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Dreamkiller Update Released

November 20, 2009, 3:18 pm - Valve - Product Update

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

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• Fixed disconnection issues on non-local networks
  

Dreamkiller One Week Sale: 33% Off!

November 9, 2009, 10:14 am - Valve - General Announcement

Dreamkiller from Aspyr is on sale for 33% off until November 16th!

Dreamkiller is a shooter that takes players inside the world of dark and twisted nightmares. Gamers take on the role of Alice Drake, a psychologist with the extraordinary ability to enter the minds of her patients and combat the ravenous foes haunting their dreams.

XIII Century - Blood of Europe Update Released

October 26, 2009, 1:23 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to XIII Century - Blood of Europe have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

The following errors were fixed:

• an occasional crash, caused by incorrect definition of unit's movement is fixed;
  
• some horse animations were fixed;
  
• the coefficient of tiles materials' self-luminosity is lowered. This impovement fixes the exposed landscapes on several maps;
  
• wrong paths to normals' maps and textures were corrected. Some graphic artifacts of units and shields were removed;
  
• icorrect smoothing is fixed (AA modes);
  
• landscape artifacts, visible with anisotropic filter on, removed.
  

• three new groups are available for the Internet play: Sweden, Lithuania, Florence;
  
• a new feature was added: the possibility to save replays and maps, and replay battles created with map generator;
  
• a new mode of bright, saturate, and contrast control was added, along with manual control of RGB channels for the post-production of the final graphics. Available with two new lightning patterns only;
  
• two new lightning patterns were added, but can't be used in generator so far.
  

• a new mechanism of animations smoothing was applied. As a result, the artifacts of abrupt animation changes disappeared;
  
• an issue of cutting off the invisible sides of polygons with shades on was fixed. This improves the performance on low-end video cards;
  
• code referring to loading and animations was optimized;
  
• some old unused post-production features were removed (thus freeing some video RAM).
  

Dreamkiller Update Released

October 16, 2009, 2:10 pm - Valve - Product Update

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

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• Fixed saving issues
  

Dreamkiller Update Released

October 15, 2009, 3:21 pm - Valve - Product Update

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

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• Fixed display of leaderboards with more than 100 entries
  

XIII Century: Gold Edition Now Available

August 28, 2009, 2:19 pm - Valve

XIII Century: Gold Edition combines the strategy game XIII Century: Death or Glory with the follow-up sequel, XIII Century: Blood of Europe. The game has beautiful looking maps, with realistic representations of actual medieval European battlefields, tons of historical weapons and thousands of warriors to command.

The Steam Weekend Deal - Save 50% on 1701 A.D.

August 20, 2009, 2:26 pm - Valve

Sometimes you have to start the weekend a little early. Gives you more time to play the rich Strategy Sim 1701A.D. from developer Sunflowers and publisher Aspyr.

Death to Spies: Moment of Truth Now Available

August 7, 2009, 5:18 pm - Valve - Product Release

The third-person stealth-action game Death to Spies: Moment of Truth is now available via Steam.

Save 10% when you buy before August 14.

Weekend Deal - Velvet Assassin, X3: Terran Conflict, Men of War

July 24, 2009, 9:17 am - Valve - General Announcement

This weekend only, save big on three featured titles:

Save a whopping 75% off Aspyr Media's Men of War, a stunning Real-Time Strategy game that takes place during the height of World War II.

Take 50% off SouthPeak's stealth action game Velvet Assassin where you take control of Violette Summer, a beautiful World War II spy deep behind enemy lines with no support or official backing from the British Government.

Save 50% off Egosoft's space strategy game X3: Terran Conflict. Be sure to check out the latest X3 trailer.

NecroVision Now Available - Buy Now and Save 10%

May 20, 2009, 1:00 pm - Valve - Product Release

Welcome to Hell, Soldier.

Buy NecroVision and save 10% (until May 26th), then have a ton of fun killing the undead.