After a bit of a delay Guilty Gear X2 #Reload is now available in all Steam regions. Thanks for your continued support.

To celebrate the release of the Steam Music Player, Guilty Gear X2 #Reload now comes bundled with its two-disc Original Soundtrack for no extra charge!

Encoded in MP3 at over double the bitrate of the OGG files used ingame, you should find these a little more pleasant on the ears and convenient for the playlists. You can find the soundtrack in the Guilty Gear X2 Reload folder in your steam/steamapps/common directory. If you opt to listen to #Reload's music through the Steam Music Player, Steam should automatically detect the soundtrack and add it to your game music library the next time a music scan is performed.

Starting today, Guilty Gear X2 #Reload has Steam Trading Cards, Profile Backgrounds, Emoticons, and Badges! Players of #Reload will now periodically receive trading card drops which they can craft into rewards to adorn their profiles and chat windows.

THANKS AGAIN to all the fans of #Reload who have been steadily pouring in since the Steam release (and more notably, since the creation of a fanmade netplay patch for the Steam release of #Reload[shoryuken.com])! You guys are awesome, and ggxxnet's lobbies have not seen this much action in quite awhile. I hope the cards inspire even more players to come around and try their mettle online! I'll be waiting, with my awful day-one Faust.

I'd like to extend a huge thanks to everyone who showed their support for #Reload's Steam debut! That, and I'd like to talk about a few things...

Guilty Gear X2 #Reload's lack of native online multiplayer proved to be a rather large elephant in the room, and not something that we wanted to accept for its Steam release. After exhausting every option available to us regarding implementing netplay, I was certain that nothing could be done. Fortunately, I was proven wrong! Through the efforts of a dedicated fan, ggxxnet, a netplay fanpatch that formerly only worked on Japanese retail copies of #Reload, now works on all versions of #Reload, including the Steam release.

ggxxnet itself is an amazing modification; not ONLY content in providing online multiplayer, it adds replays, a palette editor, adjustable input delay, match spectating, and it even fixes some extraneous issues like being unable to adjust window size. It deserves some time in the spotlight, which is why I'm happy to give it a bit of promotion in the hopes that more people will end up benefiting from it.

I wrote a brief guide on how to get ggxxnet running on the Steam version of #Reload, which you can read here:
http://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=310603808

In other news, we are planning a few additional bonuses for #Reload... as you may have inferred by the title of this announcement, one of said bonuses would be the implementation of Steam Trading Cards! We couldn't pass up the opportunity to give GG fans a little more flair to add to their Steam profiles. Expect more info on this, amongst other things, very soon.