Product Update - Valve
Updates to Rock of Ages have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The changes include:

• Added new Jack-o’-Lantern Boulder to character selection list.
• Updated main menu with Halloween theme.
• Fixed crash that was occurring through Custom Matches.
• Fixed version mismatch issue that was leading to online connectivity problems.
• Game menus can now be navigated with a controller.
• Updated ‘Breaker’, ‘Smasher’ & ‘Obliterator’ achievements so they can also be obtained against an AI opponent.
• Player is no longer forced to use the ‘Sisyphus Buddy’ boulder for the single-player campaign. Now the campaign can be played with any Boulder design.
Memoir '44 Online - Valve
Updates to Memoir '44 Online have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Memoir '44 Online 1.2 - What's new?

Player Search: we've added a search field just above the Players list.
Just type a few letters of the player's name you're looking for to immediately filter out everyone else in the list.

Private messaging: simply type /pm @Joe your_message and your_message will be sent to Joe privately. Messages that are intended for you will appear in red in the dialog zone. If the person you are trying to pm has a complicated screen name, you may use auto-complete to type his name:
Simply type @ followed by the first letters of your friend's screen name and press the CTRL and SPACE keys simultaneously. The rest of that person's screen name will appear automatically. Pressing CTRL-SPACE again to cycle through all the possible matches for the entered prefix.

Battle Action Replay: go to the game Web site to replay your battles.
Simply click on the name of a battle in your Career History at http://www.memoir44-online.com/career/. This will take you to the battle's details with an interactive map which lets you to replay the whole battle turn by turn! You will see the cards of both players, their moves, battles and dice rolled, the losses and medals gained, etc. for each turn of the game!

Two New Achievements: we released two new Achievements dedicated to the terrible "Meat Grinder" battle. Win this battle from the Allies side to receive the "Flag of our fathers" Achievement, and win it from the Axis side to earn the "Letters from Iwo Jima" one.

Other Improvements: as always with each release, we also fixed a number of bugs and performed a few optimizations. Here is the complete list:

- [Lobby] search players by name
- [Lobby] Added /pm command to the chat for Private messaging
- [Lobby] Added user name auto-completion to chat using the Ctrl Space keys
- [Tutorial] it is now possible to pause the video
- [Tutorial] renamed clearly the Skip button into Skip Tutorial, so that beginners know what they are doing
- [Briefing] added links to the rules book(s) of the board game
- [Achievement] Flag of our fathers
- [Achievement] Letters from Iwo Jima
- Can now display lots of Achievements in the Officer Career screen
- Fixed server slows down under heavy load
- Fixed server deadlock
- [Rules] In Rzhev, dragging the first card to the board rather than to the commissar should not freeze the game
- Fixed Infantry Assault in fallback activation issue
- [Frozen river] winning the game thanks to a frozen river could freeze the client
- [Expert] now supports Allies on top / Axis at the bottom
- [Expert] Fixed a crash when loading Expert scenario with a Rail and Road crossing
- [Client] limit the size of the log files
- [Steam] overlay supports switching between windowed mode and full-screen mode
- [Steam] Achievements are now synchronized to Valve's servers
- [Medals] Fix : Losing a medal in the last action should could the loser's number of medals
- [UI] Login view now only displays two buttons : Login with Steam, and Login using DoW account
Left 4 Dead 2 - 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.

Midnight Mysteries - Valve
Today's Deal: Save 66% off Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy

Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!

Oct 27, 2011
Steel Storm: Burning Retribution - Valve






...... Dear Steel Storm User, please don't forget to remove your custom Launch Options used for ToD mod to enjoy this patch .......

Changelog 10/26/2011:

v2.00.02965

Summary:
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+ Added Loadout Terminals - at the beginning of every mission in the Burning Retribution Campaign, player can equip his tank with desired weapons. If it turns out later into the mission, that it is not the desired combination, player can come back to the terminal and re-equip the tank (watch your back too!).
+ Prepared the game to accommodate upcoming DLCs
+ Bug fixes

Details:
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+ added a scrolling list to challenge menus to better display all the challenges
+ changed the Episode field on the server list to instead reflect which DLC packs a server is running
+ added challenges for upcoming new weapons
+ fixed a bug that was cutting off text from the briefing for Frozen Canyon in Japanese in the menu and client
+ fixed a bug that wasn't translating Back buttons on the MP menu
+ all earned weapons per campaign are now displayed on the mission list with currently equipped weapons highlighted
+ fixed a bug that was causing dynamic lights to spawn multiple times in rare cases
+ fixed a bug that wasn't displaying when a profile has been updated if it's loaded from the list
+ added the Loadout Terminal
+ when a player finishes a mission with a weapon he didn't start the mission with, it's added to his arsenal of weapons that can be selected at an Loadout terminal at any time during a mission. These weapons must still be earned for each campaign.
+ players will respawn with weapons they had either when they started the mission or now also whatever they chose at a terminal
+ in multiplayer, if one player earns a weapon and it becomes available at a terminal all players may access that weapon
+ all weapons are always available at Loadout terminals in CTF mode
+ updated Burning Sands level with better terrain collisions
+ final Japanese translation for menus and campaigns
+ fixed a bug that was causing a bad file name check when attempting to save a campaign mission w/o a campaign
+ fixed a bug that was causing green crystals to not pick up
+ fixed a bug that was causing blank mission.txt files to overwrite existing ones when saving a new mission in an existing campaign
Take On Helicopters - Valve
Take On Helicopters is now available on Steam!

In Take On Helicopters the player takes on the role of a civilian helicopter pilot. Harry Larkin’s aviation business has fallen on tough times. Built up over decades, it’s now only days away from closure. His sons face an uncertain future, struggling to save the company their father spent his whole life building. Together, they must take on contracts and competitors; together, they take on helicopters!

Take your first steps towards mastering rotor-wing flight across a massive range of enjoyable challenges, or create your own missions using the powerful easy-to-use mission editor.

Puzzler World 2 - Valve
this update allows you to complete Puzzler 132's Bonus game


Product Update - Valve
Updates to Football Manager 2012 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Training
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- Included positioning training to goalkeeper shot stopping training

Competitions
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USA
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- Fixed a crash on season turnover when adding MLS into the game without having it loaded at game start.
- Fixed Vancouver, Portland and Philadelphia not having Academy players properly generated.
- Fixed a crash when playing with two human managers and one of them was claiming a player waived by the other human manager.

General
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- Fixed an issue where adding a league was causing more people then needed to be loaded into the game.

Editor
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- Fixed an issue with international competitions sometimes getting the wrong number of teams from a continent.

Match
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- Fixed scaling of distance run stat in match stats.
Product Update - Valve
- Halloween items added: new character, new head and new head gear. (They will be available in the store shortly)
- Updated Eastern Bunker map (textures, lights)

Bug fixes:
- aiming was making character invisible
- blinking trees
- halo around objects in shadow
- animated objects were not lit correctly
- spot lights were not oriented correctly
Renegade Ops - Valve
Renegade Ops is Now Available on Steam!

Renegade Ops puts players in a mobile commando unit sent behind enemy lines to defeat Inferno, a madman intent on global domination. Players have the choice to fight alone in single player mode, team up offline with two-player split screen or join the dynamic 4-player online co-op experience.

Those who purchase the game on Steam can take control of the Half-Life 2 muscle car as Gordon and unleash the Antlions to aid the Renegade Ops!

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