Aug 29, 2013
Weekend Deal - Prison Architect, 40% Off
Prison Architect - Valve
Save 40% on Prison Architect as part of this week's Weekend Deal*!

Build and Manage A Maximum Security Prison.

Prison Architect is the world's latest Prison Management Sim. Starting with an empty plot of land you must construct a holding cell with basic water and electricity to house your first batch of prisoners, to buy you enough time to create a proper cell block. You'll need to hire some guards, get some showers built and unless the kitchen is up and running with chefs working away you're going to end up with a riot on your hands. From there you take your prison in which-ever direction you like. A monsterous super-max or comfortable center for rehabilitation, the choice is up to you.

*Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time
Aug 29, 2013
America's Army: Proving Grounds Now Available
America's Army: Proving Grounds - Valve
America’s Army: Proving Grounds (AA:PG) is now available in open beta for download! Bringing the best features of the previous versions to a new America’s Army environment, AA: PG stresses small unit tactical maneuvers and training that reflects the current day Army. The America’s Army Comics series has unveiled the storyline that influences the plot for the game’s missions and maps and gives you a better understanding of your assignment and the challenges you will face.

In the game, you can take part in fast-paced Battle Drill Exercises (BDX) for small engagements of 6 players vs. 6 players. These maps focus on the basic movements and maneuvers, allowing you to learn how the enemy might react and adjust your strategies for future engagements Then move on to Forward Line Operation (FLO) training for 12 vs. 12 players. These larger mission-based exercises require you to use several skills learned in your Battle Drills to achieve success. Use new weapons such as M9 and Remington 870 MCS shotgun and M14EBR-RI sniper rifle, which join AA favorites such as the M4/M4A1 and the M249 light machine gun. Other new features include situational awareness, weapon suppression, supported fire system, a hardcore mode, self aid and new versions of AA fan favorite maps including Hospital and Bridge!
Aug 29, 2013
GREENLIGHT'S FIRST ANNIVERSARY
Press Release - Valve
Platform Feature Helps Double Independent Titles On Steam During First Year

August 29, 2013 - Valve, creator of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Dota 2, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the one-year anniversary of Steam Greenlight, the platform feature that enlists the community's help in selecting new titles to be released on Steam.

In addition to enlisting the community's help with the selection process, Greenlight represents an effort to help increase the volume of independent titles being published on Steam.

Since the feature launched on August 30 of last year, the number of independent titles available on Steam has doubled. Meanwhile the volume of new Greenlight submissions has shown no signs of slowing with new titles being submitted every day.

"Ultimately our goal is to have no bottlenecks at all between developers and consumers," said Gabe Newell of Valve. "As we move closer to that, launching Greenlight and evolving our backend toolset has helped us increase our publishing throughput, pushing the number of independent titles released in the last twelve months to equal the number of titles published from all other categories combined. We expect that number to grow dramatically as we continue to iterate upon our developer service features and seek more ways to improve Steam's value to the community."

Launched on August 30, 2012, Steam Greenlight is a feature of Steam, a leading platform for PC, Mac, and Linux games and software with over 50 million active accounts worldwide.

For more information, please visit www.steampowered.com
Aug 29, 2013
Now Available - Game Dev Tycoon
Game Dev Tycoon - Valve
Game Dev Tycoon is Now Available on Steam and is 20% off!


In Game Dev Tycoon, you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

For the Steam release of Game Dev Tycoon we have updated the game with a longer story line, new features and completely re-balanced the game based on player feedback to make it more enjoyable. More info is available on our blog.


*Offer ends September 5 at 10AM Pacific Time
Aug 29, 2013
BioShock Infinite - Now Available on Mac!
BioShock Infinite - Valve
BioShock Infinite is Now Available on Mac!

Indebted to the wrong people, with his life on the line, veteran of the U.S. Cavalry and now hired gun, Booker DeWitt has only one opportunity to wipe his slate clean. He must rescue Elizabeth, a mysterious girl imprisoned since childhood and locked up in the flying city of Columbia. Forced to trust one another, Booker and Elizabeth form a powerful bond during their daring escape. Together, they learn to harness an expanding arsenal of weapons and abilities, as they fight on zeppelins in the clouds, along high-speed Sky-Lines, and down in the streets of Columbia, all while surviving the threats of the air-city and uncovering its dark secret.

Aug 29, 2013
New DLC Available - Cities in Motion 2: Lofty Landmarks
Cities in Motion 2 - Valve
Lofty Landmarks, all new content for Cities in Motion 2 is Now Available on Steam!

Add some lofty architecture to spice up your town with this DLC. Lofty Landmarks offers four new buildings: the formidable Cologne Cathedral, the famous Westminster Palace featuring the Elizabeth Tower and it's Big Ben bell, the renowned German Brandenburg Gate, and the 30 St. Mary Axe, commonly known as the Gherkin of London.

Aug 28, 2013
Winners of Intel Level Up Game Demo Contest Released
Protocell - Valve
The nine category winners of the Intel Level Up Game Demo Contest are now available on Steam.

The winners are:

Each of these demos, impressed the panel of indie developers and game-industry luminaries assembled by Intel and were selected from more than 90 entries into the contest.

In addition to all nine demos being available to download and play for free, three of the games are available to purchase and play right now, either as fully released or in Steam Early Access.

For more information and to download the free demos, see http://store.steampowered.com/sale/levelup

For contest details, please see: http://www.intel.com/software/levelup2013
Aug 28, 2013
Team Fortress 2 Update Released
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:

  • Fixed the Linux dedicated server failing to run on older Linux versions
  • Fixed the HUD 3D Character causing other HUD items to sometimes disappear
  • Fixed a client HUD crash when Spies disguise as a class that has a non-active weapon like the Chargin' Targe
  • Fixed an outdated tip for the Quick-Fix
  • Fixed a shadow bug for the Warrior's Spirit
Aug 28, 2013
Steam Client Update Released
Client Update - Valve
A new Steam Client update has been released and will be automatically downloaded. The specific changes are listed below.

Steam
  • Fixed a bug which prevented the Steam Subscriber Agreement and Privacy Agreement from being displayed when creating a new account

In addition, this update includes all changes from the previous release this morning:

Steam
  • Fixed some cases that may have been the cause of non-Steam game shortcuts disappearing
  • Change Steam to not require a restart when going from offline mode to online mode at login time
  • Fixed cases where the client could become stuck in Offline Mode
  • Fixed a bug that prevented login after encountering a network error
  • Library now always shows free games if you own any of its DLC
  • Fixed crash on startup if you ran two steam:// commands quickly
  • Fixed a potential crash shutting down Steam or halting content downloads
  • Improved Steam Client responsiveness when performing network uploads
  • Fixed a bug which caused Workshop and Steam Cloud file uploads to fail
  • Fixed a crash when downloading or updating games
  • Fixed a crash when quitting some multiplayer games
  • Changed Steamworks API calls to fail fatally if Steam.exe has crashed so that the game will fail in a user visible manner (vs some games appearing to run but failing to save progress to Steam Cloud and users later discovering all progress was lost)
  • Fixed loading sound caches for Zombie Panic Source Mod

Big Picture
  • Work around a regression caused by recent versions of GeForce Experience which prevented the guide button from working on X360 controllers
  • Fixed a bug where a X360 controller assigned a player index > 0 by XInput may not be used properly on Windows
  • Decreased texture memory usage and increased performance in some scenarios where parts of the UI are transformed offscreen
  • More aggressive caching of custom font data leading to improved rendering perf in some transitions in/out of text heavy UI on Windows
  • Added new multi-user login and create account UIs
  • Added shutdown UI
  • Added Go Offline / Go Online to the Quit UI
  • Added network connectivity error UI during login
  • Changed Web Browser behavior when using a keyboard/mouse to not allow over scroll and to behave more like a normal browser in terms of scrolling, gamepad behavior is unchanged
  • Fixed a Web Browser bug where links that open in a new tab/popup could initially load very slowly
  • Fixed a bug in the Web Browser where scrolling via any input method would cause the underlying browser implementation to believe the mouse cursor had centered on the screen and would then cause spurious hover/tooltip display in some pages
  • Fixed an issue that could cause overlay notification messages to stop appearing randomly after some period of gameplay time
  • Fixed styles regression with main menu buttons jumping to the right on transitions back from deeper UI
  • Fixed styles regressions transitioning in and out of “New for you” display
  • Fixed styles issue making prices get truncated in the store view at times when a featured game had a long title/description
  • Big Picture store can show Linux support icons

Linux/Mac OS X
  • On OS X 10.9 point to the new Preference location for the Accessibility interface
  • Fixed particle system fuzziness in Big Picture on Linux and OSX to match Windows
  • Updated Steam Client to use the latest version of SDL2
  • Fixed a memory leak during voice communication on Linux
  • Fixed a crash in the Big Picture web browser on Linux
  • Improved Big Picture OpenGL rendering, added support for more complex gradient types, fixed inset shadow renderering and fixed jittering of some effects due to float to int rounding
  • Fixed overlay crash on non-Steam app shutdown on Linux
  • Fixed Steam crash on Linux systems with no USB support
  • Fixed Linux display of game shortcut names for games with non-ASCII letters in the name
  • Fixed some Big Picture crashes playing YouTube video on Linux
  • Improve Steam client support for XFS and large drives on Linux
  • Fixed web browsing while in offline mode to load the proper offline mode page
Aug 28, 2013
Dota 2 Update - August 28th, 2013
Dota 2 - Valve
GAMEPLAY
- Fixed recasting a higher level of Enfeeble only refreshing the existing duration without upgrade the stats
- Fixed Epicenter not slowing attack speed by 10

VISUAL
- Fixed Timbersaw's body blade not rendering properly.
- You will no longer see other player's -commands (like -ping).
- adjusted cloth settings for Witchdoctor and Lion

SPECTATING
- Added experimental Player Perspective Directed mode. Turn on by selecting player perspective and setting dota_spectator_directed_player_perspective to 1.

AUDIO
- Add audio for cheese usage.
- Fix FoW interactions on QoP and AM blink.

MAC/LINUX
- We now do not use Adobe Flash to play videos, but HTML5 video tags. This should fix a crash with Adobe Flash 11.7 on Mac.
- Add support for querying Gnome Settings for proxy settings for embedded webpages.
- Fixed crash-on-startup on Mac that could occur with certain game controllers.

IME
- Fix for Korean IME chat bug where two ENTER presses were required after entering Korean characters.

UI
- Fix for store banners showing up in the TODAY tab when the FIND MATCH button is clicked.

ECONOMY
- Lockless Luckbox: Replaced Lone Druid item 'Skull of Xahryx' (head slot) with 'Form of the Onyx Grove' (true form).
...