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20 Jun 2007
Topic: Valve Announces Major Update for Steam
Free Update Offers New Community Features for Connecting Gamers. Here is Valve's announcement:
This summer Valve will ship a major update to its online gaming platform Steam, introducing an advanced set of community features to
more than 13 million gamers around the world.
Beginning in July, Steam users can set up their own personal Steam pages and profiles, create and join groups, schedule games with friends, review who
they've played with, see how well everyone played, chat with groups, chat via voice, and more. These new community services and features can be used
with all Steam games, which include new releases and classic titles from leading publishers and independent developers.
Free of charge, the new community features will be accessible via the Steam desktop client and via the web.
"Our community has given us great direction on the ways they want to see Steam evolve," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "Adding
these new community features to make it easier to connect with other gamers is something we've wanted to see on Steam for a long time and this latest
update is just the start. We've got a long list of items that we're working on to make it easier for gamers to connect and play games on
Steam."
This upgrade marks the largest extension to the Steam platform since its first commercial release in March 2004. In its three year history, Steam has
defined the next generation online gaming platform delivering hundreds of games to millions of users with services such as Guest Passes, Automatic
Updates, Free Weekends, and allowing gamers to access their games from any PC.
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