Prepare for the ultimate grand strategy experience.
International trade, religious and cultural strife, military campaigns, diplomatic negotiations… here, you control it all. MAKING HISTORY II: The War of the World gives players the power to take full control of any world nation, colonies, regions, cities, and military units during the time leading up to and during the Second World War. Armchair generals and fans of grand strategy can take their turns building great empires or protecting the world from tyranny during these pivotal moments in world history.
With missions based on actual events in realistic environments at locations all over the world, the new Ship Simulator game is sure to take you to extremes!
Swords can slice up some fun. Chainsaws can tear apart the infected. But you need to get close for both and well? chainsaws are really loud! Time to go with the ultimate gun, you and three friends armed with M60s and unlimited ammo.
Chainsaw Massacre (360)
4 chainsaws, millions of zombies.
You are armed with the only thing you need to survive a Zombie Apocalypse, a chainsaw. Rip apart thousands of zombies on your way to safety.
This Mutation is available in Campaign Mode.
Split Vote
Both the PC and 360 crowd want to see the blood flowing! 360 users preferring chainsaws and PC users going with M60s. Whichever way you like to kill zombies, it’s going to be messy. The numbers by platform.
xBox 360
26% Chainsaw Massacre
21% GibFest
18% Versus Survival
15% Last Gnome on Earth
11% Four Swordsmen of the Apocalypse
9% Bleed Out
PC
25% GibFest
20% Versus Survival
16% Chainsaw Massacre
14% Four Swordsmen of the Apocalypse
13% Last Gnome on Earth
12% Bleed Out
Whose backstory?
The new DLC for Left 4 Dead 1 and Left 4 Dead 2 is due out in October. In the DLC you will get to play the Left 4 Dead 1 survivors. The accompanying Comic is coming in September. The Comic is broken up into 4 separate sections. Each section features the back story from one of the Survivors. Whose back story are you most interested in? SourceContinue reading Week 19→
Updates to ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.
Highlights
Arma 2: British Armed Forces Lite – all units, vehicles and weapons from Arma 2: British Armed Forces are included in this patch with lower quality textures and audio files. The full version of Arma 2: British Armed Forces with high resolution textures and packed with a new campaign and large selection of new single player missions is available for purchase, see http://www.arma2.com/baf for more information about the content of Arma 2: British Armed Forces.
Numerous stability and functionality fixes and improvements.
Reworked MP Session Browser and Mission Selector.
Engineer – Engineers have undergone some serious training and are now capable of repairing damaged vehicles and defusing mines. An engineer can patch up a badly damaged vehicle, making it operable. A damaged component can be repaired to 60% status; however, note that the total damage inflicted upon the vehicle persists, and further damage will be calculated cumulatively. An engineer can defuse mines, satchels, and IEDs. It’s possible to order an engineer to repair/defuse something by standing close to it, selecting ‘engineer’ in your command bar, and then pressing ‘6-1’ (‘action’ > ‘defuse’/’repair’). If you are engineer yourself, simply select ‘action’ > ‘defuse’/’repair’ from the Action Menu (default binding is the middle mouse button).
Artillery Computer – All indirect fire weapons can exploit the brand new artillery computer by selecting it in the Action Menu (default binding is the mouse wheel). The artillery computer initiates an interface where you can see your weapon, and the associated minimal and maximal ranges on the map. You may adjust your fire mode in the menu to the right and select the target area that your ordinance will strike. The display will indicate an estimated time to target; once you fire the ordinance – by clicking the ‘Fire’ button – the interface will track each shot. Your aim will change according to your actions once you leave the artillery computer.
Engine
New: GameSpy modhash key contains list of mods hashes and is used to check there are additional mods on server missing on client (yellow icon in UI).
New: Mods contents hashes are compared instead of mods lists when equal mods are required on server.
Fixed: Commandline -mod behavior, active Mods list in UI, ModLauncher UI dialog with better mods detection and handling.
Fixed: Terrain shadows were too short (http://dev-heaven.net/issues/12328)
The new featured community campaign for PC players is Detour Ahead. This 6 map campaign offers Co-op and Campaign gameplay. While the explosion in the finale will light the night sky, it’s the train bridge you will remember.
To play, first make sure you have the Left 4 Dead 2 Add-on support downloaded in the tools tab of the Steam library.
Double clicking the vpk should install it but you can also copy the vpk to \Steam\steamapps\common\left 4 dead 2\left4dead2\addons Either way that is where the vpks need to end up.
Start up Left 4 Dead 2.
Choose to play online and any available game/lobby in your area will show up. Or you can create your own game and choose addons and select Detour Ahead for the campaign.
Since we have the servers up, you can choose Official Dedicated for server type.
If you missed the news, we announced new DLC for Left 4 Dead 1 and Left 4 Dead 2. It will be coming out in October and Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 will both be getting the brand new campaign, “The Sacrifice.” This will give you a chance to play out the events before “The Passing” using the Left 4 Dead 1 characters. In addition to “The Sacrifice” Left 4 Dead 2 will also be receiving the “No Mercy” campaign. With official inclusion of Left 4 Dead assets, we will be able to simplify the steps for playing community content in the future. Until then, you will need to make sure you download the Left 4 Dead 2 Addon Support.
Do you think you are pro? Hate playing Versus against newbs? Time to put up or shut up with CEVO launching a brand new Left 4 Dead 2 Tournament. The CEVO tournament will be running the latest Confogl configuration. Visit their site for more information. Arsenio, who runs our Valve store is promising Boomer plushies to the winning team. I think we need to bug him to come up with more than that… Arsenio?
We will have more news in the coming weeks on the DLC including a rockingly brand new contest next week and more news on the comic coming out this September. It’s a good time to be a zombie killer. SourceContinue reading You’re headed in the wrong direction.→
To celebrate the Mac release, Puzzle Dimension will be available at 33% off now through September 1st, 2010, 10AM Pacific Time. Now with SteamPlay, you can play on either Mac or PC!
Updates to Puzzle Dimension have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Keyboard and gamepad input mapping implemented.
Increased texture fidelity in renderers by using appropriate anisotropy setting.
Tons of rendering and CPU optimizations.
Improved compatibility with legacy hardware by removing all use of float-point render targets.
Full screen option added to video settings.
Vertical blank synchronization option added to video settings.
Scroll indicator in user interface.
Improved Flash shape tessellation.
Improved Flash player timing.
Changed “Camera mode” text into a symbol in top left corner.
Fixed text encoding bug in Flash player.
Fixed size of green dots.
Fixed couple of shader bugs.
Fixed memory leaks in HTML and XML parsers.
Added option for easy jump. Jumps up on release of jump button or jump in a direction when a direction is pressed.
Added fast restart option. Use keyboard/gamepad mapping to enable.
Added four new achievements.
Second, third and forth clusters unlocks on less flowers.
Added mouse wheel for camera zoom, forward/back movement, menu up/down/left/right.
A Steam OSX client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select “Check for Steam Client Updates…”. The specific changes include:
Steam
[OSX] Improved font handling of non-english (unicode) characters
Play through a full single-player mission designed exclusively for the R.U.S.E. demo. Command Allied forces from the Head Quarters and lead your army to a nuclear conflict and combine deceptive strategies to conquer the battleground.
Pre-Purchase your copy of R.U.S.E. today and be ready to play when it launches in September.
