Resident Evil, or Biohazard as it is known in Japan, used to be a bit of trivia for fans of the series. This is because almost every Resident Evil game available on Steam contained both English and Japanese titles, and the use of lowercase and uppercase letters was a mess.

To give a few examples:

The most ludicrous result of the double name policy was seen in the Steam title for Resident Evil 7. Capcom subtitled the English version of RE7 "Biohazard" and the Japanese version "Resident Evil"; the Steam title included both, so the full game name in our Steam library looked like this: RESIDENT EVIL 7 biohazard / BIOHAZARD 7 Resident Evil.

(At least we didn't make it the stylized version that appears in the box art. / BIOHA7.ARD resident evil.)

As of yesterday, the nightmare of library organization is over; as Reddit poster Comboxer noticed, the titles have all changed this week and now contain only localized English game names. Caps Lock's playfulness has also been removed:

Finally, Resident Evil fans' Steam libraries no longer look like a brand manager's acid trip. (Although I'd like to imagine Capcom had a 100-page document explaining all the irregular capitalization and other inconsistencies in a methodical way. It would be impossible.)

A Reddit poster speculated that the ability to add localized game titles must have been recently added to Steam, and he was correct; when I asked Valve, they pointed me to an update to Steamworks from last December, which they said was a "new" version of Steamworks.

"With the goal of further deepening Steam's localization support, Steam can now display names in more than one language if there is a translated version of the game name.

The fact that region-specific titles are only an option at the end of 2019 shows how rapidly Steam's global reach has grown over the past five years. And that growth has posed Valve with a much bigger problem than the need for better localization options. Currently, Valve is quietly working through regulations to launch a version of Steam in China (which may not be good for the growing Chinese indie scene)