Valve announces Steam Families to improve game sharing and parental control

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Steam is improving how family sharing works via the new Steam Families beta.

Additionally, buying games for kids and fiddling with parental controls is now a lot easier.

Once youve done that, youll be able to share games with everyone in the family automatically.

Heres the example Valve uses to explain how this works:

Of course!

At any time, any one member can play Portal 2 and another can play Half-Life.

As for parental controls, Steam Family members can either take the role of an adult or child.