New steam community coming soon

New features announced each day this week, beta access available soon

August 13, 2012--Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced a major update coming to the Steam Community.

This update focuses on highlighting and enabling the best user-created screenshots, videos, and Workshop items for games across Steam while making it easier for the community to discuss their favorite games.

Every game on Steam will have a new Game Hub. The Hubs highlight the most popular user-created screenshots, videos, and Steam Workshop items as rated by the community and combine it with related news, discussions, and comments for the game all in one central location.

"The New Steam Community is all about showing off the best content that gamers have created," says Emily Kent at Valve. "With over 89 million screenshots, videos, Steam Workshop maps, levels, mods, and items, plus news articles and product updates, the community has created an unbelievable wealth of content around their favorite games."

Steam is a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC and Mac games and digital entertainment, with over 40 million accounts around the world and over 2000 titles offered.

Check back each day (August 13-16th) for a preview of a new set of features at http://steamcommunity.com/communitycontent

This winter, DreamHack will feature a major 5 on 5 tournament in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

DreamHack recently announced the CS:GO tournament, which will have a total prize purse of 300,000 SEK (~$45,000 USD) and will include 16 of the best Counter-Strike teams in the world – the participants will be invited teams and teams that qualify through a BYOC event.

The Grand Final will take place in front of the massive DreamHack audience, and will be viewable in full HD streaming for free from Twitch TV.

Have what it takes to be a top competitive team? Beta access for all pre-purchasers begins tomorrow – get your team together and find out!

New Community Open for Everyone

September 4, 2012--Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the public launch of the new Steam Community with features focused on finding and sharing the best community content.

The new Community can be found at http://www.steamcommunity.com.

An overview of the features can be found at www.steamcommunity.com/communitycontent.

Steam is a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC and Mac games with over 40 million accounts around the world and over 2,000 titles offered.