Steamy Mods
October 4, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Digital Distribution, Downloads, Full Client, Modifications, Steam
After the brief annoucement earlier, Source Mods are finally available on Steam. Full details below:
Five Leading Modifications Mark Debut of Mods On Steam.
Valve today announced the availability of five leading Source MODs (game modifications built atop Valve’s leading engine technology). The initial set of MODs offered via Steam are available free of charge for owners of any Source-based game.
To celebrate the launch of MODs on Steam and give gamers an easy entry into the world of Source MODs, Valve is offering Half-Life 2: Episode One for just $4.99. The original Steam MOD squad is comprised of: Age of Chivalry, D.I.P.R.I.P., Insurgency, Synergy, and Zombie Panic.
“Valve has been supporting the MOD community since the company’s inception, offering updates to the SDK, holding MOD Expos and being the first to bring a MOD to retail with Counter-Strike in November 2000,” said Doug Lombardi, vice president of marketing at Valve. “The debut of these MODs on Steam marks the beginning of a new level of support for the MOD community by putting the leading MODs at the finger tips of over 15 million targeted gamers.”
The first MOD squad is available now. Once installed, these MODs will appear in the Steam “My Games” list and the MODs will receive automatic updates just like other games on Steam. Also, these MODs now take advantage of Steamworks, providing stat tracking and tighter integration with the Steam community.
For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com.
Counter Strike: Source Updated
September 23, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, Digital Distribution, Downloads, First Person Shooter, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Patches, Steam
Valve has released a dedicated update for Counter Strike: Source after almost two years. Sadly, the update only fixes a small bug and doesn’t bring any additional content and/or features.
Counter-Strike: Source
- Fixed clients being able to trigger sv_soundscape_printdebuginfo on the server
As always, grab it from Steam.
Valve’s Steam Client Gets Updated
September 9, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Digital Distribution, Downloads, Full Client, Steam
Another update for Valve’s Steam client. Restart Steam to apply the fresh update. The most major addition being the “new” look of Steam store.
Steam Client
- Updated the Steam client to use our new store website
- Updated the fallback URL for content-server banner ads
- Fixed empty login dialog at startup
- Fixed offline mode sometimes not working
Steamy Updates
September 3, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Digital Distribution, Downloads, Full Client, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Patches, Steam
Make sure to update your Steam client as Valve has released an update:
Steam Client
- Added Czech and Hungarian language option
- Optimized where clients get the list of available applications and subscriptions
- Under-the-hood Steamworks API improvements for future titles
- Changed desktop .ico files and games list .tga files to be downloaded on demand, instead of being a blocking download during startup
- Fixed serverbrowser not refreshing the internet list the first time it was displayed if it was right on startup
- Fixed hardware survey not always saving that you said you did not want to participate
- Fixed IMs from popping up while in-game
- Fixed the bug that removes one character per line of copied text when pasting into a chat text entry
- Fixed a crash on shutdown in some Source engine games
- Fixed some bad text in Polish in the Friends list
Steam Client Gets Updated
July 31, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Digital Distribution, Downloads, Full Client, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Steam
Valve’s Steam client has received a brand new update:
Steam Client
- Fixed not correctly pausing any current downloads when launching a game
- Improved cache mounting checks. This should decrease the startup time when launching Garry’s Mod
- Fixed startup to only request info about apps once
- Fixed rare cache corruption caused by defragging
- Fixed vgui crash when hitting pageup/pagedown in a sectioned list-panel
- Fixed rare crash when downloading
- Fixed -voicerelay steam command line to actually force use of the relay
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars - v1.5 BETA Patch
Splash Damage and id Software have issued a new (Beta) patch for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. bringing to v1.5 this multiplayer combat game. Note that this is release is completely unsupported and you’re installing it at your own risk. Full changelog and download links after the jump.
Loading ...