You've probably got some favorite games that you play a lot and know pretty well. Or maybe you've mastered playing as a certain class or character in Team Fortress 2 or Call of Duty. Or maybe you're just really good at finding all the hidden secrets in the latest Elder Scrolls game. How do you put that knowledge to use and help fellow gamers? Create a game guide on Steam!

Today we're rolling out Game Guides as a beta to members of the Steam Community Beta. With Game Guides, you can create a guide to help fellow gamers and share your expertise in whatever game you like. To get access to the beta, please join the Steam Community Beta Group.

Creating a Guide:
Once you've joined the beta group noted above, simply go to the Game Hub for any game you play on Steam and look for the "Guides" tab.

Under that tab, you'll find a button to create a guide. You'll be able to upload and insert images or use screenshots that are already in your Steam cloud. You can insert YouTube videos and you can add friends to help you write the guide. When you're done, just publish your guide and it will be accessible to the community.

Feedback? Questions?
We've set up a sub-forum for discussing guides and giving feedback within the Community Beta group here.

Please let us know what you think and if you encounter any bugs.

The new Steam Community is live as of now!

Thanks to the 440,000 of you who helped test the beta and provided feedback. You’ve been invaluable.

We’ll continue to respond and make changes. Let us know what else you’d like to see as part of the Steam Community.

• Added global Steam Discussions area, accessible in the Community sub-navigation
• Added bbcode support for [strike] and [code] ([code] is only available in discussions)
• Fixed a bug where all YouTube™ links were converted to embedded videos, even if the links were not to videos. Now only links to actual videos will be embedded.
• Fixed a bug where screenshot, video, and Workshop item detail page popups were dismissed by pressing any key. Now only pressing ESC or clicking outside the popup will dismiss it.
• Fixed a bug where certain game hubs were not showing up properly after searching for them if they had hyphens in their name.
• Fixed the loading throbber showing up on the Friend Activity page even when there was no more content.
• Fixed a bug where users were unable to favorite screenshots or videos.
• Fixed an issue where the subforum list would change when switching between Game Hub and Workshop discussions for a game
• Added upcoming events to the Friend Activity page.
• Added the short description to a single game purchase on the Friend Activity page if it is available.
• Fixed the animation when posting a new post to a "newest first pagination" comment thread on the Friend Activity page.

Note: there will be a client update shortly to add "Discussions" to the Community nav, in the mean time it is accessible here:
http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/

UPDATE: The Steam Client update has been released. If you aren't seeing the "Discussions" option, you can use "Steam->Check for Steam Client Updates" to make sure you're running the latest version.

There's been several updates to the beta yesterday and today, here's a list of some of the changes:

• Changed the order of comment replies to status posts and other friend activity items to be oldest to newest, showing the most recent comments
• Added display of which friends most recently rated up status posts, screenshots, and other items in the friend activity feed
• Changed profile screenshots page to default to newest first order
• Added a grid view option to the screenshots page
• Added an indicator for friends in common when viewing another user's friends list
• When going back from a discussion to the topic list, you'll now be returned to the page of topics you were on.
• Fix for Italian language users having issues posting and replying to forum topics
• Fix problems visiting Game Hubs for some recently released games
• Fix text getting cut off when writing a status in the "Post a status" box
• Removed the 3 character minimum for comments

The New Steam Community Beta is now open to everyone. Check out the update page at http://www.steamcommunity.com/communitycontent to learn how to get the new Community now.

We will continue to respond to feedback and already have some changes we hope to ship soon.

We appreciate all the enthusiasm and feedback! Please keep it coming.