Steam News

Garry's Mod Update Released

March 30, 2009, 3:09 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

• Fixed server errors
  

Empire: Total War Update Released

March 30, 2009, 9:58 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 specific changes include:

Empire: Total War

• The update features a fix applied to sound caching which could cause crashes in land and sea battles on some systems
  

Company of Heroes & Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts Update Released

March 30, 2009, 7:23 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Company of Heroes & Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Company of Heroes

• Updated to version 2.400
  

Weekend Deal - Ubisoft Classic Pack

March 27, 2009, 1:06 pm - Valve - General Announcement

This weekend only, pick up the Ubisoft Classic Pack, including four classic hits, for just $10/£9/10€. The pack includes Far Cry, Beyond Good & Evil, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946, and Dark Messiah Might and Magic.

As the Ubisoft Week wraps up, the 50% off sale on Far Cry 2 has been extended through this weekend.

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 Update Released

March 27, 2009, 10:34 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Balance Changes

• Added a smoke flare delay when using the Magnetic Singularity support power.
  
• The IFV base defense is now more vulnerable to cannon damage.
  
• If a King Oni uses his bull rush secondary ability while shrunk by a Cryocopter's S.H.R.I.N.K. ray, the King Oni will now explode on impact.
  
• In multiplayer matches, Allied and Soviet players may now dock their aircraft at any friendly airfield, regardless of faction, to refuel and reload.
  

• Added the ability for hosts to select a random tournament map when playing in a custom match with 2 or 4 players. Players will see the Random Map option on the Map Selection list.
  
• Added a community news window that is displayed on game launch. This window can be disabled by selecting “Do Not Show Again” on the news window.
  
• Added a Spanish multiplayer lobby.
  

• Units will no longer occasionally animate incorrectly when crossing a bridge.
  
• The Striker VX and King Oni now correctly animate when powered down by an EMP attack.
  
• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to create health, money, or veterancy crates.
  
• Fixed a crash caused by saving while a Magnetic Singularity was active on the map.
  

• Added additional Mod support to Red Alert 3.
  
• Updated the credits.
  

Empire: Total War Update Released

March 26, 2009, 3:32 pm - Valve - Product Update

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

Empire: Total War

• Issue with save games disappearing from the save game list if fixed
  
• Updated of the Miles dll to fix some random crashes in sound
  

Now on Steam - Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death

March 26, 2009, 2:41 pm - Valve - Product Release

JUDGE, JURY and EXECUTIONER. Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death is now on Steam available worldwide.

Garry's Mod Update Released

March 26, 2009, 2:13 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

• Fixed spawn menu not opening properly on some computers
  
• Fixed various issues with Script Enforcer
  
• Renamed sv_scriptenforcerenabled to sv_scriptenforcer
  

Left 4 Dead Update Released

March 25, 2009, 2:39 pm - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Left 4 Dead have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Game and client changes

• Introduced fatigue to the melee attack in versus mode. You will see a HUD display when your melee swing is cooling down
  
• Boomer vomit will now pass through common infected
  
• Addressed some surround sound detection issues
  
• Fixed a rare crash when exiting Left4Dead on Windows Vista
  
• Fixed a case where the complete all expert campaigns achievement was not being rewarded
  

• Corrected an issue where Windows based dedicated were sending spurious shutdown notifications to the master causing them to delist temporarily
  
• Fixed dedicated servers not resetting the versus team swap correctly--you could join a dedicated server that had a previous game that was swapped and arrive on the other team than what was selected in the lobby
  
• Renamed the tags for sv_search_key to use "key:" in the server tags instead of "sv_search_key." This should help with issues of the 63 character limit of server tags
  
• Fixed an occasional server crash related to voting
  

Stormrise Now Available on Steam

March 25, 2009, 12:24 pm - Valve - Product Release

The next-gen RTS, Stormrise is now available on Steam for customers in North America and coming later this week to the rest of the world.

Experience the rush of battle in ways no other real-time strategy game has ever offered. Stormrise is the first truly 3D, next-gen RTS that, via the 3rd person camera perspective, puts you directly in the action.