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Darkest Hour Release Monday on Steam
After many months of hard work, delays and endless "what's taking so long?" threads, we are very pleased to announce that Darkest Hour Beta 3.0 will be available via Steam on Friday the 5th of June, 2009, just in time for the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings (not to mention Darkest Hour's 1st birthday).

Built on the award-winning Steam favorite, Red Orchestra, Darkest Hour brings the classic RO multiplayer experience to the beaches of Normandy, Operation Market-Garden, the Battle of the Bulge and on into the Reich. Now you can play as American, British or Canadian troops, with a huge range of additional features including:


More than 20 new infantry weapons, such as the ever-distinctive Garand, M1 Carbine, .30-cal, Bren, FG42, Thompson and the Enfield rifles
American Bazooka, British PIAT and German Panzerschreck to go tank-hunting with
New infantry features, including Airborne drops onto the battlefield, bullet suppression and supersonic cracks, plus a new radioman class for calling in artillery strikes
Dozens of new uniforms for all nations
Over a dozen new crewable vehicles including the King Tiger and JagdPanther for the Germans, countered with multiple types of Sherman in 75mm, 76mm and 17-pounder versions, plus the Cromwell, M10 Wolverine and Achilles
New armor features, including engine damage and fires, crew hits and tracks visibly breaking when hit
More transport – Kubelwagen, Jeep and Opel truck
11 new maps, including:


Juno Beach – Canadians storming the beaches in classic D-Day action

Carentan – the US 101st Airborne assaults the town shortly after D-Day

Brecourt – 101st Airborne attempt to put a key German artillery battery out of commission behind the beaches

Vieux – vast sweeping armored combat as the British attempt to break out during Operation Goodwood in Normandy

Ginkel Heath – British paras drop into a hotly-contested LZ at the start of Operation Market-Garden

Wacht-am-Rhein – sweeping tank combat during the Battle of the Bulge, including the fearsome King Tiger

Stoumont – American infantry and armor try and hold back the SS PanzerGrenadiers in the streets of the Ardennes town

Bois Jacques – tenacious American defense against the combined German tank and infantry forces

Foy – the Germans’ turn to defend against attacking American airborne troopers

So whether it is the Normandy campaign, jumping onto the dropzones around Arnhem or the bitter fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, new and old players alike will get a chance to see why RO remains a classic. Now with the opportunity to re-play those battles RO-style, courtesy of Darkest Hour: Europe 1944-45!

See you all on the battlefield!



-Notice- Looks like the release will slip as the internet went down at Valve HQ during the upload phase earlier today. I am told it will be up Monday.

Server Player Count Bug Fix Test
Once again thank you to all who have helped us so far. As you might have noticed by the title of this announcement we are testing a fix for the player count issue in the server browser. We could use all the help we can get to fill the server and verify this fix. The server IP is: 81.19.217.90:7757 Thank you for your time!

Killing Floor Pre-Sale begins + Trailer Released!!!
Killing Floor is now available for Pre-Order from Steam, and an awesome new trailer has been released. Head on over to the Steam site for the game to pre-purchase now and get 25% off. And head on over to the Official Killing Floor Website to check out the HD version of the trailer.

A New Day A New Test
Thank you all for helping us last night. However today we would like you to help us fill this server : 81.19.217.90:7757 We are on it now so come join the fun!

Be a tester (for a day)
Tripwire needs to fill up a server: TWB Old Glory at this ip : 70.32.42.234:7757 Please join us if you can. We will be watching the server at random parts during the night and next morning. So please make it your RO server of choice if you can.



Thank you all who have helped us so far and continue to help us!

Killing Floor Pre-Sale begins + Trailer Released!!!
Killing Floor is now available for Pre-Order from Steam, and an awesome new trailer has been released. Head on over to the Steam site for the game to pre-purchase now and get 25% off. And head on over to the Official Killing Floor Website to check out the HD version of the trailer.

Official Killing Floor Website Launched
The teaser website is gone, and the official Killing Floor website has now been launched!!! Head on over and check it out, and drop by the forums and say hi while your there.

Official Killing Floor Website

Tripwire Interactive Steam Forums
Now that Tripwire Interactive has multiple titles on Steam or coming to Steam we've got our very own section over on the official Steam forums. Drop by to chat about all things Tripwire.

Tripwire Forums on SteamPowered.com

Steam Store Page for Killing Floor Now Live
The official Steam store page for Killing Floor is now live. Killing Floor is also now listed in the "Coming Soon" section as well. And when they say "Coming Soon" they mean it :) You can check out the page here:

Steam Killing Floor Page

US TWB Servers Have Moved
The popular US TWB servers have moved to a new data center, and as such thier IPs have changed. If you had these servers in your favorites, you'll need to re-add them. Here are the new addresses:

TWB's "Old Glory" East Coast 50 Player Server - 70.32.42.234:7757
TWI Dev's Fallen Heroes 24/7 50 Players!!! - 70.32.42.237:7757
TWB's "Dark Oasis" East Coast 50 Player Mare Nostrum Server - 70.32.42.235:7757
TWB's "Red Dawn" 2.0 East US Darkest Hour 50 Player - 70.32.42.236:7757


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