Industry News May 11, 2020 DOOM Eternal tops Steam best-selling list Steam has posted last week’s top 10 best-selling games. A month after its release, DOOM Eternal has claimed the top spot.
Industry News May 4, 2020 Half-Life: Alyx brings VR users on Steam to 2 million The release of Half-Life: Alyx was expected to get more Steam users into VR. And it did, even if owners of VR headsets still only consititute 1.9 percent of all Steam users.
Industry News April 20, 2020 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord tops Steam best-selling list for third consecutive week Steam has posted last week’s top 10 best-selling games. The top spot is yet again held by Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.
Industry News April 14, 2020 Steam to host third online game demo festival in June Valve has announced Steam Game Festival Summer Edition. From June 9 to June 14, free demos of the upcoming games will be featured on the store. Developers wishing to participate must submit applications by April 24.
Industry News April 8, 2020 Steam reports on how new releases performed in 2019 Steam shared information on developer earnings in 2019. Take this with a pinch of salt as Valve’s storefront might have slightly manipulated the stats in its favor.
Industry News April 6, 2020 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord tops Steam best-selling list Steam has posted last week’s top 10 best-selling games. The top spot is held by Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord, the game with impressive player counts and an unusual update schedule.
Industry News March 31, 2020 ? Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord is one of Steam’s biggest launches ever Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord came out in Early Access yesterday in Steam’s biggest launch of the year so far, with 209,234 concurrent players at its peak.
Industry News March 6, 2020 Steam Labs experiment No. 9: News Hub Valve has rolled out a News Hub for Steam as the latest of its Steam Labs experiment.
Industry News February 26, 2020 Steam Search updated. First Steam Labs experiment Valve decides to keep Valve has refined Steam Search. New filters were added, allowing you, for example, to filter out titles that you are already familiar with.
Industry News February 26, 2020 Pokémon-inspired Temtem sells 500,000 copies on Steam On January 21, MMO adventure Temtem was released into Steam Early Access. The game inspired by the Pokémon series has already sold over 500 thousand copies.
Industry News February 20, 2020 January’s best on Steam Steam named top 20 releases of January. And, separately, top five free-to-play games that came out last month.
Industry News February 14, 2020 Play Next: Latest of Steam Labs experiments Steam will now use machine learning to suggest games from your backlog. The same algorithm that is used by Interactive Recommender will look at your playtime across various titles and based on that will point you towards similar games.
Industry News January 29, 2020 73% of devs don’t think Steam’s 30% cut is fair Steam’s revenue share model is not justified, according to the most developers. This is evidenced by the results of the GDC survey.
Industry News January 27, 2020 NPD’s Mat Piscatella: digital PC spending declines, no single platform to blame The US video game content generated $35.4 billion in revenue in 2019, which is 2 percent up from 2018. That said, the overall PC software spending declined last year.
Industry News December 27, 2019 Steam’s best of 2019 Valve posted a bunch of its 2019 top games lists.
Industry News December 23, 2019 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt surpasses 48K concurrent players on Steam While the Netflix adaptation of The Witcher saga got an uneven reception from fans, it apparently underscored just how good of a job CD PROJEKT RED did on the IP created by Andrzej Sapkowski.
Industry News December 18, 2019 November’s top grossing new releases on Steam Valve’s store published the list of November’s highest-grossing new releases. There are 20 items on the list, including indie and AAA titles.
Industry News November 27, 2019 Jedi: Fallen Order. One of strongest Star Wars game launches ever Respawn Entertainment can crack open a bottle of champagne. Electronic Arts (EA) announced that STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order became one of the strongest launches in the history of Star Wars-themed games.
Industry News November 26, 2019 Steam removes thousand indie games. Their developers accused of abusing Steamworks Valve is cleaning Steam up. Over the past 24 hours, the company has removed 982 games from its store. The official reason is that the affected developers abused the Steamworks tools.
Industry News November 25, 2019 Half-Life: Alyx successful as system seller. Valve Index sales skyrocket on Steam Valve found its Valve Index headset in high demand following the announcement of the new Half-Life game. The VR headset ranks second on Steam top sellers list.