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Steam Adding Non-Gaming Titles

[Aug 08, 2012, 1:27 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Valve announces plans to add non-gaming applications to Steam saying they are set to launch their first set of "software" (what does that make games?) titles to the service on September 5th:

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the first set of Software titles are heading to Steam, marking a major expansion to the platform most commonly known as a leading destination for PC and Mac games.

The Software titles coming to Steam range from creativity to productivity. Many of the launch titles will take advantage of popular Steamworks features, such as easy installation, automatic updating, and the ability to save your work to your personal Steam Cloud space so your files may travel with you.

More Software titles will be added in an ongoing fashion following the September 5th launch, and developers will be welcome to submit Software titles via Steam Greenlight.

"The 40 million gamers frequenting Steam are interested in more than playing games," said Mark Richardson at Valve. "They have told us they would like to have more of their software on Steam, so this expansion is in response to those customer requests."

For more information, please visit www.steampowered.com.

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Re: Steam Adding Non-Gaming Titles

Aug 9, 2012, 17:07

DarkCntry

wtf_man wrote on Aug 8, 2012, 20:00: Just so you are aware... the RTM version kills some of those workarounds, just like the consumer preview killed the ones from the developer's build. You pretty much will have to replace the explorer shell. Meh...I'm sure they'll tweak one of the replacers to work with the retail version, I understand there's already an internal one working for 9200.16384, which is, if I remember correctly, is RTM. Either way, I don't think we'll have to worry about Metro in the long run of things.

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Comment [quote="DarkCntry"Aug 9, 2012, 17:07][quote="wtf_man"Aug 8, 2012, 20:00]Just so you are aware... the RTM version kills some of those workarounds, just like the consumer preview killed the ones from the developer's build. You pretty much will have to replace the explorer shell. [/quote] Meh...I'm sure they'll tweak one of the replacers to work with the retail version, I understand there's already an internal one working for 9200.16384, which is, if I remember correctly, is RTM. Either way, I don't think we'll have to worry about Metro in the long run of things. [/quote]

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