Steam News announces a 75% off sale on Mount & Blade: Warband that coincides with a free weekend for the hack and slash game: "Mount & Blade: Warband now includes Steam Workshop integration and has just released on Mac & Linux! To celebrate, play the full game for FREE starting now through Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also pickup Mount & Blade: Warband at 75% off the regular price!" Here's more on the new platforms:

Mount&Blade Warband is now functional on OS X and Linux platforms and has enabled support for Module downloading with Steam Workshop. These features are only newly released and there might be a few hiccups. Just let us know in the Steam or TaleWorlds forums and we'll continue to fix and improve our support.

This is the reason for the patches occurring over the past couple of days. Happy Mount&Blading!