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On May 16, Ghost of Tsushima, a former PlayStation exclusive, was released on PC. The game immediately became one of the most popular Sony-published projects on Steam.
Microsoft wants to release more Xbox exclusives on PlayStation consoles, according to sources of journalist Jez Corden from Windows Central. According to him, the corporation does not have "red lines" for games — it can transfer any project, including key franchises, to a competing platform.
Polish residents want Valve to update the recommended regional zloty price tags on Steam, taking into account the current exchange rate. The other day they created on the site Change.org the relevant petition.
Following the publication of Sony’s FY23 report, Niko Partners director of research and insights Daniel Ahmad has shared more data about the company’s gaming business and the sales of PlayStation 5 consoles.
In January-March 2024, the PlayStation 5 consoles sold significantly better than the Xbox Series, according to Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad.
The Polish Competition and Consumer Protection Authority (UOKiK) suspects that a number of digital gaming platforms are hindering the development of competition. It has launched a preliminary investigation.
20 weeks into 2024, here is another installment of the Steam charts. And there are plenty of successful new indie releases, as well as interesting shifts in the list of best-selling games.
In the week from May 7 to May 14, Hades II earned the most money on Steam as a premium project. However, in the general sales chart, which also takes into account the performance of free games, it took second place — the first went to Counter-Strike 2.
After making mobile titles for over 13 years, CM Games has decided to enter the field of virtual reality. Here is how the studio successfully launched a custom Steam Sale event to promote its VR game Into the Radius despite knowing little about the platform and its marketing features.
Thomas Mahler, co-founder and CEO of Moon Studios, shared his thoughts on the AAA segment of the gaming industry. He believes that large companies such as Microsoft and Sony should abandon exclusivity. Otherwise, their business risks losing stability.
Rumor: Steam was blocked in Vietnam
· 10 days agoVietnamese gamers may have been restricted access to Steam. This is reported by the SteamDB service, which drew attention to mass complaints from users from Vietnam.
There are permutations at the top of the chart of the highest-grossing products on Steam. Counter-Strike 2, which was in the lead for seven weeks in a row, lost the first place to the extraction shooter Gray Zone Warfare.
On the evening of May 6, Hades II was released in early access on Steam and Epic Games Store (EGS). It is not known how things are in EGS, but thanks to analytical services, the situation in Steam is clear. There, the game has already attracted twice as many simultaneous players as the first Hades.
On May 2, Odd Meter studio and publisher 11 bit studios released a PC version of INDIKA, a surreal adventure about a nun in an alternative Russia of the late 19th century. On the day of release, the game attracted 1,200 Steam users at the same time.
At the beginning of the week, the authors of the Songs of Conquest turn-based strategy inspired by Heroes of Might and Magic announced that the game will reach release on May 20, 2024. After that, gamers began to actively add the title to their wish lists.
On the evening of April 26, the medieval town planner Manor Lords was released in early access — the most desired game on Steam in recent times, which has collected more than 3 million vishlist. His online immediately grew to huge values.
Microsoft has published a report for the third quarter of fiscal 2024 (January-March 2024). According to him, Activision Blizzard helped the gaming division of the corporation achieve impressive revenue growth.
Analyst Serkan Toto from Kantan Games has compiled the top 9 best Western mobile game publishers in terms of revenue in the Japanese market.
Valve has just updated Steam’s refund policy. It will now count playtime even before the game’s global release date, making it more difficult for players to abuse the system.
Valve has made changes to the refund policy on Steam. She began to take into account the time spent by the user in the game during the extended access period.
The new Moon Studios game has become one of the highest-grossing projects on Steam over the past week. No Rest for the Wicked started from the fifth place in the Steam sales chart, taking into account free games. If you exclude them, then she will be in third place.
Gas Station Simulator has reached a new milestone. Polish developer DRAGO entertainment has revealed that the game has generated over $10 million in revenue on Steam alone since its launch in September 2021.
Polish studio DRAGO Entertainment has announced a new achievement of the tanker simulator Gas Station Simulator. According to the developers, since the release, the total revenue of the Steam version of the game and add-ons for it has exceeded $ 10 million.
French publisher PulluP Entertainment (formerly Focus Entertainment) summed up the financial year ended March 31, 2024. We have selected the main thing from the report.
On April 18, Private Division publishing house and Moon Studios released the No Rest for the Wicked role-playing game in early Steam access. Within a few hours, she surpassed the previous Private Division projects in terms of peak online on the site.
The indie horror about the game of "Russian roulette" Buckshot Roulette took two weeks to sell a million copies on Steam. This was announced by its developer Mike Klubnika and publisher CRITICAL REFLEX.
The premiere of the series from Amazon and large discounts significantly increased Fallout sales on Steam. According to the results of the last week, five games in the series were included in the top 100 highest-grossing products on Steam.
Manor Lords has become the most desired game on Steam
· a month agoMedieval town planner Manor Lords topped the top of the most desired games in the Steam store, overtaking Hades II, Hollow Knight: Silksong and Frostpunk 2. According to the publisher of Hooded Horse, the title was added to the wish list of 2.5 million people.
On April 11, the premiere of the serial adaptation of Fallout from Amazon took place. According to the SteamDB service, against this background, all games in the series have grown online on Steam.
World of Warcraft, Overwatch 2 and other Blizzard Entertainment games will return to the Chinese market this summer. The company has signed a new publishing agreement with NetEase.
Gearbox Publishing San Francisco renamed to Arc Games
· a month agoAt the end of March, Embracer Group announced the imminent sale of Gearbox Entertainment to Take-Two Interactive for $460 million. However, she decided to keep a number of assets, among which was a part of Gearbox Publishing — Gearbox Publishing San Francisco. Now this division will be called Arc Games.
We continue the cycle of publications about games that require investment or a publisher. Next up is material from Konstantin Sakhnov's Vengeance Games studio, which is preparing to launch a mix of a visual novel and a quest "Azrael, Messenger of Death".
Released in honor of the first of April, the cooperative horror Content Warning is selling great. The game debuted from fifth place on the chart of the highest-grossing games on Steam, ahead of PUBG in weekly sales: BATTLEGROUNDS, Dragon's Dogma 2 and Baldur's Gate 3.
Journalist Stephen Totilo from Game File spoke with Michael Douse, head of the publishing department at Larian Studios, about the current state of the gaming industry. We chose the main thing from the interview.
On April 4, the global release of Buckshot Roulette took place. This is a horror game from an Estonian solo developer, which immediately resembles the narrative of Inscryption and the creations of Yoko Taro.
Cubic Games has announced the launch of the desktop version of the Pixel Gun 3D free-to-play shooter. Before the release, she had been collecting vishlists for more than six months. I have collected almost half a million.
Capcom announced that Dragon's Dogma 2 has crossed the 2.5 million copies sold milestone in less than two weeks: the role-playing game was released on March 22.
Thunderful Group has announced that Headup Games is coming under the control of Microcuts Holding, a company headed by Dieter Schoeller, founder and CEO of Headup Games.
Polygon journalists talked with Xbox CEO Phil Spencer about what is happening in the gaming industry and the future of Microsoft's gaming business. We have collected the main points from the interview.
The role-playing action game Dragon's Dogma 2 topped the chart of the highest—grossing premium games on Steam over the past week, shifting Helldivers 2 from the top. However, Capcom's novelty failed to get to the first place in the overall chart, which also takes into account free games - Counter-Strike 2 is leading it for the second week in a row.
Microsoft has "big problems" with retaining publishers on Xbox consoles, according to journalist Christopher Dring from GamesIndustry.biz . According to him, some large gaming companies do not see prospects for Xbox support.
We continue the cycle of publications about games that require investments or a publisher. Next up is material from the Russian indie studio Dieselduck, which is developing a game about traveling on the airship "Nephelia: Through the Clouds".
On the night of March 22, Capcom released Dragon’s Dogma 2 on Steam and consoles. The game instantly garnered thousands of angry reviews.
The head of Larian Studios, Sven Vincke, criticized the heads of gaming companies for mass layoffs at the Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony. He called the constant pursuit of profit the root of the problem and called for breaking the vicious circle.
GDEV gaming company (formerly Nexters) has summarized the unaudited financial results of both the fourth quarter and the entire 2023. We share the main thing from the report.
On March 19, the PC version of Stardew Valley received patch 1.6 with several hundred changes and a large portion of new content. The release of the update shook up the community, and as a result, online games on Steam grew to an all-time high of 146,159 people.
Within just hours after the release of (massive) patch 1.6, Stardew Valley has set a new record for peak concurrent players on Steam. The game is doing better than ever, even eight years after its launch.
The publisher of Playstack and the developer of LocalThunk, in an interview with gaming expert Simon Carless, discussed the success of the already hit poker "bagel" Balatro. We chose the main thing from the conversation.
The ongoing Spring Sale has helped many older games return to the top positions on the Steam charts. Here are the best-selling titles on the platform by gross revenue over the past seven days.
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There is little talk about games in the Telegram messenger. We decided to fix the situation by talking with Daria Novikova, product director at PlayDeck startup. The latter launched a gaming marketplace for Telegram. In a conversation with Daria, we touched on topics such as user engagement, earnings from leading projects, monetization and, of course, PlayDeck itself.