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

Audiosurf

• Added Loading progress bar during startup
• Eliminated scoreboard waiting
• Added X360 dual stick Double Vision support
• Improved performance
• Stability fix on song restart
• Fixed disappearing cursor bug

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SEGA’s new third-person shooter, The Club, is now available in North America for $49.95.

A new breed of third-person shooter, The Club combines fast-paced run and gun gameplay with destructive environments and lethal weapons. Fight to survive in a shadowy underground blood-sport controlled by a faceless elite who place their bets on who will survive as the blood-bath ensues before them.

Available outside North America on February 22nd.
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Rack up points “riding” your favorite music in Audiosurf, Dylan Fitterer’s innovative new title now available on Steam. Exclusive to the Steam version, Audiosurf includes The Orange Box soundtrack, integrated with the game to enable “Still Alive” surfing and more.

Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience. The shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose. You earn points for clustering together blocks of the same color on the highway, and compete with others on the internet for the high score on your favorite songs.

Audiosurf is one of the first titles to leverage the recently announced Steamworks, offering full support for the Steam Achievements that appear on Steam Community profile pages.

Take Audiosurf for a test ride — the demo is available here.
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A Free automatic update for Team Fortress 2 is now available via Steam. The release is headlined by the introduction of “Badlands,” a new map that pushes control-point gameplay onto vertical landscapes.

To view the full release notes, click here.
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Updates to Team Fortress 2, the Source Engine, and SourceTV have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The full change list can be found below:

Source Engine

• Refactored how lightmaps are downloaded to the graphics card at level load. On some hardware configurations this can lower level load times significantly
• Optimized some particle systems to improve performance on some hardware configurations
• Player stats are now sent up as they change, rather than when the player dies
• Improved playback of sub-frame sounds
• Fixed a crash caused by alt-tabs during map load
• Eliminated unnecessary temporary memory allocation in scenefilecache

Team Fortress 2

• Badlands released
• Changes to Dustbowl
  
  • Added a new access point to the stage2 attacker gates (drop-down left from spawn), allowing attackers a way to reach the left route without being subjected to the spam and sentry gun fire
  • Fixed a gap in stage 3, cap 1 that allowed a player with to wiggle above the “ceiling” clip
  • Fixed a gap behind stage 1, cap 1 house
  • Fixed a high perch on stage1 cap1 house roof
  • Fixed a perch offering view of nodraw textures and the skybox (stage1 cap2 rock barrier)
  • Fixed a few places where rockets/demoman pipes could pass through non-solid models
  • Sealed up a gap over stage1 lower startgate
  • Clipped off tall windows in stage 3 to prevent sentry guns from behind built behind them
• Changes to Capture the Flag Well
  
  • Fixed trains not starting on map spawn
  • Removed cap association from red spawns that were spamming console
• Changes to Granary
  
  • Removed spawn timing advantage from the middle (from -3 to 0)
  • Fixed several model perch exploits (red, blue cp1 gate and blue cp2 gate pipe)
  • Fixed a few places where players could get stuck between containers and silos
  • Adjusted playerclips on red container that made it appear like players were floating
• Added a small delay (200 ms) before a zoomed sniper shot can get a critical hit
• Added server side convar mp_fadetoblack. Same functionality as Counter-Strike, used mainly during in-person tournaments and LAN events
• Added flamethrower “sizzle” sound when the Pyro is hitting a target
• Updated explosion debris to be a bit darker
• Fixed idle players not being kicked from the server if mp_allowspectators was set to 0
• Added ctf_well to the default mapcycle.txt file
• Added ctf_well to the default motd.txt file
• Fixed floor tile material type
• Fixed some weapon damage info missing from TF2 game stats
• Made some small changes to the Demoman viewmodel that were causing performance problems
• Added a new timer to the HUD to show the value of mp_timelimit. This is useful if you’re playing a timed match on 2Fort, where you only set a timelimit on the server and no other win conditions.
• Added server log entry for buildings destroyed by their owner
• Fixed sentry gun shadows being clipped
• Updated glass material

SourceTV

• SourceTV now uses a hidden slot on the game server. This allows for 24 player servers to also have a SourceTV proxy connected to it
• Fixed Pyro’s flamethrower flames not showing up in SourceTV

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Baseball Mogul 2008, is now available on Steam for only $19.95.

Baseball Mogul 2008 is the 10th edition of the award-winning game that puts you in complete control of any professional baseball team — the baseball game for fans who want their success on the field determined by their strategy, not their reflexes. Baseball Mogul begins on Opening Day of any year you choose, from 1901 to 2007. As General Manager (GM), you control a 25-man major league roster plus up to 100 additional minor league players.
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On Thursday, February 14 at 11 am PST, all PC versions of Team Fortress 2, the class-based multiplayer action game named PC Game of the Year by Gamespy.com, will receive its largest update since the product was first made available on October 10, 2007, as part of Valve’s best-selling Orange Box compilation.

The free update includes global optimizations for networking, graphics, and player statistics, plus improvements to Source TV for tournament viewing.

In addition, three of the currently available maps (Dustbowl, Granary, CTF_Well) have been iterated for enhanced performance and gameplay.

The release is headlined by the introduction of “Badlands,” a new map that pushes control-point gameplay onto vertical landscapes.

Available free to all Team Fortress 2 PC gamers around the world automatically via Steam, there are too many features and improvements included in this update to list here. To view the full release notes, click here.
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Strategy First’s space action-adventure, Darkstar One, is now available on Steam for only $9.95.

Selected as one of the top five games on 2006 by The Washington Post, Darkstar One is a space simulation game that offers a fantastic amount of freedom of choice. The story-based missions gradually lead you deeper into the galaxy to new races, new technologies and ever stronger opponents. Explore a vast array of solar systems in search of hidden artifacts of ancient races, essential objects for upgrading your ship–the Darkstar One.
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Audiosurf, Dylan Fitterer’s innovative new title that allows gamers to “ride their music,” is now available for pre-purchase via Steam. Save 10% when you pre-purchase before its official release on Friday, February 15.

Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience. The shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose. You earn points for clustering together blocks of the same color on the highway, and compete with others on the internet for the high score on your favorite songs.

Audiosurf on Steam includes The Orange Box soundtrack, integrated with the game to enable “Still Alive” surfing and more. In addition, Audiosurf is one of the first titles to leverage the recently announced Steamworks, offering full support for the Steam Achievements that appear on Steam Community profile pages.
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Leading Platform for PC Games Building Phenomenal Annual Growth

February 7, 2008 – Valve® today announced that Steam®, a leading platform for PC games and digital entertainment, has surpassed 15 million accounts and realized year-over-year sales growth of 158% through the holiday season. The year also marked the debut of the Steam Community and launch of several best-selling and critically-acclaimed titles such as Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, and The Orange Box. Throughout 2008 more Community features will be introduced to support existing games as well as new titles such as Valve’s Left 4 Dead.

Also new for Steam in 2008 is Steamworks, giving game developers access to game features and services available on Steam ranging from product key authentication and copy protection to auto-updating, social networking and matchmaking. Most importantly, the game features and services available in Steamworks are free of charge and can be used for both electronic and tangible versions of games.

“PC gaming is thriving, and has evolved into an era of constant connectivity,” said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. “That connectivity gives us the ability to have a much better relationship with customers, not just for delivering our games, but across all aspects of our business – including the design, development, and support of our games. Features like Guest Passes, Free Weekends, Gifting, and the Steam Community have been very well received both by customers and the developers who are using Steam. We are accelerating our release of new functionality in the next year as well as finding new ways to work with our partners such as the release of Steamworks, which allows them to bring the many benefits of Steam to their packaged products.”
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Updates to Speedball 2 – Tournament have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Speedball 2 – Tournament

• Fixed multiplayer issue with the goal keeper jumping to the side
• Fixed “Violent Desire” and “Baroques” logos
• Fixed camera displaying just a blank screen
• Fixed multiplayer issue with the being able to score when the ball is not inside the goal
• Fixed being unable to continue a League or Cup
• Fixed crash when trying to play a League or Cup with a deleted Profile

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Pre-purchase Eidos’ new co-op FPS, Conflict: Denied Ops, and you’ll instantly receive Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition for free.

Conflict: Denied Ops is a highly accessible co-op FPS featuring massive, extremely explosive firefights across destructible environments. Work as a team to utilize the specific skills of each operative and experience the ultimate in destructive satisfaction with tons of exploding objects and an endless barrage of terrorist enemies.

While you’re waiting for the official release, play the smash hit, Deus Ex, the game that offers real role-playing from an immersive 3D, first-person perspective. The GAME OF THE YEAR EDITION features an all-new multiplayer mode and a new head-to-head deathmatch mode. Also included is a software development kit, so you’ll be able to create both single and multiplayer missions from scratch, as well as modify existing ones.

This offer ends on February 12th in North America, February 8th everywhere else.
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Updates to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

• Fixed server browser not showing all of the servers
• The “hold [ ] to steady” sniper scope hint will only appear if you can use it
• Fixed game not recognizing IWDs existing if they are all in fs_basepath and none are in the main/ folder
• Made mod scripts able to change stats
• Allow developer_script for mulitiplayer modding
• Fixed map rotation errors with usermaps
• Fixed minimap not showing up in the menu for usermaps
• Mod tools will now work with other languages

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