Feb 22, 2013

New Free to Play - Age of Conan: Unchained

Age of Conan: Unchained - Valve

Age of Conan: Unchained is now on Steam and is Free to Play!

Age of Conan: Unchained is an award-winning and critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online game set in the sexy, savage and brutal world of Conan the Barbarian. Tread in the footsteps of the greatest fantasy hero of all time, and explore the vast reaches of Hyboria. Choose between twelve different classes, from Barbarian to Demonologist, and fight your way to riches and glory as you battle creatures straight out of hell or even engage in colossal guild vs. guild warfare!

Additionally, kickstart your journey into Hyboria with the Tortage Survival Pack, a powerful collection of weapons, items, and potions to accelerate your progress!

Feb 22, 2013

Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released

Day of Defeat: Source - Valve

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2:DM)

Fixed a client crash related to rendering models
Fixed a client crash related to audio in the web browser
Fixed servers crashing with the error message "Overflow error writing string table baseline"
Fixed a missing material when setting mat_viewportscale to anything other than 1
Fixed windowed mode under certain window managers for the Linux version
Improved performance for the Linux version

Team Fortress 2

Added new promo items
Fixed buildings not always being downgraded at the same rate by the Red-Tape Recorder
Fixed not hearing the sound for the Shred Alert taunt while playing Mann Vs. Machine
Fixed players spamming the Shred Alert taunt in spawn rooms by changing their loadout presets
Fixed giant robots sometimes getting stuck in Mann Vs. Machine
Fixed a problem where traders that send in-game trade requests would receive the error message "The other player is currently busy trading with someone else" when the problem was actually related to Steam Guard settings

Feb 22, 2013

Now Available - The Bridge

The Bridge - Valve

The Bridge is Now Available on Steam!

The Bridge is a 2D logic puzzle game that forces the player to reevaluate their preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures. Explore increasingly difficult worlds, each uniquely detailed and designed to leave the player with a pronounced sense of intellectual accomplishment. The Bridge exemplifies games as an art form, with beautifully hand-drawn art in the style of a black-and-white lithograph.

Feb 22, 2013

Pre-Purchase Now - Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves

Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves - Valve

Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam and is 10% off and includes access to the beta!

Combining action and strategy in a unique way, Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves transports you into an epic folktale co-written with best-selling Canadian author Bryan Perro (Amos Daragon, Wariwulf), in which two feuding brothers will have to put aside their differences to save their sister, who is pursued by the Devil himself!

Feb 22, 2013

Now Available - Kentucky Route Zero, 10% off!

Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition - Valve

Kentucky Route Zero is Now Available on Steam and is 10% off*!

This game was picked with help from the Steam Community. To vote for other games you’d like to see made available on Steam, please visit Steam Greenlight.

Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it. Developed by Cardboard Computer (Jake Elliot and Tamas Kemenczy), the game features an original score by Ben Babbitt, along with a suite of old hymns and bluegrass standards recorded by The Bedquilt Ramblers. The game is split into five acts, of which the first is available now. Taken as a whole, the Kentucky Route Zero is roughly the length of a summer night. Act I is available now. Act II will be released around April 2013, and the remaining three acts over the rest of the year.

*Offer ends March 1st at 10AM Pacific time.

Feb 22, 2013

Pre-Purchase Now - BioShock Infinite

BioShock Infinite - Valve

Pre-Purchase BioShock Infinite now and help unlock special rewards. Possible rewards include a Free Copy of Bioshock, exclusive In-Game Items for Team Fortress 2 and a Free Copy of X-Com: Enemy Unknown! Check out the store page for more details.

Indebted to the wrong people, and with his life on the line, hired gun Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia. Forced to trust one another, Booker and Elizabeth form a powerful bond during their daring escape. Together, they learn to harness an expanding arsenal of weapons and abilities, as they fight on zeppelins in the clouds, along high-speed Sky-Lines, and down in the streets of Columbia, all while surviving the threats of the air-city and uncovering its dark secret.

Feb 22, 2013

New DLC Available - Painkiller Hell & Damnation: The Clock Strikes Meat Night

Painkiller Hell & Damnation - Valve

The Clock Strikes Meat Night, all new content for Painkiller Hell & Damnation is now available on Steam!

When the clock strikes midnight, it’s meat night in Daniel’s hemisphere. Although the edibility of demon flesh still has to be explored for the bigger part of mankind, Daniel knows that one already. Join Daniel in his newest adventure of carnival carnage with new enemies, weapons, and maps!

Feb 21, 2013

Dota 2 Update - February 21st, 2013

Dota 2 - Valve

- Added In-game Guides and Hero Builds!
- Players can now be a member of multiple teams.

GAMEPLAY
- Fixed backswing behavior on some of Invoker's skills
- Fixed Last Word being dispelled by Purge/Cyclone/etc
- Fixed Last Word interrupting channeling spells if the initial duration ends during the channel
- Enabled Medusa in Captain's Mode tournament version
- Fixed Healing Ward not preserving its hotkey when leveled up.
UI
- Added right click menu to the combat log with "Copy to clipboard" option.
- Added option to render the Co-Broadcaster's camera. Use dota_minimap_draw_cocaster_camera 0 to disable.
- Added new right click option to backpack items to equip the entire set the item belongs to.

MISC
- Added a large number of items to the random loot drop lists.

BOTS
- Adjusted hero roles of Windrunner (fewer last hits) and Meepo (more last hits).
- Made Death Prophet bot more likely to use Crypt Swarm in teamfights.
- Made Necrolyte bot a bit more hesitant about using Death Pulse when laning.
- Fixed bots dropping thousands of TP scrolls at the side shops.
- Practice with Bots difficulty and team settings are now saved.

Feb 21, 2013

A Valley Without Wind 2 Updated

A Valley Without Wind 2 - Valve

Official 1.002
(Released February 19th, 2013)

Fixed a bug in the prior version where mouse aiming was on by default.
Thanks to Varone for reporting.
Updated the crates room to include text telling you that you can enable mouse aiming in the settings menu. Updated the controls display at the start of the game and the armory with the same.

Official 1.001 Mouse Aiming For Those Who Stood And Fought
(Released February 19th, 2013)

Fixed a bug that could occasionally cause exceptions to be thrown when first generating the interior of a new building. - Thanks to windgen, Vatticson, and Mick for reporting.
Previously, there was a bug where the "enter NPC movement mode" keybind could work in side view, causing a warning message to pop up. - Thanks to Mick and Penumbra for reporting.
Fixed a minor graphical issue where "molten lava damage" was reporting damage 100x higher than was actually being done to you.

Mouse Aiming Option Added To Settings
An option has now been provided in the settings menu for "Enable Mouse Aiming." This lets players who find keyboard or gamepad controls to be repugnant to experience the game in some manner. Our view is that this manner is sub-par and watered-down, but we've finally started looking at this as more of an accessibility mode. It's not ideal, but it allows a certain demographic to play who is otherwise unable/unwilling to do so. There is also a corresponding default keybinding set that has been added, which gives you WASD + mouse controls when used in tandem with the above option. Or you can set your own.