SPOTLIGHT
- NEW SITE!Welcome to our newly designed
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There's been a big reshuffle and lots of
new content added so check it all out!
A new, free of charge update has been released for Audiosurf, this update introduces Unicode support, enhanced community features, support for play on netbooks, a new Visualizer mode, and more.
New features:
Unicode support throughout
Visualizer mode added to freeride
Autopilot mode added to freeride
Added Minimal detail setting (for netbooks)
Now shows the position and username of other players riding the same song
Added Russian localization
Old radio files are now automatically deleted
[as-steep] tag added to shape slower songs into more exciting rides
A new Steam update has been released which let you choose the nearest content download region to you, so you get the fastest download speed possible. Check below for change list.
Added ability to specify content download region (in Settings->downloads)
Fixed a condition that would prevent Steam from automatically applying game updates until game launch
Fixed a bug preventing in-game status for 3rd party games
Fixed running a non-Steam shortcut not changing user status to in-game
Updated processor detection for "System Information" window and hardware survey
Detect Windows 7 correctly in the hardware survey/system info dialog
Fixed a bug affecting Dawn of War II beta participants in certain languages
Fixed a bug in the game overlay affecting some Dawn of War II beta participants who have the game overlay disabled
Fixed a rare case where Steam could prevent games from launching
Fix crash when right-clicking a text edit control with an input locale that is new with Vista
Updated German localization
Fixed some potential string truncation in non-English locales
Repaired layout of controls in Event announcement popup window
Additional network API warnings for Steamworks partners
InterWave Studios have released a patch to their 1.0 release fixing several key issues. If you haven't played their mod before, perhaps now is an ideal time to start, especially if you are a fan of the television series.
In the Stargate: The Last Stand multiplayer games, players can choose to defend their home world in secret offworld missions, or destroy the Tau'ri as the elite Jaffa, Guards and Warriors in Anubis' ranks. Players are able to equip themselves with a wide array of weapons that are featured in the television series, from the Goa'uld Staff weapon to the Tau'ri FN P-90
The Dystopia team are counting down the days till their 1.2 release via SteamWorks by releasing snippets of new media from the release. Today they have released new screenshots from maps exodus and broadcast (see below) as well as a selection of fan made videos from 2 days ago.
Later on in the week, the team will be hosting a Q&A Session to kick off the process of their release party. We will keep you updated when the new version is launched. For more information, visit the Dystopia website.
Electronic Arts has revealed that the retail release of Left 4 Dead on xbox 360 and PC has reached 1.8 million copies sold up till 2008. This doesn't include any purchases through Steam (being digital distribution and not figures EA has access to).
Note this also omits any data from January and February of this year. As I'm sure you can guess, Steam sales are likely to be very high too. Shacknews. (thanks to hool10 for link)
Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
New client features
Added Viewmodel FOV slider to advanced multiplayer options
Added a hide viewmodel option to advanced multiplayer options
Added custom crosshair support
Added crosshair image, scale, and color settings to the Options->Multiplayer settings tab
Moved HUD minimal mode & Disable Spray options into the Advanced Multiplayer settings
Added "open_charinfo_direct" command that opens the loadout directly to the class you're currently playing
Replaced the "Open Loadout" entry in the options->keys dialog with this new command. Rebind / reset your config to defaults to use it
Gameplay changes
Modified critical hit calculation. Overall, critical hit chance is now much more recent-performance based:
Base chance is now 2% (was 5%).
Bonus range based on damage done changed from 0%-15% to 0%-10
Damage range required for bonus changed from 0-1600 to 0-800
Reduced random damage spread applied to all player damage from +-25% to +-10%
Slight reduction (improvement) of the minigun's spread
Increased flare direct hit damage from 20 to 30
Rewrote Natascha's slowdown code to be more consistent
Sniper rifle now supports Crit Boost state like all other weapons (i.e. Kritzkrieg makes all shots critical hits)
Stealthed spies are no longer able to pickup the intelligence. They must uncloak first
Increased soldier primary ammo count from 16 to 20
Team Radi-8 - creators of NeoTokyo mod are working very hard to finish their mod as soon as it's possible, they released a media update containing screenshots(seen below) as well as music tracks. You can listen to them by clicking here.
You can visit the NeoTokyo website here.
If you want to support their work please click this link and vote for them in the ModDB MOTY.
We've been keeping you up to date with Decadence for a long time now, but now we reach the point where release is really close, March 2009 in fact. We've shown lots of screenshots but...
There comes a time in every mods development cycle where screenshots aren’t enough, and if they say a picture is worth a thousand words, a trailer should be plenty!
