Valve has announced Steamcloud, which is a new system for storing their game data. The system stores your keyboard/game configurations, save points, and is accessible on any PC, making for a much more comfortable gaming experience when you're not in your humble, secluded gaming dungeon at home. Steamcloud will be implemented first in Valve's older title, Half Life and Half Life 2, but will eventually make its way to Counter-Strike and the upcoming Left4Dead.

Along with Steamcloud, Valve is also looking to integrate driver auto-updating for all Steam accounts. This will ultimately allow Valve to check your PC's specs and see what drivers you may need in order to play certain games. Also, Valve is looking to the community for development. They want to allow non-Valve developers to use Steam as a platform to spread and market their own games to the online world. Sounds similar to Penny Arcade's Greenhouse, but we'll see.

Gabe Newell of Valve speaks confidently of these upcoming endeavors; we just hope their final work lives up to the hype.

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