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Merchants of Brooklyn Now Available

Merchants of Brooklyn, a truly original first person shooter from Paleo Entertainment, is now available via Steam.

Combining an intriguing and unique art style with innovative and exciting gameplay, Merchants of Brooklyn dares fans of shooters and action games to survive in post-apocalyptic New York gone very, very bad.

Save 20% when you buy the game before March 24th.
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Ceville Update Released

Updates to Ceville have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

Fixes

  • Randomly truncated speech output
  • System mouse cursor in main menu, main menu doesn’t respond to clicks
  • Video playback problems on some setups
  • Ambrosius is playable, but the camera shows the room
  • Pirate keeps eating nachos when the act is loaded
  • Can use hamster wheel with hamster as Ceville
  • Actress drops through the trapdoor even if she doesn’t dance
  • Project folder doesn’t disappear once the demon leaves the graveyard
  • Nachos don’t disappear when Ceville eats them
  • Crowbar can be clicked once it’s broken
  • Lighting issues with the flag
  • Lilly can interact with the flag while it’s in the elevator
  • Can’t pick up cherry tartlets as Ceville in elevator
  • Druid goes watching the geyser when he’s already at the council
  • A number of non-respondant item combinations gave no feedback whatsoever
  • incorrect line breaks in dialog boxes
  • A number of other minor script changes
  • NPCs background talk volume hardcoded to 0, to stop them from talking during player dialog
  • Prevent launching the game with an invalid language

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Steam offers gamers in-game downloadable content

March 16, 2009 — Valve, creators of best-selling entertainment products and advanced technologies, today announced the arrival of in-game downloadable content to Steam, their massively popular PC gaming platform. In-game DLC allows developers and publishers to use their own games as a platform for selling additional content to gamers.

The first game to take advantage of this new in-game DLC capability is The Maw, by Twisted Pixel Games. Their first DLC releases are levels entitled The Maw: Brute Force and The Maw: River Redirect. Each DLC level expands The Maw storyline by fitting in-between the original levels as “deleted scenes.”

Twisted Pixel CEO, Michael Wilford, says “We’re happy that we can now offer Steam customers significant expansions to the Maw story, delivering more Maw directly to gamers while they’re still playing the game.”

DLC can now be added to any game on Steam, regardless of whether it was originally purchased via Steam, at retail, or via other digital outlets. It is also a feature of Steamworks, the suite of free tools and services available to game developers and publishers.

For more information about The Maw or Steam, please visit www.steamgames.com.
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Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adeventures – Available for Pre-purchase

A series of four new games from the makers of Sam & Max. Buy Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures before March 24th and save 25% on the complete series – plus you get two free games: Sam & Max: Ice Station Santa and Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People: Dangeresque 3.

Crackin’ good deal, Gromit!
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F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin Update Released

Updates to F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin

  • Difficulty of Hard mode has been increased
  • Implemented a toggle for switching between widescreen (16:9) and full screen (4:3) in the Options|Performance|Advanced Settings menu
  • Implemented a toggle for head bob in Options|Game Settings
  • Implemented a toggle for film grain in the Options|Performance|Advanced Settings menu
  • Leaving a multiplayer lobby now returns the player to the associated multiplayer menu instead of the front end main menu
  • Applied fix for energy weapon audio causing lag
  • Applied fix for team balancing host options not being applied properly
  • Changing team swap during selection and grace periods to swap at the next spawn
  • Applied fix for team name showing as “undefined” after swapping teams

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Tank Universal Update Released

Updates to Tank Universal have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Tank Universal

  • Enhanced keymapping – functions such as turboboost or sprint (for example) can now be mapped to mouse buttons or keyboard
  • Fixed incorrect key press messages during some cutscenes (if keys not set to default)
  • Fixed possible crash bug during training level (4) if example powershard collected by AI tank

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X3: Terran Conflict Update Released

Following hot on the heels of the 1.3 Update for Terran Conflict, Egosoft is pleased to announce the availability of Update 1.4. It includes a few new features to enhance your gameplay and as usual some bug-splatting has been done. The 1.4 Update for X3 Terran Conflict can be downloaded as usual from the Download Section. The Update fixes many issues which you have brought to our attention in addition to adding new features such as improved marine usage and we have also taken the unusual step of including a player modification in an official update, in the shape of “Gazz’s Turret Fixing Mod”. We have also taken note of some of the feedback you leave on the forums and have rebalanced some taxi missions and improved graphical performance still further. A complete list of all fixes and improvements can be found in the Egosoft forums or during the installation process of this update. A big thank you to everyone who has assisted us in the investigation and testing of some of these issues.

Several new features include:

  • Smarter Marine selection during boarding tasks
  • Finished marines are now listed at military outposts
  • Marine capacity for OTAS Sirokos increased
  • Gazz’ Turret Fixing Mod included
  • Improved graphical performance

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