Jun 2, 2011
Daily Deal - Tales of Monkey Island 66% off!
Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season - Valve
Today's Deal: Save 66% off the Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack!

All five chapters are also now available in French & German!

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

Player
  • Players can no longer repeatedly double jump after touching the top of the world.

Items
  • NEW ITEM - Black Lens.
  • NEW ITEM - Sunglasses.
  • NEW ITEM - Jungle Armor (This has replaced Cobalt Armor.)
  • NEW ITEM - (RARE and SECRET Item for casters) Go on! Find it!
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Underground Jungle Seeds from spawning.
  • Using the Cloud in a Bottle will now correctly reset fall distance.
  • Set bonuses that provide more defense, now correctly match their tool-tip.
  • All armor inventory icons have been improved.
  • All player armor graphics have been improved.
  • Iron, gold, meteor, and bone helmets have been changed graphically.
  • Molten armor’s overall defense has been reduced.
  • Meteor armor’s set bonus now reduces Space Gun mana cost to 0.
  • Several magic items have had their damage increased.

NPCs
  • Added two new rare enemies that can both be found underground.
  • The Demolitionist is now also triggered to arrive when the players have Sticky Bombs and Grenades in their inventory.
  • All Skeleton graphics have been changed.
  • The Guide now has hit and death effects.
  • The Guide can now be killed by hostile NPCs.

World
  • Trees now become corrupt instead of being destroyed when touching the corruption. And the new corrupt trees become un-corrupted upon purification.

Server / Multiplayer
  • Created a console server with no video card requirement. Type help in the console for a full list of server commands.
  • Increased client side multi-player security, this should help in the battle against broken character files.
  • There is now a host and play option in the client, that will auto connect you to your own server world upon its creation.
  • Corrected a bug that was causing the Server to send out liquid as water when it should have been lava.
  • Clients are now able to connect to ports other than 7777.
  • Slimes are synced better on multiplayer games.
  • Accessories now correctly sync between players.
  • Fixed a bug that would cause the player to get stuck on "Receiving Tile Data" when their spawn is placed near the world edge.
  • Added -join , -port , and -pass command line parameters to the client to enable auto-join of servers.

Misc.
  • The game window is now re-sizable while in windowed mode.
  • Full-screen resolution can now be changed in the options menu.
  • Pressing alt+enter to toggle full-screen mode will no longer bring up the chat window.
  • Fixed several bugs that would crash the game during world generation.
Jun 1, 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:

Steam
  • Fixes Steam not waiting for an in-progress Cloud sync to complete before launching a game.
  • Fixed parental control check for Games For Windows games
  • Fixed an issue where a user with no friend and no invite sent would not be able to view and accept a pending invite.
  • Fix game file validation when opted into a game beta
  • Improved Steam Guard feedback for expired email codes
  • Improved overlay compatibility with Direct3D 11 games using the latest D3D SDK version
Jun 1, 2011
Call of Duty®: Black Ops - Free Weekend Coming, Pre-load Now!
Call of Duty®: Black Ops - Valve
Activision will be hosting a Free Weekend for Call of Duty®: Black Ops! Pre-load the game now and be ready to play when the free weekend starts on Thursday, June 2nd at 10am Pacific Time.

Click here to start pre-loading, or visit www.steamgames.com/about to install Steam.

The Free Weekend of Call of Duty®: Black Ops will let you play the entire multiplayer portion of the base game.

Jun 1, 2011
Now Available - Still Life series, 20% Off!
Still Life - Valve
The Still Life series is now available on Steam!

Follow Victoria McPherson, a brilliant young FBI agent, as she investigates and solves serial murder cases.

For a limited time, save 20% off Still Life and Still Life 2! Offer ends June 8th at 10AM Pacific Time.



Jun 1, 2011
New Release - Ghostbusters Sanctum of Slime Challenge Pack
Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Challenge Pack DLC - Valve
Ghostbusters Sanctum of Slime Challenge Pack is now available for Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime on Steam!

Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Challenge Pack brings hours of a new single player experience to this ghost-hunting adventure and has 2 new modes! Lonely Hero allows you to play through any unlocked level without the help of others and Arcade Mode limits the number of lives to see how you skills line up on a distinct Global Leaderboard.

Jun 1, 2011
Daily Deal - VVVVVV 50% Off
VVVVVV - Valve
Today's Deal: Save 50% off VVVVVV!

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Jun 1, 2011
Section 8: Prejudice Update Released
Section 8®: Prejudice™ - Valve
Updates to Section 8: Prejudice have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

STABILITY:
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when retrying to join a match after losing connection to LIVE
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when accepting an invite while a disconnection error message was displayed
  • Fixed a rare Lock-On crash that could occur during gameplay
  • Fixed a rare issue where player's controls could become unresponsive after performing a fatality
MATCHMAKING:
  • Fixed an issue with not being able to see some servers in Custom Match
  • Changed the Server Clan search to only list servers running the specified game mode
  • Fixed an issue with Server Clan search not listing SOD servers
  • Fixed an issue where Quick Match would sometimes join an empty SOD server when there were populated servers available
  • Changed Quick Match to prefer joining an empty SOD server of the same region/language before a populated server of a different region/language
  • Changed Custom Match to hide empty SOD servers when Hide Empty is selected
USABILITY
  • Fixed an issue with binding Shift as the Use key
  • Fixed an issue where the bot icon would be missing under System Link
  • Fixed an issue where the hintbar could disappear after disconnecting from the server
  • Fixed an issue where players would be unable to free spawn after cancelling a squad spawn
  • Improved the ability for the tank to fire over a slope
  • Added the ability for some Prejudice Online tweaks to be available when not connected to LIVE or Prejudice Online
AUTOBALANCE
  • Changed Autobalance to more aggressively place you with Friends
  • Changed Private servers to force Autobalance off
  • Changed Ranked servers to allow Autobalance off
  • Changed Autobalance to allow a team size discrepancy of 2 (to facilitate getting Friends on the same team)
GAMEPLAY
  • Changed the Friendly Fire to penalize napalm damage less than regular damage
  • Changed Overtime to constantly increase both team VP at the same rate (10% of maximum VP per minute)
  • Fixed an issue where the tank would fire an extra shot after exiting the driver seat
  • Fixed the Ball Hog achievement (Assault) to count CPs captured because of implicit turn end due to all defenders being killed
STATS
  • Changed Swarm to implicitly be Ranked for PC Listen servers (provided difficulty is at least Medium)
  • Changed Badges to only allow earning each 2 times per match
  • Changed Repair and Auto Repair ScoreEvents to have a maximum per match (200)
  • Changed Repair Feat to have a maximum per match (66)
  • Changed Ranked Swarm to only require two human players
  • Fixed an issue where players could host a Ranked Swarm match on Trivial Difficulty (Medium is the minimum requirement)
DEDICATED SERVER
  • Fixed an issue where the user configs would not work if there were trailing spaces on lines
  • Fixed an issue where SOD servers were not able to host certain game modes after rotating
  • Fixed some crashes related to hosting service server queries
  • Fixed an issue where the hosting service server query would return the incorrect max players for SOD servers
  • Fixed an issue starting SOD servers on virtual machines
  • Fixed an issue where SOD servers would become unplayable after being idle for more than a day
May 31, 2011
New Release - Magicka: Nippon
Magicka - Valve
The Nippon DLC for Magicka is now available on Steam!

Until June 5th, Paradox Interactive will donate 50% of revenue from Magicka: Nippon to the Japan Relief Support program. Additionally, all purchases before June 5th will receive The Conjurer's Cowl for the Demoman in Team Fortress 2!



May 31, 2011
Midweek Madness - Thief: Deadly Shadows 75% off
Thief: Deadly Shadows - Valve
Act now and take advantage of huge savings! Thief: Deadly Shadows is available at 75% off during the Midweek Madness sale.

Offer ends Thursday at 4pm Pacific Time.

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