Call of Duty®: Black Ops - Valve
Updates to Call of Duty: Black Ops have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • Singleplayer audio stuttering on some systems
Luxor: 5th Passage - Valve
Luxor: 5th Passage is now available on Steam and is 30% off for the first week!

Get ready to wield your winged-scarab shooter in an all-new LUXOR, the #1 action-puzzle game of all time! Save ancient Egypt in the 100-level Adventure mode, or test your accuracy in the all-new Blast mode.

Discount ends February 1st at 10am Pacific Time.

Star Ruler - Valve
Updates to Star Ruler have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Fixed:
  • Fix civil acts that have a group not correctly loading.
  • Fix racial bonuses affecting ship components not correctly applying.
  • Crash on game start when having shaders disabled.
  • Dry Docks could be ordered to scuttle or retrofit at themselves, making them disappear.
  • When starting at a higher tech level from traits, structures on the homeworld did not start at that level.
  • Fetch orders did not behave properly with resources that have a "required" (eg Crew).
  • Ships reacting to automated attack orders could overshoot the system and sit idle at the edge of deep space.
  • The set_owner and destroy console commands now work with all selected objects.
  • Fixed a very rare crash bug caused by moving between systems/galaxies.
  • The minimap was horizontally flipped.
  • Objects that are under attack can no longer be docked to prevent exploits.
  • Construction progress would jump suddenly at times.
  • Construction completion percent is now the average of the lowest percentage of a particular resource, and the average percent per resource.
  • Scripted planet governor entries were breaking saves.
  • Shields no longer consume more power at higher levels.
  • "Supply This" was willing to tell planets and stations to supply objects.
  • Ships built from dry docks with auto park on would not park at the correct distance.
  • Fixed nano-armor reducing the ship's total apparent health in the absence of repair systems.
Changed:
  • Tweaked governors to maintain a stronger economy and empire.
  • Tool names are now localizable.
  • Automated attack orders are now lower priority, so ships will break attacks to fetch fuel and ammo unless manually ordered to attack to the death.
  • Cut space damage in half.
  • Repair tools can now only repair ships and stations.
  • Fleets now stay in formation while attacking (can be toggled off with a button next to the formation buttons).
  • Cargo Structures now also have a store for each dedicated resource, making them more useful in many cases.
Balance:
  • Artillery now has a minimum range of 10% of the maximum range.
  • Goods factories now produce 30% less goods.
Added:
  • Added 'Automatic' option for default governor type to choose based on the conditions of the planet.
  • Objects now use a much better algorithm to search for targets in a system, improving behaviors at very large ship counts.
  • Ships now detect if they are likely to kill an enemy target and will select additional targets for their other guns when they are.
  • Added the 'Aggressor' personality by Superking.
Magicka - Valve
Updates to Magicka have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
  • Characters will now clear any crossfading previously in progress when initializing.
  • Character network performance has been improved.
  • Servers will now properly clear pending clients when starting a game.
  • Some grapical improvement has been made to the tutorial level.
  • Burning grease is now working properly over network.
  • Grease network performance has been improved.
  • PhysicsObjects now update their orientations correctly over network.
  • DamageableObjects status effects now work properly over network.
  • Character status effects now work properly over network.
  • Fixed a dialog problem which prevented cutscenes from ending properly.
  • Wizard castle collision mesh has been adjusted.
  • Havindr Arena's collision mesh has been adjusted.
  • Glade's collision mesh has been adjusted.
  • Hyphen (-) has been added and other fixes have been made to the fonts.
  • Ruins script has been modified.
  • Ruins textures has been improved.
  • A few missing NPC name tags have been added.
  • A glitch when characters performed multiple move orders in sequence has been fixed.
  • Picking up items over network has been fixed.
  • Random teleport over network has been fixed.
  • Music will reset properly when restarting from checkpoints now.
  • NPC wizards now use the correct coloring for network clients.
Greed Corp - Valve
Act now to take advantage of 50% off Greed Corp!

Manage the finite available resources to build your army and use the collapsing terrain to your advantage. Destroy your enemies, or destroy the very land they stand on, before they do it to you.

4-Pack is now available!

Offer ends January 27th at 4pm Pacific Time.

Jan 25, 2011
Magicka - Valve
Magicka is now available on Steam!

Magicka is a satirical action-adventure game set in a rich fantasy world based on Norse mythology. Assume the role of a wizard from a sacred order tasked with stopping an evil sorcerer who has thrown the world into turmoil!

Purchase by January 31st, 10am Pacific Time and receive the Wizard's Survival Kit free!

Dead Space™ 2 - Valve
Dead Space 2 is now available in NA! The title will be released in the rest of the world over the next two days.

THE NIGHTMARE RETURNS.

Monday Night Combat - Valve
PC Product Update Launch

New Features
• Added Juice Bot. Juice Bot has a chance of replacing the mascot during any match
• Added Pro Gear system, allowing players to customize the look of their Pro
• Added Honors system. Honors are awards that can only be earned once. Each has an associated ProTag.
• Added a special “MNC Fever” Protag that can only be earned by killing another player that has it set as their current ProTag. Keep an eye out for an Uber Developer, they will all have this ProTag set.



Adjustments
• Updated shuriken effects
• Updated Sniper trap effects
• Updated in-game chat with a UI box and better history tracking
• Server browser now shows a highlight on primary sort column


Fixes
• Fixed server history not saving the proper history
• Fixed certain weapons being able to shoot in and out of player spawn areas
• Fixed Blitz stats from not recording after a match
• Fixed clients showing incorrect Blitz challenge
• Fixed issue with gunner level 3 deploy not preventing headshots
• Fixed Support’s firebase not dying when player is autobalanced
• Fixed mouse scroll issues in Server Browser
• Fixed issue with getting stuck in Scoreboard before Character Select screen appears

Monday Night Combat - Valve
Monday Night Combat is now available on Steam!

Monday Night Combat is a class-based, third-person shooter… and the most popular lethal sport of the future! Enjoy intense combat, finishing moves, and gameshow-like challenges to win cash, fame and endorsements!

Purchase before February 1st, 10am PST and receive Team Fortress 2 Items for Monday Night Combat & Monday Night Combat Items for Team Fortress 2!

Counter-Strike: Source - Valve
Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, 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 (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
  • Fixed the dedicated server not running on machines using Win2k

Team Fortress 2
  • Added the Monday Night Combat gear
  • Added Crit-a-Cola to the weapon drop list
  • Added missing chalkboard/serverbrowser materials for 5Gorge
  • Fixed some missing particles systems in the low violence version
  • Fixed a bug with the round ending when a control point is captured during Overtime in CP_Egypt
  • Fixed the game not running on machines using Fat32
  • Updated the localization files
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