STEAMWORKS 2010
Take advantage of the platform that supports over 1100 game titles on Steam. Steamworks gives you access to a connected community of 25 million gamers and a robust world-wide network. Steamworks is entirely free. There are no licensing fees and there’s no charge for bandwidth, retail copies, or OEM distribution. With Steamworks, you avoid the overhead and delay of certification requirements. Distribute your game on your terms, updating it as quickly and frequently as you see fit.
New and improved for 2010:
Hello, Mac
It may be the biggest news since Steam was first launched: Steam and Steamworks are available for the Mac. Supporting cross platform gaming, Steam is opening the door to a new audience and taking all of its features and functionality along for the ride. Learn more
Steamworks is Unreal
Epic Games and Valve have inked an agreement to deliver all licensees of Epic’s industry leading Unreal Engine the Valve’s Steamworks suite of services for use in their products, free of any additional fees.
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Microtransactions
Want to offer your customers a scabbard for their sword? New tires? The latest in night vision goggles? Now you can through microtransaction support in Steamworks. Learn more
Steam Cloud
Now with a greatly expanded capacity — now 100 MB per user, per game. The Steam Cloud API allows your game to write and retrieve files for each user. Learn more
Steam Total Makeover
The new Steam client makes finding friends, tracking achievements, reading news, organizing game collections, and keeping up to date easier than they ever have been before. Learn more
