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Productivity and Creativity Software Coming To Steam
lga writes "Valve announced today in a press release that they are expanding Steam beyond games and will start to deliver other software. This means that Steam will compete directly with Microsoft's Windows Store and perhaps explains some of Gabe Newell's disdain for Windows 8. The ability to save documents to Steam Cloud space also brings Valve into competition with the likes of Dropbox and Skydrive. According to the press release, 'The Software titles coming to Steam range from creativity to productivity. Many of the launch titles will take advantage of popular Steamworks features, such as easy installation, automatic updating, and the ability to save your work to your personal Steam Cloud space so your files may travel with you.'"
Half-Life 3 has been re-imagined as a suite of image editing software rather than a first-person single player action game, and will ship with this release.
You gotta love that name.
I see that they're following the example of Master of Orion III, which instead of creating a sequel, they released some tax software with an alien interface.
So then, the new method to kill your foes in HL3 will be:
Select the wand highlight tool
Click on your opponent
Select the Gaussian Obliterate tool, with pixel radius set to 50px
If foe is not obliterated enough, select the Obliterate More tool
Don't forget the achievements!
It will be awesome when Photoshop gets achievements.
Because it is! At least it is when you're looking for reasons to justify pirating everything.