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Steam To Begin Hosting Game Mods

Posted by Soulskill on from the upgrades dept.

Valve made a brief announcement on Friday that they will be allowing the download of user-created game mods directly from Steam. "Once installed, these MODs will appear in your 'My Games' list and will receive automatic updates just like other games on Steam. Also, these MODs now take advantage of Steamworks, which provides stat tracking and tighter integration with the Steam community." Mods will be available for five different games to start, and more in the future.

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  1. Re:Steam is a good example by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    If the owner dissapears or goes bankrupt, you'll be unable to use your purchased content

    Actually you will still be able to download and play those games, but they will no longer be updated/supported.

  2. Re:Multiplayer among gamers in one household by NemosomeN · · Score: 2, Informative

    Every single Halo game supports 4 players on one machine.

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  3. Re:Double-edged sword by SCPRedMage · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/index.php

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