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[http://store.steampowered.com/ Steam] is the most popular [[Digital Distribution]] platform for PC games. Created by [[Valve Software]] in 2004 to distribute and integrate their own games cheaply, it has grown from its shaky and buggy beginnings into the service that PC gamers can use for their online middleware needs. (Provided you have a decently fast internet connection and a way of buying online.) It also features a messaging system, an online multiplayer platform, [[Cosmetic Award|Achievements]], and an in-game Web browser, making it something like the PC equivalent of [[Xbox]] [[Xbox 360|Live]], except free, and marketed at an older demographic. And like Live, it has since gone cross-platform, supporting MacOS X in addition to Windows.

 

 

Having the full support of pretty much every major publisher that makes PC titles except Blizzard, Maxis (except for ''[[Spore]]'' and ''[[Sim City]]'') and recently [[Electronic Arts]], the service makes it easier to just download and play PC games, due to having over one thousand titles available for download, many of which are classic games in their own right-and now it boasts more than 30 million unique users. Not bad for a company that made its first game 12 years ago.

* ''[[Breath of Death VII]]''

* ''[[Brink (video game)|Brink]]''

* ''[[Call of Duty]]'' series

** ''[[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare]]'' series

* ''[[City of Heroes]]''

* ''[[Civilization]]''

** ''Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath''

** ''[[Command and Conquer Tiberian Twilight]]''

*** ''Red Alert 3 -- Uprising''

* ''[[Commander Keen]]''