Oct 23
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 crash related to KeyValues
  • Added 'No Bullets' style for the Paka Parka
  • Fixed Widowmaker not giving metal when Spy is disguised as their own team (GitHub fix from Grampa Swood)
  • Fixed on-hit attributes not triggering when Spy is disguised as their own team (GitHub fix from Grampa Swood)
  • Fixed game mode prefix check failing when loading maps from the Workshop (GitHub fix from LizardOfOz)
  • Added null pointer checks for recent casual doors fix (GitHub fix from Bitl)
  • Fixed a bug where Gas Passer gas can cover players with gas in spawn rooms (GitHub fix from Bitl)
  • Fixed typo in logical expression (GitHub fix from Ian Brun)
  • Fixed Vaccinator charge sounds playing multiple times per tick (GitHub fix from treacherousfiend)
  • Fixed event text leak in CTFHudPasstimeBallStatus (GitHub fix from Dmitry Tsarevich)
  • Fixed Minigun barrel movement being updated multiple times per tick (GitHub fix from Marioiscool246)
  • Fixed CHealthAccountPanel not using NegativeColor for negative values (GitHub fix from Bradasparky)
  • Improved the random class selection algorithm to reduce the chance of failure (GitHub fix from Bradasparky)
  • Fixed KeyValues memory leak in birds (GitHub fix from CosminPerRam)
  • Fixed Team Spirit Footprints BLU team coloring (GitHub fix from Herobrine0412)
  • Fixed animation playback in the class selection menu (GitHub fix from Hunter Kvalevog)
  • Updated Mann Co. Catalog controls to mimic Workshop dialog (GitHub fix from Liam Stone)
  • Updated the Globetrotter to fix the second style using the wrong BLU team skin
  • Updated/Added some tournament medals
  • Updated the Seamann's Stubble
    • Fixed the normal map for better shading
    • Updated the backpack icon
  • Updated arena_afterlife
    • Fixed a rare regression bug that could cause players in Hell to count as alive
  • Updated koth_dusker
    • Fixed being able to build in RED spawn
    • Fixed a perch spot outside of BLU spawn
    • Added a visual delimitation for the capture zone
  • Updated zi_atoll, zi_blazehattan, zi_devastation_final1, zi_murky, zi_sanitarium, and zi_woods
    • Fixed an exploit that allowed Zombie Spies to disguise as Survivors
  • Updated ctf_doublecross_event
    • Took significant steps towards improving FPS on the map, especially around the bridge
    • Reduced particle and prop usage around the map
    • Removed the ability to roll the minify spell and replaced it with the teleport spell with one charge (Thanks Lizard of Oz)
    • Added extensions to the window frames looking through each opposing team's base and made the raised shacks slightly more symmetrical to block Sniper sightline
    • Removed the two spell books from just outside of the doors of each base
    • Increased the respawn time of the rare spell book slightly
    • Added Gargoyle spawns
    • Fixed a number of minor visual issues and clipping bugs (Thanks Lilly, The Rat Man, Dr. Maxi, and everyone else who reported these!)
Oct 21
A new way to discover new & upcoming games: Personal Calendar
Steam News - Alden

Today we've launched a new store feature designed to help you find your next favorite game. The new Steam Personalized Calendar is a look at both recently released and upcoming games, filtered down to the the set of games we think you are most likely to be interested in.

We're launching this feature as a Steam Labs experiment, as we'd like your feedback to help make the best possible version of this tool. Read on for more details, or just check out the Personal Calendar page and see for yourself.

Recommendations based on your playtime

This new calendar finds people with similar playtime profiles to you, and then looks at the games those players have been adding to their wishlist.

Based on games you play a lot: The system is more focused on games that you play the most (relative to other players), and spend most of your playtime in. So, a few minutes trying out a couple of new games or demos won't have much impact on your recommendations, but sinking a bunch of time into a new favorite will.

Refreshed daily: This recommendation system gets re-trained daily to incorporate the latest data. In reality you aren't likely to see your recommendations change all that much from day to day, but as time goes by you will obviously see new things pop up as the 8-week horizon of the calendar marches forward, or as games lock in their release dates.

Upcoming releases: Calendar view

Steam already has lists for upcoming releases, including Popular Upcoming and All Upcoming. However, we've been drawn to the idea of having a visual representation of upcoming releases in calendar form to help understand how far away an exciting new launch is. So this new calendar view takes the list of soon-to-release titles, filters them down to the set that we recommend most for you, and maps them out across time for you to see at-a-glance. You'll find that some days have a bunch of exciting releases for you while others may only have one or none. 

Includes your wishlists: The calendar view also includes any game that you have already added to your wishlist, regardless of whether the system recommends it; you've already expressed interest in that game, and you likely want to know when it is coming out.

Weekdays only: We intentionally focus the calendar on weekdays since very few games release on weekends and we wanted as much space as possible to show the games that are planning on releasing. The rare games that do have weekend release dates will show up on the calendar on the following Monday.

Recent releases: Week and month views

For recent releases, we experimented with a few different views and found that it felt less important to map out already released games on a daily calendar view. When we were talking with our friends and colleagues about recent releases, it was usually in the context of something we were playing this week or this month rather than which specific day it came out on.

But, we'd love your feedback. For new releases, are you concerned about which day that game came out on, or just that it is a recent release?

Customization controls

There are a few different options to control what you see on this page.

Filter by tag

Looking for something particular? Use the tag selector. By default, it lists out tags applied to games you've recently played. But you can also type in any valid store tag to narrow down your results.

Adjust the number of results

While working on this page, we tried out a few different thresholds for the number of games to display. Too few results and the calendar is pretty empty; too many and it can be an overwhelming experience. We settled on 100 as providing a good level of information density, but we're curious what you think. You can adjust the picker at the top of the page to see more or fewer titles. As you increase the number of titles shown, the quality of fit for those recommendations will decrease, resulting in more games that are further afield from what you typically play.

Already respects your preferences

This page already filters out games based on choices you've made in your store content preferences, such as Early Access titles, ignored products, ignored tags, and general level of mature content.

See your Personal Calendar

What feedback are we looking for?

Really, we're interested to know whatever feedback you may have about this experiment. Do you find this format of recommendations to be useful? What do you think about this new set of recommendations and calendar view? Are there other things we should include on the calendar? Does it seem to be generating good recommendations for you?

Jump in the Steam Labs discussions for Experiment 16: Personal Calendar

About Steam Labs

In the pursuit of building a better platform and shopping experience, the Steam Team are continually experimenting with new ideas around discoverability, video, machine learning, and more. Some of these experiments are clear and obvious upgrades to existing features, or are part of products we've already decided to build, and they get built out and released. Other times, we end up with experiments where we feel like we would benefit from more input from Steam users to help inform the direction that we take it, or whether it is even interesting enough to turn into a full feature.

With Steam Labs experiments, you can try, share, and break these potential new features, while we figure out what to keep and what to scrap. Share your feedback with the developers and designers working on these features and help shape the future of Steam.

Check out all experiments on the Steam Labs page or drop us some feedback in the Steam Labs discussion boards.

Oct 15
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:

  • Updated the Sandy Unusual effect
    • Fixed incorrect texture for the sand cloud particles when moving
    • Reversed previous idle state changes
Oct 14
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:

  • Updated the Mad Drip to fix a problem with LODs
  • Updated cp_cowerhouse to fix regression from the previous update
  • Updated the Sandy Unusual effect
    • Movement State
      • Changed sand clouds to be a camera depth bias of 0 instead of 5, this will help with the dust clouds unintentionally occluding the player model in some cases
    • Idle State
      • Changed idle sand clumps to lock rotation, so the sand falling isn't influenced by camera position
      • Changed camera depth bias for idle clouds to 5 instead of 10, so that it doesn't occlude player model at unintended angles
  • Updated the Sizzling Unusual effect
    • Changed sequence random value from 4 to 3, in order to prevent steam sprites from spinning rapidly at random
Oct 13
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 'No Bullets' style for the Commissar's Coat
  • Added missing string for Cowerhouse contracts
  • Updated/Added some tournament medals
  • Updated the Mad Drip to fix LOD problems with a couple of the styles
  • Updated the Candle Flame Unusual effect to fix a bug where flame's direction point wasn't placed correctly
  • Updated the Viscera Visor to fix missing flex animation for the surgical hood mesh
  • Updated Cigarillo Caballero to fix some clipping on the scarf when worn with the poncho
  • Updated the El Gigante's Gunbelt
    • Fixed some minor clipping,
    • Fixed a gap on the back with another bullet
    • Slightly scaled up belt buckle
  • Updated the Poncho del Pesado
    • Fixed "No Bullets" style not hiding the bullets
    • Fixed some minor clipping on both styles
  • Updated the Buzz Kill
    • Fixed hair normals and improved texturing
    • Updated backpack icon
  • Updated the Torn Terror and the Ripped Runts
    • Fixed AO problems and improved texture
    • Improved mesh to fix clipping
  • Updated arena_afterlife
    • Fixed additional issues causing rounds to last or restart indefinitely
    • Added two new Devil voicelines during preround
    • Prevented players from going above the clocktower in Hell
    • Fixed Devil voicelines overlapping each other
    • Fixed players being able to cancel taunts or levitate by attempting to change class mid-round
    • Fixed players being able to fall into the lava in Hell and survive
    • Rounds are now best-of-3 minirounds instead of best-of-5
    • Removed crumpkins
  • Updated cp_cowerhouse
    • Reworked the implementation of the BLU last control point gantry: ragdolls no longer fall through, Engineers' buildings can be placed as intended, and players can properly fall to their demise after the gantry has opened in the post-round finale
    • Prevented ragdolls from falling through the RED last control point pit
    • Moved the soul gargoyle spawn that used to be underwater to be above-water on the debris buildup at the MID control point
    • Shifted the boards on the upper waterfall-side RED barricade in MID to more closely match the height of its BLU counterpart
    • Applied minor performance-related optimiztions throughout the map, namely: combined some groups of prop_dynamics each into one prop_static, disabled bone followers on static robots (& gibs), combined several func_nobuilds, and converted a few prop_dynamics to prop_static
    • Adjusted a playerclip in the BLU spawn near the rear exit door
    • Adjusted the playerclip around the BLU battlement's painting depicting the RED village on fire to more effectively prevent players from getting caught on the edge along the wall
    • Mentioned in the changelog (because it wasn't being in nearly enough matches) that shooting each wood cow standin in the RED stable (near the MID control point) will result in them returning to haunt as ghost cows
Oct 13
October's Steam Next Fest is here!
Steam News - kaci

The October edition of Steam Next Fest is on NOW, with a full week of free demos through October 20th at 10 a.m. Pacific.

Steam Next Fest is a great way to find your next favorite game, and follow the developer as they prepare for launch by wishlisting the ones you love.

Still here? Great, but GET THEE OVER TO THE FEST ITSELF! Steam Next Fest: October Edition is on now through October 20th.

Have fun!

Oct 10
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 missing style for the One-Man Convoy
  • Fixed regression in vbsp
  • Fixed broken styles for the Professor Photon
  • Renamed Feathered Villain to Feathered Foe
  • Updated the Pyromantic Plumage to fix a clipping problem
  • Updated the backpack image for the Fused Plates
  • Updated arena_afterlife
    • Fixed the bug that caused the round to never end
    • Fixed some of the default announcer lines not being replaced with the Devil
  • Updated koth_dusker
    • Lighting and fog adjustments
    • Fixed displacement seam
    • Fixed perch spot on blue mountain
    • Fixed being able to build in the death pit
    • Adjusted timing of voicelines
  • Updated sd_marshlands
    • Reduced pumpkin bomb amount
    • Removed spell pickup from the mid shack
    • Adjusted trigger_push speed on top of the bridge
    • Reduced respawn time
Oct 9
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:



Scream Fortress XVII has arrived!
  • Featuring 5 new community maps: Cowerhouse, Dusker, Afterlife, Devilcross, and Marshlands
  • Added the Spectral Stash Case
    • Contains 23 new community-created cosmetic items that make up the Spectral Stash Collection
    • Has a chance to give one of 4 new community-created Halloween-restricted items as a bonus item
    • Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item
  • Added 3 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store
    • Taunt: Heartbreaker
    • Taunt: Healthcare Hog
    • Taunt: Ring King
  • Added 15 new community-created Unusual effects
    • 7 new effects for Unusual hats
    • 8 new effects for Unusual taunts
  • All players who launch the game will receive a Soul Gargoyle if they don't already have one
    • Grants access to Merasmissions and Halloween item transmutations
    • Tracks Merasmissions completed and souls collected
  • All Halloween Contracts have been reset, allowing them to be completed again
  • Added new Contracts for this year's featured community maps
  • Completing a Halloween Contract will give players a classic Halloween item and the chance for a Spectral Stash Case
  • Continue last year's event by collecting the souls of dead players for your Soul Gargoyle by killing enemies, doing map objectives, or collecting the Soul Gargoyles that spawn in the maps
  • All cosmetic and taunt Cases will grant Halloween 2025 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the event. This does not include Crates.
  • Join Halloween matches by using the Special Events category in Casual
  • Scream Fortress XVII runs through November 7th, 2025
General
  • Added (VSH) and (ZI) extensions to the community game mode map names to help identify them
  • Fixed self-illum settings for capture point materials (community fix from Horiuchi)
  • Fixed The Weather Master not cloaking properly
  • Fixed an issue with props and team colors when taunting with the Mutated Milk
  • Updated several strings with consistency fixes
  • Updated the ConTracker to allow community map contracts to be completed in any order
  • Updated the Dusk Duster to add "No Bullets" styles and fix an issue with missing triangles under the right lapel
  • Updated the Fully Charged and Overcharged Unusual effects to improve performance
  • Updated Randolph the Blood-Nosed Caribou to fix missing self-illum setting for the BLU team
  • Updated pl_camber
    • Fixed forward spawn again
  • Updated pl_citadel
    • Adjusted prop placement around the C checkpoint
    • Clipping fixes and adjustments
    • Visual fixes and adjustments
  • Updated koth_demolition
    • Updated steam whistle sounds
    • Reduced ambient_generic across the map to avoid problems with sounds not playing
    • Adjusted RED side wooden signs on the lower flank to match BLU side
    • Adjusted spawn points to point at the main door
    • Removed trimp spot on the crane platform
    • Moved healthpack on the crane platform forward so players don't need to make an U turn to reach the control point
    • Added jump pad on the crane platform to allow less mobile classes to get back to the control point if they get stuck there
    • Added critical hit particles to the "evil deer" when it kills players
    • Added collision to some pipes near the control point platform so players can stand on them
    • Adjusted nav mesh to accommodate the new changes (thanks again Katsu)
Oct 2
Steam Client Update - October 2nd
Steam News - boyd

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

General

  • Added mitigations for Unity CVE-2025-59489, blocking a game launch through the Steam Client when an exploit attempt is detected.

  • Added "End of Life" alert for 32-bit versions of Windows. Currently Windows 10 32-bit is the only 32-bit version of Windows supported by Steam.

    • The Steam client will continue running on Windows 10 64-bit and 32-bit games will continue to be supported.

    • Steam Client support for Windows 10 32-bit will end on Jan 1st, 2026 at 10am. See here for additional details.

  • Fixed "\\" characters appearing in some news posts

  • Added ability to switch tabs in the tabbed browser by pressing CTRL+TAB

  • Fixed some cases where access to "Mark as private" game setting was unavailable.

  • Fixed some cases where adding a large number of non-Steam games to a collection would fail.

  • Fixed some "Friends & Chat" settings occasionally resetting to their default value temporarily after getting disconnected from Steam

  • Fixed a case where a user's achievements would fail to display in the overlay when activated by a game.

  • Fixed scroll arrow buttons on Post-Game Summary overscrolling to the end of the summary instead of the next non-visible item.

  • Fixed a rare crash when constructing the menu for the tray icon on Windows.

Game Recording

  • Improved performance when recording is on for some games using Vulkan rendering

Steam Input

  • Added support for dual gyros when using Nintendo Switch Joycons in combined mode

  • Fixed the "listen for binding" panel in the configurator

  • Fixed the configurator being blank when opening a configuration for an uninstalled game that requires being installed to edit the configuration

  • When authoring an official configuration for a Steam Input API game, use a setting under Settings->Developer instead of relying on the SetInputActionManifestFilePath API call

Streaming

  • Fix cases where clicking "stream" did nothing.

SteamVR

  • Fixed Steam Client notifications getting suppressed after you exited SteamVR. The suppressed notifications would appear inside your VR headset the next time you started SteamVR.

Accessibility

  • Improved High Contrast view of game list search and app filter panel

Windows

  • Added detecting if Secure Boot and a TPM are enabled on the current machine. This information is displayed under Help > System Information. It is now also collected when opting into the Steam Hardware Survey.

Linux

  • Fixed a crash when DualSense controllers are connected and idle.

Sep 29
Steam Autumn Sale is here!
Steam News - kaci

“Is Steam crazy? They’re two months ahead of schedule!”

Yes, we are crazy, and yes we are earlier than usual, but also that’s intentional: Steam Autumn Sale is on now! From now through October 6th at 10 a.m. PT, you’ll find deals across the entire store on games of all kinds.

During the sale you can stock up your Steam library, OR (and?) check out the discount we have on Steam Deck 256GB LCD models (20% off).

Head on over to the Steam Autumn Sale and have a look around, and read more about Steam Deck and the 256GB LCD sale here as well. Both end on October 6th at 10 a.m. PT.

See you there!

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