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A member of the Team Fortress 2 community (who is called "Political Gamer" on the game's official message board) got a chance to visit Valve this week and as part of the visit he got to meet Valve's head man Gabe Newell. During the visit "Political Gamer" says he got to find out a few interesting future plans for Valve's Steam PC game download platform from Newell.

As posted on the Steam message board, the report has Newell stating that a video recorder for Steam will be made available "very soon". This presumably means that folks will be able to record in-game video via the Steam client much like they can now take screenshots from any game via Steam.

Even more interesting is that Valve is thinking about possibly expanding Steam support for iOS (iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch) and Android-based devices. The report makes it sound like this is something that Valve is just thinking about rather than something that is in active development but it certainly brings up some interesting possibilities for the future of the Steam platform.

[Via PC Gamer]

Wouldn't you love to play a game on the iPhone, play that same game again on the iPad and then go ahead and play it on the PC? That's what developer Spacetime Studios wants to do with its casual MMO game Pocket Legends. It announced this week its plans to provide cross-platform play for the game with all of the previously mentioned devices along with the iPod Touch and the Android platform.

Spacetime Studios, who recently received some venture capital money, is developing this game using its own Spacetime 3D MMO graphics engine. The engine will be made to third party developers sometime in 2011 but no pricing plans were revealed. Meanwhile Pocket Legends is already available for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. There's no word yet on when the PC version will be released.