Valve anounces Hubs and other awesome Steam Community updates!

[Sirion]

Along with the mind-blowing Mann vs Machine update for Team Fortress 2, Valve announced new features for Steam Community.

Quote:New features announced each day this week, beta access available soon

August 13, 2012--Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced a major update coming to the Steam Community.

This update focuses on highlighting and enabling the best user-created screenshots, videos, and Workshop items for games across Steam while making it easier for the community to discuss their favorite games.

Every game on Steam will have a new Game Hub. The Hubs highlight the most popular user-created screenshots, videos, and Steam Workshop items as rated by the community and combine it with related news, discussions, and comments for the game all in one central location.

"The New Steam Community is all about showing off the best content that gamers have created," says Emily Kent at Valve. "With over 89 million screenshots, videos, Steam Workshop maps, levels, mods, and items, plus news articles and product updates, the community has created an unbelievable wealth of content around their favorite games."

Steam is a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC and Mac games and digital entertainment, with over 40 million accounts around the world and over 2000 titles offered.

Check back each day (August 13-16th) for a preview of a new set of features at http://www.steamcommunity.com/communitycontent.

For now, the biggest new feature are the Hubs, where you can see screenshots, videos, ratings, news, mods and whatever there is to see about a game, all in one place.

It'll look like this:



More will be disclosed in the next few days.

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH]

I'm personally seeing how long I can last without using Steam. I know that once I register, my money will dwindle into a black hole

Still, this update looks good. We should however expect all the usual "HohMahGeh, THEY CHANGED somETHING wE WiLl BOYCOTT 5EvA"

[retrolinkx]

Yeah, this update is pretty damn cool.

Still I only ever use Steam for Left 4 Dead, and Counter Strike Condition Zero.

[Sirion]

(08-14-2012 04:50 PM)SERIOUSLY THOUGH Wrote:  I'm personally seeing how long I can last without using Steam. I know that once I register, my money will dwindle into a black hole

Still, this update looks good. We should however expect all the usual "HohMahGeh, THEY CHANGED somETHING wE WiLl BOYCOTT 5EvA"

Professional complainers will complain professionally.

[BumblebeeCody]

Sounds cool but I just want to play games.

[Sirion]

Day 2:

Steam Community Groups updated to look more like forums, with new layout, groups discussions, sub-forums.

Btw, it'd be cool with DYKG had a Steam Group as soon as the Steam beta goes live. It would be like being in this forum, but easier for people to just say "hey, let's go for a TF2!" or something like that.