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The fourth annual "Scream Fortress" update adds a magician who haunts King of the Hill maps, brings various spells to alter your equipment or imbue it with special abilities, and replaces the co-op machines with zombies.
Left 4 Dead 2 is offering a free weekend in celebration of Halloween, complete with a new achievement for current players of the game.
The second batch of Steam Greenlight game approvals has been announced as promised.
Team Fortress 2 has issued an update for its Mann vs Machine mode, featuring new Tours of Duty, new loot, and improved matchmaking options.
Valve has kicked off its non-gaming initiative with six software applications, most complete with Steam features like automatic updates and cloud saving.
While not officially sanctioned by Valve, the company has made no effort blocking the Black Mesa remake, calling it "common sense" to allow fan-created efforts to thrive.
If you're waiting for the Year of the Linux Desktop to begin, take a deep breath and cross your fingers. Valve said yesterday that "Things have been going well" for its Steam Linux client, so it plans to launch an internal beta next week then an invite-only external beta for 1,000 Linuxnauts in October.
Valve has announced Steam Workshop tools coming to Left 4 Dead 2, including easy mod support, expanded scripting tools, and some mysterious method of folding user content into the game proper.
Valve has announced that it will reveal the next bath of Steam Greenlight titles on October 15.
Valve has been relatively mum about the hardware it is working on. We know it has been tinkering with wearable computers and virtual reality, and it is bringing gaming to the living room with its Big Picture Mode. And they have stressed that they aren't happy with the innovation of mouse and keyboard technology lately. Whatever it is, Valve said that the first beta for their super-secret projects will be coming next year.
