Electronic Arts' new downloadble service, Origin, will host exclusive content for games such as Battlefield 3 and Mass Effect 3. Digital copies of Star Wars: The Old Republic will be exclusive to Origin. Crysis 2, released earlier this year, was pulled from Valve's digital games service Steam yesterday, fueling speculation EA removed the title...
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Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Team Fortress 2
Added the Spiral Knights promotional hat
Updated The Superfan, The Essential Accessories, and The Hero's Hachimaki so they can be painted
Updated The Conjurer's Cowl and The Maul so they can be crafted and traded
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Team Fortress 2
- Fixed a problem related to spawning multiple entities unnecessarily between mini-rounds
- Fixed a bug that caused players to see the wrong backpacks on some classes
- Fixed a problem with honorbound weapons not allowing themselves to be holstered after killing a Spy using the Dead Ringer
- Fixed the Ubersaw and the Vita-Saw not displaying the Medic's ÜberCharge progress
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Team Fortress 2
Added the Saxxy
Updated the kill icons
Updated the vote system
Added a convar to prevent voting on the next level if one has already been set (sv_vote_issue_nextlevel_prevent_change)
Fixed scrambleteams resetting how many rounds have been played
Updated mp_scrambleteams to support a parameter of 2, which prevents resetting the number of rounds that have been played
Fixed the server automatically creating votes while in training or using itemtest
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Updates to Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Team Fortress 2
Added the Red Faction promo item
The Maul
Added upcoming promo items for Magic: The Gathering
Added additional community submitted response rules
Doubled the item drop rate for the next week
Updated the Conjurer's Cowl to be paintable
Updated the webapi output to include the names of the drop_type and holiday_restriction fields
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Updates to Left 4 Dead 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Left 4 Dead 2
Encore mutation: Versus Survival
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Have you ever seen one of those movies with an elaborate scheme to rob a bank and walk away with a huge payday? Ever wonder if you have what it takes to pull of such a caper yourself? Well, PayDay: The Heist, a new game coming to the PlayStation Network and PC, will give you the chance to find out...
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Call of Duty®: Black Ops Escalation Content Pack is now available on Steam.

"Escalation", the second Call of Duty: Black Ops map pack, contains 5 all-new exceptionally varied maps; featuring 4 Multiplayer maps and an epic Black Ops Zombies experience with all-new playable characters.

In Multiplayer, battle it out in "Hotel", on the roof of a Cuban luxury hotel and casino against the vivid backdrop of old Havana; "Convoy" delivers intense, close-quarters combat at the scene of an ambushed U... [read more]