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The STEAM Sales and Releases Thread

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is. Serpent in the Staglands Dead State Divinity: Original Sin Project: Eternity Torment: Tides of Numenera Wasteland 2 Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 A Beautifully Desolate Campaign Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Pathfinder: Kingmaker Pathfinder: Wrath I'm very into cock and ball torture I helped put crap in Monomyth
https://www.pcgamer.com/whoops-steam-accidentally-pulled-rockstars-games-from-sale-earlier-today/

Whoops: Steam accidentally pulled Rockstar's games from sale earlier today
It's fixed now—and for a brief shining moment, Midnight Club 2 was back, too.

There was a brief burst of excitement and confusion earlier today after a large number of Rockstar games, including Grand Theft Auto 5, Red Dead Redemption 2, LA Noire, Max Payne 3, and Bully, were "retired" from Steam, meaning that they were no longer available for purchase on the storefront. Fortunately, it turned out to be a mistake, and everything came back—including, for a very short period of time, one game that wasn't supposed to.

The big blowout was logged on SteamDB, which tracks just about everything that happens on Steam. Not that many years ago, this sequence of database changes likely would've been interpreted as a technical problem right away, but the proliferation of non-Steam storefronts, including Rockstar's own launcher and the Epic Games Store (which, you'll recall, had a brief semi-exclusive on RDR2 when it came to PC in 2019) made us momentarily consider the possibility that Rockstar was making a big move aimed at establishing its own storefront as a standalone player.

Within 30 minutes of their removal, however, all of the games were "unretired" and back on sale. Sources at the companies tell PC Gamer that the whole thing was accidental.

While fixing the error, another accident occurred: Midnight Club 2, the most excellent 2003 street racing game that was delisted from Steam in early 2018 (reportedly due to expiring soundtrack licenses), was put back on sale along with everything else.

Despite pretty obviously being unintentional, I unrealistically hoped that Rockstar would let it slide. Alas, it was not to be: About an hour after it went back on sale, it was taken down again. The good news is that it looks like at least a few people were able to grab it before it was taken down. According to Steamcharts, Midnight Club 2's peak concurrent player count climbed to 40 today, the highest it's been since August 2017.
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https://www.pcgamer.com/rockstar-quietly-makes-all-max-payne-3-and-la-noire-dlc-free/

Rockstar quietly makes all Max Payne 3 and LA Noire DLC free
The update snuck in during last night's Steam troubles.

All pieces of DLC for Max Payne 3 and LA Noire are now free on Steam, as part of a small update pushed by Rockstar last night.

Last night was a weird one for Rockstar. The studio's entire catalogue was briefly pulled from Steam, reappearing 30 minutes later. On their return, Midnight Club 2 (which was removed from sale in 2018) was re-listed, though Rockstar would take it back down an hour later.

As a quiet upside to all the chaos, Max Payne 3 and LA Noire were issued small updates. While 32-bit support for both has now been deprecated, all currently available DLC for the two games are now completely free and included in their respective base games by default. If you own either, you've got 'em.

Okay, so it's no Midnight Club 2. But if you weren't one of the lucky few to grab the elusive racer, free DLC for two entirely different flavours of hard-boiled cop story is a welcome consolation prize—even if it's for it to arrive, unannounced, almost a decade after either game was released.
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Vermintide 2 is having a Sale and Free Weekend till Monday, where everyone can download and play for the occasion of the new Free DLC/Game Mode:
 
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LudoNarraCon, a small narrative game festival including demos: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/ludonarracon

This is LudoNarraCon

Do you love narrative video games? Then LudoNarraCon 2021 is the right place for you!

LudoNarraCon 2021 is the third edition of an annual digital festival held exclusively on Steam to celebrate narrative video games and the developers that make them. Conceived and organised by indie label Fellow Traveller, the event is available for free to everyone to attend and free for developers to exhibit at.

Behind the scenes content and live Q&As from 44 exhibiting developers, all making story-rich game
34 narrative game demos to download and play, all featured in our demo section
Get great discounts on more than 125 story-rich games in the LudoNarraCon sale
Watch over 17 hours of original panels, talks and fireside chats about narrative games and game development
Support the event and help fund new initiatives by purchasing the Supporters Pack, featuring an exclusive game commissioned for the festival, a 34-track album and a wealth of wallpapers

Find out more at ludonarracon.com.
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Playstation Studio is a thing now on Steam
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https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40379962

Can't understand the actions.
They invested in Epic but put their games on Steam?
 
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Well they obviously want to build an audience on PC, not just short-term profits. Also Sony's investments on Epic is not only about games but also about movies, look at more and more film studios are using Unreal for production.
 
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Capcom's resurrection of arcade games coming to Steam.

Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection, a new Ghosts 'n Goblins game.



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Capcom Arcade Stadium, collection of emulated arcade games.



Base thing is free with one game (1943) included. Buying all 30 games will cost $40, individual game costs $2. Also they sell invincibility cheat for a buck.
 
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