We have released a Beta update for Counter-Strike 1.6.
Changes in this update are:
<ul><li>Improved support for non-qwerty keyboard layouts</ul>

We have released a Beta update for Counter-Strike 1.6.
Changes in this update are:

• Improved support for non-qwerty keyboard layouts

<p>Finally, finally, we have the results of the RO2 Mapping Contest! It took a LOT of deliberation and some heated debates here in the office - no doubt it will kick off more debate on the forums! Here are the headlines:</p>

<p><strong>Grand Prize Winner</strong>: Danh Truong's Winterwald, winning $5,000 and a serious Origin Laptop, engraved with RO2 artwork.</p>

<p><strong>Best Original Level</strong>:</p>

<p>1. Winterwald by Danh Truong, winning $5,000<br />
2. Bridges of Druzhina by Kieran Tobin, winning $2,500<br />
3. Coldsteel by Johan van Pelt - wins $1,000</p>

<p><strong>Best Remake</strong>:</p>

<p>1. Gumrak Station by Maik Doktor, winning $5,000<br />
2. Stalingrad Kessel by Florian Montaut, winning $2,500<br />
3. We actually had a tie for third place, so we doubled up the prize:<br />
Arad 2 by John Cree, winning $1,000 AND<br />
Rakowice by Johan van Pelt, winning $1,000!</p>

<p>We had Dan Shannon chat to all the winners. You'll find the first results of those interviews here: http://www.heroesofstalingrad.com/counterattack-map-making-competition/mapping-contest-interviews/

<p>So let us know what you think!</p>

Finally, finally, we have the results of the RO2 Mapping Contest! It took a LOT of deliberation and some heated debates here in the office - no doubt it will kick off more debate on the forums! Here are the headlines:



Grand Prize Winner: Danh Truong's Winterwald, winning $5,000 and a serious Origin Laptop, engraved with RO2 artwork.



Best Original Level:



1. Winterwald by Danh Truong, winning $5,000

2. Bridges of Druzhina by Kieran Tobin, winning $2,500

3. Coldsteel by Johan van Pelt - wins $1,000



Best Remake:



1. Gumrak Station by Maik Doktor, winning $5,000

2. Stalingrad Kessel by Florian Montaut, winning $2,500

3. We actually had a tie for third place, so we doubled up the prize:

Arad 2 by John Cree, winning $1,000 AND

Rakowice by Johan van Pelt, winning $1,000!



We had Dan Shannon chat to all the winners. You'll find the first results of those interviews here: http://www.heroesofstalingrad.com/counterattack-map-making-competition/mapping-contest-interviews/


So let us know what you think!

<a href="http://unknownworlds.com/ns2/gorgeous-release-date/">February 28th! Read more on the UWE Blog (Click here)</a>

February 28th! Read more on the UWE Blog (Click here)

Fellow esteemed champions of science! On Monday February 25th you are cordially invited to join the developmental team for an early exploration and public discussion of the upcoming "Winter" update.

This event will be hosted by the ever so gracious RiptidePow on his very own Twitch.tv channel. Tune in to get an early look at what you'll be facing during a cold and harsh winter.

WINTER LIVE STREAM EVENT DETAILS

Who: Klei Devs + You + Riptide Pow = Great Success!
What: Exclusive early look at the next Winter update! Ask us questions!
When: Monday Feb 25th - 11:00am PST (2:00pm EST).
Where: RiptidePow's Twitch.tv channel.
Why: For science!

<a href="http://www.arcengames.com/aiwar_features.php"/><img src="http://arcengames.com/img/side_aiwar.png"</img></a>
AI War <a href"http://steamcommunity.com/app/40400">Steam community hub</a>
<i>AI War <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AIWarFleetCommand">Facebook page</a>
Arcen Games' <a href="https://www.facebook.com/arcengames">Facebook page</a>
Tidalis <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Tidalis">Facebook page</a>
A Valley Without Wind <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Valley-Without-Wind/164979970229916">Facebook page</a>
Our <a href="http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php">community forums</a></i>
Report bugs and suggestions on <a href="http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/">MantisBT</a>
<a href="http://www.arcengames.com/aiwar_irc.php">AI War web IRC</a> / irc.appliedirc.com / #aiwar
<b><a href="http://arcengames.blogspot.ca/2013/02/ai-war-beta-6010-back-from-valley.html">Please see the original post here</a></b>
<b><a href="http://arcengames.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=AI_War_-_Current_Post-6.000_Beta#Prerelease_6.010_Back_From_The_Valley">Changelog may be found here</a></b>

This one is our first update to AI War in three months. For us, that’s a really, really long time between updates. There’s a variety of reasons for the lull, but the most significant one was our need to focus on getting A Valley Without Wind 2 done and officially released. Now that that’s done and we’ve had a few days to catch our breath we’re trying to get things going again on this side of the shop. We still have other projects underway so it’s not going to be full-steam-ahead or anything like that, but we can keep iterating to make the game <s>better at killing players</s> more fun.

The update itself addresses some of the more pressing issues (according to the last couple of months’ feedback), specifically: making the recently-returned friendly enclaves less lag-prone and less overpowered, toning down the Ancient Shadows “brutal pick” posts, fixing a loophole where special forces were sometimes getting low-cap-ships without really paying for them, and making the AI’s strategic reserves less annoying during assaults on AI homeworlds.

<a href="http://www.arcengames.com/w/index.php/valley2-features"/><img src="http://www.arcengames.com/w/images/stories/valley2header.jpg"</img></a>

On the subject of A Valley Without Wind 2, it's a meshed platforming TBS game that can be played either solo or in coop in tasty Arcen flavour, overhauled and refined bottom to top with much of the player feedback received since the original game. It is already free for anyone who has purchased the original AVWW.

Interested in learning more, or want to try the demo? Please see the features page <a href="http://www.arcengames.com/w/index.php/valley2-features">here!</a>

<i>If you are looking for people to play AI War with, give the latest <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/app/40400/discussions/0/882962698518931451/">AI War Meetup Sortie Fall 2012</a> a look!</i>

<i>This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 6.000 or later. When you launch the game, you'll see the notice of the update having been found if you're connected to the Internet at the time. If you don't have 6.000 or later, you can download that <a href="http://www.arcengames.com/aiwar_buy.php">here.</a></i>

AI War <a href"http://steamcommunity.com/app/40400">Steam community hub[/url]
AI War Facebook page
Arcen Games' Facebook page
Tidalis Facebook page
A Valley Without Wind Facebook page
Our community forums
Report bugs and suggestions on MantisBT
AI War web IRC / irc.appliedirc.com / #aiwar
Please see the original post here
Changelog may be found here

This one is our first update to AI War in three months. For us, that’s a really, really long time between updates. There’s a variety of reasons for the lull, but the most significant one was our need to focus on getting A Valley Without Wind 2 done and officially released. Now that that’s done and we’ve had a few days to catch our breath we’re trying to get things going again on this side of the shop. We still have other projects underway so it’s not going to be full-steam-ahead or anything like that, but we can keep iterating to make the game <s>better at killing players</s> more fun.

The update itself addresses some of the more pressing issues (according to the last couple of months’ feedback), specifically: making the recently-returned friendly enclaves less lag-prone and less overpowered, toning down the Ancient Shadows “brutal pick” posts, fixing a loophole where special forces were sometimes getting low-cap-ships without really paying for them, and making the AI’s strategic reserves less annoying during assaults on AI homeworlds.



On the subject of A Valley Without Wind 2, it's a meshed platforming TBS game that can be played either solo or in coop in tasty Arcen flavour, overhauled and refined bottom to top with much of the player feedback received since the original game. It is already free for anyone who has purchased the original AVWW.

Interested in learning more, or want to try the demo? Please see the features page here!

If you are looking for people to play AI War with, give the latest AI War Meetup Sortie Fall 2012 a look!

This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 6.000 or later. When you launch the game, you'll see the notice of the update having been found if you're connected to the Internet at the time. If you don't have 6.000 or later, you can download that here.

Darkplaces engine that has been powering Steel Storm: Burning Retribution got major update which has trickled down to Steel Storm today!

So what's new? Performance boost! The game runs faster now, especially on Linux. GPU skeletal animation was introduced to Darkplaces recently so that should help performance when you fight a lot of enemies. For those with older hardware - you can disable GPU skeletal using +set r_glsl_skeletal 0 in your launch options.

We got bug report for Steam Linux users that switching resolution crashes the game. This is again related to Steam's Community Over lay. Please disable it for Steel Storm, figure out most comfortable System settings for your game and appropriate resolution. After that you can enable Community overlay again (unless you want to keep on switching resolutions; in that case just keep overlay turned off).

EU official servers got updated accordingly, and restarted. US server are out of service, hopefully temporarily, due to technical issues on the provider's side.

NOTE: Make sure to restart Steam to get the update.

Enjoy the game!