Dec 23, 2010

Plants vs. Zombies - Game of the Year Edition Update Released

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition - Valve

Updates to Plants vs Zombies: Game of the Year Edition have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Updates:

PC/MAC
- Updated achievement descriptions

Fixes:

MAC
- Fixed crash on accessing Crazy Dave’s Store.
- Fixed crash with resuming adventure mode after exiting game on non-gameplay parts of a level.

Dec 23, 2010

Pirates, Vikings, and Knights II Update released

Pirates, Vikings, and Knights II - Valve

Updates to Pirates, Vikings, and Knights II have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

New game Mode: Trinket Wars

Replaces Holy Grail game mode. Each team has their own trinket carrier whom they must defend while killing the other teams' players.
tw_saints is now in rotation and runs the Trinket Wars game mode.

New Achievements and Titles:

15 new achievements including: Sword At A Gunfight, Traveler, Some Friend You Are, Black Powder Finish, Hollywood Physics, Meat Carver, Final Strike, In Good Company, Superior Messiah, Mine's Better, The Chosen One, Sharing Is Caring, I Be Unstoppable, So Come Take A Drink..., One Man Army
Many achievements now unlock Player Titles which can be selected from a new 'Character Info' screen in the main menu. Titles appear next to the player's name in the MVP screen and when mousing over their model in-game. Example titles include: the Messiah, the Invincible, the Parrot Slayer and many more!

New Sounds and Voice Menus

Many new sounds for weapons and general map ambiance.
New voice menus that include dynamic objective commands and other helpful dialogue.
Unique voices for each class.

Dec 23, 2010

New Release - Back to the Future: The Game

Back to the Future: The Game - Valve

Episode 1: It's About Time of Back to the Future: The Game is now available on Steam at 10% off.

Marty McFly and Doc Brown return in a completely new Back to the Future adventure.

Six months after the events of the third film, the DeLorean Time Machine mysteriously returns to Hill Valley - driverless! Marty must go back in time and get aid from a resistant teenage Emmett Brown, or else the space time continuum will forever be unraveled!

Dec 23, 2010

King's Bounty: Crossworlds Update Released

King's Bounty: Crossworlds - Valve

Updates to King's Bounty: Crossworlds have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Updates

Repairs a failure, which appears while checking the skills of the Rune Mage.

Orcs on the March
- Crash fixed at Assassin's Know Weakness skill.
- Error fixed at orc shaman's Adrenaline Maximum.
- Error fixed at spells Poisonous Spit, Black Hole and Soul Draining at the boss arenas.
- Error fixed at Skeletons' skill Bone Gate at the Arena of Chaos.
- Description of skills fixed at Rune Mage, Faun and Bone Dragon.
- Feature Recruiter fixed.
- A dialogue of Rock Porter fixed, if you don't take quests for spy searching.
Defender of the Crown
- Failure fixed after the defeat in the battle for medals (after the talk with smuggler Hogben).
- Ancient Ent's skill Summon Swarm doesn't recharge the skill Running now.

Balance Changes

Orcs on the March
- Abilities of the Infernal Dragon were strengthened.
- The following creatures were strengthened: White Kraken, Fauns, Rune Mages, Goblins, Orc-leaders and Tirexes.
- Orc-shamans were weakened.
- The feature Favorite Enemy of humans gets updated in every new battle.
- The AI of Alchemist and Engineers was updated.
Defender of the Crown
- The enemy hero Mahruk was strengthened.

Additions and upgrades:

Orcs on the March
- Detailed information on the trophies in the Military Academy added; (c) ilih.
- A specified log during the receipt of Adrenaline by orcs added.

General

Support of 16:9 format added.
New opportunities for game modders added.

Dec 22, 2010

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

Team Fortress 2 - Valve

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

Team Fortress 2

The Blighted Beak is now a misc slot item.
The Buffalo Steak Sandvich's speed boost no longer stacks with other speed boosts.
The Rocket Jumper and Sticky Jumper now have no max health penalty, and have damage vulnerabilities instead.
Duel fixes:
- Duels can no longer be initiated when the round is not fully running.
- If you challenge someone that has already challenged you, the duel is automatically accepted.
- Fixed an issue where a dueling mini-game item was marked in-use even though the duel was rejected.
- Duels are now refunded if a server plugin forces a participant to switch teams.
Loading screen:
- Only shows the duel leaderboard if you've been dueling, or if your friends have been dueling.
- Shows your personal stats whenever it's not showing the duel leaderboard.
Custom hitsounds:
- Must now be specified by replacing the 'tf/sound/ui/hitsound.wav' file.
- Can now be used under sv_pure 1/2.
Improved performance on Degroot Keep.
The "Fabricate Class Headgear" recipe no longer has a chance of creating all-class hats.
Fixed spectator mode sometimes ending up in a state where you were half-embedded in your spectator target.
Fixed a bug in the Kritzkrieg’s animations.
Fixed round restarts not cleaning up weapons correctly for a frame (fixes a variety of weapon attribute issues, such as players having less health or less ammo than they should)
Fixed painting issues in several of the Australian Christmas hats.
The Sniper scope is now visible when viewing First Person Spectator mode on a zoomed Sniper.
Medieval Mode's auto-roleplay now ignores text beginning with '!' or '/' (so SourceMod commands aren't modified)

Dec 22, 2010

Open Beta Now Available - APOX

APOX - Valve

Open Beta is now available for APOX

APOX is a real-time strategy game that uniquely includes gameplay concepts from first-person shooters, while keeping everything that makes RTS great. Use first-person shooter tactics like crouching, switching active weapons and looting corpses, while performing the real-time strategy moves of making bases, controlling strategic sites, and managing your resources.