Steam beta update brings refreshed UI to game pages and descriptions

In recent months, Valve has been introducing a ton of changes to its Steam app, enhancing the overall experience with a visual refresh alongside plenty of quality-of-life improvements. In furthering these efforts, Valve has now announced an overhaul of its Store pages, game descriptions and more.

Making the announcement on their blog, the team at Valve detailed the changes set to come to its Steam Store. Available right now via the beta channel, this latest update brings with it “wider, responsive store pages” with Valve explaining:

“Individual product pages, as well as the overall store menu, is now up to 1200px wide for players opted into the Steam client beta. This improves the shopping experience in a number of ways, allowing for bigger screenshots and trailers, and allowing more room to describe your features in the written description area.”

While a subtle change, it should help make the overall visual experience more pleasing – and possibly look less like a HTML web wrapper.

Functionality-wise, the update also allows for support of new video file formats in the game’s description, allowing developers to upload both mp4 and webm videos “for better quality and color depth.”

Last but not least, developers can also now more freely align text in said video descriptions, letting them format each line individually “for greater flexibility in how you present your game.”

While merely a bunch of subtle changes, this should have a notable impact on the overall browsing experience of Steam’s Store pages.

In terms of functionality, Steam has been ahead of the pack for many years now. That said, their UI was getting a bit long in the tooth, and as such it is exciting to see Valve giving Steam a bit of a visual refresh.

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