How has Steam been Improved.

Steam has had some development over the years since 2004

Steam allows games outside the valve catalog

Game Modifications are now Available off steam

Steam released Achievements in 2007 with the release of The Orange Box

A MAC version of steam was released in 2010



http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998982502

Gamers Advantages

So what does Steam offer Gamers?

Some Games require steam to be active to be played which are outside the Valve Catalog E.g Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Empire:Total War, Civ:5.

This allows for Secure Servers when playing multiplayer

The Gamer is able to buy games off Steam and download them to your computer. Similar to iTunes.

The games that are purchased from Steam are then displayed on your Profile!

Steam Community

The Steam Community

The Steam Community operates similar to Myspace

You can connect with friends via steam and even chat with them while in game

Steam also makes use of Clans and Groups

These can range from online community’s and professional gaming leagues to simply social groups such as churches, schools, workplaces etc

Richard Thompson Belongs to the DAC clan, a small group of gamers from or associated with Dapto Anglican Church

Richards Profile

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197998982502

Daclan is the 2nd largest BYO Lan Party in the Illawarra and hosted a Steam Themed Lan Party using free licsneces in order to temporaliy play the Valve MP catalogue

http://daclan.net/

Valve is the company that created Steam.

Valve was founded by Mike Harrington and Gabe Newell in 1996.

Valve are best known for award winning First Person Shooters.

Valves franchises include Half Life, Counterstrike, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress.

Steam was released in 2004 with a Beta of Counterstrike Source with the title Half Life 2 becoming the first retail game to use steam

Valves Video games are considered some of the best in the world

http://www.valvesoftware.com/

VALVE CATALOG

Valve catalog includes any franchise that is developed by Valve.

These include:
Half life
Counter-Strike
Team Fortress
Garry's Mod
Portal
Left 4 Dead

http://www.valvesoftware.com/games/

Steam

I am going to do my presentation on the Computer Program Steam

Steam is a program released in 2004 by the software developer VALVE

Steam is a PC-based program that enhances the experience that one has when playing computer games.

Steam performs many functions

Multiplayer Lobby
Server Platform
Online Store
Social Networking

Steam is downloaded from the Valve Website for Free! However to experience Steam at its intended level will require the purchasing of games

A like to a HTML version of steam can be found

http://store.steampowered.com/