Sep 16, 2010

Delve Deeper - Valve

Delve Deeper is a turn-based Adventure/Strategy game that combines HD pixel art, tile placement, and RPG elements in a bright and humorous atmosphere. Up to four players take command of Dwarf mining teams in this fast and furious dungeon adventure meets devious puzzler, building the map as you play for an ever-changing, endlessly replayable strategy experience for you and your three best friends, or three devious AI teams.

"Delve Deeper from Lunar Giant Studios is a new turn-based strategy title for the PC that goes into a special class of games close to my heart," says Patrick Watts of The Adrenaline Vault. Michael Rose of Indie Games says, "It's seriously good fun and quite unique - I certainly haven't seen anything like it before."

Features:

Gorgeous HD Pixel art, quirky humor, and the ever-present King of Dwarves.
Pick your own team of 5 Dwarves from Fighters, Scouts and Miners
Battle 20 powerful Monsters including Goblins, Evil Dwarves, and huge Dragons!
Collect over 100 relics to power up your Dwarves, and view them later in The Royal Gallery!
Earn 50 different Steam Achievements
Track 48 collectible statistics

About Lunar Giant Studios
An independent game company from Batavia, Illinois, Lunar Giant Studios is committed to building ambitious, solidly designed and professionally drawn games with a retro-gaming flair.

Sep 15, 2010

Supreme Commander 2 Update Released

Supreme Commander 2 - Valve

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

New Features

Build mode can now be accessed while holding shift.
Added Safe and SafeMode command line options as a better alternative to resetting monitor resolution - Using one of these options will start the game at 1024x768@60hz in fullscreen and allow the player to change his options to something else after the game loads.
Added build mode hotkey for Cybran Mass Convertor. Removed Ctrl-M key mapping for old Cybran mass convert ability, which no longer exists and was causing a crash.
By popular request, reset Season 2 ELO ratings.
Quitting a game will stop the replay from recording immediately

Fixes

Fix for targeting units under the influence of world forces (ie Magnetron).
Fix for units becoming unrepairable.
Partial fix for selected groups of units not all Teleporting or Jump Jetting when given the order.
Fix for Space Temple cooldown being activated even if the beacon was not placed.
Better handling for units getting stuck in a position when they try to reclaim something directly underneath them.
Fix for ACU/engineers going on a walkabout when trying to build something that overlaps with their current position.
Fix for some factories and engineers getting XP for killing things when they should not.
Fix for units colliding with terrain when boarding a carrier.
Fix for not adjusting a units health when it recieves a MaxHealth buff on non-DLC side.
You can no longer use the Magnet Pull, Magnet Push, or Pullinsmash ability while No Rush is active

Fixed up AI platoon templates.
Fix for AI platoon sizes.
Fix for AI platoons "dancing around".
The AI influence map decay rate for mobile units has been lowered.
Fix for AI building too many Mass Fabricators.
Adjusted how much mass a Mass Convertor adds to the AI's Resource Manager.
AI will only build 1 ProtoBrain.
AI will attack ACUs more in Assassination mode.

Known Issues/Under Investigation

Pre-1.21 Replays will not function with 1.21.
Teleporting/Jumpjetting group fix only partially implemented.
Memory Management and allocation optimizations.
Desynch related to VTOL aircraft.

Sep 15, 2010

Worms Reloaded Update Released

Worms Reloaded - Valve

Updates to Worms Reloaded have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Worms Reloaded

An adjustment has been made to the Jump key timing to make double jumping easier
Additional fixes have been implemented for frontend navigation with game pads.
The Game Style name in the “Show Player Games” screen is now localized
A fix has been added to ensure that Sentry Guns are always the correct team colour when placed in Online Multiplayer games
A fix has been implemented to ensure that the ordering of players in the lobby is now consistent between all players. This should fix issues whereby player avatars did not match up with the correct names and also alleviate some of the issues experienced with the “Ready?” light.
The ability to create a lobby has added to the Multiplayer Options menu. This will allow players to host their own lobbies without the need to search for available lobbies beforehand

Sep 15, 2010

Dawn of War II: Retribution- Coming to Steamworks

Announcement - Valve

THQ announced today that Warhammer® 40,000®: Dawn of War II ® - Retribution™ will use Steamworks networking and matchmaking to provide co-operative and competitive online play. Dawn of War II - Retribution will be a completely stand alone title in the series and will provide multiple campaigns to play, as well as all six multiplayer races, with new units for each of the existing five races and one new unannounced one.

Sep 15, 2010

Steam client update released

Client Update - Valve

A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:

Steam

Added support to update AMD/ATI video drivers
Bug fixes in JPEG decoding of images with embedded EXIF profiles
Crash fix in voice chat
SteamService uninstall improvements
Improved in-game overlay compatibility with some third-party software
Improved in-game overlay browser forward/back navigation

Sep 14, 2010

Pre-Purchase Now - Football Manager 2011

Football Manager 2011 - Valve

Football Manager 2011 is the latest iteration of the award-winning Football Manager series, and if you purchase before launch you will receive select games from SEGA Genesis Classics Collections 1 + 2 for FREE!

The 2011 edition of Football Manager will be more polished than ever, and Sports Interactive will again set a new standard for the genre by adding a host of new features.

Sep 14, 2010

Hacker Evolution Games Released on Steam

Hacker Evolution - Valve

When a worldwide chain of events leaves critical service disabled, you assume the role a computer hacker to find out what happened and try to stop it.

Hack into computers, look for exploits and information, steal money to buy hardware upgrades in an attempt to put all the pieces of a big puzzle together.

Hacker Evolution and Hacker Evolution: Untold are now available on Steam.