Valve are getting ready a brand new search for the digital cabinets storing your games, increasing the shopper’s Library view with extra data on game updates and what your friends are as much as. Basically they’re repainting the digital cabinets and tucking an iPad between your fiction and poetry sections. Excellent metaphor, Alice. Valve wish to check the brand new Steam Library earlier than rolling it out to everybody, so now you can decide into the open beta to see for your self.
The new Library touchdown web page provides a fast take a look at current updates, recently-played games, games yer friends have been enjoying, and collections you’ve sorted games into. Currently/beforehand, the Library opens on whichever game web page you final left it on. Now, you’ll have extra of a way of what’s occurring along with your games and pals. Games may push ‘events’ into the library feed to gab about this and that past updates (that are completely different to the existent Community occasions which pop up notifications). Individual game pages are overhauled too.
See Valve’s New Steam Library page for extra on the modifications with footage aplenty.
To get into the open beta and see all of it for your self, go into Steam’s Settings field and search for the beta participation part. Detailed directions are here.
Our Graham not too long ago went to see the new Steam Library whereas Valve’s Alden Kroll gabbed about it and different issues afoot with Steam. It’s a pleasant step on Steam’s journey however not a big one, the massive man thought.
“Kroll said that – particularly with the Steam Labs work – their goal is to make the act of browsing, finding and organising games entertaining. I’m certainly looking forward to futzing around with the new experiments when they launch tomorrow, and having a more attractive library to use later this month. Still, I hope for bigger and bolder changes from Steam in the months ahead.”
Valve, please make Steam give me a pleasant lengthy nap. That’d be good.
