Valve plans new features for Steam app

13 March 2012

If chatting and shopping aren’t doing it for you, Valve has confirmed that they’ll be adding a bunch of new features to the iOS and Android Steam app in the future so that “all relevant Steam community and economy features are accessible from your mobile device.”

Soon, you’ll never have to leave the toilet.

“We’d love to see individual games hook into the service and provide mobile-optimized web pages and experiences that we can link to from the game description pages,” Valve engineer, Kutta Srinivasan, told Gamasutra. “In general, we have a healthy list and expect it to grow, with new opportunities presenting themselves as the list becomes more robust.”

For the moment, that includes adding the ability to see your Steam library, as well as improved screenshot features.

But wait, there’s more!

“In an upcoming [update], the Steam app will be able to act as a two-factor authentication device to bolster the security on your primary Steam account,” he said. “If your phone is lost or stolen, simply changing the password on your account will invalidate the tokens used by the application to access Steam.”

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  1. Johan Wolmarans
    13.03.2012 at 16:07

    not good enough, want to play my pc games using my steam app on my tablet, that would be a nice feature

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