Jun 3, 2011

Now Available - Fable III Downloadable Content on Steam

Product Release - Valve

Downloadable content for Fable III is now available on Steam!

In Traitor's Keep Quest Pack, experience your first grand adventure as the ruler of Albion, visiting the kingdom's secret prison and tracking down the most dangerous criminals in the land. You may have led a rebellion once, but can you survive your encounters with a new wave of revolutionaries? To help you on your way, this pack also includes a Clockwork Dog Potion. Just let your dog have a sip when he's lying in his basket in the Sanctuary.

In Understone Quest Pack, you will discover a whole new town built underground by a crazy inventor beneath the streets of Bowerstone. This full size region contains new houses and stalls to own, new creatures to fight and a major mystery to solve. In the end, you will decide the fate of the town and its people. As a special bonus, you will also receive two extra quests for free: the Mercenary Shooting Range, where you can earn prizes by hitting a variety of targets, and the Wheel of Misfortune, which gives you a chance to return to Reaver's manor and participate in his insane combat arena. Featuring new commentary from Hatch and Reaver himself!

Dog Breed Pack will transform your faithful dog into a poodle, doberman or alsatian with this amazing set of potions. Just let your dog have a sip when he's lying in his basket in the Sanctuary. This item will be added to your gift queue in the Sanctuary, and will be available when it's unlocked in the storyline.

The Dog Outfit - Your dog is your best friend, always there for you when you need him. Isn't it time you gave something back? Now you can dress up as a dog yourself and turn Fable III into an all-canine adventure. The outfit comprises a head piece, body piece and front and back paws. These items will be added to your gift queue in the Sanctuary, and will be available when clothes are unlocked in the storyline.

Industrial Knight Outfit - Always wanted to be an industrial age cyborg? Well, now you can at least look like one. The outfit comprises a helmet, gloves, boots, gauntlets and armour. This items will be added to your gift queue in the Sanctuary, and will be available when clothes are unlocked in the storyline.

Jun 2, 2011

New Release - Call of Duty®: Black Ops Escalation Content Pack

Call of Duty®: Black Ops Escalation Content Pack - Valve

Call of Duty®: Black Ops Escalation Content Pack is now available on Steam.

"Escalation", the second Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack, contains 5 all-new exceptionally varied maps; featuring 4 Multiplayer maps and an epic Black Ops Zombies experience with all-new playable characters.

In Multiplayer, battle it out in "Hotel", on the roof of a Cuban luxury hotel and casino against the vivid backdrop of old Havana; "Convoy" delivers intense, close-quarters combat at the scene of an ambushed US military convoy; "Zoo" takes you on a wild ride in an abandoned Soviet Russian Zoo, with danger at every turn; "Stockpile" pits players in a remote Russian farm town housing secret WMD facilities.

For Zombies fans, "Escalation" features a unique Zombies experience: “Call of the Dead”. Play as the zombie-killing dream-team of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund, Michael Rooker, and Danny Trejo against a new and unnerving zombie menace. Set in a mysterious ice-covered remote Siberian island and inspired by legendary writer and director George A. Romero, a group of four fearless explorers fight for their lives amidst an army of bloodthirsty Russian zombies.

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

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.