I get a lot of comments about the Calculator to the tune of "It says I bought X package but I bought all the games individually", "It's not showing the DLC I bought", "I didn't spend nearly that much."
I figured it's time to clear the air and explain just how the Steam Calculator works.
Reviewing Operation Arrowhead (OA) is a tricky thing to me for many reasons. For one, I'm a huge huge fan of ARMA 2, with over 150 hours clocked in the game over the past year. Secondly, the ARMA series seem to epitomize PC gaming as a whole for me; offering an experience that just wouldn't be possible on consoles. Certainly there are other games, and genres that are designed for the PC - RTS and MMO games come to mind, but ARMA is wholly unique, it's something you just can't get in any other game.
Way to jump out of the gate Valve. Not people to do anything half-assed, they've launched Steam for the Mac with 63 games available at the start, and here's the kicker. If you own ANY of those games on Steam already, then you also own the Mac versions. In addition to their Source games, also included are the latest two Telltale adventures (Tales of Monkey Island and the in-progress Sam & Max The Devil's Playhouse). LucasArts even has versions of all their old adventure games (like Dig) available with SteamPlay, on the Mac.
Good news for all those Mac gamers, of which there will certainly be more of now.
Also of note, Portal is Free until May 24th. So download that NOW.
2K Games and Valve today announced an agreement to power all PC versions of the highly anticipated Sid Meier's Civilization V with many of Steamworks' features and offer a special Digital Deluxe Edition via Steam. Customers who pre-order the regular or Digital Deluxe editions of Sid Meier's Civilization V on Steam will be rewarded with a free map pack when the game launches in fall 2010.
Sid Meier's Civilization V players will enjoy the benefits of the Steamworks' features included in all PC versions, such as auto-updating, Steam Achievements, downloadable content, ability to access from any computer*, multiplayer matchmatching and more.
*In supported countries
OK, so it doesn't say anything about being a Steam exclusive, but as far as I know, the boycott of Steam by other Digital Distribution methods is still in effect since Modern Warfare 2 used Steamworks. I guess it's really working out for them, funneling more business Valve's way.
Steam launched their new UI yesterday, and although it was in beta for quite some time and many people have been using it, now everyone gets the joy of using their brand spanking new interface. There are a lot of new features with this new UI so I thought I'd outline the less obvious ones.
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