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STEAM- Announcements & Updates 2011 Edition |OT2|

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Rufus

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SalsaShark said:
oh my god, according to the steam forums the games are being sent as gifts.

People who tried to gift me things during the sales know that my gift system is busted and apparently i cant recieve gifts for some reason, not even through email. I sent a support ticket but nothing.

I NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO WIN

;_;
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You'd have gotten an email in case you had won. I'm sure they'd have figured out something in that case.
 
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Blizzard

Banned
Sysgen said:
Beat Hazard just got an update.

Release Notes:
- LastFM scrobble support!
- Fixed online chat
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Speaking of updates, Star Ruler got a support with a bunch of changes the other day. I was happy to see continuing dev support for it (even though it's a Steam game, and no one including me actually plays games on Steam).
 
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PaulLFC

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Interesting...

"Microsoft Game Studios Comp" is in the registry. It has one game, which at the moment is just "TestApp somenumbers".

It's probably Fable III, although that's already in the registry, but isn't referenced in the MGS listing. So it could possibly be something else, doubtful as that is. Seems strange that they would list Fable III again with a different entry name...
 
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scitek

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PaulLFC said:
Interesting...

"Microsoft Game Studios Comp" is in the registry. It has one game, which at the moment is just "TestApp somenumbers".

It's probably Fable III, although that's already in the registry, but isn't referenced in the MGS listing. So it could possibly be something else, doubtful as that is. Seems strange that they would list Fable III again with a different entry name...
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It's Alan Wake.
 
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nexen

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Ok I bought Cthulhu and that other game. Now stop releasing cool shit for awhile guys, I need to recover from the sale.
 
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nexen

Member
balladofwindfishes said:
It's obviously Zoo Tycoon 1 and 2 complete, and all the old flight sims bundled together.

I wish :(


Halo 1 and 2 on Steam would also be cool.
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Would hurt someone plenty for a GFWL version of Halo: Reach and Halo Wars. Mostly Reach though.
 
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PaulLFC

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balladofwindfishes said:
It's obviously Zoo Tycoon 1 and 2 complete, and all the old flight sims bundled together.
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It's only showing as one game at the moment, so a collection seems unlikely unless the listing gets updated in the future.

But yes, Zoo Tycoon was amazing, I spent so much time playing Zoo Tycoon 1 back in the day.

amdnv said:
"TestApp somenumbers" certainly teases something. If it were just Fable, would they have bothered giving it this "somenumbers" name?
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The majority of newly-added games in the registry are given TestApp names such as this one. Eventually, they get updated to have the game's actual title, usually a short while before they're ready for release.

As you say though, it would be strange to give Fable III this sort of name unless they're planning on releasing some sort of Game of the Year edition
lol
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That's what's making me think this may well be a different MS game.
 
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scitek

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amdnv said:
"TestApp somenumbers" certainly teases something. If it were just Fable, would they have bothered giving it this "somenumbers" name?
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I have no idea how it usually works. Probably just some rebundling of Fable III with another game already available or something. I wish they'd finally sell Halo 2 and Gears of War through Steam, though.
 
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Htown

STOP SHITTING ON MY MOTHER'S HEADSTONE
dont get excited

it's probably just something from their back catalog like the original Gears or Age of Empires III or something.
 
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amdnv

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The Cthulhu game downloaded in less than 1 minute, but has now spent over 5 minutes installing the Microsoft .NET framework, and now it wants me to install XNA. Gosh, I hate installations. I want to download in the background and click Play when its done.
 
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imoTEP12

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Htown said:
dont get excited

it's probably just something from their back catalog like the original Gears or Age of Empires III or something.
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I would double dip on the original gears, haven't played it in ages and never on the pc.
 
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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I'm pretty sure it's the Xbox360 emulator Microsoft has been working on. They're going to give it to us PC gamers for free because they realized they've treated us so terribly in the past. It'll have full Steamworks support, rerouting achievements and matchmaking through the appropriate Steam service.

Can't wait!

imoTEP12 said:
I would double dip on the original gears, haven't played it in ages and never on the pc.
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If I remember correctly, wasn't the original Gears PC port kind of bad? Like, poorly optimized (which is insane for an Unreal engine game), really glitchy, and broken multiplayer to boot?
 
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Horsemama1956

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morningbus said:
I'm pretty sure it's the Xbox360 emulator Microsoft has been working on. They're going to give it to us PC gamers for free because they realized they've treated us so terribly in the past. It'll have full Steamworks support, rerouting achievements and matchmaking through the appropriate Steam service.

Can't wait!



If I remember correctly, wasn't the original Gears PC port kind of bad? Like, poorly optimized (which is insane for an Unreal engine game), really glitchy, and broken multiplayer to boot?
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It wasn't too bad. When it came out I played it on an Athlon 64 x2, 2GB of DDR1 and a 1950xt on high and it ran at 40-60 fps. You just had to tweak some of the settings in the config to match up with the UT3 Beta to fix the stuttering.

Mp worked fine from what I remember.
 
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Sysgen

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Sysgen said:
Beat Hazard just got an update.

Release Notes:
- LastFM scrobble support!
- Fixed online chat
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LastFM scrobbling - It's here!
posted by Starg @ 12:53PM on July 14, 2011
Beat Hazard can now scrobble!
Intenet radio support should be done next week.
 
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morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I love the Beat Hazard developer. Truly one of the best comeback-kid stories in videogames.
 
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Drkirby

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balladofwindfishes said:
It's obviously Zoo Tycoon 1 and 2 complete, and all the old flight sims bundled together.

I wish :(


Halo 1 and 2 on Steam would also be cool.
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Its not even a compilation, it is one game. I don't know what comp means for valve, but it rarely is compilation.
 
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Gvaz

Banned
Sysgen said:
Beat Hazard just got an update.

Release Notes:
- LastFM scrobble support!
- Fixed online chat
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Finally! I was waiting for this to happen.

Princess Skittles said:
Revenge of the Titans $5.00.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/93200/
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This is an amazing "tower defense" game with perks and quirks with fun challenging gameplay and neat art style. Everyone should pick it up

Also Zeno Clash is the weekend deal buy that too.
 
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hylje

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Valve announced games that were won this summer sale :

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=23640381&postcount=1

The Grand Prize Giveaway winners have been drawn! We are currently doling out the top 10 wishlisted games to each of the winners (unreleased games will be delivered to the winner at the time of their release.) Winners will receive their games through gift messaging by the end of today or July 14th 11:59 PM GMT. Any mail in entry winners will be notified by August 1st 11:59 GMT.
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1-D_FTW

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morningbus said:
I'm pretty sure it's the Xbox360 emulator Microsoft has been working on. They're going to give it to us PC gamers for free because they realized they've treated us so terribly in the past. It'll have full Steamworks support, rerouting achievements and matchmaking through the appropriate Steam service.

Can't wait!
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Rumor on the street says they've only delayed announcing this because they're close to getting EA to support this pro PC initiative and they want a dual announcement for maximum impact.

Baha said:
Grand Prize winners drawn plus list of games won: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=23640381&postcount=1
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*shakes his head at that list*
 
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Gvaz

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Some dudes put dlc in their wishlist that were going for 2.50 or so
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