what is STEAM

Effectively the iTunes Store for PC games, Steam is a game distribution platform, created in 2002 by the Valve Corporation, that has become a popular hangout for millions  all over the world of serious PC gamers. you install the Steam application on your PC, create an account, add payment details and can then use it to buy and download games, join multiplayer games and chat with other Steam users. The advantage of using Steam is that, because you don’t have actual discs which could get damaged, or lost , it is so easy to re-download and reinstall games at any time. And it saves your game progress in the cloud,so you can log in to your Steam account on someone else’s home computer, play any game and not interfere with  their saved games.