{"id":45342,"date":"2012-10-03T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=45342"},"modified":"2012-10-03T13:17:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T11:17:13","slug":"steam-gets-first-non-game-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/45342-steam-gets-first-non-game-software","title":{"rendered":"Steam gets first non-game software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Valve is rolling-out the first set of software products for its <a title=\"Steam store\" href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam service<\/a>, marking a \u201cmajor expansion\u201d for the online distribution service.<\/p>\n<p>The added software packages include ArtRage Studio Pro, GameMaker: Studio, and 3D-Coat among others, and will use Steamworks features, like auto-update and cloud saving.<\/p>\n<p>Valve originally announced that software items were coming to Steam in September, and although they\u2019ve arrived a little later than scheduled, the programs are a welcomed addition for the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The celebrate the occasion, Valve is offering Software packages for half-price throughout this week.<\/p>\n<p>Software available now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>ArtRage Studio Pro<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>CameraBag 2<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>GameMaker: Studio<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>3D-Coat<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>3DMark Vantage<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>3DMark 11<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44881-valve-hardware-tests-to-start-in-2013.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Valve developed hardware tests to start in 2013<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Black Mesa free Half-Life 1 conversion mod released\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44662-black-mesa-free-half-life-1-conversion-mod-released.html\" target=\"_blank\">Black Mesa free Half-Life 1 conversion mod released<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44240-steam-community-launched-by-valve.html\">Steam Community launched by Valve<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44253-erotic-game-seduce-me-gets-booted-off-steam-greenlight.html\">Erotic game \u201cSeduce Me\u201d booted-off Steam Greenlight<\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44458-steams-big-picture-mode-heads-to-your-living-room-tv.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Steam\u2019s Big Picture mode heads to your living room TV<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first software products arrive on Valve\u2019s Steam service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":42233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,85,7028,7029,1852,697],"class_list":["post-45342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-steam","tag-steam-programs","tag-steam-software","tag-steamworks","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45348,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45342\/revisions\/45348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}