Announcement - Valve
The first major update to Steam Greenlight has been released today, aiming to improve discoverability of games and reduce the amount of clutter. You can read about the update over on the Steam Greenlight blog.

Steam Greenlight was released on August 30, enlisting the community's help in picking some of the next games to be released on Steam. Developers post information, screenshots, and videos for their game and seek a critical mass of community support in order to get selected for distribution. Steam Greenlight also helps developers get feedback from potential customers and start creating an active community around their game as early in the development process as they like.

For more information, please visit www.steamcommunity.com/greenlight.
Team Fortress 2 - Valve
An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

  • Added new promo items
  • Added replay_name ConVar to set the name of the replay bot
  • Added a notification to Steam Trading when a user's backpack is full
  • Fixed tv_name ConVar not working
  • Fixed non-robot Snipers playing some of the robot Sniper lines
  • Fixed the looping tank sound not playing if it was spawned far from the player
  • Fixed Monoculus health bar not showing when Monoculus spawns
  • Fixed tank destruction effects playing at the map origin
  • Fixed bots not displaying in the server browser properly
  • Updated the localization files
  • Updated Koth_King
    • Added some geometry to hide floating staircases outside of playspace
    • Performance improvements from prop reduction, additional surfaces tagged as nodraw, and reduced overlay counts
    • Fixed some building faces where extra faces were being generated behind windows/etc due to spaces in geometry
  • Updated Mvm_Decoy
  • Updated Mvm_Coaltown
    • Blocked bots from being blasted into the tank tunnel
    • Blocked giants from getting stuck under the stairs in the final pit
  • Updated Mvm_Mannworks
    • Blocked bots from being blasted into the tank tunnel
    • Added nobuild to stairs on center building where Engineers could build out of reach of Sentry Busters
  • MvM changes
    • Fixed a client money display issue when purchasing or selling bottle charges after changing classes
    • Fixed an issue in the Server Browser where replay bots would add to the player count
    • Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause the bomb to get positioned incorrectly when dropped
    • Added safeguards to prevent bots from getting stuck in certain cases
    • Fixed sniper rifle reload upgrade not reducing the time delay from hip shot to scoping
    • Fixed Steel Gauntlet robots failing to destroy minisentries on slopes
    • Fixed the party leader’s mission completions showing in the game lobby instead of your own
  • Community-submitted schema changes:
    • Backpack sounds updated for Rogue's Col Roule, Cozy Camper, Scrap Pack, Professor's Pineapple, Scottish Handshake, Monoculus!, Manniversary Paper Hat, Party Hat, Googly Gazer, Liquor Locker, and Something Special For Someone Special
    • Weapon sound changes:
      • The Pain Train now uses Equalizer sounds
      • The Conscientious Objector now uses Kurkri sounds
      • The Amputator now uses Bonesaw sounds
      • The Solemn Vow now sounds like a wrench
      • The Market Gardener now uses Shovel sounds
      • The Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker now uses the Horsemann's Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker sounds
    • Weapon crafting changes:
      • The Teufort Tooth Kickers and Professor's Peculiarity are now craftable
      • The Cozy Camper, Sun-on-a-Stick, and Sharpened Volcano Fragment are now craftable with tokens
    • Weapon cosmetic changes:
      • Added new styles to the Big Country, Professor's Peculiarity, and Copper's Hard Top
      • The Third Degree now vaporizes enemies on kill like the Phlogistinator and the Manmelter
      • Loosened equip region restrictions for the Whiskered Gentleman, Sight For Sore Eyes, Googly Gazer, and Nine-Pipe Problem
      • The Birdcage, HOUWAR, and Scrap Pack can now get kill assists in Pyroland
      • Updated attribute text to be more clear on the Loch-N-Load, Force-A-Nature, Soda Popper, and Family Business
        • Weapon functionality is unchanged
Product Update - Valve
We are happy to provide a patch for the Hitman: Sniper Challenge. This patch addresses:

- Some users would not hear any audio during the introduction movie. This is fixed.
- Various performance improvements.
- Fixes to mouse precision.
- Fixes for issues with Texture Quality and Texture Filtering in the graphics options.
- Miscellaneous other small fixes.

We are still investigating an issue where some users are unable to connect to the Sniper Challenge leaderboards, and hope to have another patch out for this shortly.

We hope you will continue to enjoy Hitman: Sniper Challenge!

IO Interactive & Nixxes

Press Release - Valve
New Community Open for Everyone

September 4, 2012--Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the public launch of the new Steam Community with features focused on finding and sharing the best community content.

The new Community can be found at http://www.steamcommunity.com.

An overview of the features can be found at www.steamcommunity.com/communitycontent.

Steam is a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC and Mac games with over 40 million accounts around the world and over 2,000 titles offered.
Natural Selection 2 - Valve
Pre-Purchase Natural Selection 2 now and get upgraded to the Digital Deluxe Edition for free!

The Digital Deluxe Edition includes:
- Natural Selection 2 soundtrack (almost 1 hour of music)
- Digital Art Book (40 pages)
- Exclusive Wallpapers and Avatars
- Exclusive in-game marine model

Natural Selection 2 is an immersive, multiplayer shooter that pits aliens against humans in a strategic and action-packed struggle for survival. It seamlessly combines shooter and RTS/strategy gameplay.

Client Update - Valve
Client notes:
  • Added Game Hubs
  • Added global Steam Discussions area, accessible in the Community sub-navigation
  • Updated visual look of user group pages
  • Added discussions to user groups
  • Added new Moderator level to user groups
  • Updated user screenshots, videos, and personal Workshop pages
  • Updated visual look of the blotter and renamed it to “Friend Activity”
  • Added "My Activity" in-line with "Friend Activity"
  • Added ability to post a status update and tag it with a game
  • Added "Share on Steam" option for screenshots, videos, and Workshop items detail pages that will post a preview as a status update in “Friend Activity”
  • Pasting YouTube™ links into your status update will show a preview of the video and clicking on it will play the video.
  • Added ability to rate up status updates, screenshots, and videos
  • Added display of which friends most recently rated up status posts, screenshots, and other items in the friend activity feed
  • Added BBCode support to descriptions for screenshots, videos, and Workshop items
  • Re-organized the Community sub-navigation to include: Friends, Profile, Game Hubs, Discussions, Workshop, and Greenlight
Shad'O - Valve
Shad'O is Now Available on Steam and 10% off.*

In this unique Tower Defense, you will travel through William’s mind in a colored and dreamlike universe, made of a mix of pieces of memories, emotions and feelings.

Will you be able to drive the fog of oblivion away and help the boy recover his memory?

Your many companions’ light will be your best ally in this world distorted by fear and mystery.

*Offer ends September 11th at 10AM Pacific Time.

Legends of Pegasus - Valve
Version 1.0.0.4237
Ship editor
- You can now hide/show your layouts in the layout browser through the toggle button next to the delete button. Hidden layouts are not visible in the planet management tab but can normally edited in the ship editor.
- Weapon category is split into a Light-, Medium- and Heavy Weapons category
- Energy Systems and Engines are merged into the Energy Systems category
- Arthrox structures now centered correctly inside the ship editor
- Fixed certain default texts when no ship hull is loaded and after click on “new”
- Fixed a problem with Arthrox structure grids
- Fixed several template strings when auto creating layouts
- Added tooltips to the build menu register

Planet Management
- Fixed a bug that weapon platforms could not be dropped on the correct shipyard
- It’s no longer possible to drop a colony on a terraforming locked slot
- Fixed a bug that caused defense buildings not getting the correct defense bonus
- Added tooltips to the build menu register
- Fixed terraforming bugs and added more feedback when terraforming is in progress

Campaign
- Fixed mission task panel out of visibility range
- Human EP 2: Fixed a bug that could stop game progression when colonizing planets too early
- Human EP 2: Added more info to the ‘explore starsystems’ mission goal
- Human EP 4: Added corrected tutorial text
- Human EP 4: Destroying the X’or station in Delta-03 will now lead to a mission failure
- Human EP 4: Delta-X’or now move correctly to the last jumpgate
- X’or EP 2: Changed economic start settings
- X’or EP 3: Changed goal descriptions, so that it’s clearer what you have to do
- Delta-X’or ships will now move correctly to Zeta-07
- Destroying the X’or attack before reaching Delta-03 will not lead into a dead lock anymore
- Fixed cut and overlapping text areas in the transmission panel on the left
- Inactive / blocked starlanes are now gray colored on the galaxy map

Battle
- Shield effects of human ships now trigger correctly
- Shield energy increased on all shields
- It’s no longer possible to self-destroy own ships during a battle (self-destruction in battle will return in a later patch)
- Fixed ship abilities on tactical display disappear when selecting an already selected unit
- Fixed a possible crash if bullets of already destroyed ships hit other ships
- General performance in battles improved

Network
- Fixed not being able to see LAN games when multiple network adapters are installed in the system
- Fixed a bug that LAN games only appear in server browser 10 seconds after game is started

Camera
- Fixed a bug that dropped the camera in an unplayable area
- Fixed a bug when focusing fast moving units
- Fixed loss of selection in galaxy map
- Fixed camera “jumps” when zooming to units
- Higher camera acceleration in galaxy map
- Smoother camera transitions
- Focus Object key – Standard ‘F’ – Focus the camera to an object
o You can press F multiple times to go into different zoom ranges
- Added “Focus Object” key binding to the “Camera” section under controls

General
- Fixed empire management sliders not correct initialized after savegame loading
- Different possible crashes fixed when creating/modifying fleets
- Fixed calculation of race resources. Deep space structures on freighters and constructed deep space structures now count correctly
- Fixed different text templates in weapon tooltips
- Added scrollbars to technology management
- Added more sorting options to the planet overview of the empire management
- Fixed ship positions under medium and large shipyards
- Changed certain weapon names
Spirits - Valve
Spirits is now available on Steam and is 10% off until September 11th at 10AM Pacific Time!

Spirits is a relaxing action-puzzle game with a dynamic wind and world environment. Autumn is quickly approaching, and the spirits of fallen leaves are setting out on their journey home. Guide them by changing how the wind blows or by rebuilding the ground. Each spirit can be sacrificed to perform one of four actions – build a bridge of leaves, create a blowing cloud, dig tunnels, or block wind currents in an area. Use your actions wisely or you will run out of spirits. In each level it's up to you to find your own creative solution on how to get the spirits to the goal.

A Game of Thrones - Genesis - Valve
Save 50% on A Game of Thrones - Genesis and Game of Thrones, or 66% when you pick them both up in the Game of Thrones Bundle during this week's Midweek Madness*!

A Game of Thrones - Genesis:
Immerse yourself into the battles and intrigues between the Houses that shaped the Kingdom of Westeros. Live the origins of A Game of Thrones saga through more than 1000 years of history, by taking part in Westeros' founding events and largest battles. Use military force, economical war and political cunning to keep your place on the Iron Throne!

Game of Thrones:
Experience an amazing adventure in one of the most complete and fascinating universes in medieval-fantasy literature. Game of Thrones is a great Role Playing Game that puts you at the core of a thrilling plot, where your fate will be guided by vengeance, allegiance and honor.


*Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time


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