My boyfriend gets many of his games from Steam, which offers mutliplayer gaming, video streaming and social networking services.
Interesting. I've never heard of Steam. Tell me more about it.
Steam lets the user install and update games and includes community features such as friends list, groups, cloud saving and chat functions.
Cool. What kind of games can you play on Steam?
a small selection of other content, such as design software, game soundtracks, anime, and films.
The Steam platform is the largest digital distribution platform for PC gaming, estimated in 2013 to have 75% of the market space. By 2017, users purchasing games through Steam totaled roughly 4.3 billion, representing at least 18% of global PC game sales. By 2019, the service had over a billion registered accounts with 90 million monthly active users. The success of the Steam platform has led to the development of
Steam (software)
Steam is a video game digital distribution platform developed by Valve Corporation. It was launched in September 2003 as a way for Valve to provide automatic updates to their games, but eventually expanded to include non-Valve games from third-party publishers. Steam offers digital rights management (DRM), matchmaking servers, video streaming, and social networking services. It also provides the user with installation and automatic updating of games, and community features such as friends lists and groups, cloud saving, and in