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Saturday, June 23, 2007

Screens of the upcoming Steam Community

Searching the web this week, I found some one who took a picture of what the new Steam Community from Gabe Newell keynote speech at Showdown LAN.


The control panel
Gabe Newell gave a presentation at the Showdown LAN event the other day (thanks Greg), which seems to have focused on the Steam Community. Fortunately for us someone had a camera, but don’t get too excited: there’s nothing particularly remarkable yet. There are surprises, like global voice support handled by Steam itself and support for external games, but otherwise it’s what you might expect from a post-Xbox Live community system.

Gabe’s release estimate is this summer July, before the launch of Team Fortress 2 and the Orange Box.


A CLAN Page
Gabe’s slides

The “Steam Identity”


Create Profile and Home page

Preferences
Affiliation
Statistics
Control Panel

Public versus private
Schedule
Real-time status
Revamped all the communications function to make it easier to play with your friends

Find a friend
See who’s online or playing
Invite Friends to chat or play
Join a friend’s game


“Communications”


Instant Messaging, integrated voice (finally), and chat rooms

Works with non-Steam games


“Affiliation”


Join or create new groups

Scheduling/Organizing tournaments and matches

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