Indie game makers have been lobbing titles over Gabe Newell’s fence for a short while, but now his company is inviting everyone else to join in as well. Valve has widened Steam Greenlight’s crowdsourced approval process to include non-gaming software, with the community voting the most popular and useful apps onto Steam’s virtual shelves. We’re thinking of submitting a program ourselves, that calculates the time required for three quantities of a decaying substance to fall to half their value, just so we can see everyone’s faces when Half-Life Three appears on the list.
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If you have always wanted a say in which games should be released on Steam, you’re in luck. It looks like Valve is turning to the community when it comes to figuring out what games it should be releasing on its video game platform/online store next. According to a press release, Valve has announced Steam Greenlight – a service that will let the community decide what games will go on steam.