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December 10th, 2012, 14:14 GMT · By Bogdan Popa

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This App Lets You Pin Steam Games to Windows 8’s Start Screen for Free

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There are already several ways to pin your Steam games to Windows 8’s Start Screen and launch them with just a single click, but Steam Launcher is by far the easiest to use. And the most affordable, that is.

Although it doesn’t boast the same feature-rich package as Pin Steam, this new tool is available for free and lets you create tiles on the Start Screen to easily launch Steam games.

It does lack some important customization features, but developers claim that future versions will include custom tile images, Steam friends support and dedicated tools to show game news on the launch page.

Of course, it supports both x64 and x86 versions of Windows 8, but it also offers support for ARM devices, although Windows RT is yet to support Steam games.

Click here to view the Steam Launcher product page in your browser.

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Comment #1 by: anomy111 on 13 Dec 2012, 08:17 UTC reply to this comment

if its not free that means a very large portion of ppl wont be able to use it... cus alot of ppl today dont have credit... or are kids and if u buy a game and auto have to buy an app to allow u to use it on windows 8 is * and a waist of time and makes ppl not buy games just cus of a dolor lame srsly fix steam so u can use it on windows 8 free ffs

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