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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. Cool! by Duhavid · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I am boiling some water now!

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    emt 377 emt 4
  2. Re:Very nice! by CRiMSON · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ROFL Offtopic?

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    oogly boogly!
  3. Re:Multiplayer among gamers in one household by StarWreck · · Score: 0, Redundant

    there's not really a whole lot of console games that will allow 4 player. Games like Mario Cart sure. But more graphics-intense games like Halo don't allow multiplayer without multiple machines and multiple copies of the game.

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    ... and in the DRM, bind them.