Browsing Steam : the biggest change to Steam Discovery in recent history by Lars Doucet on 12/11/20 11:41:00 pm The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutras community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.
Steam Labs Experiment 010: Browsing Steam amounts to nothing less than the biggest potential change to Steam Discovery we ve seen since the launch of Steam Direct.
Full disclosure: I worked on this feature, and not just a little bit. I was a contractor working for Valve on Steam Labs experiments up until about six months ago. This particular experiment, spearheaded by Valve designer Christen Coomer, represents nothing less than the fulfillment of every single other project I worked on at Steam Labs. When I left I had no idea when or even if it would ship, and
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Another Steam Labs experiment has graduated from the program and made its way to the regular Steam client.
This latest addition is Steam News Hub, a dedicated space within Steam for its users to find news, updates, and events for the games they ve interacted with on the digital game platform.
It first debuted way back in March as Experiment 009, aiming to offer a personalized feed of news, both from game makers and from Steam News Curators (like Gamasutra!).
As a full Steam feature, a blog post explains the tool aims to offer personalized news right out of the box, but also allow Steam users to customize what info is fed to them and where that info is coming from.