Steam Labs Experiment 009: News Hub Updates Out Now

Steam Labs Experiment 009: News Hub is expanding as it prepares for full launch. To that end, we've shipped a number of updates designed to simplify the navigation and provide easier access to different preset views.

https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/
 

Updated Navigation

Some of the biggest changes in this update address how the News Hub is organized and how you navigate around. The menu on the left (which was previously a long list of checkboxes) now focuses on switching between major preset views and gives us space to add more preset views in the future. The filters for excluding certain types of events or certain sources has moved into a secondary menu. The left bar still includes a game search field for quickly finding news about a specific game.

Upcoming Events Get A Dedicated Section

To make it easier to find and follow upcoming events, these events now have their own separate view, which you may access through a streamlined menu on the left. Your default view still includes a few upcoming items at the top to keep you informed of events for your favorite games.

New: Featured Events

We're also working on expanding the ways of discovering popular events happening across the entire Steam catalog. We've started with the addition of a "Featured" section, which currently includes posts from the top 100 selling games on Steam. But we plan to keep fine-tuning this section to include popular events from a broader variety of games as well as hand-picked events that our curation team here at Valve selects to highlight.

Updated Game News Hub

The layout of individual game news hubs has also been updated to make it easier to identify the game area, and provide quick access links to the game’s store page, community, and more. This also cleans up the individual news items in this view so you don't have to see the game name listed again on every single post.

Mobile Friendly

Work on the mobile format of the Steam News Hub continues, as we know many of you are likely to explore this content while away from your desk. This means a new navigation mode for switching between sections of the news hub, quick access to the game search, and better mobile formatting for legibility.

Check out the Steam News Hub here: https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/


This Experiment is growing into a great set of features thanks to your help and suggestions. Please keep your feedback coming and let us know what you think about these changes.

Sincerely,
-The Steam Team