Everyone’s favorite fuzzy detectives to get the special edition treatment!

Press Release: 

Interactive entertainment pioneer Telltale, Inc. is announcing that the Collector’s DVD for the acclaimed game series Sam & Max Season Two is available for ordering today. Telltale has given the second season of “gaming’s first sitcom” the premium boxed-set treatment that has become common for television favorites, with behind-the-scenes extras and loads of special features. Telltale is also introducing new merchandise today to celebrate the release, including a signed commemorative print, a 2-CD Season Two soundtrack, and several special bundle offers. Read the rest of this entry »

Another update for the famous indie title; Audiosurf.
Audiosurf

• Players can now easily experiment with custom game modes by
  combining special tags in song names. More info is available on the
  forums
  • [as-4lane] Play with 4 lanes
  • [as-monoonly] Mono characters required
  • [as-everybodymono] All characters have only 2 block colors
  • [as-lessgrey] Mono characters have less grey blocks
  • [as-allgrey] Mono characters have all grey blocks
  • [as-nogrey] Mono characters have no grey blocks
  • [as-monoptX] Base points for Mono characters (default 3)
  • [as-nostlth] Remove Stealth and cumulative hit bonuses
  • [as-swind] Sidewinder camera mode
  • [as-bankcam] Banking camera mode
  • [as-first] First-person camera mode
  • [as-caterp] Block caterpillars
  • [as-mszX] Minimimum match size (number for X)
  • [as-wbX] Percentage of white/black blocks
  • [as-mtX] Match collection ticks (default 10-25)
  • [as-prowsX] Puzzle row count (0-8)
  • [as-hidepuz] Play with an invisible puzzle grid
• Fixed bug finding CD tracks in drives beyond the first

Get them from Steam.

The latest title to get Steamed is Silverfall: Earth Awakening, from Monte Cristo Games. Thanks to the Steam week deal, you can get it at 10% reduced price.

In this heroic fantasy world, play any one of the available six races and prepare yourself to confront an impressive array of creatures and formidable bosses to save the realm of Nelwë. Import your hero from Silverfall to Earth Awakening and keep your level, equipment and skills…or start the adventure from the beginning with a level 45 hero.

Valve has released an update for their Steam client. This update adds lots of improvements and adds PtT (Push-to-Talk) function.

Steam Client

• Improved cache defragmenter to both defragment at the OS level and internal files
• Improved defrag progress dialog
• Improved download status reporting in games list
• Increased background update frequency
• Improved voice quality
• Added audio recording device selection for voice chat
• Added push-to-talk support for voice chat
• Fixed apps getting stuck at Updating 0% when downloading
• Fixed possible crash when resuming from Standby mode
• Fixed Steam preventing some PC’s from entering Standby mode
• Fixed overlay sometimes getting stuck up and not responding to hot-keys after server join
• Fixed uninstalled apps becoming installed when viewing their Properties page after Steam restart

Audiosurf

• Fixed a crash bug introduced by the last update that could occur during server communications

Another update for GMod10.

Garry’s Mod

• Fixed crash when prop’s physics object couldn’t be created
• Fixed Team Fortress 2 blood overriding Half-Life 2 blood
• Fixed shotgun having wildly reduced damage
• Changed default jump height so you can jump on a crouched player
• Fixed not being able to override materials on clientside entities
• Fixed not seeing hunter blood in MP

Steam’s latest weekend deal will get you Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One for $9.99. A 50% drop from game’s regular price of $19.95.

Grab the game from here.

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

Audiosurf

• Adds “Everybody Mono” mode (to be unlocked only in upcoming radio songs)
• Upgrades online CD track data searches to use XML

The first piece of Half Life 2: Episode 3 concept art, created by Ted Backman, Jeremy Bennett, and Tristan Redford of Valve Software.

Valve has released a source engine update for Half Life: Episode 1. This particular update adds surround sound (5.1ch, 7.1ch) under Windows Vista for CS: Source, HL2: DM and Episode One.  As always, it’s available from Steam.

Episode 1 Source Engine

• Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch customers running under Windows Vista can now take advantage of 5.1 and 7.1 speaker configurations