Feb 25, 2011
Weeklong Sale - 50% Off Spellforce Universe
SpellForce - Platinum Edition - Valve
To commemorate the new low price on Spellforce series, the entire Spellforce collection on Steam, including the newly released Spellforce Universe bundle (includes both Spellforce: Platinum Edition and Spellforce 2: Gold Edition), is available at 50% off now through March 3, 2011.

Feb 25, 2011
Left 4 Dead 2 Update Released
Left 4 Dead 2 - Valve
Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Left 4 Dead 2
  • Mutation Classic #2: Bleed Out
Feb 25, 2011
Serious Sam HD Fusion DLC Pack Released
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter - Valve
Serious Sam is like a gift that keeps on giving. Devolver Digital and Croteam has released a free Fusion Downloadable Content Pack to owners who have both Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter and Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter. Customers who purchase Serious Sam HD series for the first time will also receive the free update!

The Serious Sam HD Fusion DLC Pack combines all the campaign and multiplayer levels from Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter into Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter for the ultimate in classic first-person shooter mayhem. For the first time ever, players will enjoy new modes like Beast Hunt and My Burden using the classic maps from Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter!

Feb 25, 2011
Magicka Update Released
Magicka - Valve
Updates to Magicka have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

A little treat has been added to the game.
You can now play as the Mea Culpa wizard, wielding a powerful The bug staff and the less powerful Broken Sword.
A new magick in the same theme has also been added...the unholy Crash to Desktop.
Feb 25, 2011
New Release - Painkiller: Redemption
Painkiller Redemption - Valve
Painkiller: Redemption is now available on Steam!

Welcome to a world of pain. Heaven is once again in danger and threatened by a reckless army of hell spawn monsters - and they will stop at nothing. This time, only two heroes can save heaven from total destruction: Daniel and Belial, two champions from previous Painkiller stories, have to team up and put an end to the conflict in the old epic struggle between heaven and hell.

Feb 24, 2011
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
Counter-Strike: Source - 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:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
  • Fixed another server crash exploit caused by malformed network packets

Team Fortress 2
  • Added three new community maps:
    • Koth_Lakeside
    • PL_Frontier
    • PLR_Nightfall
Feb 24, 2011
New Release - Men of War: Assault Squad
Men of War: Assault Squad - Valve
Men of War: Assault Squad is now available on Steam!

Smash tanks through obstacles and control your soldiers as they clash on the battlefield. Play as any of the five different nations - Russia, Germany, USA, Commonwealth and, for the first time ever in the Men of War series, Japan!

Feb 24, 2011
Monday Night Combat Updated
Monday Night Combat - Valve
New Features
• Added Dedicated Blitz Servers, commandline and UI support, updated batch files
• Show Ping in Scoreboard
• Show Bot Kills in Scoreboard
• Added ability to rename Custom Classes
• Bullseye has been practicing his Irish jig gearing up for St Patty’s


Fixes
• Beta Gear cutoff time set to 3PM PST to fix unlocking issues
• Network bandwidth optimization
• Performance optimization for low end systems
• Fixed Endorsement draw order in Character Select
• Removed “All Player receive Juice in Overtime” Protip


Balance
• Zoomed Sniper Rifle body shot damage reduced.


Adjustments
• Extended connection time out settings and added more logging features to help connection issues

Feb 24, 2011
Steam Screenshots Feature Now Available
Steam Blog - Valve



Steam just made it easier to take and share screenshots of your favorite games.

Press your hotkey (F12 by default) while in any game that runs the Steam Overlay to take screenshots. Then publish them to your Steam Community profile as well as Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit to share them with your friends.

With 1GB of personal Steam Cloud storage, you can upload thousands of screenshots to show off your best moments for all your friends to see. Or you can make them private if you'd rather keep them to yourself.




Use the new screenshot manager to upload your screenshots while still in the game, or at a later time. You can customize your screenshot hotkey by visiting the In-Game section of Steam settings.

To give the new screenshots feature a try, just restart Steam to get the latest client update.

Feb 24, 2011
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:

New Features and UI updates

Steam Screenshots
  • Added support for Steam Screenshots. Press F12 while in any game that runs the Steam Overlay to take screenshots, then publish them to your Steam Community profile, or anywhere else on the web. Each user is allotted 1 GB of Steam Cloud storage for screenshots.

Library Search capability and related navigation updates
  • Added Search capability to the library for quick filtering of your list. Press Tab to move focus to and from the search field, press Esc to clear the search.
  • Moved access to all library sub views (Games, Media Tools, Downloads, etc.) into the library's dropdown control

Voice quality improvements
  • Changed microphone voice input from 11 kHz to 16 kHz
  • Changed voice output from 8 kHz to 16 kHz
  • Fixed the settings-dialog microphone test to correctly re-init the calibration client if the active voice device changes
  • Reduced voice prefix buffer size from 200 to 100 ms, but increased trailing from 200 to 400 ms - reduces latency when transitioning from silence to active voice, but still should keep it from sounding like chat is cutting out mid-sentence
  • Increased thresholds for voice activity detection, making it less sensitive
  • Increased amount of gain applied to voice
  • Changed disconnect message when a friend ends a voice call to ' has ended the call'
  • Windows: Fixed microphone to reinitialize correctly if Windows signals that a device in the system has changed
  • Windows: Changed voice output device for Steam to be the default communication device

Web addresses
  • Added an option to display the client's URL address bar, and turned it off by default, given its limited utility
  • Web views now include a "Copy Page URL" command in the context menu, to copy the page's web address to the clipboard

Game invites
  • Moved game invites from friends outside of the chat stream, into their own panel in the chat dialog for improved discoverability

Account security
  • Added password strength meter to the Change Password wizard
  • Added a prompt to choose a new password if you've recently had Steam Support change your password on your behalf

General bug fixes
  • Fixed game invites not working from lobby-based games
  • Fixed games not launching automatically after resolving a cloud conflict
  • Fixed download rate sometimes erroneously reporting very high speeds
  • Fixed a crash on startup or when viewing Games page
  • Fixed client hang which could occur while hovering on links in any HTML-based display area
  • Corrected check box states in the Friends window menu to properly remain in sync
  • Fixed bug where some downloadable content was not downloaded until the client was restarted
  • Fixed a rare and small, but steady memory leak caused by the Steam Overlay in some full screen D3D10/D3D11 games
  • Mac OS X: Fixed a problem where attempting to resume a paused/interrupted download could always report ‘server unavailable’
  • Mac OS X: Fixed password input fields in the Steam Overlay to correctly receive input
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