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Cortex Command began life as the project of a Swedish high school student. That high schooler has now turned 30, gotten married, moved to the United States and become a citizen. And, at long last, he's launched his game. Everything about Cortex Command , by Data Realms, shrieks o
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Valve did a sneaky, small-but-significant thing recently: it expanded its "Top Sellers" list on Steam to include one hundred games. The sales leaderboard doesn't tell us exactly how many copies a game sold, but it gives us a vague idea of how well certain games are doing on Steam
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This week's best deals ► Total War, EVE Online, Dragon Age Steam has routed your excuses for not trying out the Total War franchise with Rome Gold, Empire, Medieval II, Napoleon, Shogun 2, and Fall of the Samurai all for $32. Amazon will throw you pod-first into the ruthless gala
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The new Dwarf Kit for Dungeonbowl includes new ways to customise your stadiums with some ice, pipes, mines, rails and bar accessories and is Now Available on Steam! Play the fantasy American Football inspired team sport from Blood Bowl, now in challenging dungeons! The new dungeo
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Dogfight 1942 Russia Under Siege DLC is Now Available on Steam. Germany’s dominant air force is pounding at the gates of the Soviet Empire and Blitzkrieg is at full swing. It doesn't take the overwhelming Nazi force long to push the Soviets far inland, towards Moscow. Mother Russ
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Treyarch has made cool-looking stuff in the Call of Duty video games, including the introduction of the series' fan-favorite Zombie modes. You wouldn't know it, though, for how boring their offices looked. But, thanks to art collective IAm8Bit, visitors can now tell that these fo
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Carrier Command: Gaea Mission is Now Available on Steam. From the creators of the award-winning Arma™ tactical military shooter series comes a next-gen re-imagination of a groundbreaking 80s classic. Set in a vast open archipelago, Carrier Command: Gaea Mission brings a breathtak
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Post-PAX Feedback Patch - Added Act and Chapter headings at the beginning of each campaign level. - Added final block text to each level that isn't a boss fight. - Added Checkpoints so you can leave the game and resume at the same block. These are stored in Steam Stats so they ar
Read articleCortex Command is now available on Steam for both PC and Mac. Buy it once. Play it on both Mac & PC! Purchase now and save 10%*. A project over eleven years in the making, Cortex Command has rich 2D pixel graphics coupled with an extremely detailed physics engine, which allow
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In celebration of the new Steam Workshop for Total War: Shogun 2, save 25% off the entire Total War Franchise and even bigger saving on select Total War titles each day, now through October 1st at 10am Pacific Time. Today only, save 75% off Napoleon: Total War and Empire: Total W
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Phys are reporting that a University Of Texas team won a $7000 in a competition to create game bots that would pass as human. “The winning bots both achieved a humanness rating of 52 percent. Human players received an average humanness rating of only 40 percent. The two winning t
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Today's Deal: Save 75% off The Binding of Isaac ! 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!
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Recent rumblings from the Creative Assembly mod summit suggested that a Shogun 2 Steam Workshop and mod tools were on the way, and now they're here! You can peruse the Shogun 2 section of the Steam Workshop to download new maps and mods right now. On the TWCenter forums CA announ
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Hey all! Thanks for talking about the game here—whether you liked it or not, I appreciate the discussion; that's exactly what the game was supposed to do. When Home was released in the summer, I held a postmortem and sorta-launch party here in Toronto. A local photographer was ki
Read articleHey all! Thanks for talking about the game here—whether you liked it or not, I appreciate the discussion; that's exactly what the game was supposed to do. When Home was released in the summer, I held a postmortem and sorta-launch party here in Toronto. A local photographer was ki
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What's the most badass weapon you've seen in Borderlands 2 ? We'll start. Above is my favorite and best weapon. Sure, I've got a Tediore rocket launcher that does over 10k damage. (Although the danger with having a Tediore-made rocket launcher is that I'll forget it shoots out an
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An innocent tour of Ubisoft's studio sends this poor traveler smack in the middle of the crazy, savage Far Cry 3 world. FinalCutKing's journey is part beautiful, part incredibly dangerous, much like the game itself will be. There must have been quite a lot of drugs inhaled in tha
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Another Indie Royale bundle is on the march, offering another six games and a few bonuses on the cheap. This one is is the "Oktoberfest" bundle, but unfortunately that does not mean you get a free German stout for paying more than the minimum cost. The bundle includes the Hector:
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I’m feeling pretty good, which is exactly the sort of thing one should never say in FTL. Doom, disaster and dismay inevitably looms, but having pulled my ship and my crew back from the brink of disaster at least I’ve got a war story out of it. Now, let’s see what’s out there in S
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Taleworlds are working on a sequel to Mount and Blade subtitled "Bannerlord" according to the teaser trailer posted on the Mount and Blade site. There are no screenshots or details at all yet, but this is excellent news nonetheless. Mount and Blade 2 promises to once again "take
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