The Steam Review

Seeing as it has been an extremely quiet period lately, a wrap-up of what is currently known of Valve’s future plans for Steam seems worthwhile.

A new filesystem beta started last night, with GCF files abandonded for games using what was once the Steam virtual drive.

An in-development version 3 of the Steam Store can be accessed online, but does not yet provide any hints as to its purpose.

An informative Eurogamer interview brings to light Steam’s expanded role in monitoring various client data, and how helpful it has been and will be in improving both itself and its games.

A Steam platform update has been released enabling the purchasing and downloading of videos, adding a new error-handling system, making various other tweaks, and introducing a range of glitches.

A simple upgrade to the Steam Store has added Metacritic ratings to all games that have them.