Joe Danger and Joe Danger 2: The Movie coming to Steam with new features; "We can’t just do a quick and dirty port."
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Hello Games! That’s the exclamation I begin every morning with, and also the name of the tiny Guildford studio behind ace loop-de-loop biking series Joe Danger. Cursèd console exclusivity means we’ve been forbidden from liking them for years. But now I’m sure we’ve going to be bosom friends, thanks to the announcement of two PC ports boasting new levels and enhanced graphics settings, as well as Steam Big Picture and Workshop support.
Ten times as much TF2 content comes from its users - the hats, the guns and 
Click! You’re playing a campaign through Zelda’s usually bloodless Kokiri forest. Click! Nick is now sporting a black goatee. Click! You’re mashed into the earth by a modified Tank.
I can’t tell what colour the orchestra soundtracking the trailer below are, but they are very good, lending a contemporary Romantic feel to proceedings. But there’s scant romance to be found in Red Orchestra 2’s peculiar brand of long distance murder, as evidenced by goings-on in its new map - an update of Red Orchestra 1’s Barashka.
Serious Sam types Croteam have long emulated their ‘90s FPS heroes, in a teenage posters-on-the-ceiling kinda way. But now Serious Sam has become the first single player FPS to hit the Steam Workshop and, fingers crossed, they’ll be able to inspire the next generation of gibheads to mod their way into development.
Yesterday was 
Valve and Polycount have teamed up again, this time putting together a competition to create a Dota 2 item set. Entrants will need to pick a hero and design, model, and texture the entire set of items before the closing date on 19 November.
Right now, Valve’s Chet Faliszek is telling an over-stuffed crowd at Eurogamer Expo how to wind up making games for a living. It’s easier than ever, he says, to begin making content for games. Not least thanks to Steam Workshop, where item makers are reportedly now making in excess of $100,000 a year.
All’s been quiet on the Shogun 2 front for some time now, as Creative Assembly ramp up excitement for the 
Tripwire Interactive have just 
Left 4 Dead 2 will be the fourth Valve game to become fully-integrated with Steam Workshop, the community-created content service. From mid-October, you can mainline maps and mods with a single click on PC, Mac and Linux.
Torchlight 2 is a little bundle ARPG goodness that's heading our way later this week (huzzah!). One of the many reasons it promises to be excellent is that it's coming fully-equipped to support and encourage modding. What with the game's similarities to the Diablo games - a number of the development team worked on the series - it's unlikely to be long till there's a remake made in the Torchlight engine, at least that's what Runic's CEO hopes.
Integrating Skyrim with the Steam Workshop has been a success from pretty much day one, but 10,000 mods is a massive milestone.
Action-RTS Diablo 3 alternative Torchlight 2 launches on September 20, but developer Runic promises that the fun won't stop there. Oh no, the fun will spiral upwards and outwards, in every direction, with automatic updates bringing free DLC and Steam Workshop support combining with mod tools to deliver an unending stream of community generated content. The fun will tower above us, it will surely consume us all.
If you’ve seen anything of Scribblenauts Unlimited - though, given the series’ DS heritage, there’s every chance you haven’t yet - you’ll know it looks like exactly the sort of barely-contained, blue sky sandbox plaything to benefit most from being plugged into Steam’s player-driven ideas factory.
The addition of an app category in the Steam mobile app catalogue last month hinted this was coming, but today Valve announced plans to begin selling non-game software through their digital market place.
On the 5th September Steam will begin selling a select few software packages, with plans to add to this in time.
We always take it as read that mods are good for PC gaming - that giving the gaming community tools to create new content for their favourite game should extend the life of that game. The problem with mods previously is that distribution and installation of the final content was a hard problem - one that Steam’s Workshop has made a good stab of fixing. Now, installing a mod is as easy as clicking a link. 
