Valve announces Game Recording coming to Steam

Valve announced a brand new killer feature this week that is a game-changer and that’s being able to Record Your Gameplay directly inside of Steam. In my opinion, Valve is an awesome company who I am 100% unashamed to be called a fanboy for because they made gaming on Linux a truly competitive thing. Yes, there are others who helped but let’s face it. Valve did the heavy lifting.

Valve was like “hold my beer” because they weren’t done being awesome. While this new feature is in Beta it is already pretty freaking cool. There are 3rd party tools that already provide this kind of thing to clip your games but I haven’t found a single one that works on Linux and I have always been a bit jealous of that. This is going to be scary for those companies because with Steam adding it, it might make them obsolete. Personally, I don’t care if they lose marketshare because they never supported my platform anyway so good luck.

Now let’s talk about the feature. So this new recording system has two modes. It has the manual start and stop mode and also background recording. So with the background recording, you have multiple options you could do to set the length, the quality, disk space allowed, and that sort of stuff to be able to control how much it’s doing and how often it’s doing. Also, the recording system adds markers for events like leveling up, achievements, and deaths in the games, as well as players can add their own markers to the timelines, which is pretty awesome. You can also edit and share it pretty easily, so you can edit the gameplay with Steam tools. There’s also one-click share to friends and you can send your footage from your device to your PC and that sort of thing. But of course, the most important piece here is that it is Steam Deck verified and therefore it will work on Linux as well, probably maybe not every distribution but it’ll work in most distributions which is awesome and also if you don’t have a steam deck yet and you want one you can pick one of the lcd versions because they’re on sale right now so you can get the 64 gig version for 296 and the 512 version for 381 and this sale ends july 11th so if you are wanting the steam deck you don’t want the oled for some reason, and you can save a little bit of money and get the LCD version right now from this sale.

What do you think of Steam’s new recording feature? Me, I am a big fan of this. I think this is going to be really awesome. I have always been doing my own thing with the OBS stuff, and going back and doing clips is just a pain. So you could do clips built into Steam, and it also have automatic markers and all this sort of stuff, and they’re working on new features to make it even better because this is just a beta. They’ve already announced other stuff like specific settings for games like direct settings for a specific game. Like all these sorts of… It’s very cool. I am excited. Do you judge me for being a Steam fanboy? Let me know in the comments.