Steam News

Football Manager 2010 Update Released

October 30, 2009, 11:49 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Football Manager 2010 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Football Manager 2010

• Fixed DirectX installation issue that could prevent the game from running
  

Football Manager™ 2010 Now Available

October 29, 2009, 3:00 pm - Valve - Product Release

Football Manager™ 2010 is now available on Steam.

This highly anticipated release, the latest among the Football Manager series from SEGA and Sports Interactive, includes an improved Match View with new stadiums and crowds, a new Match Analysis tool showing players' and teams' strengths and weaknesses both live in-game and post-game, and an all new Tactics Creator, enabling you to instruct the team so they play the way you want.

Football Manager™ 2010 Demo Now Available

October 14, 2009, 8:00 am - Valve - Product Release

The demo of Football Manager™ 2010 is now available for download via Steam.

Check out the latest game in the world's best selling football management simulation series. Developed by multi award-winning studio Sports Interactive, Football Manager™ 2010 is slated to release on October 30th, 2009. Pre-purchase your copy today and get Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast to play right away.

Empire: Total War Update Released

October 7, 2009, 10:35 am - Valve - Product Update

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

Empire: Total War

• Fixed issue with some artillery shot types
  

EMPIRE WEEK - Save 50% on Empire: Total War™ This Week Only

October 5, 2009, 10:17 am - Valve - General Announcement

Empire: Total War is now 50% off, in celebration of this week's release of The Warpath Campaign, the official expansion for the game.

Dominate the 18th century on land and sea in this strategy title PC Gamer calls "one of the most playable, important and accomplished games ever created." Plus, pick up a variety of Empire: Total War DLC to expand your gaming experience.

Empire: Total War™ - The Warpath Campaign DLC and Special Forces DLC Now Available

October 5, 2009, 10:14 am - Valve - Product Release

The official Empire: Total War™ expansion, Empire: Total War™ - The Warpath Campaign is now available on Steam.

Voyage to North America to explore the new campaign map which expands the Empire: Total War experience, with 5 brand new American Indian factions, new units and technologies. Experience battles in the new Warpath Campaign and lead one of the five new factions in an epic war to defend your lands and drive out the invaders. Or, take these units and their unique strengths into multiplayer battles.

Also released today for sale separately is the Special Forces Units & Bonus Content DLC, which includes the six units from the Special Forces Edition of Empire: Total War, plus three additional units previously unavailable for sale, including Death's Head Hussars, The USS Constitution and the Dahomey Amazons.

Empire: Total War Update Released

October 5, 2009, 9:39 am - Valve - Product Update

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

Empire: Total War

• Fixed a bug which which occasionally allowed factions who were not allied to be invited to join a war
  
• Improved campaign map performance
  
• Republics will no longer dispute a claim to a throne via a war of succession
  
• Fixed a crash when pathfinding for embarking/disembarking
  
• Fixed situation where balance-of-power bar on battle screen was not considering the correct set of reinforcements
  
• Made the decision of which third-party factions can be involved in a campaign battle slightly fairer
  
• Interceptions are no longer suppressed when blockading a port
  
• Fixed rare crash after naval battles
  
• Fixed rare crash caused by successful revolutionary armies containing units that were not permitted for the resulting government type
  
• Fixed crash in AI logic structures
  
• Reduced AI army clustering
  
• Improved AI invasion troop movement
  
• Various light infantry behaviour fixes
  
• Naval and Land unit balancing
  
• General AI improvements
  

Napoleon: Total War™ Coming to Steam

September 22, 2009, 5:14 pm - Valve - General Announcement

Napoleon: Total War™, the newest chapter in the Total War™ series from The Creative Assembly and SEGA, is coming to Steam. The game is slated to release in February 2010. Until then, check out the trailer, which is here today.

Empire: Total War Update Released

September 22, 2009, 10:11 am - Valve - Product Update

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

New Content

• Two (2) new historical battles: Battle of Rossbach and Battle of Fontenoy. Both available in single player and multi player
  
• Missile cavalry can now fire and reload whilst on the move
  

• Overhaul of naval balancing
  
• Dragoons are available from higher building levels and now have fire by rank
  
• Light Dragoons have gained longer range guns to allow them to skirmish better
  
• Reworked cavalry costs to better reflect their value on the battlefield
  
• Increase in cost to Windbusche Jaegers and Ferguson Rifles
  
• Some improvements to projectile balancing
  
• Balance improvements made to Road to Independence Episode 3
  

• Fix for auto unlimbering causing the attack order to terminate prematurely resulting in an inability to stop the unit from firing
  
• Fix for troops on fort walls not using fort gun range when judging when to fire on enemy troops
  
• Fix for fort guns using wrong targeting formula
  
• Fixes to fort pathfinding and use of ropes
  
• Multiplayer soft lock fixes
  
• Fix crash in quotes table
  
• Improved AI diplomacy
  
• Cumulative updates to improve AI invasion behaviour
  
• Added tooltips for alliance button in diplomacy
  
• Bug fixes and improvements to AI counter offers
  
• Improvements to AI diplomatic valuation of military access and alliances
  
• Fix for wind sounds not working in naval battles
  
• Fixed ship wakes not always working
  
• Fixed disembarking subsets of armies and agents from navies
  
• Fixed potential crash disembarking agents from navies
  
• Fixed armies not being booted out of regions when losing military access gained by joining an ally in war
  
• Improved AI diplomacy valuation of technologies
  
• Fix for bug where general's unit for an upper class rebellion was coming from the region owning faction rather than the faction rebelling
  
• Fixed reinforcements from unreachable positions
  
• Fixed bug preventing disembarking
  
• Balance of power fix for attack of opportunity
  
• Fixed bug that was causing issues with embarking an army containing multiple characters
  
• Minor tweak to stop some ship sails endlessly play furling sound
  
• Fixed path blocked bug
  
• Diplomacy counter-offer improvements
  
• Fix for fast forward not working as intended on some PCs. Will always speed up if camera is still, if camera moves fast forward will be as fast as possible on each PC
  

Empire: Total War™ - The Warpath Campaign DLC Now Available for Pre-Purchase

September 21, 2009, 8:10 am - Valve - General Announcement

The official Empire: Total War™ Expansion, Empire: Total War™ - The Warpath Campaign is now available for pre-purchase exclusively on Steam.

A new detailed North American Campaign Map expands the Empire: Total War experience, with 5 brand new American Indian factions, new units and technologies. Experience battles in the new Warpath Campaign and lead one of the 5 new factions in an epic war to defend your lands and drive out the invaders. Or take these units and their unique strengths into multiplayer battles. Pre-purchase now and get access to the Warpath Campaign the moment it releases on Steam.