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The median game earns 24% more on Steam in 2019 in its opening two weeks than it did in 2018
Read More »Steam reports a ‘continuous increase in the number of games achieving success on Steam’ in 2019
Steam breaks its own concurrent player record again with 22 million players online over the weekend
"Global lockdowns and self-isolation due to COVID-19 has led to at-home gaming becoming a safe form of entertainment to pass the time"
Read More »Counter-Strike: Global Offensive breaks its concurrent player peak record for the second time this month
New record reports 40-50K more concurrent players than two weeks ago
Read More »Steam hits 18,801,944 concurrent users – the highest ever recorded
But there was "about 1 million less players actually in-game"
Read More »Sega pledges ‘fully recyclable packaging’ for all its physical PC games
"This initiative underlines Sega Europe’s commitment to reducing its plastic waste and its ongoing efforts to implement environmentally friendly business practices"
Read More »Epic Games Store has generated £523m since launch and attracted 108m users
£192m was raised from third-party game sales
Read More »The Games Awards announces The Game Festival, a 48-hour free-to-play demo event
The festival extends "the benefits of a physical event to the global gaming community that watches The Game Awards"
Read More »Gears 5 might not have topped the sales charts, but Xbox says it’s the ‘biggest launch week of any Xbox Game Studios title this generation’
"On the PC, Gears 5 has nearly tripled the performance of its predecessor and [is] Xbox Game Studios’ best-ever debut on Steam"
Read More »Rockstar Games reveals new digital storefront, Rockstar Games Launcher
The developer has declined to comment whether or not this affects the availability of its titles on other PC stores
Read More »My.Games to launch My.Games Store by the end of the year
"The My.Games Store is the next step in bringing our expertise to a global market"
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