Steam News

Shattered Horizon Update Released

November 20, 2009, 10:25 am - Valve - Product Update

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

Update 1.0.2.3

• Controls: Each grenade type can now be assigned to a separate quick-select key.
  
• Controls: "Roll left" and "Roll right" can now be assigned to individual keys. You can also adjust the roll speed when using keys.
  
• Controls: Help screens and FPS-counter controls can now be bound to different keys in the controls menu.
  
• Controls: Added mouse wheel support to controls.
  
• Graphics: The color of the EMP lightning effect on players and the gun has been changed from blue to white to reduce team confusion when MCC (yellow) players are EMPed. The EMP particle effect however is still blue and will be changed in a future update.
  
• In-game chat: When typing a message, a history of all in-game chat will appear. The text will disappear automatically after a short time.
  
• Fixed: Firing weapon in silent running mode now plays the correct muffled audio.
  
• Fixed: Rare bug that caused rendering to freeze while the game continued running.
  
• Fixed: Ocassional issue that resulted in a player spawning into a level with too much speed.
  
• Fixed: Issue where shadows could initialize incorrectly, causing aliased sharp edges.
  
• Fixed: Issue where in-game chat lines could appear on top of each other.
  
• Fixed: Bug that allowed in-game chat to be used while in silent running mode.
  

Killing Floor Update Released

November 19, 2009, 4:13 pm - Valve - Product Update

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

• Fixed exploits on KF-Bedlam, KF-BioticsLab, KF-Farm, KF-Manor, KF-Offices, and KF-Wyre
  
• Further reduced the memory utilization in the Killing Floor Client
  

King's Bounty Armored Princess Now Available

November 19, 2009, 3:31 pm - Valve - Product Release

King's Bounty: Armored Princess is a sequel to the critically acclaimed King's Bounty: The Legend. You will take on the role of Princess Amelie who travels around the world of Teana and searches for the renowned knight, and her mentor, Bill Gilbert.

Blood Bowl Dark Elves Edition Pre-Purchase Now!

November 19, 2009, 1:20 pm - Valve - Product Release

This video game adaptation of Games Workshop's famous board game combines a fine balance of tactics and bonecrunching action! Blood Bowl Dark Elves Edition offers 2 radically different game modes, 9 different races, and much more. Pre-purchase Blood Bowl Dark Elves Edition and save 10% until November 26th!

Ninja Blade Now Available!

November 19, 2009, 12:46 pm - Valve - Product Release

Ninja Blade, an exciting action packed title from Noviy Disk is now available on Steam for 10% off for the first week!

Star Wars Galaxies™: The Complete Online Adventures Now Available and 50% Off until November 26th

November 19, 2009, 10:38 am - Valve - Product Release

Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures is the most complete Star Wars Galaxies experience ever, and now includes An Empire Divided™, Jump to Lightspeed™, Rage of the Wookiees™, and Trials of Obi-Wan™, plus the all new Star Wars Galaxies™ Trading Card Game: Champions of the Force!

Shattered Horizon Guest Passes!

November 19, 2009, 10:17 am - Valve - General Announcement

Futuremark Games Studio is now offering 3 guest passes with a purchase of Shattered Horizon. Any current owners should also receive 3 guest passes to hand out to friends they want to play with.

Shattered Horizon is the highly anticipated first game from Futuremark Games Studio that immerses you in the cold reality of combat in space like no other game before.

Weekend Deal: Frontlines 75% Off

November 19, 2009, 9:49 am - Valve - General Announcement

Frontlines™: Fuel of War™ is available for 75% off until Monday! Frontlines™: Fuel of War™ is an open-world First Person Shooter set on the frontlines of tomorrow. In a world ravaged by a global energy crisis, environmental decay, and economic depression, players assume the role of an elite soldier in the Western Coalition Army on an epic crusade against the Red Star Alliance to control the last of the world's oil reserves.

Steam client update released

November 18, 2009, 2:15 pm - Valve - Steam Client Update

A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:

Steam Client

• Fixed Left 4 Dead 2 gifts not showing up in recipients games list until after redemption via email even if sent directly to the account
  
• Fixed steam client displaying "scanning for updates" while decrypting newly unlocked content
  
• Prevent client from displaying or allowing a user to select an unavailable language for a game
  
• Improve game installation progress display
  
• Fixed games sometimes spuriously launching after they get updated
  

R.U.S.E VIP Beta Coming Soon

November 18, 2009, 12:08 pm - Valve - General Announcement

Ubisoft is pleased to announce the R.U.S.E. extended multiplayer VIP beta, available via Steam starting November 30, 2009.

VIP beta content will initially include two factions (US and Germany) and three multiplayer maps, with additional content being added throughout the beta.

Join the official R.U.S.E. Steam Community Group for details and to keep up-to-date with the latest news and events.