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Rhythm Zone Now Available
Rhythm Zone is now available on Steam and 10% off until July 27th.
Rhythm Zone is the future of real music gaming. Pick any song from your music library and experience the exciting falling-note beat-matching gameplay set to surreal background visuals. Rhythm Zone supports USB-based plug and play controllers.
Regardless of your taste in music, you can play your favorite songs. Rhythm Zone supports a wide variety of file types and will identify most common songs against our database.
Razor2: Hidden Skies Now Available
Razor2: Hidden Skies, a vertical scrolling shooter, is now available on Steam!
The game has the style of successful classic arcade shooter while utilizing the latest technology to create great visuals and effects.
Razor2 has easy, yet deep gameplay that challenges your skills with hundreds of enemies and bullets. The soundtrack features classic, orchestrated music composed especially for the game. Includes ten achievements and support for worldwide leaderboards.
Alien Swarm Game and Source SDK Now available
Alien Swarm is now available via Steam.
Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. Along with the game get the complete code base for Alien Swarm that features updates to the Source engine as well as the SDK.
Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.
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R.U.S.E.? Free Preview Weekend Extended
The R.U.S.E.™ Free Preview Weekend has been extended! Keep playing now through Wednesday, July 21st at 3PM PST.
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Now Available – Fallout 3 DLC
You can now enjoy all five of the Fallout 3 Game add-on packs! Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.
Fallout 3 DLC:
– Operation Anchorage
– The Pitt
– Broken Steel
– Point Lookout
– Mothership Zeta
Tidalis Now Available
Tidalis from Arcen Games is now available on Steam! Don’t miss out on the launch week special 10% discount which is only good through July 23rd.
Tidalis is a block-based puzzle game with casual appeal, hardcore depth, and an addictive new “streams” mechanic. The game is brimming over with riffs and variants on that core mechanic with 20 game modes, dozens of special blocks and items, and 115 levels in the adventure mode alone.
Alien Swarm Game & Source SDK Release Coming Monday
Two years ago Valve hired the talented team behind the popular top down co-op mod Alien Swarm. Since then they have been busy working on the Left 4 Dead Series, and now Portal 2. However, we never forgot about Alien Swarm and the team has spent a lot of time bringing the game to Source in between their contributions to the other Valve projects.
On Monday, July 19th Alien Swarm is going to be released for free via Steam.
In addition to the game, Valve will also release the complete code base for Alien Swarm. This includes updates to the Source engine SDK and full Steamworks integration. If you’ve ever thought about developing a mod on the Source engine with Steamworks, this release provides more insight and examples for using Steamworks in game production.
Please visit www.alienswarm.com for more information.
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WEEK 13
Mutation Week 13: Hard Eight, What is your favorite Melee Weapon?, What else are you playing?
Hard Eight
Double the specials, quadruple the fun!
Face eight Special Infected at one time, this is double the standard number! And if that wasn’t trouble enough, we also increase the spawning frequency so it is raining Specials.
What is your favorite Melee Weapon?
Last week we asked, what is your favorite Melee Weapon? I see I am not alone being a Katana man. It is interesting to see that Xbox 360 users prefer the Chainsaw that much over PC users. Is it all about the controller and that rumble?
Here are the votes by platform.
Xbox 360
34% Katana (Sword)
17% Chainsaw
12% Machete
10% Fire Axe
7% Baseball Bat
6% Golf Club
3% Frying Pan
3% Electric Guitar
3% Crowbar
3% Cricket Bat
1% Tonfa (police baton)
PC
44% Katana (Sword)
12% Machete
11% Fire Axe
9% Chainsaw
5% Baseball Bat
4% Golf Club
3% Frying Pan
3% Electric Guitar
3% Crowbar
2% Cricket Bat
2% Tonfa (police baton)
What else are you playing?
Besides of course playing L4D2, what are you playing the most?
To vote enter the game, view the in-game blog, and click to vote.
Next week’s mutation: Healthpackalypse!
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Co-op fans! Make sure to check out the new re-vamped version of Alien Swarm coming to Steam Monday for FREE!.
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RUN! RUUUUUN! I AM COMING FOR YOU!
Just a quick, but excited note: TF2maps.net has opened their doors on their new Art Pass Contest.
It’s a fantastic opportunity for everyone involved: you get a chance to show us how much better at detailing maps than we are, and our (ex) art team gets a chance to find new jobs at companies that still need their kind!
Chaser Now Available
The classic shooter Chaser from JoWood/Dreamcatcher is now available on Steam.
Mars, 2044. The UN establishes MARSCORP (Martian Security and Economics Committee) under the leadership of Samuel Longwood. In the years that follow, the UN gradually loses control of MARSCORP, mainly due to the non-transparent licence policy of its director. Longwood uses his autonomous status to create vassal relations between the corporations and MARSCORP. The unshakable power position of MARSCORP is supported by the companies and thus they acquire additional rights and licenses. Longwood and his consortium become extremely wealthy from this arrangement. However, dissenting voices in MARSCORP begin to challenge Samuel Longwood’s authoritarian policy. They demand his dismissal as director and a complete redistribution of the mining rights.
Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source Updates Released
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source, Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Engine
- Tuned thread initialization to improve performance on CPUs with more than four cores
Counter-Strike: Source
- Fixed leftover shadows when ragdoll physics are disabled
- Added stats gathering to track client and server performance
- Added instrumentation to help debug network issues
- Disabled some unsupported threading convars
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New Software Survey
Steam’s opt-in hardware survey has been providing valuable data to the gaming industry for several years now, for gamers looking to upgrade their systems, game designers striving to target their customer base, and PC manufacturers anticipating gaming system adoption rates and trends. However so far it’s been limited to just hardware components, which everyone knows is just one part of a gaming system.
So in today’s Steam Client Beta release we’re extending the survey to include installed software – Any programs listed within Windows’ Programs and Features control panel (OS X coming soon) are reported alongside the hardware information Steam collects and reports online.
The new software component of our survey helps us understand what else our customers are using their PCs to do, and as a result, what features we can deliver or leverage to make Steam and our games better. PC users, developers and manufacturers will no doubt also find this information useful, so we plan to publish these results and trends over time. The first set of software survey results will be published among Steam stats at the end of the month.
As always, this survey is both optional and anonymous, with none of the collected data being associated with your Steam account. Survey selection is random; you’ll know you’re part of the Survey because Steam will ask if you want to take part.
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