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

Children of the Nile

• Lots of fixes for French, German, Italian, and Spanish where strings would be missing or have extra nonsense at the end of them. Cheats work again in French, German, and Italian. Some messages appearing with a "" marker in them have been taught to speak proper German
  
• When running the game on Vista, you can now open scenario info screens without crashing, regardless of your user privileges. This will let you start a campaign or load a scenario without any of the fiddly rigamarole with properties and options you had to go through before
  
• Fonts are now installed in-game if needed, fixing a problem where you'd lose most text and could crash if the game was updated without your machine being restarted
  
• Steam achievements now work properly. IMPORTANT: On some machines, this will prevent you from running the game directly from the "steamapps/common/children of the nile" folder. You'll need to start the game from the Steam client, or use the client to create a shortcut (right-click on the game in "My Games", select "Create desktop shortcut", and move that shortcut wherever you like)
  
• The latest version of DirectX is automatically installed if you need it when you first run the game
  

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

Audiosurf

• Players can now easily experiment with custom game modes by
  combining special tags in song names. More info is available on the
  forums
  
  • [as-4lane] Play with 4 lanes
    
  • [as-monoonly] Mono characters required
    
  • [as-everybodymono] All characters have only 2 block colors
    
  • [as-lessgrey] Mono characters have less grey blocks
    
  • [as-allgrey] Mono characters have all grey blocks
    
  • [as-nogrey] Mono characters have no grey blocks
    
  • [as-monoptX] Base points for Mono characters (default 3)
    
  • [as-nostlth] Remove Stealth and cumulative hit bonuses
    
  • [as-swind] Sidewinder camera mode
    
  • [as-bankcam] Banking camera mode
    
  • [as-first] First-person camera mode
    
  • [as-caterp] Block caterpillars
    
  • [as-mszX] Minimimum match size (number for X)
    
  • [as-wbX] Percentage of white/black blocks
    
  • [as-mtX] Match collection ticks (default 10-25)
    
  • [as-prowsX] Puzzle row count (0-8)
    
  • [as-hidepuz] Play with an invisible puzzle grid
    
• Fixed bug finding CD tracks in drives beyond the first
  

Silverfall: Earth Awakening, an action RPG from Monte Cristo Games, is now available for purchase via Steam.

In this heroic fantasy world, play any one of the available six races and prepare yourself to confront an impressive array of creatures and formidable bosses to save the realm of Nelwë. Import your hero from Silverfall to Earth Awakening and keep your level, equipment and skills...or start the adventure from the beginning with a level 45 hero.

Save 10% off the regular price of $19.99 when you buy before July 25.

Indie developer Dejobaan Games brings their challenging puppet game, The Wonderful End of the World to Steam today.

Roam the world as a puppet, absorbing matter until you grow large enough to gobble up fire engines and take down buildings. Unlock all the Steam Achievements by exploring the world and discovering secret areas.

Save 10% off the regular price of $9.99 when you buy before July 24.

A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:

Steam Client

• Improved cache defragmenter to both defragment at the OS level and internal files
  
• Improved defrag progress dialog
  
• Improved download status reporting in games list
  
• Increased background update frequency
  
• Improved voice quality
  
• Added audio recording device selection for voice chat
  
• Added push-to-talk support for voice chat
  
• Fixed apps getting stuck at Updating 0% when downloading
  
• Fixed possible crash when resuming from Standby mode
  
• Fixed Steam preventing some PC's from entering Standby mode
  
• Fixed overlay sometimes getting stuck up and not responding to hot-keys after server join
  
• Fixed uninstalled apps becoming installed when viewing their Properties page after Steam restarts