The sun has set at the Peggle Institute, but the bouncy delight has just begun! Peggle Nights is now on Steam for just $9.99.
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Steam PC Pre-Purchase Added to Mix of Pre-Launch Activities

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the PC version of its highly anticipated new survival co-op game, Left 4 Dead, is available for pre-purchase worldwide via Steam, a leading online platform for the distribution and management of PC games with over 15 million accounts worldwide.

Left 4 Dead is a new franchise from Valve, and has earned numerous awards as it marches to launch this holiday, including “Best of E3” Awards from Game Informer and Maximum PC magazines. Like the pre-purchase promotions happening at retail for the PC and Xbox 360 versions, those who pre-purchase via Steam will save 10% off the regular price. The pre-order promotions are part of a $10 million marketing campaign that includes television, outdoor, online and print advertising.

“With just over four weeks until launch, Left 4 Dead is showing every sign of topping The Orange Box on both the PC and Xbox 360, at retail as well as on Steam,” said Doug Lombardi, VP of marketing at Valve. “Our pre-sell numbers at retail have jumped to over 65% greater than Orange Box at the same proximity to launch, and we’re seeing tremendous enthusiasm for the product in what promises to be another great year for gaming on both platforms.”

Set in the immediate aftermath of the highly-anticipated zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead features single player, multiplayer and co-operative gameplay modes. Next-generation artificial intelligence tailors the pacing and difficulty ensuring a different experience every time the game is played.

Left 4 Dead is due for release on PC and Xbox 360 on November 18 in North America and November 21 in Europe. The worldwide Steam release will happen November 18. For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com.
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We have just been informed that World of Goo will not be available in Europe until Feb/March of 2009. Copies purchased yesterday in Europe will continue to work.
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To new casual games available from Reflexive Entertainment.

The breakout action game Ricochet Infinity and the underwater adventure game Big Kahuna Reef are available now for $4.99 each.
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Dallas, TX, October, 13, 2008 – Perpetual FX Creative announces Galactic Bowling is now available for pre-purchase via Steam. Galactic bowlers who pre-purchase the game can take-10% off the regular price of $19.99. In addition, pre-purchasers will have immediate access to the game on Galactic launch day, October 20th.

Earn 30 Steam Achievements in the game, including points for jumping a portal gap using the Nitro Ball, getting a strike during an Earthquake Whammy, and much more.
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Pre-Order Fourth and Final X Game Now On Steam.

EGOSOFT, a renowned developer of acclaimed computer games for PC, Mac and Linux, announced today that the latest game in their popular X series, X3: Terran Conflict, is now available for pre-order via Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC games and digital content with over 15 million accounts around the world. The full game will be made available October 17, 2008 as a worldwide digital exclusive via Steam, as well as at retail outlets in Europe.

“Since 1999 with the launch of X: Beyond the Frontier, the X series has always been about letting gamers trade, fight, build and think their way through the X Universe to try to find their way back home to Earth,” said Bernd Lehahn, managing director of EGOSOFT. “With X3: Terran Conflict, for the first time ever, we’re allowing players to finally visit our own solar system to travel and trade with all the stations and planets, including Earth – combined with updated next-gen graphics, an engrossing plot and plenty of side missions, we feel that this is the best X game yet and a perfect way to culminate the series.”

As with the previous titles in the X series, X3: Terran Conflict is a single-player space simulation featuring fast-paced first-person space combat, free-form, open exploration of a huge dynamic universe, and large-scale management of the player’s own intergalactic corporation. New to the X series with X3: Terran Conflict is:

• A brand new user interface allow full control using only the mouse
• New and improved mouse flight controls
• Several new races and factions, including Earth’s primary military force, the Terran United Space Command
• Independent, non-player owned corporations, complete with unique ships and stations, offering new friends or foes to players
• New group management system allowing for better control of large numbers of ships in your fleet
• Over 100 new ships and several new ship classes
• Double the amount of distinct weapons
• The ability to board and capture huge capital ships with your own mercenaries and soldiers

Egosoft chose Steam as its exclusive online distribution platform as it has proven its leadship position in this space via prior releases in the X series.

“The folks at Valve are great to work with, and we saw great success distributing over Steam with our previous titles in the X series,” continued Lehahn. “With over 15 million active users and a great installed community base, we feel that Steam is a perfect fit for X3TC.”

For more information about the X series, X3: Terran Conflict or EGOSOFT, please visit www.egosoft.com. For more information about Steam or to purchase X3: Terran Conflict, please visit www.steamgames.com.

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World of Goo, the independent title from 2D BOY that swept top honors at this year’s Independent Games Festival, will make its North American PC debut on October 13, 2008 via Steam, a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC games with over 15 million accounts worldwide.

Recipient of the IGF Design Innovation and Technical Excellence Awards, World of Goo is a physics-based puzzle/construction game made entirely by two guys working out of coffee shops in San Francisco. You may drag and drop living, squirming, talking, globs of goo to build structures, bridges, cannonballs, zeppelins, and giant tongues. The millions of Goo Balls that live in the beautiful World of Goo are curious to explore – but they don’t know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.

The Steam PC edition of World of Goo will feature eight Achievements enabled by Steamworks, a complete suite of publishing and development tools available free of charge.

“More people have told us to get World of Goo on Steam than any other title coming this year,” said Jason Holtman, director of business development at Valve. “It has captured the imagination of the press and other members of the industry during its incredible pre-launch campaign, and we’re delighted to debut the PC version with Steamworks Achievements.”

For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com.
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Six more Ubisoft catalog titles are now available on Steam for customers in North America. The list of games includes Brothers in Arms Earned in Blood, two expansions for Heroes of Might and Magic V, The Settlers – Rise of an Empire Gold Edition, The Sum of All Fears, and the casual puzzler Brain Spa.

Pick up any of these games this week for 10% off their regular price! Offer ends October 17.

See all available Ubisoft games on the Ubisoft Publisher Page.
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Following last week’s successful launch of Hinterland, a fantasy PC title featuring fast paced RPG combat and strategic town-building, Tilted Mill Entertainment announces the first free Content Update for the title. The full title, including the Content Update, has simultaneously been expanded to include French, German and Spanish, as well as English, in a single multi-language version of the game.

Chris Beatrice, Tilted Mill’s president, had this to say: “Given all the interest and attention the title has received, and the great feedback we”ve gotten from the fan community, we wanted to demonstrate both our intention to continue supporting and developing the title, but perhaps more importantly our ability to respond quickly and appropriately to input from players. Developing the title initially was very much an iterative process, and now that process has been broadened to include the fan community as a whole. It’s really great to be part of that.”

The Free Content Update includes:

• Two new playable character types – The Elf Archer and the Dwarf Warrior
• Creature-specific item drops – Rare and unique items, (e.g. Troll Blood) that give the character who consumes them permanent bonuses
• Character Info Screen – Details your abilities, and gives information on the town in general
• Resource management through economic means – Dig a well for Fresh Water, plant Herbs, import Iron, etc.
• Expanded character customization choices when leveling – Three ability choices instead of two with the third choice based on your character’s profession.
• Item Sorting – Ability to automatically sort inventory items by type and relative power
• Auto-equipping – Townspeople will automatically take items they can use from the town inventory periodically as needed (this can also be turned off if desired)
• Miscellaneous balancing, pacing and usability improvements and refinements – made in response to player feedback

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LONDON (9th October, 2008) – Sports Interactive & SEGA Europe Ltd. today announce that the PC versions of Football Manager™ 2009 will incorporate Steamworks, a complete suite of publishing and development tools that offers PC game developers and publishers access to the game features and services available through Steam.

Steamworks will support both the retail and electronic versions of the Football Manager 2009 games giving players game updates, downloadable content, and patches. Also, players will be able to play from any PC in the world without needing their DVD copy of the game. STEAM will also host and distribute the Football Manager 2009 game demo which will be available when it is released a couple of weeks before the release of the full game.

Football Manager 2009 is now available for pre-purchase as a PC digital download from STEAM, and will be available for players to play at 09:00 GMT on the 14th November 2008. For details on availability and pricing, please visit www.footballmanager.com/buynow.

“Many of us at Sports Interactive have been big fans of Steam since it’s inception, so to be working with them properly this year across releases of Football Manager on the PC is fantastic” said Miles Jacobson, studio director at Sports Interactive. “It gives us the opportunity for all of our games players to get any patches or updates that we make available quickly and easily, as well as a place for us to host any other downloads, such as demos and promotional videos, with super fast broadband speeds for download, and no issues with bandwidth, which we are hit with each time we release a demo”.

“The Football Manager 2009 team has an incredible plan to extend the product beyond launch and achieve a level of connectivity with FM 2009 players that surpasses any prior release in the category,” said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. “We’re delighted to have Steamworks selected as the vehicle to help take this legendary franchise to the next level and look forward to offering the game to the millions logging onto Steam each week.”

Football Manager 2009 features a vast array of all new features including, for the first time ever, a full 3D view of the world famous Football Manager™ match engine.
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Save $5 when you pre-purchase Far Cry 2 on Steam from now until release on October 22, 2008.

Far Cry 2 is available on Steam for customers in US, Canada, and Mexico.
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Updates to Hinterland have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Hinterland

• Fixed a potential crash on startup when your My Documents / Documents folder was on a network
• King’s Requests should now be displaying the proper fame reward/penalty for classes that have a modifier to fame rewards
• Evil Wizard creatures should no longer show orange and black body textures when killed
• Demolishing a Dragon Ranch should no longer leave the cows standing around
• Added dust plumes when large monsters walk
• Added some information to the Food, Fame, and Gold tooltips

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Updates to X-COM: Terror from the Deep have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

X-COM: Terror from the Deep

• Added compatibility for Windows Vista

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