You can now create video clips using Steam's built-in game recording feature, as an update is rolling out to all users.

Steam's built-in game save feature has been available in beta since the summer, but following a client update to Steam yesterday, it's now properly launched for every user. It's basically another method of capturing funny ragdoll bloopers and sending them to the “lol-games-idiot” channel of your friend's Discord. Or because you shared that accidental knife throw in Call Of Duty on Twitter, as if you really wanted to kill the guy on the map all along. Or save a clip for your personal recordings, like the moment you knocked an innocent citizen off the 15-foot wall of the castle town in Dragon's Dogma 2. We all do this, right? Right?

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Steam's Turn-Based RPG Fest has drops and demos you can download and play in that order

“Turn-based” games, as we know, all derive from Turn, a strategy game about a dog searching for coins, released for the BBC Micro in 1987. Before this, all actions in games occurred simultaneously, as quickly as possible. The player or players can do these.

Fast forward to today and many games are now “turn-based”, from Tactics Ogre Reborn to Age Of Wonders 4 to chess. To celebrate their regularity, Steam is currently running a turn-based RPG festival with discounts and demos for “turn-based games where you get stronger with each battle.”

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Steam's latest update to user reviews says it doesn't find your “jokes, memes, ASCII art, and other content” as funny as you do

Steam has been seeing a few sweeping changes lately. They recently added a ‘Trending Free’ tab to separate games that are playable with and without a down payment. And as of September, they’re also restricting links to other websites on their store pages. Now, horror of horrors, here they come for your ascii gigachads and … Read more