Nov 4, 2011

Product Update - Valve

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

- New Community Mutation: Confogl
- Crash Course campaign
- Fixed intro music not playing in some campaigns
- Fixed some missing survivor audio

Oct 27, 2011

STEAM HALLOWEEN SALE NOW ON!

Announcement - Valve

Halloween is almost here, and we know a lot of you are pretty scared. Normally, our advice would be to try to keep it together and just ride this thing out. But this year, we have a better idea: let Steam be your safe harbor from the terror that will probably be haunting your, say, house, for instance.

With that in mind, from now through October 31st, we're offering discounts on a bunch of great games. Oh, these discounts will be shocking. Though they won't be scary in any meaningful way. Let these insane - but deliberately, rationally insane - deals be the one good, pure thing you cling to throughout the dark days ahead. Not sold? What if we told you that for every game you buy, we promise to try to kill a monster. Like maybe a skeleton. In fact, that's our Steam Halloween pledge to you: Sensible savings and we are going to murder a skeleton.

Oct 23, 2011

These Aren't Video Game Screenshots, They're Postcards

Kotaku

Iain Andrews' site Steam Postcards has long been my wallpaper supplier of choice. Why? Because he plays games and takes screenshots that aren't the kind of thing you'd find in a magazine or popular internet video game website.

He instead takes, well, postcards. Scenic shots of the background, or the walls, or the sky, or whatever, finding stuff that just looks good, instead of stuff that makes the game look good.

His current subject of choice is id's RAGE, but scroll down the Tumblr page and you'll see games like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Mirror's Edge, Mafia II, Team Fortress 2, Red Orchestra and even Kane & Lynch.

The images maybe aren't nice enough to print out and frame, but like I said, they're perfect for wallpapers!

Steam Postcards [enwandrews]

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Oct 21, 2011

Oct 21st Update - Iron Man, Impact Special, Confogl?

L4D Blog

Iron Man
No respawns, no restarts, no ammo, all tension!

Do you think the game is too easy? Looking for a challenge? Try this one on Expert. Realism rules are in effect. There are no respawns in the map. There is no ammo. If your team wipes, you need to restart the whole campaign.

Oct 12, 2011

Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released

Product Update - Valve

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

- Fixed an issue that prevented some Add-Ons from loading if there were a significant number of unique audio files

Oct 7, 2011

Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released

Product Update - Valve

Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

- Encore Mutation: Gib Fest
- Added FCVAR_RELEASE to the following rcon cvars: sv_rcon_minfailures, sv_rcon_minfailuretime, sv_rcon_maxfailures, sv_rcon_banpenalty and sv_rcon_log
- Fixed a bug with processing entity packets.
- Fixed various audio bugs for the Left 4 Dead 1 survivors.

Death Toll: The Boathouse
- Moved rope barrier closer to dock.
- Added rock for Infected Specials to spawn behind.
- Moved melee weapon spawn off picnic table to avoid floating weapons.
- Fixed finale scoring bug.

Cold Stream: Cut-Throat Creak
- Redesigned start of map. There is missing Audio use the handset and then the door in the big building to begin.
- Removed the ability for common infected to spawn on top of ridge along the first ravine.