Sep 25, 2014

Now Available on Steam - The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - Valve

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is Now Available on Steam!

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery game that focuses entirely on exploration and discovery. It contains no combat or explosions of any kind. If our game leaves any scars, we hope you won’t be able to see them.

You play the game as Paul Prospero, an occult-minded detective who receives a disturbing letter from Ethan Carter. Realizing the boy is in grave danger, Paul arrives at Ethan’s home of Red Creek Valley, where things turn out to be even worse than he imagined. Ethan has vanished in the wake of a brutal murder, which Paul quickly discerns might not be the only local murder worth looking into.

Sep 25, 2014

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:

Added Limited Late Summer Crate Key to the Mann Co. Store. Available until October 13, 2014.
Fixed the Limited label not being displayed for items on the Steam Community Market or in the Steam backpack
Fixed colorization of item level description line for Limited items
Added tournament medals for BETA LAN 2014
Added a NEW! label to new items in your backpack until you mouse over them
Fixed a case where cosmetic items would be orphaned in the world
- R.I.P. Captain Canteen
Fixed not being able to open the Taunt menu during the bonus time on an Arena map
Fixed a dedicated server crash related to bot Spies
Fixed item level not displaying correctly in the Mann vs. Machine lobby
Updated the auto-balance code to immediately respawn players that are automatically switched, or that voluntarily switch, during a balancing period
- Not supported in Mann vs. Machine, Medieval mode, Arena mode, Tournament Mode, or Training
Updated the removeid command to support Steam2 and Steam3 ID formats
Updated the materials for The Atomic Accolade
Updated the equip_region for The Special Eyes
Updated rd_asteroid
- Added a 45 second overtime when a team reaches max points
- Added placeholder pickup ship and robot worker to indicate a team has reached max points
- Added a sound to captured and returned points as they fill the progress bar
- Captured and returned points now fill the progress bar faster
- Progress bar escrow indicator now stays in place as points are added
- Touching the reactor core no longer fully resets the return timer. Every second the reactor core is held will add a second to the return timer.
Virtual Reality Mode
- Fixed selecting the wrong refresh rate when running on a display that does not use the desktop refresh rate

Sep 25, 2014

Dota 2 Workshop Tools Alpha Update - September 25th, 2014

Product Update - Valve

Fixed Hammer crash when using FBX export a model with multiple materials
Fixed crash when loading malformed keyvalues ability file
Fixed bug where models rendered with particle systems would show up without their wearables
Disabled bot commander thinking when bot thinking is disabled.
Fixed crash when a delayed action in a script would try to operate on a deleted entity
All Assets Working Set in assetbrowser is now alphabetized
Expose CDOTA_BaseNPC::CanEntityBeSeenByMyTeam to lua
Expose CDOTA_BaseNPC::GetAttackCapability to lua
Expose CDOTA_Ability_DataDriven::ApplyDataDrivenModifier which is similar to CDOTA_Item_DataDriven::ApplyDataDrivenModifier.
Added GetModifierStackCount and SetModifierStackCount calls in Lua to manipulate modifier stacks directly.
Added the "ProcessProcs" key to the "CreateBonusAttack" action, to allow procs to fire on the extra attack.
Fixed a bug where attachment points on heroes could be in the wrong place
Fixed a bug where Model Editor's outliner would be blank after reload when a filter was present
PET: Particle asset parent and child menus now select the parent or child asset in the current asset browser page if it is there instead of the global browser
PET: Info for child endcap and delay is displayed above child button
PET: Changing sessions now does a global restart of the particle simulation
Fixed a crash in GetAbilityByIndex
Fixed some corrupted textures
Fixed Model Editor bug where closing an animation import file browser would prevent future attempts to add animations to that group
Added some better reporting when stash purchasing is disabled.
Fixed a crash in Model Editor when trying to remove an animation group that is referenced by another animation group
Ember spirit's remnant model now appears
Expose Aura_ApplyToParent flag to datadriven modifiers
Fixed the color of many existing Dota particle systems that use addself + overbright features in their render ops.
Added the script_help2 command which reports help text on all exposed Lua functions including parameter names.
Target selection in data-driven items and abilities will no longer automatically include dead units. The target flag DOTA_UNIT_TARGET_FLAG_DEAD is required to include dead units.
Added support for hiding various portions of the in game HUD
Added the ability to query Dota Ability keybindings from Scaleform in addons
Added the ability to get the world position from screen space in Scaleform in addons

Sep 25, 2014

Now Available on Mac - METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE, 15% off!

METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE - Valve

METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE is Now Available on Mac and is 15% off to celebrate!

Developed by Kojima Productions and PlatinumGames, METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE takes the renowned METAL GEAR franchise into exciting new territory with an all-new action experience. The game seamlessly melds pure action and epic story-telling that surrounds Raiden – a child soldier transformed into a half-human, half-cyborg ninja who uses his High Frequency katana blade to cut through any thing that stands in his vengeful path!

Sep 25, 2014

Weekend Deal - Goat Simulator, 40% Off

Goat Simulator - Valve

Save 40% on Goat Simulator as part of this week's Weekend Deal*!

Goat Simulator is the latest in goat simulation technology, bringing next-gen goat simulation to YOU. You no longer have to fantasize about being a goat, your dreams have finally come true! WASD to write history.

Gameplay-wise, Goat Simulator is all about causing as much destruction as you possibly can as a goat. It has been compared to an old-school skating game, except instead of being a skater, you're a goat, and instead of doing tricks, you wreck stuff. Destroy things with style, such as doing a backflip while headbutting a bucket through a window, and you'll earn even more points! Or you could just give Steam Workshop a spin and create your own goats, levels, missions, and more! When it comes to goats, not even the sky is the limit, as you can probably just bug through it and crash the game.

*Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time

Sep 24, 2014

Steam Client Update Released

Client Update - Valve

Steam Client Update Released

(UPDATE: This update was re-released on Sep 29 to fix a crash issue with AMD Athlon XP and similar CPUs that do not support SSE2.)

An update has been released for the Steam Client and will be automatically downloaded.

Steam Music Player

The Steam Music Player feature is now available for everyone, making it easy to listen to your music collection while you play games on Steam. For more information, visit Steam News. For product support, visit Steam Support.

General

Added display of friends’ nicknames to notifications
Added support for Family View recovery email address in Big Picture mode
Added "I forgot my PIN" link to Family View unlock dialogs if a recovery email has been set
Simplified the user interface of the main window
Reduced energy usage when running in the background
Fixed installing games using “-applaunch” or “steam://install” commands
Fixed some cases where invalid URL strings would be parsed as URLs in chats
Fixed some issues with Unicode handling inside links in chat
Fixed regression that prevented public sharing of screenshots of non-Steam games
Fixed install from retail disk for games with more than 4 DVDs, to use the data from all disks
Fixed game banners not appearing in grid view while in offline mode
Fixed hang in grid view when hitting enter with no game selected
Fixed warning sound playing when unlocking Family View in desktop mode
Fixed permissions issue preventing developers from uploading Workshop items to an app using the ISteamUGC interface, if they only had an auto-grant license for the app

In-Home Streaming

Improved AMD hardware encoding quality
Updated Streaming audio from Linux to use the default pulse audio sink if none is running at the time streaming starts
Fixed rare crash with windowed game capture
Fixed regression preventing Big Picture mode from responding after streaming a game
Fixed regression preventing streaming to NVIDIA Shield

Windows

Added support for additional caching of proxy auto-discovery results and better background detection of broken networks where auto-discovery fails and takes a long time to timeout
Fixed failing to draw Web views into games that run as the elevated user when Steam wasn't also elevated

Mac OS X

Updated some common user interface elements for Retina displays

Linux

Fixed keyboard input for non-Latin languages in the Web view