Jul 8, 2010
Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source Updates Released
Counter-Strike: Source - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Engine
  • Fixed client crash related flashlight usage.
  • Fixed several issues related to alt-tabbing (invisible players, etc).

Team Fortress 2
  • Added The Frontier Justice.
  • Added The Wrangler.
  • Added The Gunslinger.
  • Added The Southern Hospitality.
  • Added 35 Engineer achievements.
  • Engineers can now pickup & move their buildings.
  • Added Engineer main menu music.
  • Added 4 new maps:
    • Thunder Mountain, a 3 stage Payload map.
    • Hightower, a Payload Race map.
    • Upward, a Payload map.
    • ColdFront, a community built Capture Point map.
  • Item tuning:
    • The Sandvich now uses a cooldown timer, instead of the health pack recharge mechanic.
    • The Gunboats now reduce self-damage by 60% (was 75%)
    • The Tribalman's Shiv bleed duration reduced to 6 second (was 8), and its damage penalty increased to 50% (was 35%).
  • Added better feedback sound for Pyros on when their flamethrower is doing damage.
  • Fixed blood effect on bleeding player.
  • Added a glow effect to Payload carts.
  • Added Romanian language support.
Jul 8, 2010
Free Weekend! - Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
Product Release - Valve
Kick off the weekend by playing Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter for free! You can also save 50% by purchasing the title this weekend.

Free weekend ends Sunday at 1pm (PST). 50% off sale ends Monday at 10am (PST).

Jul 8, 2010
King Arthur - The Saxons DLC Released
King Arthur: The Saxons - Valve
King Arthur - The Saxons DLC is now available on Steam.

A long time ago the Saxons came to Britannia as ruthless mercenaries, but they became the devoted warriors of Christianity, united under the rule of King Raedwald.

When Arthur, the son of Uther Pendragon pulled his cursed sword from the stone, the dark age of wizardry and pagan monstrosities returned. These are grave times for Britannia and only the devoted and the faithful can stop this madness.

Call the proud Saxons to Norfolk! Recruit armies and knights and prove that King Raedwald is the real Once and Future King!
Jul 8, 2010
The World Cup final is here - Save now on Football Manager 10!
Announcement - Valve
In celebration of Sunday's World Cup final, Football Manager 10 is on sale now through Monday, July 12 at 10AM PDT. GOOOAAAAAAAL!

Jul 8, 2010
New Releases from iWin!
Escape From Paradise - Valve
Enjoy the following titles from iWin now on Steam. Escape From Paradise, Escape From Paradise 2 and Book of Legends

These entertaining family adventure games are sure to provide hours of enjoyment!

Jul 8, 2010
Aliens vs Predator Update Released
Aliens vs. Predator™ - Valve
Updates to Aliens vs Predator have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

New Features
  • Predator Focus Attack now knocks you down between 9-12m
  • Alien Focus Attack damage has been returned to it’s correct values
  • The chance to spawn on occupied/blocked friendly spawn points and consequentially knock players out of world is reduced
  • Joining a Dedicated server which is running on non-standard ports, leaving and then hosting a player match, will now no longer cause any clients who join the hosted match to lose connection upon starting the game
Jul 7, 2010
Sol Survivor Update Released
Sol Survivor - Valve
Updates to Sol Survivor have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Sol Suvivor:
  • Added Survival Co-op multiplayer mode.
  • Added two Survival Co-op maps: Medusa and Candlelight, from designs submitted by community member Shentrax.
  • Added gamepad navigation of menus.
  • Added screenshot key to bindable controls.
  • Fixed crash from corrupted configuration save data.
  • Fixed crash from corrupted Cloud save data.
  • Fixed clients failing to time out when joining a lobby that closed.
Jul 7, 2010
New Release - Puzzle Agent
Puzzle Agent - Valve
Now you can join the world of Puzzle Agent and test yourself with brainteasers at every turn: mazes, logic puzzles, riddles, and more.

Created with indie comic artist Graham Annable's unique narrative and visual sensibilities, delivered with the distinctive Telltale storytelling style, Puzzle Agent is sure to challenge, thrill and engage in more ways than you can shake a cryptogram at!

Jul 7, 2010
Booster Trooper Update Released
Booster Trooper - Valve
Updates to Booster Trooper have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Booster Trooper
  • Added: new map - Space Station
  • Added: new map - Temple of Helion
  • Fixed: CTF achievement
  • Improved: BOT AI
  • Improved: kill messages separated from info/chat messages and weapon icon is shown
  • Improved: chat/info system. Chat messages stay longer, blip sound played, and last messages fade in if new messages is typed in
  • Fixed: error on exit/quit command of dedicated server
  • Improved: shotgun power slightly decreased
  • Improved: assault rifle power slightly increased
  • Fixed: loading of the fullscreen and resoultion configuration in some cases
  • Fixed: try to enter password protected full game, no longer loops button-click sound
  • Fixed: messages of black players are recolored for better reading
Jul 7, 2010
Mount & Blade: Warband Update Released
Mount & Blade: Warband - Valve
Updates to Mount & Blade: Warband have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Version 1.126

Features and Gameplay:
  • NEW! Gameplay features have been added, now players have the ability to build production houses that produce valuable goods such as iron, wine, velvet and more. The building of production houses is accessible through guild masters in towns. Also players may visit these newly modeled scenes via the town menu.
  • New Swadian houses have been added to major Swadian towns.
  • New, AI Behavior enables more realistic AI lord behaviors, such as AI lords collecting taxes.
  • Campaign difficulty has been rebalanced, hard mode is now even more challenging with AI lords recruiting troops faster.
  • Economy parameters such as taxes from fiefs and raiding outcomes, have been balanced.
  • The Khergit faction has been given some much needed love and as a result has had their troops and items rebalanced.
  • Khergits get modified hats and steppe armor instead of leather vests in multi-player.
  • Man-hunters and high tier slaver troops have been given an overhaul and have top tier troops equal to other top tier army troops.
  • Weapons that cannot be used to block can now do feint attacks.
  • All items from hammers to warhammers and spiked clubs to iron maces now have knockdown capabilities.
Technical:
  • New flags for items are added and new operations are defined to give more freedom to modders.
  • Out of memory errors while rendering are now handled more properly.
  • Fixed a bug that caused AI lords to have too many high level troops.
  • Several bug fixes to the level editor.
  • Lots of other bug fixes and some healthy re-balancing/improvements in both single and multi-player modes.
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