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
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Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

Half-Life 1: Source Deathmatch Update Released

March 21, 2008, 1:22 pm - Valve - Product Update

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

Half-Life 1: Source Deathmatch

• Fixed a very common HL1MP crash bug in the gauss gun
  
• Added Resume Game/Disconnect/Player List options to the main menu
  
• Added files necessary to make spectator work
  
• Fixed scoreboard

Thanks for qUiCkSiLvEr for bug reports and testing.

Valve Uncrates The Orange Box

October 10, 2007, 12:00 am - Valve - Product Release

Valve is pleased to announce the official 'uncrating' of The Orange Box, now available on Steam.

The Orange Box features three top-rated new games by Valve: Half-Life® 2: Episode Two, the second installment in the Half-Life 2 episodic trilogy; Team Fortress® 2, the sequel to the game that put class-based, multiplayer team warfare on the map; and Portal, the game that blends puzzles, first person action, and adventure gaming to produce an experience like no other.

To bring gamers up to date with the Half-Life 2 universe, The Orange Box also includes Half-Life 2, the best-selling and highest-rated action game series of all time, and the episodic debut Half-Life® 2: Episode One—together, more than 30 hours of award-winning gameplay. Purchasers of the PC version of The Orange Box who already own Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One can conveniently “gift” them to a friend from within Steam.

All games included in The Orange Box are available separately or as part of two exclusive Steam collections: The Source Premier Pack and The Valve Complete Pack.

Source Engine Update Released

March 26, 2007, 11:43 am - Valve - Product Update

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

Source Engine

• Fixed crash when running in Offline mode

Half-Life Deathmatch: Source Update Released

March 14, 2007, 3:02 pm - Valve - Product Update

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

Half-Life Deathmatch: Source

• Fixed crash when creating a server

Source Multiplayer Update Released

March 12, 2007, 4:50 pm - Valve - Product Update

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

Source Multiplayer

• Improved multiplayer voice communication, now using a much clearer codec
  
• First release of a completely reworked in game text chat to which now includes a chat history and a filter to only see important chat messages
  
• Fixed not being able to use sounds, decals or models if they were downloaded from the server

Half-Life Deathmatch: Source Update Released

January 4, 2007, 11:10 am - Valve - Product Update

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

Half-Life Deathmatch: Source

• Fixed not loading when in Polish

Half-Life: Source Deathmatch Update Released

May 2, 2006, 5:39 pm - Valve - Product Update

The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

• Fixed dedicated servers defaulting to LAN instead of Internet
  
• Fixed chat text disappearing when the player respawns
  
• Fixed longjump not working properly
  
• Fixed incorrect explosive weapons damage (hand grenades, rockets and mp5 grenades)
  
• Fixed tripmines sticking out a few units away from the wall
  
• Fixed players sometimes being invisible after respawn
  
• Camera now follows your ragdoll when you die

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)