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Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Pre-order Starts Today

Capcom’s Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is now available for pre-order on Steam. Save 10% when you buy before June 27.

Lost Planet is an epic gaming masterpiece combining a gripping single player campaign and intense multiplayer modes. Lost Planet contains sophisticated visuals, with an unmatched level of detail as advanced light sourcing is used to ensure a realistic presentation that enhances every explosion, smoke and particle effect. Enormous world maps unfold as players battle hostile creatures in blistering weather conditions across vast snowfields and blazing volcanic areas either on foot or in armed, robotic Vital Suits.
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RACE: Caterham Expansion Pack Available for Free

For one week only, June 18 – 22, current owners of RACE – The WTCC Game can receive the new Catherham Expansion pack for free. RACE owners will receive the offer when they launch Steam.

From acclaimed Swedish developers SimBin, RACE is the first title to deliver the intense action of the WTCC championship to PC gamers. The CATERHAM Expansion includes a wealth of new features:
• Three car models from Caterham Cars Limited in 60 different designs
• Two new tracks, Imola and Estoril
• Performance improvements for tracks and cars
• Upgraded options and settings for more customizable game configurations
• A new Performance Monitor that determines the best possible graphics settings
• A new controller interface for joy-pads and keyboard/mouse controls

Starting June 22, RACE: CATERHAM will be available on Steam for $4.95. RACE + the CATERHAM Expansion will be available for $24.95.
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Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved for Windows XP Debuts on Steam

Bizarre Creations today debuted the Windows XP version of
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
on Steam. The acclaimed multi-platform arcade shooter is available for the introductory price of $2.50. Starting Friday, June 22, the game will be priced at $3.95.

The debut of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved for Windows XP delivers a pixel-perfect recreation of the game that has captured the attention and acclaim of console gamers and critics alike. The game has received multiple awards for its old school shooter style remixed for the 21st century with next generation graphics and deep, modern gameplay. Check out this very unique, very addictive game here.
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Source SDK Update Released

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

Source SDK

  • Added a Maya 7.0 SMD exporter
  • Added source code for the Antlion Guard as an example of a quadruped
  • Added HL Modelviewer and phonemeextractor source code
  • Developer console now bound to the F12 key as well as the ‘~’ key
  • Added response files to fix NPC’s not talking bug

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Telltale’s Sam & Max Series Picks Up Steam

Sam & Max: Season 1, Telltale’s flagship episodic series, is now available on Steam. Each Sam & Max episode is $8.95, with a 10% discount through June 22. To help you get up to speed with the franchise, episodes 1-3 are available as a bundle for $19.95, with episodes 4-6 bundled for the same price point.

Sam & Max: Season 1 is a story-driven game series starring a dog and rabbity-thing detective duo that dishes out their own brand of justice. Over the last two decades, the self-proclaimed Freelance Police have appeared in a number of formats, including independent comics penned by Steve Purcell, an interactive PC adventure game, a Saturday morning cartoon, a web comic, and now Telltale’s innovative game series. Season 1, which initially launched last fall and had monthly releases through the spring, has received high praise from press and fans for its well-written and often irreverent humor, stylistic cartoon art, and high production values.

Check out the entire series here.
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The Movies Now Showing on Steam

Activision brings a double feature to Steam: The Movies and The Movies: Stunts & Effects. Each title is now available for purchase on Steam for $19.95. Save 10% when you buy before June 22. For double the action, pick up The Movies Complete Pack, featuring both titles at a special price.

Lionhead’s Hollywood-inspired movie studio sim allows you to run the studio, make the stars, and shoot the movies. The expansion pack adds stunts, stunt men, new props, effects, sets and costumes to the game.
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Source Engine Update Released

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

Source Engine

  • Fixed a client crash
  • Fixed sv_allow_wait_commands restricting the server using wait
  • Fixed a crash in “soundlist” command
  • Reallowed fps_max value of 0, which means unrestricted fps
  • Fixed a crash playing back demo files recorded with the previously-released engine
  • Client forwards server commands it doesn’t understand back to the server
  • sv_pure 1 now allows custom spray decals by default

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Silverfall Update Released

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

Silverfall

  • Campaign mode characters are displayed in the main menu
  • Characters can no longer die while zoning
  • You can no longer leave the group in campaign mode
  • Fixed several sound issues
  • Fixed possible crash linked to an item drop
  • Fixed several zoning problems
  • Fixed Silverfall city sync problem in story mode
  • Fixed ‘A lady’s keepsake’ quest reward not matching the reward offered in the dialog
  • Fixed Shadow Resistance being incorrectly listed as Black Resistance
  • Fixed the Element cathedral, dialog and quest problem when the user’s character approaches Dark king
  • Fixed the reward of the ‘Gaia’s challenge’ quest
  • Fixed skill description ‘Protective Bark’
  • Fixed term “Po” used instead of “Gold” in various dialogues
  • Fixed dialog problem in the first companion quest Morka the benevolent
  • Fixed reward for Delivery of a boat kit quest
  • Fixed incorrect destination after warping
  • Fixed one inventory sync problem
  • Fixed situation that allowed having a quest twice in the quest log
  • Fixed Invisible character after he had died
  • Fixed client crash if the host warps twice in a row
  • Fixed the spell “Lycanthropy” in multiplayer mode

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