December 22, 2008 — Valve today announced Spore(tm), Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, Mass Effect(r), Need for Speed(tm) Undercover and EA SPORTS FIFA Manager 2009 are available now to gamers in most of Europe, the United States and Canada via Steam, a leading platform for PC games and digital content with over 15 million accounts around the world.

In the coming weeks, Mirror’s Edge(tm), Command & Conquer(tm) Red Alert(tm) 3, and Dead Space(tm), will be added to the catalog of EA’s titles available via Steam.

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com
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December 22, 2008 — Valve today announced Spore(tm), Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, Mass Effect(r), Need for Speed(tm) Undercover and EA SPORTS FIFA Manager 2009 are available now to gamers in most of Europe, the United States and Canada via Steam, a leading platform for PC games and digital content with over 15 million accounts around the world.

In the coming weeks, Mirror’s Edge(tm), Command & Conquer(tm) Red Alert(tm) 3, and Dead Space(tm), will be added to the catalog of EA’s titles available via Steam.

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com
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Spore, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning and More Available Now

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – December 18, 2008. Just in time for the holidays, Valve announced that, Spore™, Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, Warhammer® Online: Age of Reckoning™, Mass Effect®, Need for Speed™ Undercover and EA SPORTS FIFA Manager 2009 are available now to gamers in North America via Steam, a leading platform for PC games and digital content with over 15 million accounts around the world.

In the coming weeks, Mirror’s Edge™ , Command & Conquer™ Red Alert™ 3, and Dead Space™ will also be added to the catalog of EA’s titles available via Steam.

“EA is one of the industry’s largest publishers,” said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. “The EA titles coming to Steam this holiday include some this year’s top PC titles.”

“We are pleased to extend our holiday titles to gamers worldwide via Steam — a revolutionary technology that is one of the game industry’s most successful digital distribution services,” said John Pleasants, President, Global Publishing & Chief Operating Officer.

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com

About Steam
The leading online platform for PC games and digital entertainment, Steam delivers new releases and online services to over 15 million PC users around the world. For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com

About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world’s leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, cellular handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTSTM, EATM, EA SPORTS FreestyleTM and POGOTM. In fiscal 2008, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.67 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA’s homepage and online game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA’s products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com.

EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS Freestyle, POGO, Spore, Dead Space, Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Mirror’s Edge and Need for Speed are trademarks of their respective owners and used with permission. Mass Effect is a trademark or registered trademark of EA International (Studio & Publishing) Ltd. Warhammer is a registered trademark and Age of Reckoning is a trademark of Games Workshop Ltd. Official FIFA licensed product. “© The FIFA Brand OLP Logo is a copyright and trademark of FIFA. All rights reserved.” Manufactured under license by Electronic Arts Inc. The Premier League Logo © The Football Association Premier League Limited 1996. The Premier League Logo is a trade mark of the Football Association Premier League Limited and the Premier League Club logos are copyright works and registered trade marks of the respective Clubs. All are used with the kind permission of their respective owners. Manufactured under license from the Football Association Premier League Limited. No association with nor endorsement of this product by any player is intended or implied by the license granted by the Football Association Premier League Limited to Electronic Arts. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Updates to Tomb Raider: Underworld have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

• Fixed inability of users to map the mouse buttons.
• Fixed inability of users to map the ‘center camera’ button.
• Some occasional crash fixes.
• Improved graphics card stability:

  • A change to re-enable use of some graphics card features on ATI hardware, with their latest drivers.
  • Progress has been made towards addressing stalling on GeForce 6/7 series hardware.

• Fixed compatibility issues with certain Realtek sound drivers which could cause crashes.
• Autosaves now made for each chapter. Number of save slots is increased to accommodate these.
• Fixed bug with ramp not raising in Xibalba.
• Fixed black screen deadlock when skipping doppelganger cinematic.
• Fixed issue with door lever at Kraken room entrance.
• Fixed occasional control issue during headshot move.
• Fixed an occasional problem when entering a save game filename.
• Some PDA fixes.
• Some cinematic subtitle fixes.

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Europa Universalis: Rome – Gold Edition includes Europa Universalis: Rome and the Expansion Pack, Europa Universalis: Rome – Vae Victis. Vae Victis features a massive number of additions and improvements to Europa Universalis: Rome, a game that was already one of the most prominent to depict that era in the widest scope.

10% off until December 31st!

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You may already know Strong Bad from his regular appearances answering emails and doling out not-so-useful advice on Homestarrunner.com. Now he’s the star of a five episode comedy series, Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People. It’s like a Strong Bad cartoon on steroids. As Strong Bad would say, what the crap are you waiting for?
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It’s that snowy time of year here, so its only appropriate that we release this snowy, First Penguin Shooter Penguins Arena: Sedna’s World. Join the snowball battle and drive the other penguin tribes into the sea with this thrilling and innovative game.
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Products on Steam are now priced using local currency in the United Kingdom (Pounds Sterling), and Europe (Euros). All other countries remain in United States Dollars.
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Join the snowball battle and drive the other penguin tribes into the sea with Penguins Arena, a thrilling and innovative First Penguin Shooter. Pre-purchase today and save 20%. Available for play on Thursday, Dec 18.
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Updates to Defense Grid have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Defense Grid: The Awakening

• Fixed a rare problem in which some systems would play the game and see a solid color instead of the level.
• Made the Siege Breaker achievement obtainable.
• Corrected the accumulation of the stats: Spires Encountered and Total Aliens Encountered.
• Adjusted the in game resource counter to allow for 7 digits instead of 6.
• Corrected a bug dealing with the accumulation of interest when using checkpoints or saving/loading near the end of a level.

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The award-winning indie game Aquaria is now available on Steam. Join Naija, a lone underwater adventurer, as she travels from hidden caves shrouded in darkness, to beautiful, sunlit oases in search of her past. She’ll uncover hidden treasures, explore uncharted waters, and do battle with massive underwater beasts to learn the truth about her family and reveal the secret of Aquaria.
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A new add-on for Crazy Machines 2, the wacky contraptions game from Viva Media, is now available. The original version of Crazy Machines and Crazy Machines 1.5 are now available via Steam as well.

Buy any of these packages before the end of the year and save up to 50% off.
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Now Reporting Monthly Trend Data

December 12, 2008 – Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and advanced technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the re-launch of its long-running hardware survey produced via Steam, a leading online platform for the distribution and management of PC games with over 15 million accounts worldwide.

The new version of the Steam Hardware Survey tracks hardware adoption behavior by collecting data on a monthly basis directly from computers running Steam. Today’s re-launch of the public survey results includes data collected since June of this year, and reveals adoption trends from the past six months. The results are now updated on a monthly basis and allow readers to view specific reports of interest.

The survey was first conducted in March of 2004, when Steam made its commercial debut with the launch of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. Since then, Steam has collected data from over 8 million PCs. In addition to allowing individual gamers to compare their computers to those of the community at large, the Steam Hardware Survey has become an industry touchstone, providing valuable insight for companies across the software industry.

For more information or to view the survey, please visit http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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