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.

Valheim continues to prove its status as one of the year’s most successful titles. Two months after its release, the game is still the top-selling game on Steam.

The SteamDB team has launched the calendar of the upcoming Steam releases in beta. The new tool can help developers better plan the release window for their title.

Game marketing consultant Chris Zukowski has launched a free class How To Make A Steam Page.

Among Us has seen its concurrent player count drop to 24 thousand on Steam.

The legal fight for The Sinking City is not slowing down. The game has been removed from Steam again after Valve received a DMCA claim.

The scandal surrounding The Sinking City’s release on Steam continues. Frogwares claims that the publisher pirated their game, while Nacon says that the developers just ”play the victim.”

Valve will have to unveil some of its private Steam information requested by Apple in a lawsuit against Epic Games.

Shortly after breaking its concurrent user record, Steam hit another milestone. The store has now over 50,000 games available, with the number growing every month.

Valheim continues to set new records as the game peaked at over 360,000 concurrent players yesterday. On top of that, the Viking-themed survival has already made it to the top 10 games by concurrent players in Steam history.

Valheim is another dark horse that debuted on top of the Steam chart and sold 1 million copies. The Viking-themed survival game only needed one week to hit this milestone.

Steam has just launched in China with the help from Perfect World. The store has now only 40+ games, including Valve’s own hits like CS:GO and Dota 2.

Five gamers filed an antitrust class action, accusing Valve of forcing developers to list the same prices for their games as on other stores. The suit alleges that it destroys the competition.

In his latest blog post, Simon Carless analyzes free prologues on Steam in an attempt to find out whether they affect games’ sales and the number of wishlists.

The European Commission has fined Valve and five publishers €7.8 million for breaching EU antitrust rules.

Thomas Altenburger, founder of Flying Oak Games, produced a thread comparing launch revenues from the studio’s two biggest hits across different timelines and platforms.

Cyberpunk 2077 is a hit in China despite the fact that it’s not officially out in the country.

Cyberpunk 2077 has been the top selling game on Steam for four consecutive weeks. Cyberpunk’s launch also towed The Witcher 3 GOTY into the top ten.

Of the 8 million pre-orders for Cyberpunk 2077, the PC version accounted for 4.72 million. This makes Cyberpunk the biggest day one launch ever for a PC game — the title previously held (even if briefly) by World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.