Valve have just announced Steam Guard, a new Steam and Steamworks feature designed to provide increased security for gamers. Click more for the details.
The new feature will allow s to link management options to a specific machine; an extra measure to prevent unauthorised access. Steam Guard will also notify you if any PCs attempt to to your . The feature will be available for third parties to use.
Steam Guard will take advantage of Intel® Identity Protection Technology (Intel® IPT), an encrypted, hardware-based feature available with the new 2nd Generation Intel® CoreT and Intel® CoreT vProT processors.
Valve's president, Gabe Newell has said "" phishing and hijacking are our #1 issues. With Intel's IPT and Steam Guard, we've taken a big step towards giving customers the security they need as they purchase more and more digital goods."
Valve are due to release Portal 2 on April 21 this year. The PS3 build will feature cross-platform play with PC, and Steamworks features. Sony's console has suffered from a few serious security issues in the past few weeks, as reported on by our friends at CVG .
