One of the most valued features of Steam , aside from the obvious things like its vast library of games, offers, etc., is that it doesn’t stop trying new ideas. The last one comes through his experiments and will allow you to know everything about the world of video games. How? Well, through a renewed news section.
Personalized news comes to Steam
Over the years the relevance of Steam in the world of video games has grown and it is logical, the platform has managed to give the user and developers practically everything they were looking for at all times. Thus, although proposals such as the Epic Games Store have been going strong, we could say that they are the number one option for PC users.
Now, along with its main attraction, which is none other than access to a wide catalog of games, the company launches a new feature through its Experiment 009 . This consists, neither more nor less, than turning the News Center into the ideal place for any video game fan to be informed of everything related to the sector.
How do you want to achieve it? Well, in a similar way to what news aggregators like Flipboard can offer. The idea here is that in the news section there are not only the advancements and press releases of the developers themselves, but also all the information that specialized media publish on their respective pages.
Too ambitious or unnecessary? Well, that is something that will have to be valued over time and the real impact it has among the Steam user community, but for now it seems a bet with a lot of sense.
News, video and more
Until now, the Steam News Center served so that the platform itself could publish when there was a major update in a video game, offers or small press releases from the developers.
From now on all that changes, it will continue to be there, but the main attraction will be that there will be a series of sources, which they call Mentors, that will show their content there. That is, in the same way that on Flipboard you add sources to a magazine on the topics that interest you, but with video games.
These mentors are nothing more than specialized media to which Steam opens the door for their articles, analysis, video and more content to be seen in the new section. Of course, at the moment you cannot add additional sources , but you can eliminate those that for some reason or another do not interest you or like how they tell you things.
In this new kind of aggregator, feed reader, etc., you will also have some advertising. Small ads that are interspersed with what you are reading. It is not excessive, but it will be there.
A tailor-made experience
Is the new Steam news section a good idea or a bad idea ? Well, as for any other novelty or experiment on the platform, we could say that it will depend on the user. After all, what Steam has done is nothing more than add a kind of RSS reader to its platform.
Users who only seek to be informed and do not want to visit web to web, resort to applications such as Flipboard, etc., surely you will find it useful. Because in the same place where they access to play you already have that information of interest.
However, those who devour specialized media and media in the world of video games, YouTube channels, etc., will find it insufficient and being redirected to the web where the content is published to read it thoroughly is still more annoying than attractive.
Of course, the important thing in the end is that each one chooses. So the interesting thing is that there will be a new option in order to stay informed of everything that has to do with video games. From there each one chooses.