As you browse Steam, including numerous titles to your wishlist within the hopes they get a deep low cost throughout the subsequent large sale, you may quickly discover that the pages for these video games have a unique look to them. Valve has announced a new update within the Steam consumer beta that modifications how recreation pages look, with two main modifications, the primary being that retailer pages will probably be lots wider.
The entire recreation web page is wider normally, however the carousel containing trailers and screenshots will probably be a very good bit wider too, permitting for some larger pictures and movies. As a result of the entire web page will probably be wider, Valve notes that there is extra room to explain a recreation’s options, so alongside the visible change you may begin to discover some pages having extra info than you are used to.
Arguably the largest change with this Steam retailer web page refresh is the power to add video information within the web page’s description part. A lot of recreation pages presently use animated GIFs to provide an in-motion have a look at particular options or sections to raised illustrate what the included textual content won’t be capable to. The issue with GIFs is that they don’t seem to be at all times the very best quality, so permitting for movies will probably imply clearer seems at particular elements of the video games which may not work for a trailer. So long as there are not any main hiccups, it is doable we’ll see these modifications rolled out for everybody in a couple of weeks time.
This comes as a part of broader modifications to Steam’s storefront. Final month, Valve released a beta version of the Steam home page, making classes and tags personalised to you, a refresh of the browse tab, and additions to the search panel that reveals latest well-liked searches, not too long ago considered video games, and extra.