Category Archives: Steam Powered

ThreadSpace: Hyperbol Update Released

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

ThreadSpace: Hyperbol

  • Production Station no longer clipped slightly through floor
  • Improved proformance for clients and servers
  • Skill ranks (trainee, novice, pro) are now calculated to take into account the player’s actual performance instead of the amount of time they have played

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Now on Steam: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

THQ’s award-winning RTS series, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, is now on Steam. The Gold Edition features the Game of the Year Edition and the expansion pack Winter Assault.

The second expansion to Dawn of War, Dark Crusade, includes a new single-player campaign and additional multiplayer content, including new playable races.

For one week only, each title is 10% off, including the Dawn of War – Platinum Edition, which includes the Gold Edition and Dark Crusade for one low price.
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Garry’s Mod Update Released

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

Garry’s Mod

  • Fixed sometimes not loading resources embedded in maps
  • Fixed BETA tag in server description
  • Fixed Sliders breaking when being unfrozen
  • Fixed crash when lua_log 1
  • Fixed misc crashes when playing Half-Life 2 in multiplayer

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Legendary id Software games now on Steam

id Software brings you some of the most popular game franchises in history via Steam. Starting today, you may download full versions of the complete DOOM series and QUAKE I – III, including mission packs, as well as id’s pioneering PC side-scroller, Commander Keen and vintage favorites Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, Heretic, and HeXen.

The line-up of legendary id games and packages includes:

id GAMES on Steam
• Commander Keen, Episodes 1 through 5
• Wolfenstein 3D
• Spear of Destiny
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• Ultimate DOOM
• DOOM II
• Final DOOM
• DOOM3
• DOOM3: Resurrection of Evil
• QUAKE
• QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon
• QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity
• QUAKE II
• QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning
• QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero
• QUAKE III Arena
• QUAKE III: Team Arena
• Heretic
• Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
• HeXen
• HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
• HeXen II

id PACKAGES on Steam
• DOOM 3 Pack: Includes DOOM 3 and DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil
• QUAKE III Pack: Includes QUAKE III Arena and QUAKE III: Team Arena
• Wolf Pack: Includes Wolf 3D, Spear of Destiny and Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• DOOM Pack Complete: Includes all DOOM games released by id
• QUAKE Pack: Includes all 8 QUAKE Titles available on Steam
• Heretic\HeXen Pack: Includes Heretic, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, HeXen, HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, HeXen II
• Id Super Pack: Every id game on Steam

Select packages are 10% off until August 10.

See the full line-up here.
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Company of Heroes Update Released

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

Company of Heroes

  • Added warning on option screen for excessive memory usage
  • Fixed crash on entity spawn (occurs with several mods)
  • Fixed various other crashes
  • Fixed various memory leaks
  • Window maximize button switches windowed mode back to full screen
  • Fixed D3D10 sky shader
  • Fixed D3D10 stippled scarring
  • Better color for HTML news links

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Award-winning Indie Game, Gish, Now on Steam

Gish, the 2005 Independent Games Festival Grand Prize winner, is now available for purchase and download.

Heaped with critical praise, Gish is a one-of-a-kind 2D side-scrolling game that challenges players–as a squishy ball of tar–to roll and squeeze through the subterranean sewers of Dross, a long forgotten city filled with twisting corridors, evil traps and some of the most demented creatures imaginable.
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Valve Announces Major Update for Steam

Free Update Offers New Community Features for Connecting Gamers

June 20, 2007 — This summer Valve will ship a major update to its online gaming platform Steam, introducing an advanced set of community features to more than 13 million gamers around the world.

Beginning in July, Steam users can set up their own personal Steam pages and profiles, create and join groups, schedule games with friends, review who they’ve played with, see how well everyone played, chat with groups, chat via voice, and more. These new community services and features can be used with all Steam games, which include new releases and classic titles from leading publishers and independent developers.

Free of charge, the new community features will be accessible via the Steam desktop client and via the web.

“Our community has given us great direction on the ways they want to see Steam evolve,” said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. “Adding these new community features to make it easier to connect with other gamers is something we’ve wanted to see on Steam for a long time and this latest update is just the start. We’ve got a long list of items that we’re working on to make it easier for gamers to connect and play games on Steam.”

This upgrade marks the largest extension to the Steam platform since its first commercial release in March 2004. In its three year history, Steam has defined the next generation online gaming platform delivering hundreds of games to millions of users with services such as Guest Passes, Automatic Updates, Free Weekends, and allowing gamers to access their games from any PC.
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