Steam officially takes couch co-op online with Remote Play Together

Steam today released its Remote Play Together feature, taking couch co-op games fully online. And to get everyone started, Steam’s offering all the compatible games at a discount. With Remote Play Together, users can (as the name suggests) play any kind of multiplayer game with their friends. Steam oversimplified it a bit by saying in its release video that the other users’ controller acts as their point of connection, but the long and short is that audio, video and voice chat is streamed to their PCs. Only the player hosting needs to actually own the game. To sweeten the pot,…

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