  • adds several small technical optimizations
  • fixes audio that was not stopped when skipping the end cinematic
  • fixes thin horizontal bar visible during videos on some resolutions
  • fixes break effect for objects in the last level
  • fixes two broken checkpoints in levels (4th in Shadowthorn Thicket and 10th in Iron Forge)
  • fixes some wall collisions in Iron Forge
  • fixes camera bug when restarting level during a cutscene
  • fixes bug regarding levers
  • fixes bug where enemy item drops are considered secrets
  • fixes Credits section names

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Borderlands Now Available Worldwide

The 4 player cooperative role playing shooter Borderlands is now available via Steam worldwide.

With its addictive action, frantic first-person shooter combat, massive arsenal of weaponry, RPG elements and four-player co-op, Borderlands is a breakthrough experience that challenges all the conventions of modern shooters. Borderlands places you in the role of a mercenary on the lawless and desolate planet of Pandora, hell-bent on finding a legendary stockpile of powerful alien technology known as The Vault.

Lock, Load, & Face the Madness
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Football Manager? 2010 Now Available

Football Manager™ 2010 is now available on Steam.

This highly anticipated release, the latest among the Football Manager series from SEGA and Sports Interactive, includes an improved Match View with new stadiums and crowds, a new Match Analysis tool showing players’ and teams’ strengths and weaknesses both live in-game and post-game, and an all new Tactics Creator, enabling you to instruct the team so they play the way you want.
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Killing Floor Update Released

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

Killing Floor

  • Optimized game content to reduce memory usage and improve loading times
  • Fixed acheivements that weren’t working, 3 Map Achievements for KF-Bedlam, Dot of Doom, and Mr. Perky. Mr. Perky was appearing as though it had been reset(it was working behind the scenes, but the menu functionality was not working)
  • Fixed an exploit related to weapon dropping/selling in the Perks system(that people used heavily with the Medic Gun). This exploit could be used to buy a weapon on a discount and give it to someone else that would sell the weapon for a huge profit
  • Fixed errors in Perk Descriptions (such as the menu saying the level five Sharpshooter get Dual Handcannons, when he actually gets the Lever Action
    Rifle)
  • Fixed exploits in maps Wyre and Bedlam

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Pre-purchase Tropico 3 and Save 10%

Become the dictator of a remote island during the Cold War. Charm, persuade, intimidate, oppress, or cheat your people to stay in power!

Save 10% by pre-purchasing the latest game in the Strategy/Sim Tropico franchise Tropico 3 now. Purchase on Steam and get two additional maps for the sandbox mode and two additional costumes for the el presidente avatar editor.

Releases in Germany on September 24th, all of Europe on October 16th and the rest of the world October 26th. In the mean time, play the demo for free.
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Empire: Total War™ – The Warpath Campaign DLC Now Available for Pre-Purchase

The official Empire: Total War™ Expansion, Empire: Total War™ – The Warpath Campaign is now available for pre-purchase exclusively on Steam.

A new detailed North American Campaign Map expands the Empire: Total War experience, with 5 brand new American Indian factions, new units and technologies. Experience battles in the new Warpath Campaign and lead one of the 5 new factions in an epic war to defend your lands and drive out the invaders. Or take these units and their unique strengths into multiplayer battles. Pre-purchase now and get access to the Warpath Campaign the moment it releases on Steam.
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Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood Update Released

Updates to Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

General:

  • Added auto-patching functionality
  • Added community map support for single- and multiplayer

Fixes and improvements:

  • Fixed crashing on the game start on quad core CPU systems
  • Fixed an issue resulting in lost connection to internet lobby
  • Fixed a framerate-related issue with stagecoach chase in single-player Chapter 3

Multiplayer:

  • Time limits added to multiplayer games to prevent too high money gains from a single match
  • Added the ability to disable sticky aim with dual guns
  • Spawn invincibility time extended, spawn effect changed
  • Added cheater reporting system
  • Added chat functionality on the character selection screen after death
  • Code modified to increase protection from cheats and hacks

Class balance:

  • Spy: damage increased; health increased;
  • Gunslinger: recoil reduced; accuracy improved;
  • Hombre: recoil and reload time increased; damage at long range significantly reduced;
  • Veteran: health and accuracy decreased; additional pistols removed;
  • Sniper: no-scope accuracy and damage significantly reduced; health decreased; sidearm Ranger swapped for Classic Gun

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