Steam's store has become a mess — this is how Valve plans to fix it

Valve knows you. It sees the games you own, and it knows which you’re actually playing — and now it’s going to use that information to improve your shopping experience.

The company announced today that it is bringing new features to its PC digital-distribution network with something called the Steam Discovery Update. Valve specifically designed this patch to help optimize browsing its online game store to better deal with the deluge of new releases on Steam. The big change is that the Steam homepage will now make recommendations based on what you’re playing, your past purchases, and what your friends like, and it will present them to you up front and center every time you log in.