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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. Double-edged sword by winphreak · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can see the benefit of free hosting to this, but I also sense it'll be a while before all the mods take advantage of this new system.
    I'd like to think that Garry's Mod 10 counts as the first MOD to try this approach, and as long as I've been playing, it seemed to work pretty well.

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