{"id":1318,"date":"2007-06-20T21:15:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T01:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2007-06-26T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T14:28:08","slug":"steam-goes-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"Steam Goes Social"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesnews.com\/cgi-bin\/board.pl?action=viewthread&#038;threadid=78694\">Via Blue&#8217;s News<\/a> comes word of a big announcement from Valve regarding their Steam content distribution system that&#8217;s worth mentioning. From the announcement on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steampowered.com\/v\/index.php?area=news&#038;id=1093&#038;cc=US\">Steam website (Link)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>June 20, 2007 &#8212; This summer Valve will ship a major update to its online gaming platform Steam, introducing an advanced set of community features to more than 13 million gamers around the world.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBeginning in July, Steam users can set up their own personal Steam pages and profiles, create and join groups, schedule games with friends, review who they&#8217;ve played with, see how well everyone played, chat with groups, chat via voice, and more. These new community services and features can be used with all Steam games, which include new releases and classic titles from leading publishers and independent developers.<\/p>\n<p>Free of charge, the new community features will be accessible via the Steam desktop client and via the web.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice. Though I have to admit wondering why this wasn&#8217;t done a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; can we expect a Steam Marketplace?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Blue&#8217;s News comes word of a big announcement from Valve regarding their Steam content distribution system that&#8217;s worth mentioning. From the announcement on the Steam website (Link): June 20, 2007 &#8212; This summer Valve will ship a major update &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1318\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}