Steam Mobile

Details: Category: Gaming News; Published: Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:50

I have been waiting for this anouncment for a LONG time. Today Steam introduced their mobile app for iOS and Android. With the app you can chat with your steam friends and buy steam games. That means no missing out on sales because your away from your PC. We should be taking a closer look at the app here soon to see what else its capable of doing, stay tuned!

It should also be noted this is still in beta. The only way to sign up is to download and try to sign in. Some people will get to try it right away, others will have to wait a little longer

http://store.steampowered.com/mobile

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Posts in discussion: Steam Mobile

garfi3ld replied the topic: #22343 27 Jan 2012 00:53

big news! who has installed it

Plague replied the topic: #22344 27 Jan 2012 02:36

I just installed it, but I can't use it.

garfi3ld replied the topic: #22345 27 Jan 2012 03:08

i think thats what everyone is getting right now. Hopefully people will start getting invites soon

Lersar replied the topic: #22346 27 Jan 2012 03:14

Plague wrote: I just installed it, but I can't use it.

What did you use to capture this?

Wingless92 replied the topic: #22347 27 Jan 2012 03:31

Holding the volume down and the power button on ICS captures a screenshot. It's baked into ICS now.

Wingless92 replied the topic: #22348 27 Jan 2012 03:33

This is going to be a HUGE problem for me. Now I can buy games on the go, my wallet just went and jumped in the toilet, need to go fish it out.

Wingless92 replied the topic: #22349 27 Jan 2012 03:34

Those who wish to join the beta just need to download the Steam app (free of charge) and log in to their Steam account via the mobile app to express interest in the beta. Gamers will be added to the Closed Beta as the service ramps up.

Dreyvas replied the topic: #22351 27 Jan 2012 06:07

Installed, not in beta yet.

Wingcmdr77 replied the topic: #22352 27 Jan 2012 07:09

only good i see outta this is not missing sales like one of you pointed out. you obviously can't
play the games from your phone or tablet.

make me more poor if I installed this, just like wingless said. lol

Wingless92 replied the topic: #22359 27 Jan 2012 07:16

You can play Steam games using the Splashtop app. Then again, you have to have your computer on and running the game. All it really is doing is streaming the game into your phone/tablet.

Onlive will actually let you buy games that work outta the game on phones/tablets. Defense Grid works but it's still better on PC.

Either one of those would get the job done.

I know that Splashtop works cause I bought it and have used it in the past. At the Nvidia press conference at CES they were also using it.

draymac replied the topic: #22390 28 Jan 2012 00:15

Installed and waiting on my beta acceptance email! ;-)

garfi3ld replied the topic: #22398 28 Jan 2012 01:59

just got home and had a steam mobile invite on my screen, still can't log in though. Looks like I will have one invite to give out also. I'm going to wait to see who got in on the first round of invites before I send it out

garfi3ld replied the topic: #22400 28 Jan 2012 02:14