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   Barney Google-Goo
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   by David Hinkle Writer RSS on Feb 7th 2014 8:00PM
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   Valve has added a new space to the front page of Steam, in the hopes of offering a better at-a-glance view of recently updated games.

   The Recently Updated section not only highlights patched games, but those that have just received DLC or new features entirely. Developers can choose when their update is highlighted in this section, thanks to new developer tools available alongside the Recently Updated portal's roll-out. This is an especially useful feature for constantly-changing Early Access games and mitigates the need to hunt down patch notes on developer sites or in the Steam Community forums. There's even a page to specifically list updates for your Steam library.

   Last year, Valve announced plans to better integrate Steam into the living room. This initiative includes custom plug-and-play Steam Machines, built by third-party manufacturers, running on a custom version of Linux called SteamOS. Each Steam box also ships with Valve's own Steam Controller.
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   STEAM EXTENDS DISCOVERABILITY OPTIONS

   Provides Developer-Driven Visibility For Major Game Updates

   February 7, 2014 - Valve today launched a "Recently Updated" section on Steam that highlights titles offering new and interesting updates, features, and/or content additions.

   Designed to give developers more ways to communicate with gamers about their products on Steam, this public release was matched with a tools release that lets developers elect when to add their update to this product area and what to say about the contents of their latest update.

   "The more options developers have for communicating about their products the better it is for everyone," says Tom Bui of Valve. "With this new product section and corresponding developer tools, customers can more easily discover products that provide ongoing value and involvement from the developers."

   Additionally, a new page in Steam lets customers easily browse through recent updates to titles they have purchased or activated on Steam.

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   Posted 10 years ago #
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   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   I want to see a better categories section that is permanent and with sub categories so that i can sort out my games into decent categories, for example I'd like to sub categorise all my indie and arcade games into genres as well as my strategy games (i.e. modern war, space, cards, historical war, map based strategy, fantasy, city building etc) and even my shooters in to various sub genres, then there's game si'v eplayed for less than an hour, those that are free, etc . Since categories were introduced about 3 years ago, i've had to re do my categories at least 4 times. I discovered last time it happened (last Novemeber) that my son had logged into my account to play one of my games, while I was still logged in. I think when this happens the cloud based saves get mixed up and categories then disappear. It takes me months to recategorise at the moemt due to the number of Steam games I have (over 2500). The search function is almost useless as i tend to forget the names of many of the indie games . When my categories are zapped I know what I want to play; but, becasue I can't remeber the name i end up not bothering becasue, to look through so many games, by the time i find it, i've another game usually catches my eye.

   Posted 10 years ago #

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