Long time, no release! :) Things have been fairly stable, so we haven't had to do any emergency releases. If you've been following @bluelinegames on twitter, you might have noticed that we've even been able to start on our next project, Khet 2.0 - the Laser Game! In the meantime, we've been making regular tweaks to Hive & then this morning we finally routed out a couple of Online errors that were causing certain users to have a whole barrel of trouble when trying to make online games. Tonight, that build went live & should automatically update for you the next time you run Steam. Here's what's in the release we just pushed to PC, Mac, and Linux:

• Dropped the number of games needed to get a full Elo Rating down to 15 games (too many people were getting discouraged in the 20's... that's sad!).
• BUGFIX: Under certain cases, some players would start online games which would be confused about whose turn it was, so the game would basically be locked.
• BUGFIX: Under other conditions, players could start a game where one player would have a different set of pieces enabled, which lead to crashing.
• Performance improvement to rendering... on low-end systems that had framerates that were low, this should increase the frame-rate by about 50%! (Geoff is such a baller at this stuff)
• Made the "Esc" button clickable on the screen to exit the game.
• Automatically remember the FullScreen setting (made it "sticky") so player doesn't have to go fullscreen manually, every time they play the game (if that's how they prefer it).
• Capture STDOUT and send it to our logfile... this will make debugging customer issues even easier in the future.
• At user-request, updated the coupon-code in the Credits to be the 2nd Edition of the "Play Hive Like A Champion" book. Thanks to Randy for creating a discount for the new version also! :)

• Play locally or online.
  
• Play against the Computer - AI with five difficulty levels.
  
• Includes "hot-seat"/"pass-n-play" mode for players with who want to share one mouse/keyboard or gamepad.
  
• Full 3D with camera-control
  
• Switch seamlessly between playing with mouse/keyboard and gamepad.
  
• Dozens of Steam Stats & Achievements.
  
• Same expansions as table-top version: the Pillbug, the Ladybug, and the Mosquito expansions are available as DLC.
  
• Each expansion can be turned on/off for any individual game. Play with these pieces online even if your opponent does not own the expansions! (they will also get to use the expansions during the game)
  
• Asynchronous play - you can play even when your opponent is offline.
  
• The Hive board game is a winner of many awards including "Mensa Select", "Dr. Toy: Product of Excellence", "Spiele Hits", "International Gamers Awards", and "Juego del año".

• OS: glibc 2.15+. 32/64-bit
• Processor: 1 gHzMemory: 512 MB RAM
• Memory: 512 MB RAM
• Graphics: OpenGL 2.1+ w/ GL_ARB_framebuffer_object
• Storage: 300 MB available space

• OS: glibc 2.15+. 32/64-bit. S3TC texture support
• Processor: 2 gHzMemory: 1 GB RAM
• Memory: 1 GB RAM
• Graphics: OpenGL 3+Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 300 MB available space