I setup a new Steam Curation page with a few games I recommend people check out. In the future I plan on migrating awesome Steam game reviews to the page. So if you have been itching to review a cool Steam game, post it to the site and let me know about it and it may be featured on our Steam Curation page.

http://store.steampowered.com/curator/6874475/

"Now it’s easy to listen to your music collection while you play games on Steam.

Point Steam to the MP3s on your computer, then browse your collection of albums and artists. You’ll also find your Steam Soundtracks DLC in your Steam Music library when the associated base game is installed. Listen to albums, queue up mixes, and create playlists you love, right in your Steam library. Best of all, it’s all available right within the Steam Overlay, so you can control playback without leaving your game. The Steam Music library and player consist of all the basics you need to enjoy your music without switching tasks."

Steam Music has finally shipped and it's available to anyone that recently updated the Steam client. Steam Music offers a pretty spartan UI right now in allowing you to search through all your music and filter by artist or album. After Steam scans your library accessing and playing your music is pretty quick but I miss a some features like being able to shuffle through all your music. At some point I hope they offer a cover art style way to mouse through your library, I really like this as I have a ton of music and it's nice to visually locate and album as I scroll through hundreds of albums(I have a ton of music).

That said, I love that music support came to Steam and am looking forward to further releases that support more audio formats like AAC & FLAC.

To celebrate the launch of Steam Music Valve is giving away the soundtracks to some of it's most iconic games. So grab them now while you can.

• Half-Life | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323130/


• Half-Life Two | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323140/


• Half-Life Two: Episode One | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323150/


• Half-Life Two: Episode Two | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323160/


• Portal | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323170/


• Portal 2 | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323180/


• Free to Play | Free Soundtrack DLC: http://store.steampowered.com/app/323120/

http://store.steampowered.com/news/14358

Hopefully it's not a secret to most of you that back in the day, I had a thing for Warcraft 3. I loved the strategic elements, the heroes and it's non-starcraft pacing. At University I played it a lot with friends and when DoTA hit, played that as well. I generally played as the Undead or Orcs and had a pretty good build that could stand up well in a fight.

After World of Warcraft released and quickly became one of the most popular games ever, I figured that it wouldn't be too long until Warcraft 4 was released. After Starcraft 2 was announced I lost hope in a Warcraft 4 release as it didn't make sense for Blizzard to push two strategy games at once.

That said, I imagine we are a year or so away from a Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void release, which is to be the final chapter of Starcraft 2. It has a strong community and I imagine Blizzard will support it for quite sometime.

All that to say, after Starcraft 2 is completed, why not focus on Warcraft 4? I'd love a modern RTS+Hero game and there is plenty of story they can cover since Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. My fear is that since WoW was such an ultra hit, they might skip Warcraft 4 in favor of WoW 2.

Did you like Warcraft 3? Do you want to see a new chapter in the Warcraft RTS Universe?

"The basic goal is to recreate the original Doom and Doom 2 in the idTech4 engine with all the engine eye candy ID Software has provided us with so we can recreate the game for a classic Doom player to remember and enjoy the memories of the classics in a modernized way, but keeping the old Doom spirit well in the game."

The Doom Reborn project has just released a pre-beta version for testing so if you are interested in heading back to the original game with an updated skin, check it out.

http://doomreborngame.com/index.php?page=news

I'll be watching this pretty closely as loved other fan recreation projects of old games like Black Mesa and Diablo Mortal Shroud.

It's the battle to the death between the iPhone 6 and the Galaxy S5 in this chart from The Onion. Who won?

Two years ago I played Cannon Brawl at PAX Prime. I liked what I played so much I bought it and have since been waiting for it to hit 1.0. Since when I originally bought it till now Turtle Sandbox Games(the creators of Cannon Brawl) have ported it to Mac and Linux and added a lot of new features to it. If you are looking for a fun couch/internet co-op strategy game you can pick up and play with a friend you should checkout Cannon Brawl. Cannon Brawl also features a interesting story mode that is worth checking out too.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/230860/

JJ Abrams production company Bad Robot released a on set teaser video for the Millenium Falcon appearing in Star Wars VII. Take a turn for the awesome at is features a porthole covered with the Batmobile.

Seriously..

"Think About It, how much would a rupee from the Legend of Zelda be worth in real life?"

YouTube sensation Dylan Dubeau answers the question "How much are Zelda Rupees worth" in a really interesting way. He figures out how much they are worth by comparing Zelda items to items for sale in the US then how much the actual value of the gems would be worth.

Spoiler alert, the actual gem value would be quite a lot of money.

After taking a break, the Cheerful Ghost Roundtable is back on the air. Since we have spent so much time away, this episode is a bit different and contains a few more technical glitches than usual.

We break into song and dance talking about what we've been playing since the last Roundtable as well as the new that Microsoft purchased Mojang for 2.5 billion dollars. With all the negativity surrounding the recent #gamergate controversy we talk about what positive influences games have had on our lives.

http://cheerfulghost.com/Travis/posts/2209/confirmed-microsoft-is-buying-mojang-for-2-5-billion

It's interesting to see films and music videos without music. Someone clipped John Williams score out of the Star Wars throne room scene and the results are interesting. I loved how they dubbed in Chewbaccas voice each time.