Shane Robinett posted this item on Jun 20, 2007
June 20, 2007 -- 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.
For more information, please visit
steampowered.com
About Valve
Valve is an entertainment software and technology company founded in
1996 and based in Bellevue, Washington. The company's portfolio of
entertainment properties includes Half-Life®, Counter-Strike®, Day of
Defeat®, Team Fortress® and PortalTM. Valve's catalog of products
accounts for over 20 million retail units sold worldwide, and over 80%
of PC online action gameplay. In addition, Valve is a developer of
leading-edge technologies, such as the Source® game engine and Steam®,
a broadband platform for the delivery and management of digital
content. For more information, please visit
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