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BloodRayne and Psychonauts Added to Steam Library
eToyChest is reporting that Majesco (and thus Double Fine) have inked a deal with Valve to feature some of their hit games on the digital download service. BloodRayne 1 and 2, as well as Advent Rising, are already available on the service. The cult favorite Psychonauts will be coming next month. From the article: "BloodRayne 2 and Advent Rising are available now via Steam for $19.99 while the first BloodRayne costs $9.99. Those who purchase any of the titles during the first two weeks of availability will receive a 10% discount." They're a little pricier than I'd like, but it's interesting to see titles from a variety of publishers on the service.
On the tail of that announcement, DEFCON from those independent developers who made Darwinia started preloading and purchasing today.
Demented But Determined.
Personally, I'd like to see some abandonware on Steam. Or perhaps some of those old Sierra adventure games. Not that you couldn't get these off of eBay or something, but it would expose a new audience to games that they might not have been old enough to remember.
In addition to the other posters helpful links, I also find deleting the file clientregistry.blob (or renaming it to be on the safe side) resets a lot of config settings and forces a refresh, you'll have to login to steam again so you better have your password handy. Steam will say it's updating after you launch and then see how it goes for you. I had a couple of issues fixed by this for me.
I just bought the game (finally) about a week ago and enjoyed almost every moment. :) Well worth the price. It's a fun platform-y game and plays decently with a mouse+keyboard. Camera issues will annoy at times, but not often enough to destroy the fun. There were about 3 times in the entire game that I had "cheat" by looking online for what I was supposed to do next. (I'm fairly impatient though, so this is a fairly low number.)
Now if only Steam offered some way to customize the ordering of all these games.
One complaint I have is that us legal users have to jump through hoops while those who don't care about legality can just grab a program that not only removes that annoyance, it even lets them download the games without paying or searching for warez sites.
The other complaints are that it takes forever to download any recent game on my DSL connection and that Steam requires a credit card for buying games so I can only get the games they offer in stores.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Actually, it was available for the PC at about the same time as the xbox version, just it got crappy distribution and marketing. I own the only PC copy that my local megastore carried.