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STEAM Achievements Added To Giant Bomb

Added by Dave Snider on June 12, 2009

133 comments

Engineer is credit to team!

Just a quick note that Giant Bomb members can now link their STEAM achievements to profiles here. Be sure to read the instructions carefully as Valve thoughtfully allows users to create not one, not two, but three possible names for your account on their network. For the record, you're going to want to use the "Custom URL" one that lets you show off your stats on their steamcommunity.com site. For example, Jeff's URL is http://steamcommunity.com/id/giantbombing/. It's that last part ("giantbombing") that you want to enter in. Also be sure to make sure your profile is set to public otherwise we won't be able to sync you up.

The addition of STEAM compliments our existing World of Warcraft and XBOX LIve achievement tracking and generally makes our engineers feel pretty good about themselves. Next, we'll be working on some statistics and global tracking so you can map out your individual gaming history.

As an aside, we're still hoping Sony will open up their trophy system sometime this summer so we can get those linked up as well. In the meantime, enjoy going for those S-Ranks!

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133 Comments

the_chojin99
on June 12, 2009

awsome adding now

Scooper
on June 12, 2009

It's a shame not all games have Steam achievments. Regardless, great work guys!

CowMuffins
on June 12, 2009

Oh yeah.

AllanIceman is online
on June 12, 2009

@snide Will add, but how exactly, I don't see the place to create the id?

Venatio
on June 12, 2009

Cool, I hope that PS Trophies get added soon

Also I dont know if you guys read these comments but I want to let you guys know something, a Mirrors Edge sequel was just KINDA announced, maybe you guys should write up something about that

LangarN
on June 12, 2009

awesome!

TheMustacheHero
on June 12, 2009

YAY!

Ineedaname
on June 12, 2009

Ah tony the tiger lives here aswell now.

Serker
on June 12, 2009

cant seem to get it to work... i set my stuff to public but it still says i have 0 achievements

SuperMooseman
on June 12, 2009

Great, finally got some achievements to show off! :)

nohthink
on June 12, 2009

if only there was a trophy support...

JJWeatherman
on June 12, 2009

Sweet. Now I can add those 2-3 achievements to my total! :P

Kontrapunkt
on June 12, 2009

Whey!!!!! Maybe i should fire up TF2 Again.

mracoon is online
on June 12, 2009

Now I can compete with those people with loads of Xbox achievements.

Mourer
on June 12, 2009

Waiting patiently for trophies. Getting some in preparation right now in fact.

Wildfire570
on June 12, 2009

Now I have a real reason to play Team Fortress 2 again!

ZeroCast
on June 12, 2009

Thank you guys for yet another awesome feature.

CowMuffins
on June 12, 2009

@Serker said:

" cant seem to get it to work... i set my stuff to public but it still says i have 0 achievements "

Cause you suck, and have no achievements. :D

MoTheHawk
on June 12, 2009

It doesn't really work... the system finds my Steam profile and even finds my Steam avatar, but I still get the big red "Whoops" message and says I have 0 achievements. And yes, my Steam profile is set to Public.

Just a heads up for the bug-fixing crew! I fully support this feature.

AllanIceman is online
on June 12, 2009

@MoTheHawk said:

" It doesn't really work... the system finds my Steam profile and even finds my Steam avatar, but I still get the big red "Whoops" message and says I have 0 achievements. And yes, my Steam profile is set to Public.Just a heads up for the bug-fixing crew! I fully support this feature. "

Same here. Checked it three times!

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