Steam Updates and Releases 15 June 2011
Cool new stuff dropping for gamers over at Steam today. I wish I had time to even login and check some things out but we’re still climbing out of the E3 pileup. Anyway, have fun with some new Cities in Motion DLC, the free-to-play games, midweek madness and more.
New Release - Cities in Motion: Design Now DLC
Posted: 14 Jun 2011 12:50 PM PDT
Design Now, the latest expansion for Cities in Motion is now available on Steam for both Mac and PC!
Design Now adds five brand new transit options, including an air taxi and a high-speed catamaran, to increase speed, efficiency and capacity throughout Cities in Motion.
Design Now adds five brand new transit options, including an air taxi and a high-speed catamaran, to increase speed, efficiency and capacity throughout Cities in Motion.
New Release – Two Worlds II Castle Defense! 20% Off!
Posted: 14 Jun 2011 11:17 AM PDT
Two Worlds II Castle Defense is now available on Steam for both PC and Mac and is 20% off until June 21st 10AM Pacific Time.
Utilize the opportunity to slip into the role of the Emperor Gandohar and his henchman Sordahon! These villains from the "Two Worlds" universe are now playable for the first time ever in this strategy game, thus opening an entirely new perspective into the vast world of Antaloor.
Utilize the opportunity to slip into the role of the Emperor Gandohar and his henchman Sordahon! These villains from the "Two Worlds" universe are now playable for the first time ever in this strategy game, thus opening an entirely new perspective into the vast world of Antaloor.
Free To Play Games Have Arrived on Steam
Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:45 AM PDT
Five F2P Launch Titles Offering Exclusive Content to Celebrate Launch
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today introduced support for Free to Play (F2P) Games on Steam with the launch of five F2P games.
Available immediately, the launch titles are Spiral Knights, Forsaken Worlds, Champions Online: Free for All, Global Agenda: Free Agent, and Alliance of Valliant Arms (AVA).
Beginning tomorrow (Weds) with Spiral Knights and concluding Sunday with AVA, each of the five launch titles will offer exclusive in-game content to those who try the "F2P game of the day" on Steam. In game transactions in all of the titles will be supported by Steam’s micro-transaction backend system that is available to Steamworks partners and currently used in Valve’s Team Fortress 2.
"The introduction of Free to Play games is another example of the constant evolution of Steam," said Jason Holtman, director of business development at Valve. "Free to Play games offer new game genres and game experiences for customers, while offering developers and publishers new revenue opportunities and the ability to reach customers in areas of the world where the traditional packaged goods model is less popular than F2P."
Specific details on the F2P games of the day and their exclusive in-game content will be made available in the coming days.
Steam is a leading platform for PC & Mac games and digital entertainment serving over 1,500 games to over 30 million active accounts worldwide. For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today introduced support for Free to Play (F2P) Games on Steam with the launch of five F2P games.
Available immediately, the launch titles are Spiral Knights, Forsaken Worlds, Champions Online: Free for All, Global Agenda: Free Agent, and Alliance of Valliant Arms (AVA).
Beginning tomorrow (Weds) with Spiral Knights and concluding Sunday with AVA, each of the five launch titles will offer exclusive in-game content to those who try the "F2P game of the day" on Steam. In game transactions in all of the titles will be supported by Steam’s micro-transaction backend system that is available to Steamworks partners and currently used in Valve’s Team Fortress 2.
"The introduction of Free to Play games is another example of the constant evolution of Steam," said Jason Holtman, director of business development at Valve. "Free to Play games offer new game genres and game experiences for customers, while offering developers and publishers new revenue opportunities and the ability to reach customers in areas of the world where the traditional packaged goods model is less popular than F2P."
Specific details on the F2P games of the day and their exclusive in-game content will be made available in the coming days.
Steam is a leading platform for PC & Mac games and digital entertainment serving over 1,500 games to over 30 million active accounts worldwide. For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com
Daily Deal - Secret of the Magic Crystals 50% off!
Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:04 AM PDT
Today’s Deal: Save 50% off Secret of the Magic Crystals!
Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
Posted: 14 Jun 2011 10:00 AM PDT
Darkspore is now 40% off during Midweek Madness! Offer ends Thursday at 4pm PDT.
After eons of hiding in hypersleep, you have been awakened with a mission: Reconstruct an arsenal of Genetic Heroes and destroy the Darkspore!
After eons of hiding in hypersleep, you have been awakened with a mission: Reconstruct an arsenal of Genetic Heroes and destroy the Darkspore!
Secret of the Magic Crystals Updated
Posted: 14 Jun 2011 08:49 AM PDT
- Save games now work on all machines again (OSX/WIN)
- Old save games are backed up in the game folder called .bak
- Language selection screen is back with labels
- Old save games are backed up in the game folder called .bak
- Language selection screen is back with labels
Posted: 13 Jun 2011 04:54 PM PDT
- Fixed a common crash when killing turrets while going to Game Over screen
- Fixed Centurion Card achievement
- Mouse no longer moves very slowly for mice with high polling rates
- Difficulty curve smoothed out slightly
- High score entries now record missing metadata about play sessions
- Updated credits
- Fixed rare bug where players died on respawn in Croatoa
