Hero Academy - Valve
Hero Academy is now available on Steam!

Your purchase of Hero Academy includes a special Team Fortress 2 army! In addition, your purchase includes a Hero Academy themed item in TF2 called the Ninja Cowl. Visit the game page for details.

Enter a world of swords and magic, and challenge friends old and new to a contest of tactics and skill. From the human Council to the mysterious Dark Elves, every team needs a fearless captain to lead them to victory.

Binary Domain - Valve
Today's Deal: Save 75% off the Binary Domain!

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Product Update - Valve
Source Filmmaker version 0.9.5.13 has been released. This update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

  • Fixing demo.mdl and related files, that caused crashing.

Killing Floor - Valve
The Killing Floor: Ash Hardy Character Pack is Now Available on Steam!

After years earning the grudging respect of her male peers, Harding finally made captain - just as the Horzine nightmare erupted to destroy her ambitions, drowning Harding's elite military unit in blood and madness. Now Ash is a one-woman army driven by the need to push back the darkness and tear evil a new one.

Plus, the Killing Floor 6 Pack is Now Available!

Nexuiz - Valve
This weekend only, play Nexuiz for FREE until Sunday at 1pm Pacific Time. Plus, save 75% off during the Weekend Deal*!

Plus, the Nexuiz Steam Workshop is now available! Create custom levels and share them with the Community. Or just browse, download, and rate awesome maps that others have created. Maps with a high enough rating even have a chance of becoming official!

Nexuiz reinvents Arena FPS gameplay and pits warriors against each other in 9 arenas with over 100 game-changing power-ups.

*Discount ends Monday at 10am Pacific Time.

Aug 9, 2012
Defense Grid: The Awakening - Valve
Defense Grid update:
- FINAL WEEKLY UPDATE OF FIVE: To celebrate the LAST WEEK of the new Defense Grid 2 Kickstarter (http://kickstarter.hiddenpath.com), we’re updating the game with new content and contests. To view and enter the contests, go to the Contests button on the Main Menu.
- This week, we’ve reset several leaderboards and introduced the new Defensylvania ASCII arcade game. We also have two new trivia questions about Defense Grid.
- We have 10 AMD Radeon HD 6770 video cards to give away this week across the following contests – good luck!
- NEW CONTEST: Play, beat, and find all the secrets in the new minigame, Defensylvania!
- NEW CONTEST: Beat the mode “Story Reversed”, in “The Awakening” map “Guardian’s Fall”.
- NEW CONTEST: Beat the mode “Frozen Core”, in “The Awakening” map “Waste Disposal”.
- NEW CONTEST: Beat the mode “Story Challenge”, in “The Awakening” map “Lockdown”.
- NEW CONTEST: Beat the mode “Super Grinder”, in “The Awakening” map “Last Stand”.
- NEW CONTEST: Two separate trivia questions!
Space Pirates and Zombies - Valve
Changelog: V1.605
- Fixed deployable turrets assigning relation damage on self destruct after being scanned.
- Fixed broken turret on an Advanced Mule ship design.
- Fixed huge pulse cannon now shoots huge projectiles, not large.
- Fixed some "Extreeme" spelling to improve "moral"
- Modding: last mod used is remembered on re-launch (YAY!)
Dota 2 - Valve
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Added Swap Hero. This cannot be used after creeps spawn or in SD. Accessible via right click on heroes in the scoreboard.
- Spectators watching Dota TV can now access the dashboard chat channels.
- All broadcasters in a channel now transmit their voice to spectators that have selected that channel.

GAMEPLAY:
- Bloodseeker: Fixed Blood Bath not working on siege units.
- Bounty Hunter: Fixed Shadow Walk damaging buildings.
- Juggernaut: Fixed Omnislash jumping to ancients.
- Juggernaut: Fixed Bladefury showing per target visual effect when hurting invis units.
- Lifestealer: Fixed Ensnare not going away after using Infest.
- Lone Druid: Fixed creep aggro behavior with Spirit Bear
- Templar Assassin: Fixed Meld when attacking Items.
- Undying: Fixed Tombstone spawning zombies against couriers.
- Undying: Fixed Tombstone receiving too much aggro from towers.
- Undying: Fixed Zombies not dying when their target becomes invisible.
- Fixed canceling TP scrolls causing projectiles to be dodged.
- Fixed gold lost on death being reduced too much when carrying Bloodstone.
- Fixed various bounce abilities malfunctioning if the targets die during it.

UI :
- Added Swap Hero. This cannot be used after creeps spawn or in SD. Accessible via right click on heroes in the scoreboard.
- Spectators watching Dota TV can now access the dashboard chat channels.
- Broadcasters will now see lines drawn by their cobroadcasters.
- Spectators will now see all lines drawn by any broadcaster in their selected broadcast channel.
- The Tournament Panel now fits 4 live games in preparation for The International.
- When the cursor is hidden due to inactivity, it no longer causes unit glows or other highlight shennanigans.
- Fixed a bug where hero icons were missing from chat lines occasionally.
- The Hero selector now allows instant spawn on public games with only 1 or 2 humans in them.
- Fixed the chat bubble display to work properly with open mic thresholding.
- Fixed timeline markers not updating correctly if you jumped around in a replay.
- Added a toggle-able chat window to the Hero Selection Spectator view.
- Various improvements to the readability of the Hero Selection Spectator view.
- Spectator view of Hero Selection now shows player's names under their selected heroes.
- Fixed spectators not being able to see item ownership on the courier.
- The buyback stat dropdown now shows if the hero will or won't be able to buyback if the hero dies now (and if they can't, it shows the remaining cooldown or the extra gold needed to be able to die and buyback).
- Fixed rogue selection rings in spectator mode.
- Added a console command for league admins to end the game (dota_ref_winner_radiant/dota_ref_winner_dire)

VISUALS:
- Fixed bug where some heroes would not display any wearables when watching replays.

AUDIO:
- Added colored VU meter in the audio settings panel for evaluating and adjusting volume levels.
- Added "mute co-broadcasters" setting.
- All broadcasters in a channel now transmit their voice to spectators that have selected that channel.
- Broadcasters that are in the same channel can now hear each other when they talk.
- Hero ban sounds are now enabled when spectating Captain's Mode.

WORKSHOP:
- Fixed a bug in Wearable Importing when using SMD files (fixes items not attaching correctly to the hero model)
MapleStory - Valve
MapleStory is now available on Steam!

Welcome to the world of MapleStory, where a cast of unique characters can’t wait to meet you, where a portal to adventure hides in every trash can and phone booth, and where you and your friends can customize your characters however you like.

Steam users can also now grab the MapleStory Starter Pack and get a head start on the competition!

Space Pirates and Zombies - Valve
Changelog: V1.604
- Fixed possible infinite enemy loop on Extreme extortion events
- Lowered severity on extortions in general (combat wise) by 25%
- Fixed save name accepted sound on enter key press with invalid name
- Modding: Added the scriptfile_Added.cs functionality see (www.spazgame.com modding forums)
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