Valve Steam Updates

Steam is preparing to launch a new “Remote Play Together” feature, which will let you play local multiplayer games over the internet with friends “as though they were in the same room.”

The new feature is planned for release in beta on October 21st.

PC Gamer notes the Steamworks page for the new feature says that it will work automatically for “all local multiplayer, local co-op and split-screen games,” suggesting that developers will not have to do much, if any, work to make their games compatible.

According to Valve’s Alden Kroll, who confirmed the existence of the new feature on Twitter, Remote Play Together works by streaming a host’s screen to a second player. It then captures the second player’s input, and sends it back to the game running on the host’s machine.

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