This July marks the one-year anniversary of Steam Labs, a project we launched last year with three experiments and big ambitions to improve Steam through public experimentation and iteration. We are celebrating with the official release of Community Recommendations, introduced to Steam via Labs.
Steam Labs is a place to explore the potential for new and improved versions of Steam, and the most valuable part of that process is you. (Yes you, in the back with the lab coat! And the rest of you, too.)
We've put together a bit more background on what we've learned in Labs during the past year: How it led us to ship four experiments, shelve two, and continue to design and refine even more along the way, as we look ahead to the future.
In all, we couldn't have done it without YOU! (Yes, still YOU!) So thank you for being a part of it, and here's to another year of Steam Labs!
The spider is a mankind’s most ancient and deadly nemesis. As a licensed Kill It With Fire exterminator, it’s time to fight back! Gather your arsenal and pursue the eight-legged menace on a journey across suburbia.Continue here to read the full story.
To defeat spiders you must exploit their one weakness: FIRE. Or bullets. Or explosions, throwing stars, gettin’ smushed by stuff... pretty much anything, really. But that doesn’t mean it’ll be easy – first you’ve gotta find the spiders. Use state-of-the-art arachnid tracking technology to pinpoint your quarry’s location among hundreds of potential hiding spots - then, torch everything and smash the spider with a frying pan after it runs out. It’s the only way to be sure.
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We have been thrilled and humbled by the support and dedication that has fueled the Flight Sim community for the past 38 years. Since the launch of the very first Microsoft Flight Simulator in 1982, we knew it was finally the right time to develop the next-generation version of Microsoft Flight Simulator. We have the right tools, technology, partners and hardware to release the most realistic and authentic flight simulator to date. Microsoft Flight Simulator features include:Continue here to read the full story.
After listening to her grandma's mad stories about the coming of a giant wave, Noon, takes her submarine fishing. Unfortunately, she gets her submarine stuck underneath a drifting city and finds herself helplessly lost at sea in an attempt to find her way back to home. Noon discovers that there might be more to her grandmother's rambling tale about destruction and tidal waves and that she might have the only key to stopping the destruction, a mythical tideshell.Continue here to read the full story.
Follow Noon as she travels through a thousand year old thunderstorm, visits a dried out lake in a desert where fish still swim at Night, and explores a sunken city that drifts with the currents.
Gassy Links
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- My fiancé entire savings (which we both were saving for our wedding and honeymoon) to buy a gaming pc. Thanks Hypothermia.
- Sir Patrick Stewart marks 80th birthday with Shakespeare sonnet on Twitter. Happy birthday!
Stories
- Super-rich call for higher taxes on wealthy to pay for Covid-19 recovery. Thanks Simon.
- Five people injured in suspected electrocution on Arizona lake.
Science
Thanks Max.
- Astronomers Baffled by Mysterious Ring-Shaped Objects in Deep Space.
- Microscopy technique reveals nanoscale detail of coatings as they dry.
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Media
- TeslaCam Videos.
- Maned wolf in Brazil. Looks like someone crossed a dog with a deer. Thanks RedEye9.
- "Please scream in your heart." Are we having fun yet?