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Garry's Mod is 50% Off This Week Only

September 14, 2009, 1:41 pm - Valve - General Announcement

The physics sandbox Garry's Mod has just been updated to include Steam achievements and is now 50% Off until September 21st. Join in the fun today!

This game requires that you own a Source engine game such as Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2, or Day of Defeat: Source. Click here for a full list of games that meet this requirement. Please note that Portal: First Slice and the bundled Half-Life 2: Deathmatch do not fulfill this requirement.

Source 2007 Engine Update Released

September 10, 2009, 10:29 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to the Source 2007 Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Source 2007 Engine

• Fixed an exploit that allowed files to be uploaded to the server at arbitrary locations in the file system
  
• Fixed a server crash caused by a client packet claiming to be an HLTV client when HLTV is disabled on the server
  
• Fixed a server crash caused by spoofing a client disconnect message
  
• Fixed a server crash caused by sending malformed reliable subchannel data
  

Garry's Mod Update Released

September 10, 2009, 10:23 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Garry's Mod

• Added 10 achievements
  
• Reenabled voice_inputfromfile
  
• Fixed some unlocked achievements showing as locked
  

Garry's Mod Update Released

September 1, 2009, 11:50 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Garry's Mod

• Fixed crash when loading/saving
  
• TF2 Arena and KOTH maps are now organised properly
  
• Added sbox_weapons, set to 0 to spawn without weapons
  
• Fixed jigglebones on NPCs
  
• Jigglebones now works for ragdolls too
  

Garry's Mod Update Released

August 25, 2009, 5:56 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Garry's Mod

• Added an initial 15 Steamworks Achievements
  
• Fixed TF2 player and hat models being black
  
• Fixed some server lagging exploits
  

Counter-Strike: Source Update Released

August 25, 2009, 5:29 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Engine

• Fixed an exploit that allowed files to be uploaded to the server at arbitrary locations in the file system
  
• Fixed a server crash caused by a client packet claiming to be an HLTV client when HLTV is disabled on the server
  
• Fixed a server crash caused by spoofing a client disconnect message
  
• Fixed a server crash caused by sending malformed reliable subchannel data
  

• Novint Falcon support is now enabled by default
  

Garry's Mod Update Released

July 27, 2009, 2:09 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Garry's Mod

• Added loading progress to startup
  
• Increased max players to 128 (for GMod Tower team)
  
• Fixed server crash when giving player items that weren't weapons
  
• Whitelisted commands that were breaking compatibility
  
• Fixed +toggle command crash exploit
  
• Fixed toolgun crosshair jumping around
  

Garry's Mod Update Released

July 24, 2009, 9:41 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Garry's Mod

• Fixed weapons sometimes being unselectable in weapon selection (especially when lagging or starting to record a demo)
  
• Fixed weapons flying away if given when player is noclipped inside a prop
  
• Fixed gravity gun dropping items when noclip sprinting
  
• Fixed noclip 'up' getting stomped by forward/sidewards
  
• Fixed pink scrollbars in HTML control
  
• Fixed rope render cache error on some maps
  
• Fixed server crash exploit related to gm_special
  
• Fixed SQLite exploit (Thanks to AzuiSleet)
  
• Prevented server running restricted commands on clients (Thanks to AzuiSleet)
  

Garry's Mod Update Released

June 24, 2009, 10:44 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Garry's Mod

• Fixed not being able to scroll some GUI elements with mouse wheel
  
• Fixed player flying in the air when running up a ramp
  
• Fixed right click no collide vs players (really this time!)
  
• Fixed crossbow leaving sprites behind after it's deleted (ie, every time you die)
  
• Zeno Clash models are now finger posable
  
• cl_forwardspeed is now marked as a cheat
  

Garry's Mod Update Released

May 11, 2009, 12:50 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Garry's Mod have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Garry's Mod

• Added support for Zeno Clash models
  
• Fixed muzzleflash showing in camera
  
• Fixed player collision with nocollides