Total War: SHOGUN 2 - Valve
SHOGUN 2 - Rise of the Samurai Downloadable Content is now available for Pre-purchase on Steam.

The ever-expanding, epic battles of the warlords has gotten even bigger with "Rise of The Samurai" DLC - a brand new, independent campaign for Total War: SHOGUN 2.

Set 400 years before the dramatic civil war depicted in SHOGUN 2, the "Rise of The Samurai" campaign is based on the Gempei War, a conflict between six legendary clans of the Taira, Minamoto and Fujiwara families. It culminated in the first Shogunate, and the rise of the Samurai as the ruling class.

Aug 11, 2011
EDGE - Valve
From the creators of Toki Tori and RUSH, Two Tribes brings you EDGE - now available on Steam and 10% off until August 18th, 10am Pacifc Time!

Take direct control of the cube and roll your way around the game's dozens of levels. Search for all the prisms, find the shortcuts to improve your times and compete through the Steam leaderboards!

Sid Meier's Civilization® V - Valve
[UI]

- Prevent creating duplicate great people by lagging the free great person UI.
- Yield Modifiers of buildings from policies are now shown in the tooltip of that building in the choose production UI.
- Production tooltip in CityView now displays the production penalty (usually -10%) for when the player has too many units than they can support.
- The checkboxes for the mini-map panel now correctly reflect the state of the options (even if these options were toggled while the panel was hidden).
- Unhappiness is now broken down between regular population and population from puppet cities.

[GAMEPLAY]

- Slightly reduce the bias to sneak attack.
- "City must not be in Plains" requirement for Stone Works now functions properly.
- Killing Barbarians inside a City State's borders with a ranged unit now correctly rewards the player with influence.

[TACTICAL AI]

- Found and corrected a likely cause of having the AI send Great Generals out unescorted to "defend" tiles.
- Be reluctant to use land units for an operation if they are currently on a different continent than the muster point.
- If attacking over land, add extra emphasis to nearby targets (so don't often try to bypass closest cities).


[MULTIPLAYER]

- Multiple out of sync causes found and fixed.
- Add an Invite button on the Staging Room screen for the host.
- Add a network message when force-quitting the game. Should eliminate the tedious wait for a network timeout when a player quits like this.
- Host can now change the game set-up options (except DLC) after a room has been gathered.
- Player can now manually save a game while in multiplayer.
- Player can now “un-end” their turn in multiplayer (first pass). This includes performing any new actions, like giving a unit a new order, opening a city screen, or clicking on the "Please Wait" button after previously ending your turn.
- Ping times now displayed in the Player List UI (click the player list to expand, exposing the ping times, and then click again to hide them).
- Hot-Seat: City State screens now update properly when switching players.

[BALANCE]

- Pyramids now grant 2 free workers when built instead of 1.
- Brandenburg Gate now gives 15 XP to units built in the city (in addition to the Great General).
- Taj Mahal now gives 4 Happiness in addition to a Golden Age.
- Seaport now gives an additional gold on sea resources and increases naval unit production by 15%.
- Harbor no longer increases naval production by 15%.
- Aristocracy now gives 1 happiness per 10 citizens in a city in addition to 15% production towards wonders.
- Landed Elite now gives 2 food and 10% growth in the capital (stacks with Tradition Finisher).
- Trade Unions now reduce road/railroad maintenance by 33% (up from 20%) and add 1 gold to Harbors and Seaports.
- Balance tweaks to New World scenario.

[MODDING]

- Installed Mods panel (in Mod Browser) will now display which mods have updates available online w/ a link to view that entry.

[BUGS]

- Multiple minor bug fixes.

Pride of Nations - Valve
The American Civil War 1862, a new scenario for Pride of Nations is now available on Steam!

The Union and the Confederacy are locked in a titanic struggle for supremacy of a divided nation. Only the most cunning leaders will prevail and lead their armies to victory!

To celebrate the release, Pride of Nations is available at 50% off until August 17th at 10am Pacific Time!

The Clockwork Man - Valve
The Clockwork Man is Now Available and 10% off until Aug 17th 5PM PST.

Explore a fantastic vision of the Victorian era in The Clockwork Man, an epic hidden-object game. Join Miranda and Sprocket on an amazing journey of hidden object challenges and perplexing puzzles in a Steampunk setting.

Product Update - Valve
- enabled anti aliasing (works only on video cards that support Shader Model 3.0+)
- allow to buy an item in store that you already have
- sabotage: now you can join running game as spectator (look for checkbox in Browse Games)
- sabotage: fixed a bug that it was possible sometimes to watch enemy players after dying
- sabotage: no Support weapons (RPGs) in sabotage
- made grenades heavier, made them less bouncy
- show item expiration in armory
- spawn protection is increased to 5 seconds
- fixed bug with sliding after jumping
- mouse sensitivity - set it manually from 0 to 10 in options
- reduced weapon pick up radius to make it easier to pick up weapons that are next to each other
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition - Valve
  • Issue with shadows in 3D Vision mode has been resolved.
  • Screenshots to savegames made in 3D Vision are now visible in load menu.
  • Issue with Steam achievements not being registered has been resolved.
  • Blood texture glitches in game with ubersampling option turned on have been fixed.
  • Pocket item counter is properly updated after picking up an item which is already selected.
  • Issue with ingredient counter when brewing multiple Thunderbolt potions has been resolved.
  • Finished “Scent of incencse” quest is no longer marked as failed when entering Loredo’s residence at the end of Chapter 1.
  • Corrections have been made in the greater mutagen drop rate.
  • Deleting savegame after entering memories and flashbacks menu no longer causes “Loading available flashbacks” message to appear.
  • Game exe files are no longer treated as a threat by popular antivirus software.
  • Patching the game automatically right after installation no longer causes Launcher.exe error on Windows XP systems.
  • Game installation folder is not recognized if diacritic signs were used in folder name on Windows which doesn’t support them. Patch now properly informs about the cause of the problem.
  • Name of two scientists in Flotsam have been corrected.
  • Storage chest description have been corrected.
  • Description of Mahakaman Rune Sihill imported from The Witcher savegame have been corrected.
Beat Hazard - Valve
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Aug 10, 2011
LIMBO - Valve
Updates to Limbo have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The changes include:

- A crash bug caused by custom DPI setting in windows has been fixed
- Controller detection has been improved
- Option to change resolution and windowed mode added to settings.txt

See the sticky Limbo FAQ on the forums for more information:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2047244

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

• Added custom production puzzles to ResearchNet.
• Added translations for Spanish, French, German, Russian, and Portuguese, accessible through the in-game options menu.

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