Steam News

Half-Life's Dr. Gordon Freeman Wins Gamespot's "All Time Greatest Game Hero" Contest

October 16, 2009, 1:39 pm - Valve - Press Release

To celebrate Gamespot's "All Time Greatest Game Hero" award to Half-Life's Dr. Gordon Freeman we are offering all Half-Life games at 55.8% off!

There are other great game heroes, and we're gonna let you play with them, but Gordon Freeman is THE BEST GAME HERO OF ALL TIME at least according to 55.8% of the gaming public - thank you to all who voted.

STEAM WEEKEND DEAL - 66% Off Everything Half-Life and 10% Off The Valve Complete Pack

August 13, 2009, 6:45 pm - Valve

This weekend only! Save 66% on everything Half-Life. Or get the Valve Complete Pack for 10% off.


The Valve Complete Pack
Half-Life Complete Pack
Half-Life 1 Anthology (Pack)
Half-Life 2 Complete Pack
Half-Life Episode Pack

Half-Life
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Half-Life: Blue Shift
Half-Life: Source
Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released

October 22, 2008, 4:40 pm - Valve - Product Update

A new set of Steamworks features have been released for all Half-Life 1 engine multiplayer games: Counter-Strike 1.6, Condition Zero, Team Fortress Classic, Deathmatch Classic, Ricochet, Day of Defeat and Half-life 1 Deathmatch. The update includes Steamworks features such as player avatars in the scoreboard when playing Counter-Strike and Condition Zero. The update also contains several bug fixes, listed below. Note that this update will require all game servers to restart.

Bug Fixes

• Removed the need to manually re-login and re-authenticate to Steam while in game
  
• Fixed a crash on startup when running windowed with a non-standard desktop resolution
  
• Removed the display of saytext (in-game chat text) from players whom you've blocked in Steam friends
  
• Locked down several engine cvars to prevent malicious script exploits
  
• Enforced file consistency on several sprites in Counter-Strike
  
• Removed "ex_extrapmax" cvar (no longer needed)
  

• Added "-noaff" command-line option to disable setting of thread affinity
  
• Added "bannedcfg" cvar so admins can choose which file is written to by the "writeid" command
  

Source and Half-Life 1 Dedicated Server Update Released

March 8, 2006, 6:06 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to the Source and Half-Life 1 Dedicated Server have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Both

• Reduced CPU spikes and overall load during server operation
  
• Fixed serveral crash bugs on Linux systems running older GLIBC versions
  

• Clamped the size of the WeaponList network message to prevent a potential buffer overflow exploit (found by Niall FitzGibbon)

Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released

November 21, 2005, 5:42 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to the Half-Life 1 Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Half-Life 1 Engine

• Fixed Asian language versions displaying corrupt characters
  
• Fixed Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes not loading cz_alamo2 correctly
  
• Fixed being unable to launch Half-Life: Blue Shift if you didn't own Half-Life 1
  

• Added new clientcvar2 cvar query interface for developers
  
• Fixed "-sport" and "+ip" command line options being ignored on startup
  

Source Engine and Half-Life 1: Engine Updates Available

October 3, 2005, 5:11 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to the Source Engine and Half-Life 1: Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Source Engine

• Fixed loading error when trying to debug Source MODs using the SDK
  
• Fixed a startup crash in Windows 98
  

• Fixed name exploit causing client crash

COUNTER-STRIKE: SOURCE AND HALF-LIFE 1: ANTHOLOGY AVAILABLE NOW AT NORTH AMERICA RETAIL OUTLETS

September 28, 2005, 11:37 am - Valve - General Announcement

Valve Corporation today announced that Counter-Strike™: Source™ and the Half-Life® 1: Anthology are available now at retail outlets in North America.

In addition to the latest version of the world's number 1 online action game, Counter-Strike: Source also includes Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Day of Defeat®: Source, the latest version of the popular WWII online action game from Valve. Meanwhile, the Half-Life 1: Anthology includes the original game, which earned over 50 game of the year awards and launched a franchise with over 15 million retail units sold, plus Half-Life: Opposing Force®, Half-Life: Blueshift®, and Team Fortress® Classic. Both products will ship to territories worldwide in the coming weeks.

For more information, please visit: www.valvesoftware.com

Half-Life 1: Engine Update Available

September 15, 2005, 6:04 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to the Half-Life 1: Engine have been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Half-Life 1: Engine

• Fixed MOTD crash when viewing HTML pages with iframes

Half-Life: Blue Shift released on Steam

August 24, 2005, 2:40 pm - Valve - Product Release

Half-Life: Blue Shift is now playable for anyone that owns the Half-Life Premier Pack, the Half-Life 2 Silver package, or the Half-Life 2 Gold package.