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We've been pretty quiet about Day of Defeat: Source in the last few weeks. But new information and images from DoD: Source will be made available starting next week, as we lead to its release. We've been steadily working away on this project, and we're excited to see what everyone thinks of what we've produced.

In the coming weeks we'll also be releasing a Source revived version of Half-Life 1: Deathmatch. People who already own Half-Life 1: Source will receive this as a free download.

Next Saturday, Valve's CEO and founder, Gabe Newell, will be giving the commencement speech at Southern Methodist University's Guildhall, a university program offering course work in game design. Two groups of students enrolled in the program will be releasing the Source MODs they produced during their term. More information on the games they've built is available on their websites:

Eclipse: http://students.guildhall.smu.edu/eclipse/

Samurai Legends: http://students.guildhall.smu.edu/samurailegends/

News source: Steam Homepage

Anti-Virus new features

· Advanced damage clean-up (against Spyware)
· Check new and changed files option
· HTTP, IMAP and NNTP traffic check
· ODS Scan suspend technology (when user-activity is detected)
· Startup Scan with updateable database
· Differential update (further reduction of the AV database update size)
· Script-Checker with Internet Explorer GUI plug-in
· New scan scope: Scan Critical Areas task
· Scan Startup Objects – full control of the task execution
· TheBat! plugin
· Ban-list of blocked computers by IDS subsystem (with un-block feature)

New technologies

· Proactive Defense module with history and roll-back option
· Anti-Rootkit technology
· Registry monitor with preinstalled database
· Tracking of an application’s component structure; runtime module intrusion detection
· E-Mail event notification option
· Enhanced notification settings
· GUI Skin technology

Known Bugs :

· Context sensitive help has not yet been completely implemented.
· Some subsystems may work incorrectly under Windows 9x.
· White list in Proactive defence module is not completed yet so it is possible that alerts will appear during work of non-malicious applications.
· Certain bugs regarding the Windows Server 2003 are reported.
· Self-protection module has been implemented with certain limitations.
· Licensing policy has been partially implemented.
· Incorrect work on Windows NT4 when logon under the user, entering only in USERS group.
· It is impossible to add new license key under Windows 9x.
· Incorrect registration of external plugins after first run of the product under Windows9x is reported, the problem can be fixed by OS reboot.
· Technology of incremental updates (differences) can fail in certain conditions.
· If any account have been set for a scan task (Run as) then some scan objects can be missed during scanning.
· Update through proxy server which requires plain autorization works properly only during manual update.
· Unstable work with Norton System Works: Norton Utilities 2005 at the same time.
· Links at main window and Support page does not work under Windows9x.
· Updates from the network shared folder does not work under Windows NT4