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Steam News · Sep 30
Introversion Software released a major upgrade for their 2006 classic DEFCON, a free 20th Anniversary Edition upgrade for all players. Read the full article here:
Steam News · Sep 29
Twenty years ago on this day, the 29th September 2006, Introversion Software released their third game DEFCON, and our lives were never the same again. What started as a 24 hour game jam (and love letter to WARGAMES) rapidly turned into our most successful game yet, as tens of thousands of players flooded our servers and waged global thermonuclear war upon each other day after day, year after year...
Steam News · Sep 18
Bug Fixes The renderer fallback now also covers the window being recreated, such as a resolution or renderer change, rather than only Defcon starting up. HDR for Metal (MacOS) and Vulkan (Windows, Linux) no longer creates corrupted and garbled screenshots. World messages such as launch alerts no longer stay on screen over the menu after you leave a game. The lobby window now appears as soon as you...
Steam News · Sep 11
1.70.2 Bug Fixes Fixed a crash on startup, and when pressing Apply in the Mods window, caused by mods whose gameoptions.txt leaves a blank line where a text settings default value belongs. Fixed a crash on startup for anyone with extracted main.dat files in their Defcon folder whose names differ only in capitalisation from the originals. A missing font file no longer closes the game, Defcon falls ...
Steam News · Aug 24
Defcon Beta Update AnnouncementWe would like to announce that, thanks to the hard efforts of Defcon fan, volunteer and skilled developers, Keiron McPhee and Jasmin Brumme, we have a new build of Defcon to test! The core experience remains pure DEFCON, but under the hood much has changed. There is a new graphics (DirectX, Metal and Vulkan) and sound subsystem (FAudio), hundreds of performance enhan...
Steam News · Sep 8, 2024
Make Mac OS X 10.13 build the default. Should resolve "damaged and can't be opened" issue on recent Mac OS X.
Steam News · Nov 6, 2020
Looking back at it now, 2020 doesn’t feel like a banner year for strategy games, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been a few gems. The list below – gathered by a panel of experts and regularly updated – contains games from as recently as 12 months ago alongside classics from as far back as 28 years ago. They’re all games we think you could play and love right now. (mo...
Steam News · Jun 28, 2018
An entirely objective ranking of the 50 best PC strategy games ever made, now freshened up to include everything from 2017 and 2018. From intricate, global-scale wargames to the tight thrills of guerrilla squads, the broad expanse of the genre contains something for everyone, and we ve gathered the best of the best. The vast majority are available to buy digitally, a few are free to download...
Steam News · Mar 15, 2018
Civilization VI: Rise and Fall wants to solve a problem. That problem is perpetual growth, and it plagues many 4X games. Whether your aim is world conquest or cultural hegemony, victory in Civilization and many of its cohorts depends on domination. However peacefully you try to play, you re often straight-jacketed into a utilitarian-psychotic view where all resources and people are just raw ...
Steam News · Sep 22, 2017
Hello. This is Spawn Point, a new not-quite-regular feature in which we take a genre, series or other facet of gaming culture, and try to convince you to give it a shot. It might be those hero shooters you ve always wanted to get into, or that terrifying space game played by thousands of jerks. We ll briefly explain the thing, followed by some ways for you to breach it. First up, it s the r...
Steam News · May 17, 2017
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Steam News · Feb 15, 2017