March 1st, 2010 
Cliff Riseborough 
Square Enix has announced that upcoming title Just Cause 2 will use Steamworks on the PC. The announcement was made via Twitter in a response to a question :
Just Cause 2 uses Steamworks all the way.
So, you get all the perks that come along with Steamworks, but it means you will also have to run the game through Steam to play it. Decide for yourselves if that makes you more interested/not interested in grappling on to passing helicopters and riding them to your next target.
February 24th, 2010 Cliff Riseborough 
Just Cause 2. If it’s anything like it’s older brother, a thoroughly ridiculous game featuring latching a grappling hook on to passing aircraft and blowing a lot of stuff up. Oh, and something about either fomenting or stopping a revolution or something. Anyway, did I mention the blowing up of stuff?
Well, if you are an XP user, you’re out of luck. According to the system requirements for the game (thanks to Rock Paper Shotgun in this case), you will need to be running either Windows Vista or Windows 7 to play the game.
One wonders if the surprisingly fast uptake of Windows 7 amongst Steam users in January’s system survey results helped push Square Enix in to the decision. Of course, those same results showed that XP was still the most popular OS amongst Steam users, totalling almost 44% of users.
And speaking of Steam (yes, it is another hybrid post…mostly because I’m sick as a dog at the moment. See what I fight through for you people?!)…a new Beta client is available for download from within the existing one. Now, it IS a Beta…some people have reported Friends’ lists turning up empty, or games deciding they need to be downloaded again. However, the whole system looks a lot more slick. Everything is laid out well, with smart pop ups for details on a game if you hover over it. Lists look better, too. And best of all, the entire thing was built new from the ground up WITHOUT using Internet Explorer dependencies any longer. The new WebKit based rendering engine is a lot faster.
Posted in Games 
Tags: Just Cause 2, Square Enix, Steam, Steam Beta client, Vista and Windows 7 only 
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