Day of Defeat: Source Available September 26
Day of Defeat®: Source™ (DoD: Source), the latest version of the WWII online action game from Valve®, will be made available to gamers everywhere on September 26.
"Day of Defeat has quietly been one of the most played online action games for the past three years," said Gabe Newell, president and founder of Valve. "Day of Defeat: Source represents a major leap forward in both graphics and gameplay, and pushes the Source engine harder than any other Source project. "
DoD: Source takes the classic teamplay of DoD and expands the experience with Source, the engine technology Valve created for Half-Life® 2 and it's next generation of games. With this technology, DoD: Source offers state of the art graphics with optimized versions of popular maps and all new player, weapon and world models, plus support for HDR lighting.
DoD: Source leverages the power of the Source engine by introducing advanced sound technology to provide a more immersive soundscape and integrated physics simulation technology for ragdolls and physically simulated objects throughout each map.
Available via Steam for just $19.95 and in the Counter-Strike: Source retail package, DoD: Source is a rebuild from the ground up of Day of Defeat on the Source engine.
DoD: Source will be available for pre-load and pre-order next week. Those who purchased the Half-Life 2 Silver or Gold Steam offers will receive a request to pre-load the game at this time and will receive access to play the moment the game is made available.
For more information, visit www.steampowered.com
Valve, Day of Defeat and Source are trademarks or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
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Half-Life: Blue Shift released on Steam
Half-Life: Blue Shift is now playable for anyone that owns the Half-Life Premier Pack, the Half-Life 2 Silver package, or the Half-Life 2 Gold package.
Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life: Source and Source Engine Updates Available
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life: Source and the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Counter-Strike: Source
- Added validation of custom player model and weapon materials. Custom materials must be VertexLitGeneric with only $baseTexture and $bumpmap variables defined
Source Engine
- Fixed "not logged in" error not displaying properly
- Fixed not being able to run internet game servers for Source Mods in a debugger
Half-Life: Source
- Enabled low violence content for low violence users
RITUAL ENTERTAINMENT UNVEILS "SiN EPISODES"
Action-Packed Return to Freeport City Powered by the SourceTM Engine
Dallas, TX - July 7, 2005 -- Ritual Entertainment(tm) today announced the development of SiN Episodes(tm), featuring the highly anticipated return of Elexis Sinclaire, the world's most dangerous and seductive biochemist, and the only man who stands in her way, John R. Blade. The sworn enemies face off in Freeport City, a near-future mixture of San Francisco, Tokyo and New York, all set inside the unrestricted SiN universe.
The upcoming SiN Episodes chapter entitled Emergence is the first in a series of episodic adventures powered by the award-winning Source(tm) engine developed by Valve(r). Delivered on Steam(tm), the online content delivery system, Sin Episodes takes a bold new step into the future of gaming.
G4 Nominates Half-Life 2 -- Vote Now!
Half-Life 2 has been nominated for a number of G4TV's Gphoria Awards. This year, G4 is allowing gamers to make the call. To cast your vote for Game of the Year, Best Game Character, and more, please visit the G-Phoria Voting page.
Source Engine Update Available
An update to the Source Engine has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Source Engine
- Fixed "steamclient.dll not found" error when running a listen server with LAN mode disabled
Steam Client and Source Engine Updates Available
Updates to the Steam Client and the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Steam Client and Source Engine
- Fixed a number of connection problems to the backend of VAC2 (Valve's anti-cheat technology for game servers). VAC2 currently only runs on servers in the beta group, but will be active for all servers very soon.
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Available
Updates to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
- Score in teamplay mode no longer wraps back to zero 0 when it goes past 127
- Fixed bug in player bounding boxes while crouching
- Added cvar "cl_autowepswitch" to allow automatic weapon switching to be turned off
- Flashlight no longer turns off when auxiliary power is drained
- Auxiliary power now resets when a player respawns after drowning
- Fixed explosive barrels to allow burning after respawn
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