May 23, 2011
Product Release - Valve
DiRT 3 is now available on Steam!

Race through the snow, rain and dirt and experience dramatic night races with the most amount of rally content in the series yet. Competing as a professional rally star you’ll enjoy intense racing across three continents – from the forests of Michigan to the infamous roads of Finland and the national parks of Kenya.

May 23, 2011
BRINK - Valve
General:
• Fixed sound dropping out when playing networked games
• Improved graphical performance, especially when using Ambient Occlusion
• Fixed voice packs being reset to default when you delete another character
• Removed ability to use certain cheat protected commands in challenges
• Fixed memory leak/crash when alt-tabbed out

User Interface:
• Full servers are no longer filtered out of the browser
• Added support for entering a range of numbers (i.e. 10-12) in server filters
• Reduced font size in the server browser
• Exiting Head customization returns to the correct menu
• Fixed being unable to bind KP_Enter in the UI
• Increased font size of in-game text chat
• ‘Enter’ now closes text chat prompt if empty
• Fixed challenge in menu flashing even after completion

Dedicated Servers:
• Improved dedicated server CPU performance
• Fixed NPC not spawning for escort objectives online on servers using unsupported cvars
Worms Reloaded - Valve
Updates to Worms Reloaded have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. This update is the first of a number of planned updates that add features requested by the Worms Reloaded community. This one concentrates mainly on the Frontend and User Interface.

Worms Reloaded
  • Added a feature to allow players to to invite friends into public games.
  • Added a feature so that players you have just played a game with will be added to a recent players list.
  • Added a feature so you can change your team in the game lobby by right clicking your name.
  • The key used for opening the chat window will also close the window if pressed again.
  • When playing against someone who has a custom speechbank that you do not have, the game will now pick a random speech bank instead of resorting to the default one every time.
  • The chat interface size has been reduced.
  • The font size in the frontend and menus has been reduced.
  • Other improvements to the frontend such as: - Lists ordered alphabetically, Menu Options renamed and a reorganisation of the frontend that makes navigating more intuitive.
  • Fixed a crash in the tutorial relating to selecting an empty slot from the weapon panel.
  • Fixed magnet sync issues
Death and the Fly - Valve
Death and the Fly is now available on Steam.

In this unique 2D platform puzzle game players will control two very different characters, Death and the Fly. Each character has special skills that must be used to navigate the many traps and puzzles contained in each level. With many interesting ways to die and numerous opponents to face, the player will be challenged and entertained for hours.

Announcement - Valve
City of Heroes Going Rogue: Complete Collection is available for 50% off until May 30th at 10AM Pacific Time!

The Complete Collection includes access to City of Heroes® and City of Villains®, as well as the recent Going Rogue™ expansion. Also includes one month of game time.

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

Controls
  • Right clicking and holding on a crafting recipe will craft multiple of the same item to a max of the stack and/or until you run out of materials.

Items
  • NEW ITEM : Sticky Bombs, Requires 5 Gel and a Bomb.
  • Sand Duping bug fixed.
  • Placing a bed far from the spawn no longer causes a player who has set their spawn there to crash on join.
  • Mining stone and other hard ores make a 'tink' noise now.
  • Hellstone and Obsidian now require at least a Demonite pick to gather.
  • Sand no longer spawns within a certain distance of the spawn location, This should remove the chance of spawning in a desert with no wood to use.
  • Hellstone now correctly takes as long to dig as meteor does.
  • The clay pot item now has the correct size.

Performance
  • Frame-skip is now correctly ON by default for new players.
  • Increased Client Side Multiplayer stability. Should resolve many crash causes.
  • Corrected a bug where players would intermittently not take falling damage.
  • The world file is now saved to a temporary file that is copied over to the actual save file. This prevents world corruption when saving is interrupted.
  • Fixed a bug that disabled some error handling. Overall game stability should be improved.

GUI
  • The version number of the game now shows on the title screen.
  • Typing numbers in chat no longer changes your selected item in your hotbar.

Server
  • Servers now listen to all IP addresses on the hosting PC, regardless of how many network connections are active.
  • Typing "localhost" instead of your own local IP address will connect to your own same-PC server.
  • The games default port is no longer ELEET (31337) it is now 7777.
  • Client will now resolve a hostname into its IP address, for example, if randomsite.org ran a server, you could type randomsite.org as the IP address and be able to connect.
Nation Red - Valve
Updates to Nation Red have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

  • New single player, coop and local coop map: Oil Platform
  • Improved coop performance and syncing. Projectile fire from bosses and damage from zombies in coop is more accurate.
  • Added in-game text chat. Press 't' to bring up the text console. You can re-bind this key in the options menu. Possible to cross chat from the lobby to players in-game.
  • 7 new coop-only achievements
  • Simplified controller menu navigation to be the same across all game menus and fixed controller related issues.
  • Upgraded the Machete and Baseball zombie to slower but stronger runners.
  • Tweaked gameplay so that fewer bosses appear simultaneously in the first 20 minutes of gameplay while keeping a similar difficulty curve
  • Tweaked ghost stacking perks: Strike Team will deal more damage than Fire Team (even to bosses) so the upgrading path makes sense
  • Add support for NoReload and Rage Unlimited to the MGL
  • Increased the maximum number of perks in Strategic Mode to 20
  • Tweaked Auto-Perk mode so the game auto-selects perks better
  • Further tweak boss armor: Increase armor a little slower and create more automatic adjustment in boss armor for 2,3 or 4 player games (so armor is a bit less with 2 players than with more players)
  • Check 'in-game' notification in Steam lobbies. Doesn't always correctly display the status.
  • Snare in coop games is tweaked: The more players there are, the closer you need to get to an item to 'snare' it. This prevents one player from grabbing too many items.
  • In coop games, health won't be picked up by a player who already has 100% health
  • Players won't be able to pick up the same weapon they are already using. This will help other players to pick these up.
  • Fixed the 'Bouncer' achievement not triggering correctly
  • Fix not able to see Powerup status/countdown bars later on in certain games
  • Fix an issue where controllers need 're-enabling' when restarting/ALT-Tabbing away from the game.
  • Reduce cool down time for sentry guns after they overheat.
  • Fix an issue where players start too close to each-other in coop games.
  • Made local coop game menu setup the same as on-line coop.
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Prince of Persia® - Valve
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Cities XL Regular Edition - Valve
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