SteamOS Announced !

Steam is coming to a new operating system

As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that the
environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself.
SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen.
It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

Team Fortress 2 Update Released

Product Update - Valve

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Strange misc-slot items that are tradable can now be listed on the Steam Community Market
• Updated The Bearded Bombardier and The Bolted Bombardier so they can be equipped with glasses

Community request:

• Added modelscale and SetModelScale input to Studiomodel so map authors can use them to scale models

Steam Client Update Released

Client Update - Valve

A new Steam Client update has been released and will be automatically downloaded. The specific changes are listed below.

Steam

• Fixed launching Source SDK 2013-based mods from the Steam server browser 
• Fixed showing “[unknown]” user names for players in current game lobby
• Fixed downloading Steam cloud files via HTTP 
• Fixed a regression which made some OpenGL games (Rage) crash in some cases activating the in-game overlay

Big Picture

• Fixed setting display resolution in Big Picture mode before login properly restarts Big Picture mode 
• Added Big Picture language settings panel 
• Fixed subsequent login problem caused by canceling creating an account

Linux 

• Fixed a bug that caused Steam to hang on startup for some users. 
• Fixed a bug that prevented Big Picture on Linux from becoming active again sometimes after a game exits.
• Fix a bug that prevented the tray menu from not responding when transitioning out of Big Picture mode 
• Fix regression that caused Steam to exit instead of restart after actions that require Steam to restart