Having short cuts to all your games in one place.

Access to the Steam Overlay. Let's you press shift-tab in a game to overlay your friends list, any messages from said friends, and a webkit browser over the game being played.

It announces to your friends what you are playing or what you want them to think you are playing. When adding a shortcut to a non-steam game you get to name it whatever you want. So when I run WoW through Steam my friends see "Dudeman is playing non-Steam game 'Nick has full blown AIDS' " or any jacked up message I want everyone on my friends list to see.

He could have made a rape joke.

In 1998 I turned on the TV in the afternoon to watch some Spider-man. Instead of showing cartoons the local news had cut away to a special report about some nutjob named Daniel Jones who parked his pickup on some freeway interchange here in Southern California(not sure which, we have billions) thus shutting down the freeway. He had some tarp down on the ground with a message about how his HMO screwed him or something. All of the news choppers being well trained in getting shots of all of our high speed pursuits were easily able to zoom in and get a great shot of what this guy is doing. He manages to light his truck on fire(with his dog inside :( )and almost jumps off the overpass. I was 18 at the time so I found all of this very entertaining at the time. The news cameras were just eating this all up right until he grabs his rifle and shoots himself in the head. Those chopper cameras zoomed out so fast and the newscasters were just like "Oh my God! Parents talk to your kids about what just happened" and acted all kinds of surprised about what happened but they knew how it was going to end and got exactly what they wanted. This was all during afternoon cartoons.

Search the guy's name and you'll find the stories about it and some partial video but I don't think you can find the actual suicide anymore.

Was this before or after he totally ravaged Oshman's Sporting Goods?

Not only were the sequels not that bad but the first one wasn't that good.

When someone first told me about The Matrix I was like "yeah the previews look retarded" and my friend was like "It was a fun action movie with some cool effects and techno music" and he was right because that's all it was. It wasn't this thought provoking masterpiece of film making that most people make it out to be. It was just a decent sci-fi action movie that ranks somewhere below Predator and Highlander yet above Predator 2.

No, they'll make the money back in all the games they'll sell for it.

I'm poor and have no friends or family. :(

I always start with Animal Husbandry.

This isn't an added feature. It's a performance enhancement. It's not like Firefox was lacking a javascript engine before this build.

This is what I was thinking. Xfire was really neat when I tried it like 5 years ago but I could never get enough other friends to use it for it to hit critical mass. Steam on the other hand IS my social network. My friends aren't on Facebook, AIM, or Xfire but they're ALL on Steam. Everyone I know uses it to buy games. We use it to buy games for our friends that are broke. Even games that don't use Steam like Starcraft2 we run through Steam. It lets everyone else know that you're playing and gives in-game access to the Steam overlay(SC2 doesn't minimize/restore very gracefully). The only feature I miss from Xfire is the ability to directly send files to people but it's something that hardly ever comes up anymore.

Steam made Xfire totally irrelevant and these guys are really smart to still have been able to sell it for a nice sum and get the hell out while they can.

Why is this release numbered 3.6.6 and not 3.6.5(which is 0.0.1 more than the previous release)?