Steam InHome Streaming Now Available Lets You Play PC Games on Virtually Any Computer
Valve put its Steam In-Home Streaming program  a way to play Steam games between two computers on your home network  out for public beta just a few weeks ago, after running a private beta test for months. Testing presumably went smoothly, because Valve's announcing today that the feature is now available to anyone with a Steam account, The upsides of In-Home Streaming are really twofold You can either stream content to something like your living room's mongo-sized TV without dragging your PC around or building a Steam Machine, or simply use a lower-end laptop running any number of operating systems, from Windows to OS X to SteamOS to Linux. It's also not a new concept My colleague Jared Newman's been streaming Steam games from his PC via Nvidia's Shield for a while now. But Valve's approach is more manifold, letting you mix and match existing or older devices without trading down to something the size of a handheld  a problem for PC games that don't scale well on five-inch screens. Valve's put up an info page on the fledgling service here, with a handy info-graphic and step-by-step. Not that you really need the step-by-step. According to Valve, there's just three Log into Steam via Windows, log into another computer on the same network, then hit your library, select a game and fire away. MORE The History of Video Game Consoles  Full,