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.
Shift 2 Unleashed - Valve
Shift 2 Unleashed is now available on Steam in North America and will become available world-wide very soon (please see the Crysis 2 store page for release times).

SHIFT 2 UNLEASHED delivers all the violence, energy and excitement of race day in a groundbreaking authentic racing experience with an all-new rendering engine and graphics overhaul, innovative helmet camera, night racing, and authentic degradation of tracks and cars.

Connects with friends and competitors to race head-to-head and compare player statistic match-ups!

Painkiller Redemption - Valve
Updates to Painkiller: Redemption have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
  • Fixed some map design flaws and glitches like slowly closing doors and points where you can "leave" the level
  • Fixed random crash on map loading with script error or no error caption
  • Fixed 1st map glitch when player was unable to collect all items and destroy some items
  • Fixed "Multisamling" word in graphic options. Now It's correctly named "Multisampling"
  • Fixed several smaller bugs and crashes in engine
  • Removed pillars in the are of the Endboss
  • Tweaked AI of Endboss
  • Improved shadows on last map
Announcement - Valve
Now through Friday of this week, get and play the free Darkspore™ beta on Steam. Also, Steam announces an exclusive pre-purchase offer: a four-pack of Darkspore for the price of three. So grab some friends and join the sci-fi universe of Darkspore, a fast-paced new online Action-RPG from Maxis and Electronic Arts in which you battle across alien worlds with your customized squads of heroes.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction™ - Valve
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction™, Deluxe Edition and Insurgency Pack DLC are now available on the Mac!

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction arms you to the teeth with all the high-tech weaponry and lethal skills of an elite operative and invites you to enter a dangerous world where justice means making your own rules. An investigation into his daughter’s death unwittingly leads former agent Sam Fisher to discover he’s been betrayed by his prior agency, the Third Echelon. Now a renegade, Fisher finds himself in a race against time to thwart a deadly terrorist plot that threatens millions.

Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Valve
Updates to Total War: SHOGUN 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Total War: SHOGUN 2
  • Multiplayer - Fixed a bug whereby winning a match made battle via the opponent conceding defeat did not register a win statistic or count towards the match made battle victory achievement.
  • Multiplayer - Fixed a bug that would see The Dishonourable Coward trait from being incorrectly awarded to players. The trait has also been reset for the entire player base.
  • Multiplayer - Fixed a bug that would see avatar costs incorrectly deducted from funds for a naval battle.
  • Multiplayer - Fixed instances where players were unable to fully upgrade their General’s Avatar skills.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V - Valve
Updates to Sid Meier's Civilization® V have been released (PC Only). The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

  • Support for Korean localization
Alien Breed: Impact - Valve
Alien Breed™ Trilogy is now available on Steam and is 10% off until April 4th at 10AM PDT!

Experience the ultimate in science-fiction action with the Alien Breed™ Trilogy: three arcade-shooter titles in one fantastic collection, together for the first time. The Alien Breed™ Trilogy resurrects a much revered franchise with an epic narrative, swarms of intelligent alien enemies, high-impact weaponry and rich environments; all implemented with superb technology in a state-of-the-art gaming experience, developed using Epic Games' Unreal® Engine 3.

In addition to the thrilling single-player campaign and “Survivor” modes, the games offer relentless, action-packed, two-player online co-operative battle modes.

Monday Night Combat - Valve
Monday Night Combat Updates
PC Product Update 6 -3/25/11

Summary
Today’s update focus is two fold. The first is iterating on and pulling back the visibility of the All Star Rating. The All Star Rating system looks at many different aspects of the player’s play and uses an algorithm to come up with a number that represents their skill level. It’s a system that fluctuates over time depending on how you play in every facet of Monday Night Combat. We will continue to improve the system over time. We also wanted to once again show player level and reintroduced that back into the UI.
Secondly we took aim at some issues surrounding the charge abilities. We fixed several bugs with charge not doing damage, not doing knock-back, or doing knock-back when it shouldn’t. We also retuned it so to make the Ass ault have to choose whether to use it to get into combat or get out of combat, not both.

Fixes
• Fixed enemy players being partially immune to head shots while using the turret purchase menu
• Fixed Assassins doing significantly more damage under certain latency situations
• Fixed Assassins doing lunge damage while dead
• Fixed enemy health bars showing while player is under effects of a smoke bomb
• Fixed Assault’s Charge not doing proper knock-back if the target is in the air
• Fixed a few instances of the Assault’s Charge doing no damage
• Fixed an issue that caused Support’s Air Strike to immediately trigger if thrown out of the world
• Fixed an issue that caused players to get knocked back and damaged from charges when they are standing behind the Assault or Tank
• Fixed explosive projectiles sometimes exploding on a client early and in the wrong location
• Fixed issue that could cause dedicated blitz servers to reach an infinitely high round number
• Fixed issue where user may be unable to purchase Juice
• Fixed issue where charges did not deal proper damage and/or knockback
• Fixed exploit allowing users to spam Tank’s Deathblossom


Balance and Adjustments
• Reduced the recovery speed of the Assault’s Charge Skill.
• Increased the recovery speed of the Assault’s Bomb Skill.
• Normalized the speeds of the Tank and Assault charge
• Players are now awarded less money while juiced
• The Assault Bomb skill no longer recovers while the bomb is in play
• Re-added player levels in the pregame lobby
• Team split will now somewhat use All Star Rating to choose teams
• Removed All Star Rating from the scoreboard
• Enable trilinear filtering on certain texture detail settings
• Undo minor change from previous patch causing charges to feel ineffective in high latency situations
• Voice icon appears on HUD and player names change color when talking
• All Start Rating displays more detail
• Lighting updates on AmmoMule, Grenade III, and LaseRazor Arenas
• Mascot colors changed back to Green and Yellow
• Team split now accounts for All Star Rating


New Features
• New taunts for all classes while wearing Retro or Beta Gear.
• An extra Gunner taunt with dual minigun for any gear.



New Issues
• With the recent change in Steam’s VOIP API we have been having problems with game volume and some Win 7 (and others?) sound settings. If you experience low game volume, please go Control Panel->Sound->Communications and tell Windows NOT to do any muting when it detects communications.
Mar 25, 2011
Clones - Valve
The latest multiplayer jam level pack is now available for download from the Clones Package Gallery. Here's a quick description about each level's unique features:

Arctic Shift - The clones are on a transcendental meditation retreat up north. This is a medium sized 2-player map with exits that move back and forth along the ice. You'll have to master your timing here or else you'll end up feeding your opponents exit and rage quitting.

Atomic - In a post-apocloneyptic world the Light Clones have emerged as the ruling class. This map is good for 2 vs 2 play and is wrapped horizontally. Rescue the frozen clones to boost your score.

Clonedependence Day - The invasion has only begun. The people in the buildings have left hazards in the windows so watch out. This map is for 3-players and is horizontally wrapped.

Finder Keepers - Trillip's moon junk collection contains many rare finds, including some odorous star clones. Dig out your star clone from under the garbage and try to make a path back to your beam out pad while stopping your opponent from doing the same thing. There are 2 star clones to choose from.

Seasick - There is a mighty wind a blowin' and your spawn points will be shifting around during this seaside battle. You can choose either 1 or 3 spawns per movement and 2 sets of beam up pads await you.

These maps will be in rotation during the multiplayer Jam taking place this Saturday. Feel free to open up the maps in the editor and see how the moving start/exit logic was achieved.
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