Vortextra

The app lets users access a number of services attached to the PC or Mac Steam client, including chat, the ability to browse profiles and communities, access to screenshots, browse the game catalogue and even buy games. The one thing it won’t let you do, for the time being, is play them.

The first step for valve to create and commercialize iOS and Android games in my opinion. This could be huge in the future, especially for people who already have a Steam account.

TechCrunch:

With nearly 7 million new Android phones and iPhones activated on Christmas Day, an app-downloading frenzy was a foregone conclusion. App research firm Flurry estimates that a combined total of 1.2 billion apps were downloaded during the holiday week between December 25-31. That compares to an average of 750,000 mobile apps downloaded per week earlier in December, or a 60 percent jump.

- I guess this emphasizes even more that this will be the year of mobile.