Steam Updates and Releases 11 May 2011

Brink is out, have you got your copy yet? If not, wait a few days and find out what GDN’s Mike Oliver thinks of the title as he is fighting it out even as this goes to print. New on Steam 11 May 2011

Now Available - Brink

Brink is now available on Steam in North America! Brink will launch in rest of the world later this week, visit the game page for release details in your territory.

You decide the combat role you want to assume in the world of Brink as you fight to save yourself and mankind’s last refuge!

Atom Zombie Smasher Updated

1.81 changelog
- Mods: parameter for controlling how often zombies chase humans (ZOMBIE_CHASECHANCE 25)
- Extras: added Behind the Scenes page.
- Extras: added Version History page.
- Extras: added Newsletter page.
- Fix: fixed mystery dynamite appearing at 0,0 position.
- Fix: crash in dynamite detonation.
- Fix: crash in texture renderer.

Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)

Fixed a client crash in the material system

Team Fortress 2

Replay publishing system will try to do a rename for local HTTP mode but will manually copy and delete the file if the rename fails, which can happen if the source and destination are on different volumes.
Fixed threading issues on Linux, which was causing major lag spikes.
Fixed replay data cleanup system, which cleans up stale data at the end of each round. This asynchronous operation can be explicitly invoked by executing a replay_docleanup command on the server.
Removed unused convar, replay_cleanup_time.
Saxxy fanfare music wasn’t playing on music channel. Music will only play once per launch now and will not play on a changelevel

New Release: Lume

Lume is now available and 10% until 10AM PST Monday 5/16.

Power to your grandad’s house has failed. What’s more, he’s nowhere to be seen. Immerse yourself in Lume’s photoreal world, solve perplexing paper puzzles to help restore the power, and uncover a deeper mystery behind the blackout.

AMD Catalyst 11.5 Windows Update Released

HydraVision enhancements for Eyefinity configurations
- The HydraGrid feature found in HydraVision is now aware of user created Bezels
- The HydraGrid feature found in HydraVision now also includes an “Automatic Grid” option that aligns to the user defined Eyefinity display layout.