Valve employees broke down how Steam’s algorithm really works and what developers should do to potentially increase their sales and visibility of their games. The company also provided insights on the possibility of adding new services and features to the platform.

The news came soon after people started speculating that the PS5 indie game Abandoned might be connected to the famous game designer.

Valve announced that Steam now supports UTM traffic tracking. It allows developers and publishers to finally see how many people bought a game or added it to their wishlists during a specific marketing campaign.

Digital Bros, which owns publisher 505 Games, reported financial results for the first half of the fiscal year ended December 31. Death Stranding was the company’s main driver, earning over €23 million since its release on PC.

Roblox attracted many developers who create their own games on the platform. Some of them need help to scale and monetize their projects, and that’s when publisher Gamefam comes up.

Ghost of Tsushima became one of the biggest hits of 2020, and now Sucker Punch co-founder reflects on the process of creating the game and the challenges the studio faced on its way.

Krafton, which owns PUBG, significantly increased its earnings in 2020 and has now become one step closer to going public.

Some users started using #BoycottGenshin to accuse miHoYo of racism and even sexualizing minors. Despite the calls to boycott the title, a lot of fans stood up for Genshin Impact.

FBI is now entering a new area, as it tries to handle the case of professional players fixing matches in CS:GO. Although the problem is global, this investigation relates to North America, particularly match-fixing in the North American Mountain Dew League.

After Microsoft got a new $22 billion contract for AR headsets, the company went on to defend its partnership with the US Army. However, a group of employees is opposed to the military deal.

Tencent obtained a patent for its own game controller, which looks very similar to Sony’s and Microsoft’s devices. As it’s only a design, it’s unclear when and if this gamepad will be released.

This cartridge was one of the first and rarest copies of Super Mario Bros. It has become the most expensive video game ever after being sold at an auction for a whopping $660,000.

Valheim has been leading Steam’s best-selling chart for eight weeks, but Outriders has now managed to take first place.

On April 2, Supercell made a major announcement about working on three new mobile games based on its famous Clash franchise. The company also notes that these titles will be different from any other game it has released.

Newzoo published a report on IP-based mobile games. The analysts calculated that titles based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West earn almost 2.5 times more than all mobile games based on Marvel’s intellectual property combined.

TiMi Studios is known for mobile games like Call of Duty Mobile and Honor of Kings. The company reached $10 billion in revenue last year and, from now on, will also be developing titles for other platforms.

It only took an hour and a half for co-op action game Outriders to reach over 100,000 concurrent players. This achievement made the game the biggest Steam launch for Square Enix.

Manticore Games is a team behind Core, the platform that lets people create their own games united into one multiverse. The company raised $100 million, and some investors call it “Roblox for adults.”

Three Kingdoms Tactics has already become one of the top-grossing mobile games on iOS of 2021. Overall, the Alibaba-published title reached $1.2 billion in lifetime revenue.