Recently, Valve made the official announcement that they would no longer be selling physical Steam gift cards at retailers, claiming that scammers were to blame for this decision. Promising “an even better experience” moving forwards however, Valve has now officially detailed its new Steam wishlists and gifting and improvements.

Taking to their blog to make the announcement, Valve officially unveiled their new improvements to gifting games on Steam, writing:

“Steam gifts are a popular way to send copies of games and digital gift cards to friends and family. Today we’re shipping some great new features that improve the gifting experience, making it easier to send both digital gift cards and games.”

With that, the full list of improvements being made is as follows:

• Guest Checkouts can be used to purchase any game on Steam (previously limited to giftcards and hardware)
• You can now gift games to a user’s email instead of Steam account
• Cross-region gifting improvements (wherein Steam will calculate the cost in your friend's region at checkout)
• You can now purchase and gift someone a game directly from their wishlist

All of these features tie in nicely with Steam’s other major update – that being the overhaul to wishlists. Full details on this aspect can be found HERE, but in essence, Steam now allows you to add categories to your wishlist for far greater levels of organisation and clarity.

All-in-all, this latest update to Steam is highly welcome and should make the act of buying games (for yourself or someone else) far more seamless.

KitGuru says: What do you think of this latest update? Did Steam wishlists need improving? What other features would you like to see added? Let us know down below.