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Steam Gains 1.5 Million New Members a Month, Now Bigger than Xbox and PlayStation Combined
PC gaming is dead! Oh wait, let me put that tired cliche back in the bin where it belongs. PC gaming is more alive than ever, with Valve revealing there are 33 million players active every day on Steam, and 67 million every month. In fact, new players are coming to Steam at a rate of 1.5 million each and every month.
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Steam has launched over 1,000 games in 7 weeks following Direct introduction
In June, Valve shuttered its community vote-driven Greenlight initiative after five years of service. In its place came Direct—a system that allows developers the chance to get their games on Steam for a $100 fee. At the time, Valve said this: "With this transition to Steam Direct, we'll be keeping an eye on new submissions and making adjustments as necessary. We aren't quite sure whether there will be a lot more new submissions, just a bit more, or even fewer."
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Valve Just Announced A New Game, But Don't Get Your Hopes Up
No, it's not 'Half Life 3.' Valve just announced 'Artifact,' a new card game version of 'Dota 2.'
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The indie games are too damn cheap
An average indie title these days is priced $8.72 on Steam. During the last Summer Sale the price went down to the mind-boggling $4.63 and yet the average sales are at their lowest at 21,000 copies. Small indie titles usually have a smaller audience save for a few outliers. The problem with our approach is that people seem to normalize extremely successful breakout hits while assuming everything that didn’t sell north of a million copies is a complete failure.
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Gigantic's first big update will add a mischievous new hero tomorrow
Despite all its challenges, Gigantic released last month to some success. The free-to-play hero shooter lost players after an initial surge, but still pulls in around 2,000 concurrents at its peaks. It's not a phenomenon by any means, but somewhere to start—and now the job of growing begins. Enter Gigantic's first major update, Corruption, which will release tomorrow.
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Dota 2 is getting review-bombed because people think it "killed” Half-Life 3
Dota 2 is getting review-bombed by angry Half-Life fans who believe Valve’s continued support of the MOBA comes at the expense of a third instalment of the beloved series. The Half-Life games are on our list of the best shooters on PC. Why? Well, yesterday we reported how Valve alumni Marc Laidlaw - a former Valve writer who worked on the Half-Life series before becoming the lead writer for Dota 2 - has written a "fanfic" (his words, not mine) blog that gives us an insight into what Episode 3 might have been.
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Steam Group Announcements - Fallout 4
Now there’s even more to see, more to do – and more ways to survive in Fallout 4. Creation Club is now in PC beta with a collection of new official content including Hellfire Power Armor, a Prototype Gauss Rifle, and Chinese Stealth Armor. You can even space out in a special suit inspired by Prey… or gallop through the Wasteland in Giddyup-Buttercup inspired Horse Armor.
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Dota 2 is getting negative Steam reviews because there's no Half-Life 3
Last week, former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw posted a synopsis of the Half-Life 2: Episode 3 story he had planned out before the developer distanced itself from its most famous series. Styled as gender-swapped fanfic, it was a fun glimpse into what could have been. But it also reminded some people that they were angry with Valve, and they promptly took to Steam to bomb the user reviews for Dota 2.
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Lawbreakers Player Count Drops Below 50 on Steam
We all knew that Cliff Bleszinski’s controversial comments would hurt Lawbreakers but it looks like nothing stops this game from a crash landing right now. As we already reported, the game got below 500 concurrent players just a month after launch, largely thanks to Cliff Bleszinski’s negative comments on Twitter where he stated that you should play Overwatch if you love getting one shotted in games. Now, the game that should have been Overwatch’s competition is going down, and it seems that nothing can reverse the situation now.
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Chinese gamers are review-bombing Kerbal Space Program over a single line of text
The weaponisation of Steam reviews continues, with Kerbal Space Program the latest victim. The perpetrators: Chinese gamers who are angry with a revision made to the translation of an Easter Egg. Printed on the side of a space shuttle in the main menu is the phrase “不到mun非好汉.” Back in June, a post was made on Steam which translated this as “without reaching Mun you are not a good male” and complained the language was sexist, since when the developers have replaced it.
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The state of Steam: Read what PC devs really think
The following is a survey of more than 200 registered Steam developers, concerning their opinions about the platform in 2017 and what they would most like to see improved. It comes out to nearly 100 pages, including quotes and survey results about Steam reviews, the volume of games on Steam, and more. For a breakdown of the major issues—including why only 39 percent of the surveyed developers believe Valve currently earns its cut of sales on Steam—check out our article here.
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Weekend PC Game Deals: Halloween Sales rise from every corner
This weekend's PC game deals include some Halloween Sales, and even more Halloween Sales, along with a new bundle thankfully not Halloween related, and did we mention the DRM-Free Halloween Sale?
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I have some pretty strong evidence that the Steam keys from the defunct IndieGameStand are being re-sold.
TL;DR: Developers, revoke the Steam keys you supplied to Indie Game Stand! I'm the developer of a game called Airships: Conquer the Skies. It can be bought through a bunch of platforms, including Steam, and, until it shut down earlier this year, Indie Game Stand.
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Steam is no longer supporting Bitcoin
Steam made an announcement saying "As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method on our platform due to high fees and volatility in the value of Bitcoin."
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Enhanced Steam
Browser extension that provides more information and options in the Steam web store.
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DayZ is Dead: Four Years in Early Access
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The best Steam Winter Sale deals: 15 great PC games at juicy prices
The 2017 Steam Winter Sale is brimming with PC game deals. These are some of our favorites.
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Why isn’t the Age of Empires remaster coming to Steam? Microsoft say it’s on Valve
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is out February 20, bringing back the classic RTS with 4K visuals, UI improvements, and changes to things like pathfinding to make the game more palatable in a modern context. But there’s been one major sticking point hampering potential excitement for the title: it’s exclusive to Microsoft’s unpopular Windows 10 Store. These are the best games on PC.
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Earth Defense Force 4.1 Wingdiver the Shooter is coming to Steam on April 26th
D3 Publisher has announced that its Earth Defense Force 4.1 THE SHADOW OF NEW DESPAIR 3D top-down shoot ’em up spinoff, Earth Defense Force 4.1 Wingdiver the Shooter, is coming to Steam on April 26th. In it, players will step into the shoes of a soldier in Pale Team, an elite branch of the EDF’s Wing Diver division, and once again fight in the world featured in 4.1.
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Steam’s new app will let you stream games to your phone
Valve today announced it would be releasing two new apps for Android and iOS — both of which would allow you to access your Steam libraries from your phones or tablets. Don’t get too excited, though, as that’ll come with a few limitations. The bigger of the two apps, Steam Link, would allow users to stream games from their PC or Mac to devices ranging from phones and tablets to Apple TVs. They could be controlled with either Steam controllers or MFi controllers, with the company implying more forms of control would also be available.
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