Valve has announced that they'll be releasing a big update to the Steam platform in July.   Highlights of the release will include:

• Create your own personal Steam pages and profiles
  
• View history of games you've played including who you played with and how everyone did
  
• Create and join groups
  
• Group chats and voice chat

It's nice to see that they are trying to expand Steam into a real community, rather than just the game distribution platform it's been for the last three years.  If they are smart they will offer some ways for developers to communicate with the Steam platform and pull data.  I can think of a ton of cool things we could have on this site if they make that possible!

Changes are supposed to start showing up in July, but nothing yet so far.  This is another sign that Valve is gearing up for the big Team Fortress... er, I mean Half Life release coming in Q4.  I'm giddy!