Steam's Personal Calendar graduates from Steam Labs to a full store feature

Steam's Personal Calendar is officially out of testing. Valve announced that the feature has launched out of Steam Labs "and is considered a full feature of the Steam Store."

The idea is simple. The calendar spotlights recently released and upcoming games that Steam thinks you'll like, using the games you've put the most hours into as its guide.

So if your library is mostly one genre, expect the calendar to lean that way. That's the pitch, anyway: fewer random storefront picks, more stuff that matches what you actually play.

If you've already been using it, you're not imagining things. The feature has been available for a while as a Steam Labs experiment, Valve's testing ground for store ideas, and only now has it been promoted to a permanent part of the store.

Rock Paper Shotgun's writer admitted they didn't realize it was still technically in testing, saying they'd been using it to track what had come out recently or was about to, and found it "fairly reflective of the kinds of games I was interested in."

Valve hasn't detailed whether anything about the calendar changed as part of the move out of Labs, or whether more features are planned for it.