Eight Secret STEAM Features You Need to Know

Without a doubt, STEAM is one of the best gaming platform out there. It just not host famous MMO and other games, but it also has a beautiful UI and it is easy to use making it more user-friendly and loved by many.

For that reason, many people are using this STEAM as their main gaming platform and we know, that you have been using it too for a very long time and, you are accustomed on using it already. But did you know, there are some features of STEAM that you might not know of yet? Yes! there are some features of STEAM that many don't use or, many don't know that it exist! Even us were amazed that those features were on the tip of our nose but we didn't notice it.

So now, let us know the 8 STEAM features that you may not know of.  You never know, you might be needing it someday or, just share it to your friends and brag that you know about them and they don't :).

#1 The search bar on your friends list isn't just for people. If you search a game's name, it will pull up people playing that game, making it easier for you to jump in with them.

#2 The big ol' box at the top of the Steam store front page? You can customize what appears in it. Used to be that you had to right click on it to pull up options, but now mousing over the box makes a "customize" tab appear. You can even tell it to cycle through games already in your account, if you're feeling indecisive or want to confuse yourself.

#3 Have a friend who changes their Steam handle a lot? If you go into their profile and click the arrow next to their name, you can see every nickname they've ever used in the past. That's right, Tupac and famed children's fantasy author Brian Jacques

#4 Want to know when friends changed their names? Use this URL: http://steamcommunity.com/id/[insert user name here, no brackets]/namehistory

#5 Want to know all sorts of fun info about your graphics card, including exactly how much dedicated video memory it has? Open up Steam Big Picture Mode, then go to settings. From there, select "system."

#6 If you block a friend, their Steam friends list tells them you're offline. However, if they check Steam groups and things of the like, they'll be able to see your actual status So be warned!

#7 Want to step behind Steam's vaunted bluegray curtain? Find your Steam icon and right click it. Go to properties and add "-dev" and "-console" to the text in the field titled "target." That will add a "Console" tab to the top of Steam alongside things like Steam, Library, Community, and whatnot. It opens a command-line-based developer's console. 

#8Here are a bunch of commands you can use in dev consoles, some with Steam itself, and some in Source games (Half-Life 2, etc).

Credits: Reblogged from Eight Steam Features You Probably Don't Know About via Steam Unknown Functions