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Ride your music.

Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience. The shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose. You earn points for clustering together blocks of the same color on the highway, and compete with others on the internet for the high score on your favorite songs.

Audiosurf on Steam includes The Orange Box soundtrack, integrated with the game to enable”Still Alive”surfing and more. In addition, Audiosurf is one of the first titles to leverage the recently announced Steamworks, offering full support for the Steam Achievements that appear on Steam Community profile pages.

• Play with any music from your own collection–the game supports MP3s, iTunes M4As, WMAs, CDs and OGGs
• Valve’s The Orange Box Original Soundtrack is included.
• Online scoreboards for each song you play.
• Choose your strategy from 14 available characters.
• Track your progress as Steam Achievements.

Updates to the Source SDK have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Source SDK

* Added a Maya 7.0 SMD exporter
* Added source code for the Antlion Guard as an example of a quadruped
* Added HL Modelviewer and phonemeextractor source code
* Developer console now bound to the F12 key as well as the ‘~’ key
* Added response files to fix NPC’s not talking bug

Valve has Informed us about their plans to deliver free games to all owners of ATI RadeonT graphics cards via Steam, a popular platform for the distribution and management of digital content.

Effective immediately, all owners of ATI Radeon graphics cards may receive a free copy of Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch via Steam, http://www.steampowered.com/ati_offer1a/. Steam will automatically confirm the presence of ATI RadeonT hardware and then enable immediate access to full versions of the games free of charge.

For added convenience to new purchasers of ATI RadeonT products, Steam will be included in all ATI CatalystT Software and Driver packages through early 2008.

And, as recently announced by AMD, customers who purchase the new ATI RadeonT HD 2900 XT will also receive, upon release via Steam, the highly anticipated trio of new games coming from Valve: Team Fortress® 2, PortalT, and Half-Life 2: Episode Two.

That’s a very good deal, we expect to see more Radeon users within the next few weeks.

Source

New Features

• Visual Studio 2005 Support for SDK Code
• Spectate Mode Added to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

Bug Fixes

• Faceposer Crashes When When Trying to Extract or Add a .txt File
• Lag compensation added back into Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

Restart Steam for your update.

Updates to the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Source Engine

• Fixed regression in Half-Life 2: Episode One where the player was unable to progress

PopCap Games Coming To Steam

Valve®, creators of the Steam broadband gaming platform, and PopCap Games®, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, today announced an agreement to deliver PopCap’s games via Steam

Initially, 17 of PopCap’s products will be made available via Steam on August 30, 2006. Keeping with PopCap tradition, each PopCap game offered via Steam will be available for a free trial period as well as for purchase. And PopCap collection packages will also be offered.