The Mod Squad has arrived on Steam which sees five of the leading mods for Source games arrive onto Valve’s digital distribution platform.

The first five members of the Mod Squad are: Age of Chivalry, D.I.P.R.I.P., Insurgency, Synergy, and Zombie Panic. These mods are available to download freely via Steam for any owners of a Source based game and will receive automatic updates as other Steam games do and they all make use of Steamworks.

Valve’s marketing guru Doug Lombardi hastily made the following statement after opening his Steam account and saw the mods ready to download:

“Valve has been supporting the MOD community since the company’s inception, offering updates to the SDK, holding MOD Expos and being the first to bring a MOD to retail with Counter-Strike in November 2000. The debut of these MODs on Steam marks the beginning of a new level of support for the MOD community by putting the leading MODs at the finger tips of over 15 million targeted gamers.”

It is great to see Valve giving these mods the chance to further spread their name and fan base by giving them the full Steam treatment. It is also great to know that Valve hasn’t bought up all the mod teams already and is letting them continue as they are.

I look forward to seeing further Mod Squads make the jump onto Steam, the modding community if often made up of very talented people, especially those for Source games. To get themselves recognised by Valve and brought onto Steam is a great achievement for those that have done it, and is something that many others can strive to achieve themselves.

Tags: Mod Squad, Steam

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