The Steam Review

Another dry spell of Steam news is coming to an end. Next week will see the release of the “Steam Winter Update”, the first such ‘seasonal’ release and a departure from Valve’s previously iterative release schedule.

SimBin’s upcoming RACE is the first game in a long time to really use Steam–in fact so keen are the developers that, for the first time since Half-Life 2, they are releasing a retail-led game with Steam as a requirement for boxed copies.

There is more to the Steam 3.0 Store than you have been lead to believe…

A beta test for the 3.0 iteration of the Steam Store is starting later today.

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.

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.