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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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I'm surprised they didn't do it sooner, to be perfectly honest. Same with media, from TV shows to music - although obviously they couldn't get away with using DRM for it. I like Steam because I can keep all my programs on a separate drive and when I reinstall Windows all my games are ready to go, minus the short initial config time. If Valve can do that with other apps - from Office to WinRAR - then that would really appeal to me.
I don't know if anyone else has tried the Office 2013 Preview but one of the best features is the integration with SkyDrive. If Valve can do the same with Steam Cloud then that's great. |
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